The very first Steam Puzzle Fest starts today and runs until May 1st, featuring discounts on a broad range of puzzle games, including some particularly thinky ones that caught our attention. To help you find the freshest thinky games, we’ve gathered up a bunch of newly released games that are releasing or featuring new demos specifically as part of the festival.
We have an alien Sokoban, sushi-loving robots, a modern reinterpretation of the Sisyphean myth, and so much more! Perhaps you’ll find something new that’ll pique your interest… or rediscover an old love?
Remote Planets — New Release
Developer: Zuza Games
Platforms: Windows
A journey through a vibrant alien world filled with puzzles. Reshape the level space with the help of unique mechanics.
Puzzlepops! Plus — New Release
Developer: Layton Hawkes
Platforms: Windows
A challenging, brain-bending game of logic that mixes a traditional sliding puzzle with the art of candy making.
On the Peril of Parrots — New Release
Developer: Spritewrench
Platforms: Windows
Take control of P.O.L.L.I – the Procedural Operating Layered Linguistic Intelligence – and put your skills to the test with 100+ challenging puzzles! Unravel a mysterious experiment overseen by the brilliant “Scientist”, their trusted “Assistant”, and the shady “Stakeholder”.
Sisypush — New Release
Developer: Centi Games
Platforms: Windows
Play as Sisyphus in the ancient Greek underworld, clearing obstacles and pushing your special rock towards the target in over 60 levels of this short Sokoban-like puzzle game with a 1-bit art style.
Wizard's Way Out — New Release
Developer: Kikimora Games
Platforms: Windows, Linux, SteamOS
A small puzzle game about getting out of big trouble! Trapped in a prison, a Wizard uses telekinesis to push and pull their way out and escape together with newfound friends!
Constellations — Content Update
Developer: Icedrop Games
Platforms: Windows, MacOS, Linux, SteamOS
Constellations is a puzzle game about finding patterns in the stars. Increase mindfulness, concentration and focus through an endless number of increasingly complex mechanics.
A Slug's Dream — New Demo
Developer: Marcos Donnantuoni
Platforms: Windows, MacOS, Linux, SteamOS
Single-player puzzle game about a slug searching for food in a dream-like world of portals, flowers and perils.
He Who Watches — New Demo
Developer: Danga
Platforms: Windows
Manipulate gravity, walk on walls, and use your magical arrow to solve mind-bending puzzles in this grid-based dungeon puzzler.
Tales From Candleforth — New Demo
Developer: Under the Bed Games
Platforms: Windows
Tales from Candleforth is a collection of fairy tales that were written on top of a forbidden book many years ago to hide its content. Years later, the dark text is bleeding out and onto the pages of the tales, mixing with them and twisting the stories.
The Court of Wanderers — New Demo
Developer: Lennart Bours
Platforms: Windows
Enter an open world where you never know what you will find behind the next door. Explore, think, solve, and be amazed as the impossible becomes possible.
Linkito — New Demo
Developer: Kalinarm
Platforms: Windows, Linux, SteamOS
Unleash your creativity with Linkito! Connect blocks to solve unique puzzles and create your own masterpieces. A sandbox puzzle game with endless possibilities. Join the Linkito community and share your puzzles with the world.
Headlong Hunt — New Demo
Developer: Toombler
Platforms: Windows
A puzzle game about capturing a creature. Learn to guide it and hide from it in simple yet surprisingly deep and satisfying ways.
Viewfinder — New Demo
Developer: Sad Owl Studios
Platforms: Windows
Challenge perception, redefine reality, and reshape the world around you with an instant camera. Viewfinder is a new single player game offering gamers hours of interesting and fun experiences while uncovering the mysteries left behind.
Stick to the Plan — New Demo
Developer: Dead Pixel Tales
Platforms: Windows
A relaxing and charming puzzle game about Roberto, a dog who really loves loooooooong sticks with a plan in mind.
Squid Grid — New Demo
Developer: Michael Pohling, Osama Yahya
Platforms: Windows, MacOS, Linux, SteamOS
Welcome to Squid Grid! A free puzzle challenge about a squid on a grid. Unique sokoban mechanics, cute art, and hand-crafted levels will give you a puzzle experience you won’t forget. Get Squid Griddin’!
Sushi For Robots — Updated Demo
Developer: Ludipe & Friends
Platforms: Windows, Mac
These robots are obsessed with sushi and you’re the one serving it to them.
Sokobond Express — Updated Demo
Developer: José Hernández, Draknek and Friends
Platforms: Windows, Mac, Linux, SteamOS
An elegant pathfinding puzzle game about chemistry.
Poke ALL Toads — Updated Demo
Developer: SpaceMatra
Platforms: Windows
A puzzle game starring mischievous fairies. Solve levels by working as a team, operating dangerous machinery and manipulating local wildlife.
Hackshot — Updated Demo
Developer: RD Interactive
Platforms: Windows
Hackshot is a twisted puzzle take on artillery games. You are a hacker with the ability to craft unique projectiles, by mixing and matching different abilities. Use your crafting imagination to hack in creative ways.
Paquerette Down the Bunburrows — Updated Demo
Developer: Bunstack
Platforms: Windows
The buns… you HAVE to capture them!! Think outside the bunburrow or get outsmarted by bunnies in this pathfinding-based puzzle game!
Alone — Updated Demo
Developer: Connor Warrington
Platforms: Windows
Sit back and relax with Alone… Switch control across a variety of characters, use their unique traits to help overcome numerous platforming puzzles, and discover the truth behind your lost memories.
Billy Bumbum: A Cheeky Puzzler — New Demo
Developer: Frambosa
Platforms: Windows
Solve challenging puzzles as a cube with a butt. Flip, push and fart your way through colorful levels as you rescue your adorable friends in need. Fart for freedom!
Shadows of Doubt — Early Access Release
Developer: Cole Jefferies
Platforms: Windows
A procedurally-generated sandbox stealth game with a whole city of secrets at your fingertips!
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Oh and don’t miss out the new demo Rolling Fur – A cat puzzle adventure, try the demo on the steam puzzle fest 🙂
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GAHCW8ra0nA