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.
Games shown at the Thinky Direct 2026
Cat Squeeze
Jul 1, 2026
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No ratings
Cat Squeeze is a cozy, brain-teasing cat puzzle game. Playing as an explosive kitten, use the extrusion of the pipeline, and navigate a maze to collect fish treats! Solve puzzles …
PC (Microsoft Windows)
Servant of the Lake
Jun 30, 2026
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No ratings
Servant of the Lake is the new premium point-and-click adventure in the Rusty Lake series from the creators of the Cube Escape series, The Past Within and Underground Blossom.
Bonfire Peaks
Sep 30, 2021
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★ 3.2
A difficult open world puzzle game about climbing mysterious ruins and setting fire to your belongings.
Spooky Express
Oct 21, 2025
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No ratings
Plan the train route for the world’s spookiest theme park! Transport monsters to their destinations — but don’t let them bite the passengers or you’ll have a grave problem.
What's the Password?
May 28, 2026
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No ratings
"What's the Password?" is a minimalistic puzzle game where you decode 4-digit passwords. Featuring over 100 puzzles!
Colorbound
Aug 1, 2026
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No ratings
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 …
Nintendo Switch
Nintendo Switch 2
PC (Microsoft Windows)
PlayStation 4
PlayStation 5
Xbox One
Xbox Series X|S
+4 more
Dittori
TBA
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No ratings
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 …
PC (Microsoft Windows)
BarrelBots
May 27, 2026
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No ratings
A multilayered grid-based puzzle game featuring small robots that carry and stack Barrels of nuclear waste.
PC (Microsoft Windows)
Trackastrophe!
May 28, 2026
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No ratings
Trackastrophe! is a puzzle game where you guide an eccentric train through wacky worlds. Add tiles to the map layout, expand your train by collecting train cars, and pray you …
PC (Microsoft Windows)
Funeral for the Sun
TBA
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No ratings
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 …
PC (Microsoft Windows)
The Granny Detective Society
Dec 31, 2026
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No ratings
A cozy and quirky detective game where Madeline, a retired little mouse, watches her street and dives into thrilling investigations… until the Granny Detective Society contacts her and she discovers …
PC (Microsoft Windows)
Trooops!
TBA
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No ratings
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.
Deductopia
TBA
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No ratings
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 …
Linux
Mac
PC (Microsoft Windows)
Lost in Cheese
May 21, 2026
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No ratings
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?
PC (Microsoft Windows)
Mimic Meadows
TBA
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No ratings
Mimic Meadows is a puzzle game about transforming into animals by mimicking their movement. Discover creative ways to wield this power while solving mind-bending puzzles. And attempt to unearth the …
Some Puzzles
Dec 31, 2027
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No ratings
A surreal, FMV puzzle adventure. "It's got some puzzles."
PC (Microsoft Windows)
Timebound
TBA
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No ratings
An exploration puzzle metroidbrainia set in mystical ruins. Solve timeloop puzzles, explore the open world, learn the rules and break them.
PC (Microsoft Windows)
Rita
Jul 30, 2026
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No ratings
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 …
Linux
Mac
PC (Microsoft Windows)
Pikku Adventure
Dec 31, 2026
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No ratings
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 …
Mac
PC (Microsoft Windows)
Hello Again
TBA
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No ratings
Welcome to the world's coziest time loop! Hello Again is a puzzling adventure game set on an island filled with ancient ruins. Explore strange structures, solve clockwork puzzles, and befriend …
PC (Microsoft Windows)
E9uations
May 28, 2026
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No ratings
You are the equal sign(=). Rearrange the numbers and operators to form equation and solve the puzzle.
PC (Microsoft Windows)
Clover's Quadrants
Jun 26, 2026
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No ratings
A moderately 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 …
PC (Microsoft Windows)
Secrets of Velendar Castle: Escape Room
May 28, 2026
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No ratings
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 …
PC (Microsoft Windows)
Frogblock
Sep 25, 2025
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No ratings
A Perspective Puzzle Game where you move blocks around as a tiny Frog to collect Ancient Artifacts to solve puzzles.
Compress(Space)
Dec 31, 2026
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No ratings
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 …
PC (Microsoft Windows)
Sokobond Express
Feb 22, 2024
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No ratings
A beautifully minimalist puzzle game combining chemical bonds and puzzling pathfinding.
Bulbo's Belief System
Feb 17, 2025
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No ratings
Bulbo's Belief System is a puzzle-platformer where knowledge is both a tool and an obstacle. Bulbo believes everything he's told—learning allows him to see, move, and interact, but forgetting is …
Nintendo Switch
PC (Microsoft Windows)
Web Browser
Red Frame
TBA
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No ratings
A first-person exploration puzzle game in which you navigate the sprawling rooms of a hyperreal mansion buried beneath the earth. Solve intricate puzzles shaped by those who once lived there, …
PC (Microsoft Windows)
Schrodinger's Cat Burglar
May 21, 2026
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No ratings
A puzzle heist adventure with a quantum flavour! The player controls Mittens the cat as she stumbles into a quantum experiment and gains incredible new powers - the ability to …
Linux
PC (Microsoft Windows)
A Monster's Expedition
Sep 10, 2020
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★ 3.5
A Monster’s Expedition (Through Puzzling Exhibitions) is a brand new adventure tour for monsters who love to learn about humans! Learn the ancient art of pushing trees over* and fashion …
Phonopolis
May 20, 2026
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★ 4.0
The story of Phonopolis tackles relatable, real-world themes and topics, focusing on manipulation and individualism, but still keeping the overall experience playful and light-hearted. Players will take on the role …
Mac
PC (Microsoft Windows)
A Good Snowman is Hard to Build
Feb 25, 2015
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★ 3.2
A puzzle game about being a monster and making snowmen. Lovingly crafted by the mind of Alan Hazelden and the hands of Benjamin Davis. With enchanting soundscapes from the heart …
Sokobond
Aug 27, 2013
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★ 3.3
Sokobond is an elegantly designed puzzle game about chemistry. It's logical, minimalist, and crafted with love and science.
Cosmic Express
Mar 16, 2017
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★ 3.0
All aboard the Cosmic Express, a delightfully brain-melting game where the puzzles are out of this world! Your job is to lay down the train tracks across a series of …
Looking For Fael
Sep 30, 2026
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No ratings
Upon receiving a cryptic voicemail from your missing roommate, the ordinary confines of your apartment transform into a surreal labyrinth. Guided by his voice and a custom retro console in …
PC (Microsoft Windows)
Trifolium: The Adventures of Gary Pretzelneck
Nov 1, 2026
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No ratings
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. …
Linux
Mac
PC (Microsoft Windows)
From Ruins
Dec 31, 2027
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No ratings
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 …
PC (Microsoft Windows)
Monomoon
Dec 31, 2026
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No ratings
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.
PC (Microsoft Windows)
Light of Atlantis
Nov 1, 2026
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No ratings
In this 2D-Puzzle-Metroidvania you dive into the ruins of Atlantis. As a small robot you control the water level in various rooms to solve puzzles and discover the mysteries of …
Linux
Mac
PC (Microsoft Windows)
Echo Weaver
TBA
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No ratings
A fast-paced metroidBRAINia that tells the tale of a ruined society trapped in a fatal time loop. Uncover their story - and your own - as you explore what remains. …
PC (Microsoft Windows)
Xbox One
Xbox Series X|S
Outpour
TBA
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No ratings
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 …
PC (Microsoft Windows)
Lok Digital
Dec 11, 2024
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★ 4.3
Lok are a fresh new kind of living beings that spawned in the middle of a vast, incomprehensible world. Help them through mind-bending word-search puzzles and guide them towards expansion …
Map Map: A Game About Maps
May 28, 2026
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No ratings
Embark on a cozy treasure hunt as cartographer of an adventure crew. Use your sense of direction to make maps, help your companions and explore idyllic islands.
PC (Microsoft Windows)
Emuurom
May 25, 2026
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No ratings
Emuurom ("eh-moo rom") is an upcoming nonviolent creature-scanning metroidvania. You are Maire ("my-rhe"), a red-haired retrobiologist willingly trapped in an unknown world, inhabited by mostly peaceful creatures called Emuurom. You …
Linux
Mac
PC (Microsoft Windows)
He Who Watches
Dec 31, 2026
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No ratings
Manipulate gravity, walk on walls, and use your magical arrow to solve mind-bending puzzles in this grid-based dungeon puzzler. Decipher secrets of the canvas and search for the mythos known …
PC (Microsoft Windows)
Lock In
Dec 31, 2027
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No ratings
An escape-the-room puzzle game. Solve locks to unlock locks. Unlock locks to unlock more locks. Lock in.
PC (Microsoft Windows)
868-Back
May 28, 2026
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★ 3.0
The Hacker was known as the best of the best, delving into dark servers no one else could penetrate and returning with glittering data to sell on the black market. …
UvsU: You vs. You
Dec 31, 2026
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No ratings
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.
PC (Microsoft Windows)
Escape Academy 2: Back 2 School
Dec 31, 2026
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No ratings
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 …
PC (Microsoft Windows)
Xbox Series X|S