19 new thinky releases from February 2024

Joseph Mansfield, 6 March 2024

Holy moly — seems everyone has been releasing thinky games this February! Take a look through this list to find any interesting games that you might have missed from the past month, including a new mash-up of some thinky classics, an online world brimming with gazillions of puzzles, plenty of weird takes on Sokoban of course, and many more curious titles.

We also just announced the results of the Thinky Awards, so make to check those out to find the very best thinky games of the past year!

Islands of Insight

Developed by Lunarch Studios, published by Behaviour Interactive

Welcome to Islands of Insight: a sublime shared-world puzzle game set in a fantasy realm of ancient wonders and natural beauty. Brimming with mysterious puzzles to solve, secrets to uncover, and vibrant landscapes to explore, this peaceful world of floating islands is the perfect place to unwind. Embark on a puzzle adventure of your choice, all at your own pace.

qomp2

Developed by Graphite Lab, published by Atari

An artful reimagining of Pong. Control a Pong ball aching to break free of its life stuck between two paddles. Explore a dangerous, minimalist world, armed with simple two button controls.

CLeM

Developed by Mango Protocol, published by Iceberg Interactive

CLeM is a narrative-driven puzzle adventure game with a dark twist. Wake up in a world where puzzles intertwine with exploration, weaving a unique narrative rooted in alchemy. A voice awakens you. It gives you purpose. To guide you, you find a notebook with mysterious entries and a house to explore.

Boxes: Lost Fragments

Developed by Big Loop Studios, published by Snapbreak

As a legendary thief, your next assignment lures you into a grand and lavish mansion. There you find a series of puzzle boxes, designed for an unknown purpose. What should have been a quick in-and-out, gradually turns into your own harrowing struggle for freedom and answers.

Sokobond Express

Developed by José Hernández and Draknek & Friends, published by Draknek & Friends

Sokobond Express is a beautifully minimalist puzzle game that combines chemical bonds and puzzling pathfinding in novel ways.

Detective Ridelle

Developed by PuzzLab

Detective Ridelle is a cozy murder mystery game featuring escape room style puzzles. Find clues, interrogate suspects, solve the mystery - before it's too late.

Omnibullet

Developed by Arbitrary Combination

A factory is like a clockwork, can you make it tick? Combine simple towers into complex mechanisms, generate enough energy bullets, charge batteries. An open-ended logic game about efficiency, energy management, and tight budgets. Batteries included, but you will have to charge them yourself.

Wonderway

Developed by GameDreamland

Wonderway is a puzzle game where the direction of gravity can be changed. Get to the goal by moving and manipulating items which interact with gravity.

Craftomation 101: Programming and Craft (Early Access)

Developed by Luden.io

You land on a frozen planet in a tiny rocket with a robot inside. Harvest and combine materials to discover new ones. Use visual programming to make the robot do the tiresome work for you. Slowly build a gang of self-sustaining robot workers and watch them terraform the planet.

Gambit Shifter

Developed by Volcanite Games

Gambit Shifter is a relaxing, minimalist cozy puzzle game for chess experts and beginners alike! Take control of a single piece, solve your way through 80+ hand-crafted levels and lose yourself in the zen atmosphere as you advance.

Humpi and Hemicube

Developed by Sayantan

A sokoban-style puzzle game where everything has its own gravity. Because of this, you can walk on the wall and other things can stay on the wall. You can teleport in this game. Other characters will move when you move, so make a strategy and use this to your advantage to solve puzzles.

Note: This game is listed for free, but the DLC must be purchased to unlock the full game. The free game acts as a kind of demo.

Threes!

Developed by Asher Vollmer

A tiny puzzle that grows on you.

Note: This is the original Threes! game ported to PC.

Delicious Donut

Developed by BrickCream

Solve the world most delicious donut puzzle reduced to it's simplest form right here in front of you, ready to be taken to other planets, and spread the words about how delicious these donuts are.

To solve the puzzle, you have to move the donuts to the correct spot just like sokoban puzzle.

Liquidum

Developed by Marvellous Soft

Liquidum is a water-themed logic puzzle game, where you strategically fill interconnected aquariums across six challenging sections with unique mechanics.

Mimic Logic

Developed by Nihohe Soft

"Mimic Logic" is an automatically generated logic puzzle roguelike. Listen to the statements of the treasure chests, find the lying mimics, and open the rest of the treasure chests! Opening a mimic results in a game over.

Crayon Computer

Developed by Artless

Crayon Computer is a 2D physics-based open-ended programming puzzle game. (if you call that programming)

Reroute

Developed by causantíne

Redirect lasers with the help of boxes and portals in this challenging puzzle game with unique mechanics.

Epigraph

Developed by Matthew Brown

Epigraph is a short, challenging, language decipherment puzzle game.

Ada's Study

Developed by Sherlocked

Investigate the disappearance of Ada Lovelace and uncover a mathematical secret of epic proportions. Ada’s Study is a smartphone game packed with intricate mechanical puzzles, intuitive touch controls and an elaborate mystery.