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Thinky Direct 2026

Thinky Direct 2026

Join our hosts Rachel and Joe for the second ever Thinky Direct, featuring over 40 exclusive trailers and announcements for the most exciting upcoming thinky games.

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60 featured games

Featured Games(60)

Echo Weaver

Echo Weaver

Moonlight Kids, Akupara Games

Time is your greatest resource and secrets are your only upgrades. Master an unraveling time loop in this knowledge-based Metroidvania. As the last Weaver, exploit time-altering anomalies and use what you learn to break the cycle. Explore what remains. Uncover the mystery. Perfect the loop.

ActionAdventureIndiePlatformPuzzle
Trackastrophe!

Trackastrophe!

Kinoko Studio, Black Smoke Studios

Trackastrophe! is a wholesome train puzzle game. Build railway tracks across dreamlike isometric levels and grow your train with collected cars, as you navigate ever-whackier obstacles. It's totally choo-choo!

CasualIndiePuzzleStrategy
Prophet Margin

Prophet Margin

Stellar Cartography Interactive UG

Turn humble villages into a thriving network of trade. Prophet Margin is a cozy city-builder, a thinky strategy game where every road, resource, and connection creates new opportunities. Can you maximize the profits and please the pagan gods?

Sep 9 – Sep 27Card & Board GameIndiePuzzleSimulationSimulatorStrategy
Sokobond

Sokobond

Alan Hazelden, Lee Shang Lun, Draknek & Friends

Sokobond is an elegantly designed puzzle game about chemistry. It's logical, minimalist, and beautiful - crafted with love and science.

ArcadeIndiePuzzleSimulatorStrategy
A Good Snowman Is Hard To Build

A Good Snowman Is Hard To Build

Alan Hazelden, Benjamin Davis, Draknek & Friends

An adorable puzzle game about being a monster and making snowmen.

ArcadeIndiePuzzle
Cosmic Express

Cosmic Express

Cosmic Engineers, Alan Hazelden, Benjamin Davis, Tyu, Draknek & Friends

Plan the train route for the universe's most awkward space colony!

IndiePuzzleStrategy
Bonfire Peaks

Bonfire Peaks

Corey Martin, Alan Hazelden, Mari Zand, Zach Soares, Draknek & Friends

Set your belongings on fire on a beautiful voxel art puzzle island.

AdventureIndiePuzzle
A Monster's Expedition

A Monster's Expedition

Draknek & Friends

An adorable and relaxing open world puzzle adventure for monsters who love to learn about humans!

AdventureCasualIndiePuzzleStrategy
EMUUROM

EMUUROM

borbware, Coyote Time Publishing

A creature-scanning metroidvania. Explore an ancient paradise before it's lost forever. Study the EMUUROM creatures, document your findings in the EMUUDEX, and use what you learn to unlock new paths.

AdventureIndiePlatformPuzzle
Sokobond Express

Sokobond Express

José Hernández, Draknek & Friends

Sokobond Express is a beautifully minimalist puzzle game that combines chemical bonds and puzzling pathfinding in novel ways.

ArcadeCasualIndiePuzzle
Phonopolis

Phonopolis

Amanita Design

Phonopolis is a story-driven puzzle adventure set in a hand-painted 3D world made of cardboard. Solve a wide variety of playful puzzles and help Felix end the Leader's oppressive influence in a resonant dystopian city inspired by avant-garde art.

AdventureCasualIndiePoint-and-clickPuzzle
Hello Again

Hello Again

Soup Island, Tiny Dragon

Hello Again is a time-looping adventure about mystical ruins, ancient secrets, and goofy weirdos. Play as a hapless ferret shipwrecked on a strange island, stuck inside a strange time loop. Explore forgotten ruins. Befriend silly strangers. Solve time-bound puzzles. Repeat for the rest of eternity.

AdventureCasualIndiePuzzle
Memory's Reach

Memory's Reach

100 Stones Interactive

Memory’s Reach is a first person puzzle based metroidvania. Explore a huge, interconnected world of labyrinthian megastructures filled with alluring mysteries. Solve challenging puzzles, acquire powerful abilities, and uncover forgotten lore as you seek to reveal the legacy of a doomed civilization.

AdventureIndiePuzzle
LOK Digital

LOK Digital

Letibus Design, Icedrop Games, Draknek and Friends

Learn a cryptic language of world-changing words and master their mind-bending effects. Embark on your charming puzzle-solving journey to help the LOK creatures thrive.

AdventureArcadeCasualIndiePuzzle
He Who Watches

He Who Watches

Bobby Vanden, Draknek and Friends

Walk on walls. Manipulate gravity. Discover secrets. In this first-person puzzle game, delve deep into an ancient labyrinth of intricate conundrums, seeking an imprisoned god at the centre.

AdventureIndiePuzzle
Lost in Cheese

Lost in Cheese

SnøVittra

Cheese is blocking your way. Push cheese and clear the path to the big red button. A cozy puzzle adventure about cheese. Can you outsmart the cheese?

AdventureCasualIndieStrategy
Light of Atlantis

Light of Atlantis

Duck 'n' Run Games

Explore the depths of the ocean in this 2D-Puzzle-Metroidvania! Control the water levels and switch between various robots to solve the ancient puzzles of Atlantis.

AdventureIndie
Schrodinger's Cat Burglar

Schrodinger's Cat Burglar

Abandoned Sheep

Portal with cats - Become entangled in a quantum puzzle adventure! Mittens gains the incredible power to be in two places at once. Explore twisted test chambers, make mischief and evade capture by a whisker! 🐈🐈‍⬛

AdventureIndiePuzzle
Map Map - A Game About Maps

Map Map - A Game About Maps

Pipapo Games, Rekoup

In this game YOU make the maps! Become the cartographer of a small adventure crew and use proper navigation tools like a real explorer. Map the environment to turn unknown islands into a hand-drawn journey toward a legendary treasure.

AdventureCasualIndieSimulationSimulator
Rita

Rita

SporkTank

Rita is a cozy adventure where a little chicklet solves word-based puzzles to transform the world around her. Follow her story across generations, meet her grandchicklet, and be a part of her legacy.

AdventureCasualIndiePuzzle
Burn With Me

Burn With Me

Nozomu Games, Inner Pocket

Burn With Me is a narrative deckbuilder in which you drag your students into forbidden rituals, uncover haunting personal stories, and descend into stylish, surreal dread.

Card & Board GameStrategy
Trifoil

Trifoil

Andrew Jones

A puzzle game about drawing lines that cross, merge, and interact in unique ways. Uncover secrets, decipher symbols, and trace paths that satisfy every rule.

IndiePuzzle
Timebound

Timebound

Michal Kluz, Patrycja Sagan, Fabien Calabria

An exploration puzzle adventure in mystical ruins. Solve timeloop puzzles, discover what's hidden in plain sight, learn the rules and break them.

AdventureIndiePuzzle
868-BACK

868-BACK

Michael Brough, Finji

868-BACK is a computer-hacking strategy roguelike game where your mission is to dismantle capitalism one server at a time! Use hacking powers to fight enemies, steal the servers' data, and face increasingly nasty situations before being disconnected (again!) by the richest corporations on earth.

IndieRPGRole-playing (RPG)Strategy
One Move Away

One Move Away

Ramage Games, Playstack

One Move Away is a 3D, first-person puzzle game that blends puzzles with packing vehicles. Players experience packing at various stages of life, each level offering their own challenges. Master the art of packing by completing every objective!

PuzzleSimulatorStrategy
Backpack Boy

Backpack Boy

Chuck, Niles Games

Backpack Boy is off on one of his treks when he discovers a peculiar flashlight that changes the world around him. Explore a seemingly abandoned structure in this puzzle platformer built around using light to shine into the past.

Indie
Looking For Fael

Looking For Fael

Swing Swing Submarine, La Poule Noire, ARTE France

Hello, this is Fael... Listen, this is going to sound strange, but... I think I'm lost in the apartment. Right now... I... I don't know where I am. Can you come and help me?

AdventureIndiePoint-and-clickPuzzle
Stretchmancer

Stretchmancer

Triangle Wave, offbrand games

STRETCH THE WORLD! In this comedic first-person puzzle adventure, you are The Stretchmancer. Squash and stretch everything around you to solve fiendish puzzles, defeat the Claustro Empire, and save the galaxy!

AdventureIndiePlatformPuzzle
Bulbo's Belief System

Bulbo's Belief System

Abstract Digital

Bulbo's Belief System is a puzzle-platformer where knowledge is both a tool and an obstacle. Bulbo believes everything he's told, letting him see, move, and interact, but he can forget! Erase walls from existence, ignore gravity and manage conflicting beliefs to solve cute mind-bending challenges.

ActionCasualIndiePlatformPuzzle
Spooky Express

Spooky Express

Draknek and Friends

All the passengers are dying to ride the Spooky Express! Don’t let them miss their stops: they may be monsters, but they still have places to be and people to eat – er, we mean meet!

CasualIndiePuzzleStrategy
Trifolium: The Adventures of Gary Pretzelneck

Trifolium: The Adventures of Gary Pretzelneck

EmptyMatter

Discover hidden truths about the world in this 3D adventure about a giraffe with an unreasonably long neck. Figure out the rules, solve strange mysteries, and stumble upon unexpected twists. Choose your own path.

AdventureCasualIndiePuzzleStrategy
Compress(space)

Compress(space)

B-Deshi Interactive

A mind and space-bending puzzle game where you fold space to cheat your way through puzzles. Master space manipulation and reach beyond the stars to uncover the mystery at the end of the universe.

AdventurePuzzle
Escape Academy 2: Back 2 School

Escape Academy 2: Back 2 School

Coin Crew Games, iam8bit Presents

Class is (back) in session with Escape Academy 2: Back 2 School! Play in solo or co-op and explore an all-new campus, escape life-threatening puzzle rooms, and unravel a conspiracy as old as the school itself — all before the bell rings.

AdventureCasualPuzzleSimulation
Colorbound

Colorbound

Panpipe Studio, Whitethorn Games

In Colorbound, color is more than just hue. As Anku, an Aymara boy with a unique gift, you’ll harness the power of color to shape the environment itself, uncovering hidden paths to navigate challenging and complex puzzles.

AdventureCasualIndiePlatformPuzzle
Servant of the Lake

Servant of the Lake

Rusty Lake

Begin your new job as a servant at the mysterious Vanderboom estate. Solve puzzles, serve the family and uncover their dark alchemical secrets in Servant of the Lake, a new upcoming single-player point-and-click adventure in the Rusty Lake series.

AdventureIndiePoint-and-clickPuzzle
MONOMOON

MONOMOON

Gentle Giant

In MONOMOON, the way forward is reserved for the knowing and the daring. Guided by moonlight, you’ll uncover hidden truths and wander through a tiny and mysterious open world.

AdventureIndiePlatformPuzzle
Outpour

Outpour

Andrew Leal

Outpour is a puzzle game where you redirect flowing water across dreamy cathedral rooftops. Manipulate your surroundings to guide a dynamic water system, traverse high places, and restore harmony to sacred structures.

CasualIndiePuzzleStrategy
E9uations

E9uations

9npotato

You are the equal sign(=). Rearrange the numbers and operators to form equation and solve the puzzle.

IndiePuzzle
UvsU: You vs You

UvsU: You vs You

dietzribi

Outsmart your past self in a battle of cause and effect. Explore an interconnected clay world, discover its hidden rules, and uncover the secrets it would rather keep buried.

ActionAdventureIndiePlatform
What's the Password?

What's the Password?

TrampolineTales

"What's the Password?" is a minimalistic puzzle game where you decode 4-digit passwords. Featuring over 100 puzzles!

CasualIndiePuzzle
From Ruins – A Detective Adventure

From Ruins – A Detective Adventure

DigiTales Interactive

A new-gen detective adventure combining deduction gameplay with a gripping story full of twists and turns. Gather clues, establish connections, and solve a series of increasingly challenging cases. Will you uncover the feud that began at the end of the world?

AdventurePuzzle
The Land Forgotten

The Land Forgotten

Daria

A hand-painted adventure puzzle game where language is magic. Explore a mysterious land, decipher ancient scripts, and solve language-based puzzles to uncover the secrets of a lost civilization.

AdventureIndie
Paklyx

Paklyx

Rushed Idea Studio

PAKLYX is a turn-based puzzle game about finding the correct sequence of moves. Use special buttons to manipulate timers, delay them, and collect all keys in the level.

CasualIndie
The Granny Detective Society

The Granny Detective Society

Team Empreintes

A cozy investigation game where you observe a street, pin down its residents’ secrets, and solve mysteries. Play as Madeleine, a retired granny recruited by the Granny Detective Society (basically the CIA… but with dentures), investigating a neighborhood that hides its secrets well.

AdventureCasualIndie
Funeral for the Sun

Funeral for the Sun

Nicolás Cid Delgado

Search the ashes of an abandoned Latin American town and uncover 500 years of love, death and revolutions. A non-linear mystery where you travel back in time and untangle the complex history of a community cursed by supernatural forces.

AdventureIndie
DEG

DEG

Doseo

A non-linear pure puzzle game where you solve various puzzles using logical reasoning. Explore unknown puzzles in the game world.

CasualIndiePuzzle
Secrets of Velendar Castle - Escape Room

Secrets of Velendar Castle - Escape Room

Biri Biri, mc2games

Find your way out of Velendar Castle. Discover why everything was taken from you. In this fantasy Escape room, you will have to solve puzzles to escape the wrath of the king… and find out what he wants from you.

AdventureIndiePuzzle
BarrelBots

BarrelBots

FidgetBear Games

A multilayered grid-based puzzle game featuring small robots that carry and stack Barrels of nuclear waste.

AdventureCasualIndiePuzzleStrategy
Cat Squeeze

Cat Squeeze

Cattery Studio, Pone Games

Push boxes, slink through pipes, pinpoint the blast spot, and blow through maze walls! Guide kitten Coco through the Cat God Trial, where endless dried fish await—in a cozy hand-drawn puzzle world. A tiny mouse pal squeaks tips along the way.

AdventureCasualIndiePuzzleStrategy
Clover's Quadrants

Clover's Quadrants

Two-Headed Deer

A challenging puzzle game where you are what you eat - and you have four stomachs. Your four directions of movement are also inventory slots, and items in those slots will affect only that direction of movement.

IndiePuzzle
Pikku Adventure

Pikku Adventure

Pikku Studios

A challenging puzzle adventure about learning an alien language. Explore a strange world and meet its cute inhabitants. Decipher the language and earn their trust. With every word learned, you will uncover more secrets. Can you solve the mystery of this world and decide the fate of the Pikku?

AdventureCasualIndiePoint-and-clickPuzzle
FROGBLOCK

FROGBLOCK

nicksgamedev

Hop into 100+ beautiful Perspective-Block-Puzzle levels as a tiny Frog! Change your perspective to find illusory paths, and create your own paths by moving Frogblocks around. Explore biomes and discover new mechanics while listening to a rich and calming original soundtrack!

AdventureIndiePuzzle
DITTORI

DITTORI

Blookerstein, Draknek and Friends

Deep beneath the world, an ancient god stirs. Master the forbidden power of DITTORI, discover its secrets, and use it to bend reality to your will. Herald the end of all things.

IndiePuzzle
Red Frame

Red Frame

Basenji

Descend into a buried mansion filled with intricate diorama-like puzzles. Manipulate time to test ideas and uncover hidden rules, piece together the story of a family, and discover the mechanism preserving their legacy.

AdventureIndiePuzzle
Deductopia

Deductopia

Nightwell Games

Explore the scenes, find clues, and sort out people, pets, and belongings in this cozy slice-of-life detective puzzle game. Fans of Duck Detective, Little Problems, and The Case of the Worst Day Ever will enjoy this new deduction game for all ages.

AdventurePuzzle
Lock In

Lock In

FLEB

An escape-the-room puzzle game. Solve locks to unlock locks. Unlock locks to unlock more locks. Lock in.

Adventure
Trooops

Trooops

Le Slo, taletronic

Command a bizarre crew across a tiny, ever-changing archipelago. Give precise orders, outwit unshapely monsters, and survive the journey one squad at a time.

CasualStrategy
Gentoo Rescue 1.2: Anniversary Update

Gentoo Rescue 1.2: Anniversary Update

Mimic Meadows

Mimic Meadows

sourencho

Mimic Meadows is a puzzle game about transforming into animals by mimicking their movement. Discover creative ways to yield this power while solving mind-bending puzzles. And attempt to unearth the many secrets of the meadows.

Indie
Some Puzzles

Some Puzzles

FLEB

A surreal, FMV puzzle adventure. "It's got some puzzles."

AdventurePuzzle