Over 100 thinky & puzzle games on sale now in the Summer Steam Sale

Corey Hardt, 27 June 2025

It can be hard to keep track of all the little Steam events and sales popping up all the time these days, but we've just entered the biggest of them: the Steam Summer Sale. This big to-do runs until July 10th, and it might be a little overwhelming — it can feel like almost every game on the platform has joined the sale. But worry not! This is where we come in: we've curated a list of titles on sale that we think will be of interest to thinky gamers, whether they're old classics or intriguing newcomers.

Below you'll find the games broken into some broad genre categories, sorted by largest discounts first, starting with every game from our curated Thinky Essentials list that's currently on sale. (Most of them are.) Happy shopping!

Thinky Essentials

• Toki Tori 2+ (94% off) (Thinky DB)
• Her Story (90% off) (Thinky DB)
• The Talos Principle (85% off) (Thinky DB)
• Portal & Portal 2 (80% off) (Thinky DB)
• The Witness (75% off) (Thinky DB)
• Recursed (75% off) (Thinky DB)
• A Good Snowman is Hard to Build (70% off) (Thinky DB)
• Dicey Dungeons (66% off) (Thinky DB)
• Into the Breach (65% off) (Thinky DB)
• A Monster's Expedition (60% off) (Thinky DB)
• Opus Magnum (50% off) (Thinky DB)
• Can of Wormholes (50% off) (Thinky DB)
• Stephen's Sausage Roll (50% off) (Thinky DB)
• Tunic (50% off) (Thinky DB)
• Desktop Dungeons: Rewind (50% off) (Thinky DB)
• Snakebird (50% off) (Thinky DB)
• Fez (50% off) (Thinky DB)
• Outer Wilds (40% off) (Thinky DB)
• Patrick's Parabox (40% off) (Thinky DB)
• Myst (40% off) (Thinky DB)
• Storyteller (40% off) (Thinky DB)
• The Case of the Golden Idol (40% off) (Thinky DB)
• Chants of Sennaar (40% off) (Thinky DB)
• Lorelei and the Laser Eyes (30% off) (Thinky DB)
• LOK Digital (25% off) (Thinky DB)

Engineering & Automation

• shapez (90% off) (Thinky DB)
• Besiege (90% off)
• Kerbal Space Program (90% off) (Thinky DB)
• Word Factori (60% off) (Thinky DB)
• All Zachtronics Games (50% off) (Thinky DB)
• Mars First Logistics (Early Access) (30% off) (Thinky DB)
• Timberborn (Early Access) (30% off)
• shapez 2 (Early Access) (30% off) (Thinky DB)
• Block Shop (25% off) (Thinky DB)

Exploration & Metroidvanias

• The Swapper (85% off) (Thinky DB)
• Platonic (80% off) (Thinky DB)
• Supraland (80% off) (Thinky DB)
• Quern - Undying Thoughts (80% off) (Thinky DB)
• Heaven's Vault (75% off) (Thinky DB)
• Antichamber (75% off) (Thinky DB)
• Manifold Garden (75% off) (Thinky DB)
• Viewfinder (60% off) (Thinky DB)
• Cocoon (40% off) (Thinky DB)
• Botany Manor (30% off) (Thinky DB)
• Lingo (30% off) (Thinky DB)
• Chroma Zero (30% off) (Thinky DB)
• Animal Well (25% off) (Thinky DB)

Deckbuilders & Roguelikes

• Slay the Spire (75% off) (Thinky DB)
• Inscryption (60% off) (Thinky DB)
• Backpack Hero (50% off) (Thinky DB)
• Cobalt Core (35% off) (Thinky DB)
• 9 Kings (Early Access) (35% off)
• Dungeons & Degenerate Gamblers (33% off) (Thinky DB)
• Wildfrost (30% off) (Thinky DB)
• Blue Prince (15% off) (Thinky DB)
• Wordatro! (15% off)
• Monster Train 2 (10% off) (Thinky DB)
• StarVaders (10% off) (Thinky DB)
• Balatro (10% off) (Thinky DB)

Strategy & Boardgames

• Civilization VI (95% off)
• Plague Inc: Evolved (75% off)
• Songs of Conquest (70% off) (Thinky DB)
• SteamWorld Heist II (60% off) (Thinky DB)
• Spirit Island (70% off)
• Gloomhaven (65% off)
• Carcassonne (65% off)
• Inkulinati (64% off) (Thinky DB)
• Terraforming Mars (60% off)
• Dune: Spice Wars (60% off)
• Wingspan (60% off)
• Ticket to Ride (60% off) (Thinky DB)
• 5D Chess with Multiverse Time Travel (45% off) (Thinky DB)
• Dorfromantik (40% off) (Thinky DB)
• Tactical Breach Wizards (30% off) (Thinky DB)
• Dune: Imperium (25% off)
• Cascadia (20% off)

Detective & Mystery

• Tangle Tower (80% off)
• Strange Horticulture (60% off) (Thinky DB)
• Immortality (40% off) (Thinky DB)
• Duck Detective: The Secret Salami (30% off) (Thinky DB)
• No Case Should Remain Unsolved (20% off) (Thinky DB)
• The Roottrees are Dead (20% off) (Thinky DB)
• The Horror at Highrook (20% off)
• The Rise of the Golden Idol (15% off) (Thinky DB)

Chill & Casual

• The Room series (First game 80% off, rest of series 70% off) (Thinky DB)
• Carto (70% off) (Thinky DB)
• Gorogoa (67% off) (Thinky DB)
• Escape Simulator (50% off) (Thinky DB)
• Unpacking (50% off) (Thinky DB)
• A Little to the Left (50% off) (Thinky DB)
• Pictopix (30% off)

Sokoban & Logic

• Inner Tao (80% off) (Thinky DB)
• Stuffo the Puzzle Bot (80% off) (Thinky DB)
• Filament (77% off) (Thinky DB)
• Room to Grow (75% off) (Thinky DB)
• Puddle Knights (75% off) (Thinky DB)
• Cosmic Express (70% off) (Thinky DB)
• Wilderplace (70% off) (Thinky DB)
• Hexcells Infinite (70% off) (Thinky DB)
• Tametsi (67% off) (Thinky DB)
• Bonfire Peaks (60% off) (Thinky DB)
• Isles of Sea and Sky (50% off) (Thinky DB)
• Bean and Nothingness (50% off) (Thinky DB)
• Railbound (40% off) (Thinky DB)
• Paquerette Down the Burnburrows (35% off) (Thinky DB)
• The Electrifying Incident: A Monster Mini-Expedition (20% off) (Thinky DB)
• Pup Champs (20% off) (Thinky DB)
• Lab Rat (20% off) (Thinky DB)
• Void Stranger (20% off) (Thinky DB)