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Thinky Third Thursday
March 2025

Welcome to Thinky Third Thursday, a roundup of games that the puzzle experts from Draknek & Friends think are worth your time.

Thanks to our studio manager, Mairi Nolan, for curating and writing up this month's selected games!

Recent thinky highlights


Utter a Name, by evilalbert
If you've been hoping for a game like The Return of the Obra Dinn, then Utter a Name is just about as close as it's possible to get, yet it still adds its own twist with a unique puzzle mechanic. This old manor holds ghosts, and ghosts don't always stick to their own corporeal body. Utter a Name is a satisfying deductive puzzle of figuring out who is who with limited resources, and can easily be completed in one sitting.


Golden Idol Investigations - The Sins of New Wells, by Color Gray Games and Playstack
The Sins of New Wells is one of four DLCs for Rise of the Golden Idol planned for 2025, and within it are four new vignettes to solve. Whilst investigating your regular, run of the mill, horrifying murders, detectives Roy Samson and Cliff Savea stumble into ancient Lemurian magic. It's challenging, compelling, and at least one of the puzzles in this is nothing short of excellent.


Lingo 2, by Brenton Wildes
Lingo 2 doesn't look like much but it is much. In fact, maybe too much. It's open world wandering, it's impossible geometry, and it's fiendish linguistics. As I stumbled into yet another corridor of solid colour blocks and found a new enormous letter looming over me, I thought briefly about calling my mom to come pick me up because I was scared, but my hands were too clammy. But then the satisfying "aha!" moment struck and I was back in the zone. If you want something that's like nothing else (except maybe, the first Lingo game), then you'll enjoy this. Me? I need to go lie down.


Ligo, by Anthony Berleur
Honourary mention this month goes to Ligo - unfortunately no one from the team has had a chance to play it yet, but we've heard good things about it in our Thinky Puzzle Games discord where it's the spotlighted game for March. I suspect it's for sokoban sickos only, but if you know that's you then Ligo might really be for you.

Thinky releases from the past month

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Upcoming games to watch for


YOUR HOUSE, by PATRONES & ESCONDITES
A book you can play, a game you can read - YOUR HOUSE is a cross between a text-based adventure and an escape room. As you solve puzzles and discover new items, words in the text become clickable, which then open up new passages to explore. The doors to YOUR HOUSE open up in just one week, and secrets await inside.


Blue Prince, by Dogubomb and Raw Fury
Releasing in less than a month on April 10th, one of the most anticipated thinky puzzle games of 2025 (at least according to the Thinky Awards, and absolutely anyone who talks to me for over 3 minutes) is Blue Prince. It's a game of long corridors, shifting walls, and mysterious locked doors. Your goal is simple - find Room 46, but when the labyrinthine layout of the house is reset each new day - you'll find it's anything but.


The Talos Principle: Reawakened, by Croteam and Devolver Digital
Even if you've previously played The Talos Principle and Road to Gehenna before, the newly remastered edition adds a whole new story chapter, puzzle editor mode, and developer commentary. Now you can stare into the face of god and have an existential, philosophical crisis... in 4K!


The Electrifying Incident: A Monster Mini-Expedition, by Draknek & Friends
Also launching next month is our very own The Electrifying Incident: A Monster Mini-Expedition! This bitesized sokoban game will drop you into the middle of a reactor on the brink of meltdown - we can't wait to have you save the day!

That's it!

Did you particularly enjoy any of the games above, or do you have a recommendation for a game we should check out? Please get in touch!

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