If you feel like playing cozy games with a strong narrative and a female protagonist, you might want to check the bundle we created with @glowfroggames.bsky.social @katekillick.bsky.social 💖
Both games were released last week and are on sale atm!
store.steampowered.com/bundle/69406...
Just in time for GDC: The Deductopia full demo is out now! Featuring three scenes, new music, updated art, new QoL features, and much much more!
store.steampowered.com/app/3515580/...
A Case of Fraud is in the sale with a 20% discount! Our Curious Cases bundle is especially good value right now since The Case of the Worst Day Ever by @herogameco.bsky.social is also in the sale 😎 #bossbabes lol
07.03.2026 08:51 — 👍 7 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
Our favourite release of 2026 has come from an unexpected source: it's an entirely free game from hobbyist developer @bushmonkey.bsky.social.
The Red Pearls of Borneo is a wonderful deduction game which everyone should check out!
Read/watch here:
📝 indieloupe.com/red-pearls
📽️ youtu.be/n6kfVf4HWs8
The Detective's Apprentice is part of the @wingsfund.me Women's Day Sale on Steam! If you haven't yet tried the demo, play it here: store.steampowered.com/app/3618570/
Be sure to check out all the other lovely games in #WomensDaySale: store.steampowered.com/sale/womensd...
It's happening!
Cozy, emotional, poignant scrapbooking game Pieced Together is OUT NOW on Steam!
Tell your friends! Leave us reviews! 20% launch discount! GO GO GO 🥳 🥳 🥳
zurl.co/KH2jV
The Red Pearls of Borneo is Coming Soon to Steam. It will still be 100% free.
Wishlist it now!
store.steampowered.com/app/4488860/...
This week in The Daily Spell, a story from guest writer Mo about an eerie apparition! 👻 Thursday's article made me giggle out loud when I read it, I can't wait for people to enjoy it!
Check out this week's puzzles at www.the-daily-spell.com
You can find Mo's work at mostanton.itch.io
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!
thinkygames.com/dail...
Prøcrastinatiøn once bit my sister…
(Auto refresh is in by the way, so folks should be getting the latest and fault-free puzzles when reopening the tab each day!)
Öoo is now available on Nintendo Switch! 🎉
If you have friends who don’t own a PC, I’d really appreciate it if you could recommend the Switch version to them! 🐛💣
www.nintendo.com/en-gb/Games/...
If you saw "tapesty" today, same problem as below. Refresh will fix it.
It happened twice because even when I have the whole week ready in draft form, I'm still doing the final versions at the last minute. Will I never learn??
I'm adding some kind of auto refresh today to fix this going forward.
Yay! Someone noted that situation a bit ago and I realized I could just add something to call it out as a little surprise! It’s so fun when people run into it.
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In an exclusive interview with William Rous and co-developers Black Trout Inc (The Roottrees Are Dead), we cover the new remaster of The Incident At Galley House, what makes a compelling puzzle, and what separates a good mystery game from a great one. gameobserver.com/the-incident...
27.02.2026 19:57 — 👍 8 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0
Hope you’ve cleared your weekend, because we’ve picked nine of our favourite demos from this edition of Steam Next Fest for you to get stuck into!
Read (or watch!) the list below:
📝 indieloupe.com/next-fest-feb26
📽️ youtu.be/yburR-vJw6s
#indiegames | #nextfest
Yes, good idea, this got me thinking about that! I’ll look into it.
27.02.2026 15:27 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
I really enjoyed the demo for Puzzle Spy International. A lot of my recommendations are for deduction games, but I’m also a huge fan of crosswords and other pencil/paper stuff. The demo has a puzzle that’s not in the game which is cool! store.steampowered.com/app/3406690/...
27.02.2026 12:39 — 👍 13 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0With Peter as guest writer this week, I've been kicking back a bit knowing I just had a few tweaks to make throughout the week. I pushed the early draft with gaps in it, knowing I'd fix it before the day itself... but if you don't refresh then you still see the gaps. I'll be more careful next time!
27.02.2026 13:54 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
PSA, if you see a suspiciously short puzzle today on The Daily Spell, it's because your tab has the old incomplete data. Please refresh to get the real puzzle/article!
I'm so sorry for the mix up!
Thanks so much for letting me know and giving me all the details! I really appreciate it. Nothing I can do about it now except hope everyone refreshes, and be more careful about what I push next time!
27.02.2026 13:08 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Ohhh okay I understand. I pushed an incomplete version of this week up earlier that included that placeholder, which I intended to replace before Friday, but your tab still had the incomplete version until you refreshed. Totally on me, I shouldn’t have pushed it in a bad state!
27.02.2026 13:08 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Thank you for letting me know and so sorry about that! Can you walk me through the sequence of events - was the tab open from before? The “missing” puzzle showed up as today’s puzzle when you started playing today, or only in the archives? You refreshed once, saw the right article, refreshed again…?
27.02.2026 12:51 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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!
thinkygames.com/dail...
We updated the steam page for The Incident at Galley House with a batch of new screenshots. The game has come a long way since we initially set up the page!
store.steampowered.com/app/3641000/...
Out of 3500+ demos in Steam Next Fest, we've sifted through more than 700 thinky-ish games and selected the best!
26.02.2026 15:57 — 👍 65 🔁 24 💬 0 📌 6
I ADORED Puzzle Spy International, and it left me wanting more. Beautiful, stylish, and a lot of promise for those of us whose parental figures are practically Carmen Sandiego and Professor Layton.
24.02.2026 22:39 — 👍 12 🔁 4 💬 2 📌 0
Hey, that's me!
I might've foolishly sabotaged my daily routine this week (turns out it's a little easier to solve the headlines when you wrote 'em), but it's also incredibly cool to see your own words in your favourite daily game.
Huge thanks to Celia for trusting me with this week's story!
This week in your favorite word-puzzle-based newspaper, The Daily Spell, we have a story from guest writer @petermeiklejohn.bsky.social featuring large magical creatures and some unexpected twists. Thanks for contributing Peter!
www.the-daily-spell.com
My free itch io indie game The Red Pearls of Borneo got mentioned in a gaming article on the top 15 detective games to play in 2026
gameobserver.com/15-detective...
March is looking so good with Detective game releases, someone called it Mystery March, and I am jumping on that train. I am listing these here now, because many have demos you can play during Next Fest!
24.02.2026 19:08 — 👍 8 🔁 4 💬 1 📌 0