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Applications are now open for the Draknek New Voices Puzzle Grant 2026

This will be the fourth time that the grant, organized and backed by Alan Hazelden's puzzle game studio, will return to provide funding to developers from underrepresented groups to make thinky games. Continue reading

This cute upcoming bird-identifying game has some odd mysterious undertones

The Birdwatcher's Journal is coming to Steam in the near future, in which you'll explore an island in first person, cataloguing the bird species and any other strange things you encounter... Continue reading

Light reveals the truth behind the world in the puzzle platformer adventure Backpack Boy, out this week

In this newly released thinky platformer the beam of your flashlight (and other sources of light) can illuminate a sort of "parallel" level hiding within the ones you can make out in the dark. Continue reading

A new game jam is born, centered around cryptic pen-and-paper puzzles that don't tell you how to solve them

The Rule-Discovery Paper Puzzle Jam starts on itch.io September 18th, and all you really need to know is in the name: participants have a relaxed week-long time period to spend 48 hours making image puzzles that teach the player without text instructions. Continue reading

Get a look at the Myst sequel that could have been

Veteran puzzle game studio Cyan recently shared a trailer showing off a sort of scrapped project they worked on for months but eventually cancelled, giving us a glimpse at a Myst Universe game that won't see the light of day: Anglerfish. Continue reading

First-person wall-walking archery dungeon puzzler He Who Watches announces early September release date

The next indie title debuting from the Draknek & Friends publishing house is coming very soon: less than a month from now on September 2nd, He Who Watches will drop on Steam and we'll all get lost in a big 3-dimensional block-shifting labyrinth together. Continue reading

One of the best puzzle games ever returns in an unexpected form: Baba Is You: The Board Game is coming to Kickstarter soon

In a very welcome surprise announcement, it was revealed that publisher Bitewing Games will be bringing the beloved videogame Baba Is You to physical form this September, alongside the deckbuilding game Party House from the anthology title UFO50. Continue reading

Thank you for playing Thinky Dailies season 3!

We have reached the end of Season 3! These last two months brought us trains, snow, new puzzle genres, big story-twists, pencil marking for sudoku, and our very first thinky cameo! Continue reading

The latest sprawling metroidvania-style Sudoku puzzle has arrived: Sudokuvania 2: Lineage of Logic is out now

Sudokoid and Sudokuvania are all the rage in the world of paper-logic-puzzles. These giant abominations take the old favorite Sudoku and twist and stretch it into the shape of a metroidvania videogame, complete with explorable maps, item upgrades, boss fights and secrets. Continue reading

This new webgame is actually a whole collection of tiny connected puzzles

The Snake That Eats Puzzle Game Mechanics is the latest from the Thinky Collective, a loose community of puzzle gamedevs who each take turns adding to their puzzle game projects. Continue reading