But that's not all, tune in at 2pm PDT on Friday 24th and watch a live interview where the creator, Alan Hazelden will be chatting to YagmanX about what makes a fun puzzle game. As an official Cerebral Puzzle Showcase stream you can watch this live on the event homepage.
New Game Announcement: LOK Digital
Hey there!
If you enjoyed playing Sokobond, we think you'll love what we've been working on lately. Combining creative thinky puzzles, intuitive mechanics, and an elegant hand-drawn art style... We're pleased to announce the new game we're publishing this year is LOK Digital.
Based on the critically acclaimed puzzle book LOK by Blaž Urban Gracar, in LOK Digital you'll learn world-changing words, master their mind-bending effects, and help the Lok creatures thrive in this charming puzzle adventure.
Are you excited to meet the LOK creatures and learn their cryptic language?
Discover magical words, and learn their rules as you go as each of these words has their own special ability to change the world around you. As the game evolves and ramps up the challenge delight in surprises as the shifting puzzles and introducing new words and unexpected ways they work together to elevate the gameplay.
⬛ Intuitive mechanics and many special words to find and learn ⬜ Elegant, hand-drawn art style and meditative, entrancing soundtrack ⬛ Learn deep, surprising, and unexpected mechanics that simultaneously challenge and delight ⬜ Based on the critically acclaimed puzzle book, LOK
We're delighted to team up with our friends at Zachtronics to offer you the Molecular Marvels bundle - 4 great chemistry puzzlers in one place.
Complete the set - if you own any of the games in the bundle, you get a discount on the others.
Sokobond Express is available today!
We are thrilled to share that Sokobond Express, a beautifully minimalist puzzle game that combines chemical bonds and puzzling pathfinding in novel ways, is out on Steam now. Please enjoy and leave a Steam review!
Sokobond Express is developed by José Hernández, a first time commercial developer living in Venezuela. After several years of hard work and refining the game until it felt just right, Hernández is excited for players to finally be able to play it.
“Working on Sokobond Express for the last three years has been a real joy. I think the hardest thing to pull off in the game was the pacing - making levels get progressively harder while remaining engaging took a really long time. We spent a lot of time redesigning early-game levels to make them the perfect difficulty. We're really proud of how things ended up, so please check it out!”- José Hernández
If you’re a fan of other Draknek games, we know Sokobond Express will be right up your alley. It combines the pathfinding of Cosmic Express with the deep but elegant atom building from Sokobond - paying homage to its predecessors while also being an elegant and entrancing game of its own.
Finally, the game is Steam Deck verified. Whether you're playing on Windows, macOS, Linux, or the Steam Deck, the game should provide a native and excellent play experience.
We can’t wait for you to play this puzzle masterpiece.
Thanks, Draknek & Friends
Bonfire Peaks - out now!
Today, in partnership with director Corey Martin, Draknek & Friends is thrilled to announce that Bonfire Peaks is now available, with a 10% launch discount for the first week.
After three years in development the full game is a wonderful experience with over 200 puzzles. If you've played any Draknek game before we know you'll love this as well. Bonfire Peaks is our first foray into game publishing and we couldn't be happier with the result - expect a master class in puzzle design brought to life through beautiful voxel artwork and an atmospheric soundtrack.
"Bonfire Peaks is a gorgeous experience, with a multitude of puzzles that will challenge even the most hardened genre aficionado." - Finger Guns, 9/10
"A deeply thoughtful, eminently accessible and cleverly crafted bite-sized puzzler, Bonfire Peaks has more subtle emotion, charm and smile-cracking ingenuity than most of the games that have released this year." - PSU, 9.5/10
"It’s a mostly sublime experience that is somehow equally demanding and relaxing, and uncovering all of its secrets offers an opportunity to flex your brain to the max." - Retroware, 9/10
EDGE, 9/10
Update 2.0.2
Fixed a rare crash Fixed Steam achievements
Sokobond is now fully localised into 11 languages
8 years after its initial release, we're very pleased to announce that Sokobond is now available in the following languages:
English
Français
Deutsch
Italiano
Español
Português (Brasil)
Русский
中文（简体）
中文（正體）
한국어
日本語
Additionally the codebase has been ported from ActionScript 3 to Haxe. Your save file will automatically be copied over and imported to the new version, and you should not notice any differences. However, if you have any issues please let us know on the forums or email us at hello@sokobond.com
And as a final news item, we'd like to draw your attention to an exciting upcoming project: we're publishing a sequel to Sokobond!
Sokobond Express is a mashup sequel to both Sokobond and Cosmic Express, created by upcoming puzzle designer José Hernández and with audio from Sokobond's Allison Walker and writing from A Monster's Expedition's Philippa Warr.
N.B. Sokobond has support for Steam Cloud Saves, but at the time of Sokobond's original release, it did not. That means that if you played Sokobond more than a few years ago and have since changed computers, your savefile may not be available.
We’re excited to announce that Bonfire Peaks, our first publishing venture with developer Corey Martin, will launch later this year in Q3 2021 on PC, Mac, and Linux on Steam. This game lines up perfectly with our portfolio of games like A Monster’s Expedition, and if you’ve liked our past games, we’re confident you’ll love this one too.
Move onwards, move upwards, and leave nothing behind: in Bonfire Peaks, players must climb to the top of a mysterious island ruin, burning everything they own along the way. Featuring hours of masterfully designed puzzle content, a breathtakingly lovely voxel overworld, and not a single second of filler content.
2021 is shaping up to be Draknek & Friends’ biggest year ever, and we can’t wait to share all that we have in store for you.
A Monster's Expedition - out now!
A Monster's Expedition (Through Puzzling Exhibitions), the new game from Draknek & Friends, is now available on Steam!
I know everyone says this, but I think we've made something really something special that almost everyone will enjoy. The puzzles lead to dozens upon dozens of "a-ha" moments, and vary in difficulty throughout the open world. Anyone should be able to get to the end, but those who are looking for a more difficult experience will be more than satisfied by hundreds of challenging optional puzzles and secrets.
From the team that brought you the award winning puzzle games Sokobond, A Good Snowman is Hard to Build, and Cosmic Express
Discover new mechanics and solutions organically as you explore - the only tutorial needed is your curiosity.
Chuckle at the "Human Englandland" museum exhibits and the misunderstandings monsters have about humanity.
Sit by the shore to relax or take a coffee break to enjoy the lovely art and music.
Thank you all so much for believing in us and following our games. Please let us know what you think of the game by tweeting using the hashtag #MonstersExpedition, or by posting in the Thinky Puzzles Discord.
Announcing: A Monster's Expedition (Through Human Exhibitions)
We've just announced our new game!
A Monster's Expedition (Through Human Exhibitions) is a brand new adventure tour for monsters who love to learn about humans.
https://youtu.be/WXVbNIfTWAw
If you've enjoyed any of our previous games, I promise you'll love this.
And sign up for the mailing list on the website: https://www.monsterexpedition.com/
If you want to find more games like this, I encourage you to join the Thinky Puzzle Games Discord: https://discordapp.com/invite/eybtCDR We have a lovely community and a keen eye for elegant puzzlers.
