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Thinky Games Direct · May 28, 2026
Thinky Games Direct 2026 announcements, stream details, and game reveals from Thinky Games Direct.
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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.
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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.
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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...
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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...
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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.
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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?
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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An exploration puzzle metroidbrainia set in mystical ruins. Solve timeloop puzzles, explore the open world, learn the rules and break them.
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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.
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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?
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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.
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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...
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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 ...
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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.
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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.
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A non-linear pure puzzle game where you solve various puzzles using logical reasoning. Explore unknown puzzles in the game world.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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...
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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...
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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