Flip Voyage and Fliptown: New Frontiers are on Kickstarter now, two small boxes that expand on the world of Fliptown, a popular western sandbox game that works great solo and is played entirely using a standard deck of cards.
Announced and revealed in the latest Pokémon Presents video, Pokémon Friends brings Professor Layton-style variety logic puzzles with cute creature themes to Switch and mobile. With a kid-friendly challenge level and limits on available puzzles, is this something puzzle fans can get excited about?
If you somehow managed to get through all of our thorough coverage of the Steam Summer Sale with your wallet intact and not enough games to play, don't worry: there must always be a Steam sale on the throne, and right now that sale is the Automation Fest, focused on games all about logistics, conveyor belts, and optimization.
It hasn't been much of a wait: just about two months since the release of The Lemurian Phoenix, the next installment in the Golden Idol Investigations series of DLC is suddenly here. Explore an ancient, high-tech Lemuria in this new expansion that brings four new cases to the world of the hit detective game The Rise of the Golden Idol.
Four games on our collective radar debuted on Steam today: some big anticipated titles like the Japanese-factory sim Kaizen from Coincidence and the word-game deckbuilder Word Play from Mark Brown of GMTK, as well as the lesser-known releases You Are the Code and Loophole.
The popular city-building strategy game Islanders from 2019 just got a follow up: New Shores launched this week, featuring new scoring methods, plenty of new environments and pretty visual options.
You can now engage with the Thinky Games team through our new presence on Steam: we've got a big fancy curator page where you can browse lots of game recommendations from our database, and you can also help grow the Steam community group.
Hempuli is best known for his work on the change-the-rules mind-bender Baba Is You, but he's quite a prolific developer of games. His latest is a collection of playing-card solitaire variants that just launched on Steam today.
The annual community puzzle-making event has come to a close once again: the 5th Thinky Puzzle Game Jam wrapped up last week, and that means there are dozens of new miniature, experimental puzzle games you can play for free right now.
The names Frosthaven and Lost Ruins of Arnak might not mean much to you if you mostly stick to videogames, but in the tabletop world these are some of the most popular releases of the last few years, and they both have digital versions currently in the works.
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