I've been making top-ten GOTY lists every year for more than a decade, and this might have been the hardest ever to narrow down. What a year for video games!
Here are the 10 best games of 2025: www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet...
Who knew pen and paper puzzles could look this good? We got Wiebke Spieker to tell us all about the art of Nurikabe World!
@wibswobs.bsky.social
I have set-up a little Ko-Fi now where I will post some more art related stuff! Got also some commissions open if anyone is interested :)
ko-fi.com/wibswobs
ThinkyCon starts today and I am so excited to be part of it this year!
I will be finishing today's schedule with a chill little art talk about a bringing pen-and-paper puzzle classic into a 3D environment, see you all there!
"Composing Music for Chants Of Sennaar: The Soundtrack of Storytelling Puzzles" Thomas Brunet; "Testing Blue Prince" Tonda Ros, Dogubomb; "Art of Nurikabe World: Bringing a pen-and-paper classic to life without ruining it" Wiebke Spieker, Hemisquare; "The Programming of Patrick's Parabox" Patrick Traynor; "Adapting a Word Game: How Alphabirds Became Birdigo" John August and Corey Martin; "We Built for Grandparents First, Then Discovered We'd Built for Everyone" Anastasia Miliano, Inkwell Games
These are just a few of the puzzle game developers speaking at ThinkyCon! Take a look at the full schedule here!
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What an amazing line-up, I am looking forward to seeing everyone’s talks and thanks so much for organizing ThinkyCon! 😁
I also got a chance this year to talk about the art of Nurikabe World 👀
For the last week or so I've been obsessed with Nurikabe World, a serene game that's sort of like a cross between Minesweeper and Sudoku. It's got that trance-like, "just one more game" pull store.steampowered.com/app/2964540/...
Screenshot from Nurikabe World.
Screenshot from Nurikabe World.
Screenshot from Nurikabe World.
Screenshot from Nurikabe World.
Nurikabe World by Hemisquare is a stunning rendition of a classic logic puzzle, brought to life by beautiful animation and music. Utterly in love with it.
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Little character doodle for my friend #art #illustration
If you want a relaxing game to help you unwind, look no further than the beautiful and zen-like Nurikabe World 🍂thinkygames.com/feat...
We are looking into porting the game to mobile devices but unfortunately don’t have any dates or roadmap yet that we could share. We will make an announcement once we have some information about it to share :)
I've been playing Nurikabe World ( store.steampowered.com/app/2964540/... ) recently and had a good amount of fun with it. I like the vibes. I've also been posting custom puzzles each day to their discord server.
Nurikabe World - Review
I think I've found my casual puzzle game for 2025 already - and it's all about islands and rivers.
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New video is out!!
I had the pleasure of playing the really pretty, really fun, really well done @nurikabe-world.bsky.social which I can't recommend enough!
So much juice and QOL and have I mentioned HUNDREDS AND HUNDREDS OF LEVELS? Of which you can easily create and share your own?
Check it out!
thank you so much! ❤️
thank you so much for the kind words! ❤️ its been really exciting following the release :D
Thank you so much ❤️ Hope you will enjoy it! :)
Nurikabe World is out!! This is really exciting, the demo was really good :D
store.steampowered.com/app/2964540/...
Tomorrow we'll be doing an early stream, checking out Nurikabe World (releasing today!) and some other paper puzzle types!
10am UK time (UTC/GMT)
11am CET
3:30pm IST
7pm JST
9pm AEDT
Watch on Twitch: twitch.tv/thinkygames
After 9 months of hard work, we have finally released our very first game Nurikabe World 🌸
Thank you everyone who has followed our journey from March of last year. It has been a very great experience making this game❤️
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#indie #gamedev #puzzlegame #unity
Just added Nurikabe World (@wibswobs.bsky.social) to the Thinky Games database, releasing in just 6 days!
Create islands and connect rivers to solve relaxing Nurikabe logic puzzles. Nurikabe is a very satisfying puzzle type!
thinkygames.com/game...
Hah yea its so difficult to get the balance between gameplay and art right 😂 but I think the hover option works quite well now :D there is also a setting to show the numbers always on top if you would prefer that btw! 😁
Aaah thank you so much, a lot of effort went into the grass alone as it was quite tricky to get right without the art disturbing the gameplay 😂 love to hear the achievement grind is already on, we will probably add a couple of small ones still next week!
A first look of the game Nurikabe world before its release date (Jan 13th)! The game is super similar to minesweeper but with a beautiful nature aesthetic to it. I def enjoyed myself. Thank you to the devs of Hemisquare!
#cozygames #firstlook #gamergirl #letsplay #youtuber #wholesomegames #pcgames
Artist from Nurikabe World here! Thanks so much for the amazing video you made of the game, it feels so unreal to see people enjoy it 😭 also really love to see that you are enjoying the dailies as well :D
Thank so much for trying the demo and so happy to hear you enjoyed it! 😊
I have been working on our little game Nurikabe World - a relaxing logic puzzle game!
🍁 Create landscapes
🍃 Hand-crafted puzzle campaigns
🌸 Level and campaign editor
🌻 Daily Challenges
🌳 Share your own puzzles
Wishlist: store.steampowered.com/app/2964540/...
#PitchYaGame #gamedev
Hi there!
I am Wibs, 3D artist and working on our cozy little puzzle game Nurikabe World at the moment! 🍁
