Play the He Who Watches demo now on Steam 🏹✨
Walk on walls. Walk on ceilings. Use every surface and every flash of inspiration to solve mind-bending environmental puzzles.
store.steampowered.com/app/1070500/...
My takeaway from the pandemic is that people were way more traumatized by the interruption to their lives than by all the death and I don’t think people want to think about that because, man, it’s really uncomfortable!
Roll a sausage, chop down trees, and change the rules of the world in the Baba's Sausage Expedition - Puzzle Game Masterpieces bundle. Each award winning game is full of brain-teasing puzzles that will delight you for hours. Played one? Complete the bundle and challenge yourself further!
Three puzzle classics in one deal:
🏴 Baba Is You @hempuli.bsky.social
🍖 Stephen's Sausage Roll @increpare.bsky.social
🪵 A Monster's Expedition
store.steampowered.com/bundle/16473...
Stephen's Sausage Roll is 10 YEARS OLD today!! 🎂
We're celebrating with a lovely sausage roll with a candle!
...Oh, and we've also put the ""Baba's Sausage Expedition - Puzzle Game Masterpieces"" on a special deal. Get the bundle:
store.steampowered.com/bundle/16473... @increpare.bsky.social
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Upcoming games to watch for:
* Factory Balls Go!, by @bartbonte.bsky.social
* Who Summoned It?, by Crooked Foot
* He Who Watches, by @danga.games and @draknek.bsky.social
Upcoming games to watch for:
* Factory Balls Go!, by @bartbonte.bsky.social
* Who Summoned It?, by Crooked Foot
* He Who Watches, by @danga.games and @draknek.bsky.social
Recent thinky highlights:
* Puzzle Spy International, by @agentepsilon.bsky.social
* A Little Perspective, by @rbdjellyfish.bsky.social
* Tezzel: The Tilemaker's Tale, by @oldmayorstudios.bsky.social
* Poke ALL Toads, by @pokealltoads.bsky.social
* Outpacked, by Antikythera Games
Here's the April edition of Thinky Third Thursday, the monthly roundup of thinky puzzle games that have caught our eye:
thinkythirdthursday.com/april-2026
Very proud that Spooky Express has been nominated for Best Gameplay at the Debug Awards! We're up against great competition - good luck to everyone involved, and thanks to @debugawards.com!
The nominees:
🧛♂️ Spooky Express
🪓 Axyz
👏 GlitchSPANKR
🏰 Into the Restless Ruins
🧑🚀 Katanaut
⚔️ The Knightling
Oh no
No, I think I'll have to make my own
The April 2026 edition of Jeux Vidéo Magazine includes an interview with me, with a very flattering subhead calling me "the pope of puzzles"!
The latest episode of the Draknek & Friends Official Podcast is out!
We chat to @rbdjellyfish.bsky.social about the recent A Little Perspective, Sensorium, and making games in Dreams.
Check out a snippet of our conversation and listen to the full episode wherever you get podcasts draknek.org/podcast
"five trillion. That’s roughly the number of search queries that Google processes every year, translating to tens of millions of wrong answers that the AI Overviews are providing every hour — and hundreds of thousands every minute, the analysis calculated."
We're so excited by what we're working on with @danga.games - He Who Watches is shaping up to be something truly phenomenal. If you want to get an idea of just why we're so stoked, check out the Steam demo and wishlist today! store.steampowered.com/app/1070500/...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y_OE...
Thanks for all your hard work! I wouldn't be where I am today without Ludum Dare.
ANNOUNCEMENT: I will stop running "scheduled" Ludum Dare events in 3 years! "Scheduled" is the key word though.
My hope is that leaders within the community can build something better, more welcoming, that honors our legacy. They've got 3 years to figure it out. You even get to study me. 😋 #LDJam
Screenshot with snowman parts.
Screenshot with snowman finished.
Screenshot of map of different snowman-making areas.
#VideoGameBacklog "A Good Snowman is Hard to Build" (PC, 2015) is a cute, Sokoban-like puzzle game where you have to build snowmen by guiding a monster to push snowballs around a field. Proper use of snow on the ground and position is key.
Thanks @draknek.bsky.social !
#indiedev #indiegames
✨ 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).
store.steampowered.com/app/3485300/... #indiegame #puzzle
I appreciated this article by Michael Taggart, on the temptation to use some of these coding tools and the pitfalls, from the POV of an experienced software engineer.
This is why it's important to fight these issues collectively rather than at the individual level.
taggart-tech.com/reckoning/
The 'Best Gameplay' nominees for Debug's Indie Game Awards 2026, featuring; Axyz, GlitchSPANKR, Into the Restless Ruins, Katanaut, Spooky Express, The Knightling
The shortlisted nominees for 'Best Gameplay' at Debug's 2026 Indie Game Awards are...
Axyz
GlitchSPANKR
Into the Restless Ruins
Katanaut
Spooky Express
The Knightling
Thank you to @gamemaker.io for making our 2026 ceremony possible. See you there IRL on 25 April 2026!
In case you missed it - we have a new game coming!
He Who Watches is a unique, first-person, 3D puzzler which will have you climbing the walls!
Ignore gravity and wander the walls and ceilings of a labyrinth as you seek the slumbering god at its centre.
store.steampowered.com/app/1070500/...
Reminder: Submissions to be a part of this year's Cerebral Puzzle Showcase will close EOD March 31st!
If you'll have a puzzle game or demo May 28 - June 4, we want to hear about it!
Submit now 👇
www.cerebralpuzzleshowcase.com
📰 Draknek & Friends se encargará de publicar He Who Watches: www.anaitgames.com/noticias/draknek-friends...
El debut de Bobby Vanden es un prometedor juego de puzzles que experimenta con las posibilidades del Sokoban en 3D.
There's a great section in this by @philippawarr.bsky.social about how easily the personality of the text is lost if you aren't approaching its localisation in a flexible and human way.
(Also many more good sections by many more good people - it's a good book)
If the trailer for He Who Watches intrigues you, wishlist the game on Steam and join the mailing list at hewhowatches.com
Coming later this year!
