Echo Weaver is a time loop metroidbrainia with strong platforming mechanics at its core. Explore its sci-fi narrative, discover new abilities, and race against the ever-present clock.

The family-friendly tile-placement game Kingdomino is coming soon to Steam, after a mobile release earlier this year. Soon you'll be able to strategically assemble dominoes into your own fiefdom and compete against friends online.

I didn't know much about this game, except that it takes inspiration from the Golden Idol series, which is enough to get me interested. Mystery of the Malign seems to find a middleground between the very fly-on-the-wall, static scenes of modern detective games (Obra Dinn, Golden Idol) and the more c

Pimp up your cards with rad stickers and build the coolest deck of the playground.

Swan Song finds satisfaction in tinkering away with delicate clockwork.

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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.

I love the idea of taking match-3 mechanics and making them into genuinely interesting puzzles, and then combining that with metroidbrainia style exploration is extremely exciting. I've now finished the game and can say that Glowkeeper is definitely not one to miss. Lots of great discoveries, reaaal

Here's a truly under-the-radar indie puzzle game for you: just released this week, Éalú is a true stop-motion point-and-click adventure, each frame of the game painstakingly hand-rendered with physical materials.

A little earlier than previous years, one of the four big seasonal Steam sales is underway. The Summer and Winter Sales tend to get the most attention and have ended up as the largest of the bunch, but the Steam Autumn Sale has been separated slightly further from the winter one this year and stands out more than usual.

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A collection of thinky games created by Cay Macres.

A collection of thinky games created by Joseph Mansfield.

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.

Guide a clockwork mouse out of a stop-motion maze by solving mechanical puzzles.