Sometimes things just happen to line up, and today is one of those days: no less than 4 titles that have been on our radar are officially out in the world today. Make room in your library for Strange Jigsaws, Is This Seat Taken?, Öoo and The Royal Writ.
The retro-Zelda inspired tropical puzzle game Isles of Sea and Sky won Most Anticipated honor at the Thinky Awards before debuting last year and living up to the hype. Now the Mysterious Update has released, a free addition to the game adding new puzzles and a mysterious secret layer.
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.
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