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Try finding your lost roommate in an apartment with ever-changing rooms.

In Mind Diver, it's your job to swim through other people's memories, make connections, plug memory gaps, and help solve an urgent case.

Puzzle games don’t make us feel smart, nor inspire us to 'be smart', but quite the opposite. They make fools of us. Dazzled, starry-eyed fools. And with ignorance comes bliss. Well…most of the time.

The Mastermind-deduction-word-game Wordle inspired a tidal wave of similar designs following its stripped-down, simple approach to making a daily, sharable puzzle that you could solve in a few minutes a day while competing with friends. Here are a few of our favorite Wordle-likes.

0PLAYER is a recently released experimental puzzle game project for those who like a challenge: this free game, available for download on itch.io, consists of only a single large image that looks like the interconnected map of a typical puzzle videogame. And the rest is up to you to figure out...

Word Play is a new roguelike blend of Scrabble and Balatro from Game Maker’s Toolkit. It joins games like Baba Is You, LOK Digital, and Heaven’s Vault as a great game for language nerds.

Discover clever ways to use bombs in this cute puzzle platformer - the demo is available to play over on Steam.

Welcome to Thinky Third Thursday, curated by Alan Hazelden of Draknek & Friends – a monthly roundup of thinky puzzle games that have caught my eye.

Solve puzzles, make connections, and hunt down Nazis as a 1970s detective in the upcoming detective thriller game The Ratline, from Owlskip Games.

Thinky Games presents a definitive guide to metroidbrania games: What they are, how different games explore the idea in their own way, and a list of our favorites.
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