10 years of grilling: Stephen's Sausage Roll remains one of the most influential puzzle games ever created · Thinky Games Happy 10th anniversary to Stephen's Sausage Roll! We asked a handful of developers why it remains a puzzle game masterpiece to this day.

Happy 10th Birthday to Stephen's Sausage Roll! 🎉

🎉Tezzel: The Tilemaker’s Tale is now live on Steam!!!!!!!

Around 100 puzzles, cozy visuals, and a lot of care put into every level.

Check it out below:
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The April 2026 edition of Jeux Vidéo Magazine includes an interview with me, with a very flattering subhead calling me "the pope of puzzles"!

I've just seen that Guy Montgomery's Guy Mont Spelling Bee is on BBC iPlayer. If you haven't seen it yet and you like panel shows, I highly recommend it. It's probably my favourite current panel show.

✨ A Little Perspective is out now! ✨

I put my all into this strange, experimental game, and I'm so excited to finally let you all experience it for yourselves.

Head over to the Steam store to buy it now (10% off for the first week).

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This has been a hard secret to keep: we're publishing the remarkable He Who Watches on Steam!

He Who Watches is a unique, first-person puzzle game with a fundamental twist - a casual disregard for gravity!

Play the demo and wishlist today!

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I've started playing The Artisan of Glimmith and it's brilliant. Just fantastic logic puzzle design. I have to pull myself away from it because it's incredibly moreish.

Thinky Game Devs Meetup at GDC 2026 Creators & fans of thinky puzzle video games: We're doing another casual meet-up in Yerba Buena Park this year during GDC. Come hang out!

Even though Luis and I won't be there, just FYI there's a Thinky Meet-up at GDC. Our socials manager/video editor Cay will be there, and other friends of Thinky Games (inc. @mdashow.bsky.social) are helping organise it: www.eventbrite.com/e/thinky-gam...

Thinky Dailies season 2 starts now! The image depicts wide angle view of a large hall with stone walls. There are shields and emblems on the walls and a few thinky characters wandering around. thinkygames.com/dailies

🎉 Season 2 of Thinky Dailies starts now!

Join our daily adventure of bite-sized puzzles as our hero learns more about the mysterious Solvers. Catch up on Season 1 any time!

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Thinky Dailies Now everyone can play! thinkygames.com/dailies The image shows all our thinky characters with puzzles floating over their heads.

Thinky Dailies is now available for everyone to play — no sign-in needed!

🧩 Every day, a new handcrafted puzzle with different rules.

📖 Catch up on the adventure so far before season 2 begins next week!

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These articles are always incredible! Thank goodness we have Sergiu in the thinky community, haha.

Deductopia on Steam 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 ...

Guess what now has a Steam page: Deductopia THE FULL GAME! If you like supporting indie devs then smash that wishlist button because Steam visibility is everything for us small devs.

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20 More, Somehow Even Smaller, Mazes on Steam A puzzle game with twenty small mazes.

My next game will be "20 More, Somehow Even Smaller, Mazes".

It will be free.

Wishlist it today!

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Our stream is starting now!

5 games for today's stream, including my thoughts on Loophole which I finished and loved! Will be a fun one.

And of course, Pieced Together is just a week before them! store.steampowered.com/app/2891370/...

Two games, both called Piece by Piece, releasing within 2 days of each other. 😅

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Upalu Mundi blends excellent train puzzles with ample opportunity for optimization · Thinky Games Can you help a bunch of mining dwarves optimize their trickiest train routes?

Help a bunch of mining dwarves build and optimize complex train routes in Upalu Mundi!

Tiling Town on Steam Open-world logic puzzle game about building towns by laying tiles.

The developer of Maxwell's Puzzling Demon has released a demo for their upcoming game, Tiling Town, and looks like folks are enjoying it a lot!

Herd in the store, with a paper slip saying: "Herd, the most recent puzzle game from Slovenian designer Blaž Gracar, is tactile and confounding. It is cute as all get out, but don't mistake that to mean it's easy. Herd is fiendishly difficult."

Puzzle books in the store, with a paper slip saying: "Slovenian puzzle designer Blaž Gracar is on a roll. Abdec, LOK, and Workworkwork offer challenging puzzles that teach you gow to solve them as you go along."

All of my puzzle games are now directly available in NYC! You can get Herd, Workworkwork, LOK and Abdec in The Brooklyn Strategist store, at 148 Pierrepont St. in Brooklyn :)

👾 ANNOUNCING 868-BACK!
Dismantle capitalism one server at a time in this computer-hacking strategy roguelike game by Michael Brough!

Play the free demo in Steam Next Fest on Feb. 23rd!
Wishlist on Steam: store.steampowered.com/app/3304110/...

Enjoyed this and looking forward to the full game. Has the same "you figure out the rules" vibe that I really enjoyed with Cipher Zero last year, with a distinct and elegant art style too.

Key art I recently did for the Thinky Awards 💖
#illustration #conceptart #thinkygames

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The 3rd Annual Thinky Awards. Thanks for tuning in! The image shows our thinky hero holding up a trophy.

Congratulations to all our Thinky Awards winners and thank you to everyone who was watching live!

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Thinky Awards 2025: The 3rd Annual Thinky Awards · Thinky Games We're celebrating the very best thinky games of 2025 in the latest Thinky Awards.

Happy Thinky Awards day everyone! There are so many AMAZING games up for awards! You can see the full list and all the details on where to watch here ahhh✨ thinkygames.com/events/awards/

ICYMI, our game My Friends the Monster Trainers was nominated for a Thinky Award! Still psyched to get a mention in the extremely stacked Best Free Game category, and I’m looking forward to catching as much of the ceremony as I can Wednesday.

The 3rd annual Thinky Awards · Thinky Games We're celebrating the very best thinky games of 2025 in the latest Thinky Awards.

The 3rd Annual Thinky Awards are just two days away!

The Golden Idol Investigations are up for Best Expansion at the 3rd annual Thinky Awards!

Thank you @thinkygames.com for the nomination, we have our fingers crossed and our Idol ready to evaporate our competition.

Up We Go Simple Path by Murat Can Tonta 2/5 difficulty The art for the puzzle shows our thinky protagonist climbing a staircase. The puzzle below it has grids laid out to look like a staircase.

In this episode of Thinky Dailies, it's pretty easy to see the parallels in the story and the puzzle!

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