A sort of shopkeeper-detective game hybrid, Strange Horticulture found an audience of fans who liked the idea of collecting and identifying unusual plants and helping the mysterious locals with their botanical needs. Strange Antiquities, out later this week, will task you with curating and selling cursed and powerful objects instead.
Blaž Urban Gracar is the creator of fan-favorite works such as LOK and Abdec, paper puzzle books that you solve your way through. After the recent release Workworkwork, his next upcoming project is Herd, a solo-boardgame-book which he's showing off in a new preview video.
Last year our inaugural ThinkyCon was a huge success: a free digital convention filled with expert talks from the developers, producers, researchers & artists that make up the world of thinky games. And it's all happening again this year, from the 5th to the 7th of November.
A giant in our little puzzle scene, Draknek started publishing games 12 years ago this month, and they show no signs of slowing down. To mark the occasion you can get all their classic titles in one Humble Bundle, or try your luck to win some free copies when you sign up for their newsletter.
A big update for our Thinky Games Database went live this week, and with it comes a strong incentive to sign up for a TG account: creating and sharing lists of your favorite games.
Bioneers and Primordialis are two in-development games with premises that sound similar on the surface: pick and choose the smallest of building blocks to create larger creatures and find out how they function... but the executions are quite different. How thinky are they?
No matter how many we solve, there are always more cases to crack. The Detective's Apprentice is a newly revealed mystery-solving game that asks you to gather evidence and ask the right questions. As Cleo Ace you'll play the novice sleuth, learning from your Sherlock of an aunt and sniffing out the culprits of various crimes.
Our database editors are always hard at work expanding the range of games covered by our big Thinky Games Database: this time around we've got a whole bunch of new entries in the area of paper puzzles that don't tell you how you're supposed to solve them.
"Draknek" (aka Alan Hazelden) is the familiar designer and/or publisher name behind many classic puzzle games, and these days they're also known for a recurring program that aims to provide much-needed funding to underrepresented developers working in our relatively niche scene of thinky puzzles.
Our friends at Wholesome Games love to showcase all games cute, cozy, colorful and feel-good. Their big Steam Celebration just kicked off, featuring lots of discounts, demos and new game reveals. Here are some puzzle-adjacent picks we've pulled from the mix.
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