The Curse of the Last Reaper is the latest (and sadly, the last) in the series of Golden Idol Investigations DLC packs released for the mystery detective game The Rise of the Golden Idol, debuting earlier this week out of the blue.
A cute new daily word game has surfaced, and you can play an example puzzle now ahead of its official launch. Tiled Words gives you a bunch of fragmented letter-chunks that need to be re-assembled into words... which you'll do with some guidance from the provided crossword-style clues.
Beacon Patrol is a charming and challenging tile-placement boardgame, one of my favorite co-operative games from the past few years. With its new Steam release you can work together digitally to maneuver your coast guard ships and map the islands of the North Sea.
Epic has been giving away a different free game every week for at least a few years now. Last week we got the first Monument Valley, an elegant and understated game about exploring sacred, mind-bending geometry, and this week the first sequel is available to claim free of charge.
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?
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