Featuring new looks at Escape Academy 2: Back 2 School, Servant of the Lake, Echo Weaver, Map Map – A Game About Maps, EMUUROM, and more
Edinburgh, UK – May 28, 2026 – Thinky Games, a grassroots community and website dedicated to cerebral and problem-solving games, today presented Thinky Direct 2026, its second annual puzzle-focused games showcase. The online event featured more than 40 puzzle and thinky games from developers around the world, including world premiere reveals, new demos, launch dates, and updates on highly anticipated upcoming titles.
Highlights include Dittori, a newly announced game from puzzle titans Draknek & Friends, the launch of Map Map – A Game About Maps and EMUURMOM, and new trailers from iam8bit Presents, Rusty Lake, ARTE France, and more.
The showcase also kicks off the Cerebral Puzzle Showcase, organized in partnership with Draknek & Friends, featuring a week of puzzle game demos and discounts on Steam.
Featured games from Thinky Direct 2026 include:
- Clover’s Quadrants (Two-Headed Deer)
- Backpack Boy (Chuck & Niles games)
- Bulbo’s Belief System (Abstract Digital)
- Burn With Me (Nozomu Games)
- Cat Squeeze (Cattery Studio, Pone Games)
- Colorbound (Panpipe Studio)
- Compress(space) (B-Deshi Interactive)
- Deductopia (Nightwell Games)
- DEG (Doseo)
- Dittori (Blookerstein Games)
- Echo Weaver (Moonlight Kids)
- EMUUROM (borbware)
- Escape Academy 2: Back 2 School (Coin Crew Games)
- From Ruins (DigiTales Interactive)
- Funeral for the Sun (Nicolas Cid Delgado)
- Gentoo Rescue (Jagriff)
- He Who Watches (Danga Games)
- Hello Again (Soup Island)
- Light of Atlantis (Duck ‘n’ Run Games)
- Lock In (FLEB)
- Looking for Fael (Swing Swing Submarine)
- Map Map – A Game About Maps (Pipapo Games)
- Memory’s Reach (100 Stones Interactive)
- Mimic Meadows (Threethreethree Games)
- MONOMOON (Gentle Giant)
- Outpour (Andrew Leal)
- Pikku Adventure (Pikku Studios)
- Prophet Margin (Stellar Cartography Interactive UG)
- Red Frame (Basenji)
- Rita (SporkTank)
- Servant of the Lake (Rusty Lake)
- Some Puzzles (FLEB)
- Stretchmancer (Triangle Wave)
- The Granny Detective Society (Team Empreintes)
- The Land Forgotten (Daria Jerjomina)
- Timebound (Michał Kluz, Patrycja Sagan, Fabien Calabria)
- Trifoil
- Trifolium: The Adventures of Gary Pretzelneck (EmptyMatter)
- Trooops! (Le Slo)
- UvsU: You vs You (dietzribi)
“There are such incredible things happening in the world of thinky games – truly some of the best games ever created, made with such a deep love for puzzles and problem solving,” said Joseph Mansfield, manager at Thinky Games. “These games deserve so much more attention, so it’s an absolute privilege to play our part in sharing them with you all. Seriously, they’re so freakin good!”
About Thinky Games
We believe thinky games are for everyone. If you enjoy relaxing with a crossword, figuring out whodunit before the TV detective does, or wrapping your head around an intriguing riddle, we think you’ll love these games. Logic games, detective games, mystery games, strategy games, math games, adventure games – there are so many wonderful thinky games to discover!
