Just about an hour from this post our 2nd annual digital convention kicks off: ThinkyCon 2025 is a three-day extravaganza of presentations from gamedev industry speakers on a wide range of subjects relating to the making and production of thinky games.
Motion Rec released this week, a cute new puzzle platformer with a lo-fi pixel art style that lets you record big chunks of moving and jumping around to play back in loops. It's available in a Steam bundle with the beloved exploration platformer Öoo and CATO: Buttered Cat.
An annual event all about the procedural, grid-based dungeon-crawling world of roguelike games is happening this weekend. There are full schedules of talks from gamedev speakers on Saturday and Sunday that you can watch virtually, and a Steam event page showcasing featured games and sales.
It's been exactly one year since we launched our big ambitious catalogue of thinky games, and we've been constantly adding to it ever since. Today a huge batch of visual novel detective games have landed, greatly expanding our coverage of the genre.
Starting this week you'll be able to play a new Tiled Words puzzle daily in your browser or on mobile: use crossword-style hints to figure out how these broken words fit back together.
The latest game in the creepy point-and-click mystery series is due out sometime next year, but you can play a demo now on Steam and experience the prequel story as a housekeeper for the Vanderboom family.
The Farmer Was Replaced debuted on Steam this week, a programming and automation game featuring a whole in-game programming language that you'll use to give simple commands to your robo-farming drone army.
This adorable pixel art factory-automation game blends the conveyor belt chaos with another popular genre: you'll need to contend with the residents of the local town and form relationships if you're going to have their help in achieving your manufacturing dreams.
The family-friendly tile-placement game Kingdomino is coming soon to Steam, after a mobile release earlier this year. Soon you'll be able to strategically assemble dominoes into your own fiefdom and compete against friends online.
Here's a truly under-the-radar indie puzzle game for you: just released this week, Éalú is a true stop-motion point-and-click adventure, each frame of the game painstakingly hand-rendered with physical materials.
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