May 28, 2026
Thinky Games Direct 2026
Thinky Games Direct 2026 featured 36 games. Browse every reveal and trailer in show order below.
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Colorbound
12 Oct 2026
Trifolium: The Adventures of Gary Pretzelneck
November 2026
Stretchmancer
Release date TBA
Pikku Adventure
Q2 2027
Backpack Boy
10 Aug 2026
Looking For Fael
16 Jul 2026
UvsU: You vs You
2026
Deductopia
Release date TBA
DITTORI
Release date TBA
The Granny Detective Society
Q1 2027
Timebound
Release date TBA
TROOOPS!
Release date TBA
From Ruins – A Detective Adventure
2027
MONOMOON
11 Nov 2026
Echo Weaver
8 Oct 2026
EMUUROM
25 May 2026
Funeral for the Sun
9 Nov 2026
Rita
30 Jul 2026
DEG
2026
Burn With Me
12 Oct 2026
Light of Atlantis
November 2026
Servant of the Lake
13 Aug 2026
Red Frame
Release date TBA
Prophet Margin
29 Oct 2026
Cat Squeeze
30 Jun 2026
Outpour
Release date TBA
Gentoo Rescue
22 May 2025
Map Map - A Game About Maps
28 May 2026
Clover's Quadrants
26 Jun 2026
Compress(space)
2026
Bulbo's Belief System
November 2026
The Land Forgotten
Release date TBA
Escape Academy 2: Back 2 School
November 2026
Memory's Reach
Release date TBA
Trifoil
Q2 2027
Mimic Meadows
Release date TBAAnnouncement timeline
36 reveals · in show order- 01
Colorbound
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.
Source: youtube.com
- 02
Trifolium: The Adventures of Gary Pretzelneck
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.
Source: youtube.com
- 03
Stretchmancer
STRETCH THE WORLD, SAVE THE GALAXY! In this smartly funny First Person Puzzler, you are THE STRETCHMANCER. Squash and stretch your environment to solve fiendish puzzles and defeat the Claustro Empire... in an epic voice-acted adventure inspired by 90s Satur...
Source: youtube.com
- 04
Pikku Adventure
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 wor...
Source: youtube.com
- 05
Backpack Boy
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 mode-swapping.
Source: youtube.com
- 06
Looking For Fael
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?
Source: youtube.com
- 07
UvsU
Outsmart yourself, iteration by iteration. You alternate between playing as the hero and the enemies. There's no AI in this game- It's replaying what you did previous iterations.
Source: youtube.com
- 08
Deductopia
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.
Source: youtube.com
- 09
Dittori
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.
Source: youtube.com
- 10
The Granny Detective Society
Play as a retired granny recruited by the Granny Detective Society (basically the CIA… but with dentures). Investigate a suspicious neighborhood, deduce residents’ names and professions, and uncover secrets in this no-murder detective game.
Source: youtube.com
- 11
Timebound
An exploration puzzle metroidbrainia set in mystical ruins. Solve timeloop puzzles, explore the open world, learn the rules and break them.
Source: youtube.com
- 12
Trooops!
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.
Source: youtube.com
- 13
From Ruins
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?
Source: youtube.com
- 14
Monomoon
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.
Source: youtube.com
- 15
Echo Weaver
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. Use each loop to chip away at the mystery, unlocking powerful knowledge to reshape the timeli...
Source: youtube.com
- 16
Emuurom
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 are only equipped with ...
Source: youtube.com
- 17
Funeral for the Sun
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.
Source: youtube.com
- 18
Rita
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.
Source: youtube.com
- 19
Deg
A non-linear pure puzzle game where you solve various puzzles using logical reasoning. Explore unknown puzzles in the game world.
Source: youtube.com
- 20
Burn With Me
Burn With Me is a story-centric deckbuilder filled with cozy dread and occultic mysteries. In order to summon a Personal Demon you'll master inventive gameplay with position-based synergies, and permanently burn your cards and your soul.
Source: youtube.com
- 21
Light of Atlantis
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 an ancient society.
Source: youtube.com
- 22
Servant of the Lake
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.
Source: youtube.com
- 23
Red Frame
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, and discover the mechanism preserving a family's legacy.
Source: youtube.com
- 24
Prophet Margin
Build thriving settlements. Weave intricate trade routes. Optimize complex supply chains to earn divine boons. Master a meditative City Builder where board-game logic meets deep Resource Management. A relaxing, 'real-time with pause' strategy puzzle where e...
Source: youtube.com
- 25
Cat Squeeze
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 with precise blasts to escape, or get trapped by the soft maze.
Source: youtube.com
- 26
Outpour
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.
Source: youtube.com
- 27
Gentoo Rescue
A puzzler about sliding penguins and walruses. Pickup items to push, pull, bounce, swap, stop, steal, or explode. Solve tightly-designed challenges in a world of puzzles inside puzzles inside puzzles.
Source: youtube.com
- 28
Map Map: A Game About Maps
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.
Source: youtube.com
- 29
Clover's Quadrants
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 slots will affect only that direction of movement.
Source: youtube.com
- 30
Compress(Space)
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.
Source: youtube.com
- 31
Bulbo's Belief System
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 just as important. Erase walls from existence, ignore gravity...
Source: youtube.com
- 32
The Land Forgotten
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.
Source: youtube.com
- 33
Escape Academy 2: Back 2 School
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.
Source: youtube.com
- 34
Memory's Reach
Memory’s Reach is a first person puzzle-adventure metroidvania. Explore labyrinthian megastructures, solve mind-bending puzzles, and wield fantastic alien technology in a quest to reveal the legacy of a doomed civilization.
Source: youtube.com
- 35
Trifoil
Trifoil is a minimalist, cerebral line drawing puzzle game, that explores how lines can interact with themselves. It has multiple puzzle mechanics, secrets to discover and mysteries to solve.
Source: youtube.com
- 36
Mimic Meadows
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 many secrets of the meadows.
Source: youtube.com