Happy new year, everyone! But before we move on from 2022 too quickly, let's make sure to take stock of everything thinky that came out during December.
You might expect December to be pretty quiet with releases, what with everyone being so busy, but that's more than made up for by the fact we had both the "Thinky games are for everyone" jam and the Confounding Calendar throughout the month. So two of the entries below actually contain, let's see... 81 games! I'm sure that's enough to keep you busy!
Soulkoban
Released: 7th December Available on: Newgrounds (Web) — free
Soulkoban is a box pushing puzzle game with a very light story. Try to collect all 10 medallions in order to leave the depths and recover your soul. Uncover extra dialogue by talking to NPCs multiple times, revisiting them after new encounters, or even by completing puzzles in a specific order.
The Forest Quartet
Released: 8th December Available on:
The Forest Quartet is a puzzle adventure about a gone, but not forgotten, lead singer. Play her spirit and travel through 3 acts unique to the members of her band for a final farewell concert. Face their emotions, solve puzzles and fight the corruption plaguing their souls.
"Thinky games are for everyone" jam entries
Released: 11th December Available on: itch.io (mixed platforms) — free
The "Thinky games are for everyone" jam prompted developers to create thinky games that appeal to audiences who might not otherwise play them, while also encouraging developers who haven't made thinky games before to give it a try. There are 37 entries to try out, so that should keep you busy!
Let there be knight
Released: 11th December Available on: itch.io (Web) — free
Play some games on your desktop, nothing could go wrong.
Work your way through reflection and snake based puzzles, put some statues in the right place, manoeuvre through mazes without turning back, use reflections to help you forward and open gates to eat some fruits.
Bots Are Stupid
Released: 15th December Available on: Steam (Windows, MacOS, Linux) — $12.99
An ultra-precise 2D platformer where you give robots instructions instead of directly controlling them. Master the campaign levels or create and share your own. “It’s Mario Maker with coding” - Lewis Brindley, Yogscast.
The Runic Conjecture
Released: 16th December Available on: itch.io (Web) — free
The Runic Conjecture is a magical puzzle game about experimenting and learning the meaning of mysterious runes. What may seem like Magic now is merely a Science that you have yet to understand.
Made in 1 week for GameCraft! 2022
N Step Steve: part 2
Released: 23rd December Available on: itch.io (Web) — free
The massive conclusion to the N Step Steve saga.
In N Step Steve, you can only move so many steps before Steve resets back to the latest checkpoint — use this curse to your advantage to solve puzzles!
Confounding Calendar 2022 entries
Released: Between 1st December and 25th December Available on: itch.io (Web) — free
A collection of tiny puzzles that functions like a free online advent calendar of games, with a little surprise for you to play each day in December. (Deducember, if you will.)
(I have a puzzle in here!)
IT'S A BLOCK-PUSHING GAME
Released: 28th December Available on: itch.io (Windows) — free
Push block? Push block! Block-pushing! Push! Block! Push! Block! Push! Push!
A block-pushing game from the developer of Baba Is You.
rotational
Released: 31st December Available on: itch.io (Windows) — $3
rotational is a puzzle game where you rotate tiled parts of the level and on every level a box needs to be moved to a goal. switch between two states while you try to solve each level.
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