The 3rd Annual Thinky Awards
Welcome to the 3rd Annual Thinky Awards!This celebration of the very best thinky games of 2025 highlights games that get you thinking, asking you to carefully reason your way through challenges until you hit one of these sweet "aha!" moments. 2025 was such an excellent year for the scene, it was hard to keep nominations to a reasonable number!The Awards in most categories were voted by a jury of developers, content creators, and thinky fans. Three community choice awards were also voted by our wonderful public — thank you to all voters!We've set up a Sale Page so you can browse the categories and enjoy the show when we announce the winners in a broadcast on February 4. There's been so many great thinky games released in 2025, it's honestly hard to keep track of them sometimes. Hopefully this page comes in handy!Note that our complete nominations include a number of games that are not published on Steam. And our Best Content Creator nominees also cannot be displayed on a sale page — I'll be stating the obvious here, but these are people, not games! Head over to our website to browse the full list of nominees.The Thinky Awards are organized by Thinky Games, a website and community for fans of games that really make you think. There are various ways you could join us:Play the Thinky Dailies: the Thinky Dailies are free puzzle treats you can play in your browser. Season 1 just wrapped up after 61 puzzles that include logic grids such as Nonograms or Irregular Sudokus, and also some visual riddles drawn by our talented artist!Subscribe to our newsletter: every 2 weeks, we send out some of the latest thinky happenings and a free web game recommendation. Follow us on our socials or join our DiscordFollow our curator page on Steam Tune in to our Awards show on February 4 at 10am PT / 1pm ET / 6pm UTC to discover the winners, and check out our event page afterwards: despite all of this happening on short notice, several games among the nominees will be discounted for a week!
This celebration of the very best thinky games of 2025 highlights games that get you thinking, asking you to carefully reason your way through challenges until you hit one of these sweet "aha!" moments. 2025 was such an excellent year for the scene, it was hard to keep nominations to a reasonable number!
The Awards in most categories were voted by a jury of developers, content creators, and thinky fans. Three community choice awards were also voted by our wonderful public — thank you to all voters!
We've set up a Sale Page so you can browse the categories and enjoy the show when we announce the winners in a broadcast on February 4. There's been so many great thinky games released in 2025, it's honestly hard to keep track of them sometimes. Hopefully this page comes in handy!
Note that our complete nominations include a number of games that are not published on Steam. And our Best Content Creator nominees also cannot be displayed on a sale page — I'll be stating the obvious here, but these are people, not games! Head over to our website to browse the full list of nominees.
The Thinky Awards are organized by Thinky Games, a website and community for fans of games that really make you think. There are various ways you could join us:
Play the Thinky Dailies: the Thinky Dailies are free puzzle treats you can play in your browser. Season 1 just wrapped up after 61 puzzles that include logic grids such as Nonograms or Irregular Sudokus, and also some visual riddles drawn by our talented artist!
Subscribe to our newsletter: every 2 weeks, we send out some of the latest thinky happenings and a free web game recommendation.
Tune in to our Awards show on February 4 at 10am PT / 1pm ET / 6pm UTC to discover the winners, and check out our event page afterwards: despite all of this happening on short notice, several games among the nominees will be discounted for a week!
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