WEEKLY-RELEASES · 2026-06-29
Last Week's Releases — 2026-06-22
3 picks from Steam (2 puzzle, 1 adjacent) — a quiet week
Intro
This covers puzzle releases on Steam and itch.io from last week, Monday June 22 through Sunday June 28, 2026. Paging through the release calendar over strong coffee, paid pure-logic puzzles were scarce. The week overlapped Thinky Puzzle Game Jam 6 (Jun 20-28), and many makers seemed to be pouring energy into free jam entries on itch.io rather than paid launches.
So rather than padding the list, I narrowed it to three titles I could verify across store pages and press: a first-person mystery from the Quern team, a falling-block puzzle built on Namco arcade classics, and a gamebook wandering 1927 New York — two pure puzzles plus one investigation-leaning adjacent pick.
This Week's Picks
Dimhaven - The Lost Source
A first-person mystery about searching a remote island for a missing uncle, built around a camera you use to photograph the scene and read clues hidden in the shots. Zadbox is the team behind the Myst-like first-person puzzle tradition of Quern: Undying Thoughts, and coverage describes lateral puzzles spanning mechanical rigs, symbolic ciphers and visual alignment. The pixel-3D coastal look has drawn praise; Steam shows ~85% of 273 reviews positive right after launch. Some flag launch bugs and a story that feels cut short. One for players who like to sit with a scene and read it carefully.
NAMCO LEGENDARY Mountains
A 3D stacking puzzle themed around Namco classics — PAC-MAN, Dig Dug, Xevious, Mappy, The Tower of Druaga. Matching voxels collide and merge into bigger ones, and you keep them from falling off the field; there is also a collection room to display 100+ voxel types as dioramas. It launched on Switch, Switch 2 and PC at once. Reputation is still forming so soon after release, but the license and backing lend some confidence. Worth a look if you like repeatable, arrange-and-clear arcade puzzling.
Omen Exitio: Hunger
A Lovecraftian investigative gamebook set in 1927 New York, where you play a journalist whose choices the story remembers. This is an adjacent pick rather than a pure logic puzzle: the draw is branching investigation grounded in real events and people before the cosmic horror sets in, a follow-up to Omen Exitio: Plague. Steam sits at 95% of 43 reviews just after launch — small numbers, but a confident start. A text-led weekend read for those who like investigation and choice.
Hiki's Pick of the Week
My pick is Dimhaven - The Lost Source. In a quiet week, ~85% of 273 reviews right after launch clearly stands out. It is a first-person mystery in the Quern lineage that leans on reading clues out of photographs — an easy recommendation for a weekend you want to spend reading a scene slowly.
On My Radar
One from the itch.io side: the just-finished Thinky Puzzle Game Jam 6 (Jun 20-28) has produced dozens of free puzzles. Ratings have not accumulated yet, so I am holding off on naming individual entries — but some should settle into clear favorites next week, and my notebook stays open on that page.
Closing
To close: pure-logic full releases were thin partly because a game jam and a sale window collided. Even so, the Quern team's return to first-person mystery and a falling-block tribute to Namco's legacy landing in the same week made for a fine view — both grounded in observation and sequencing. Next week I will weigh the jam's reception and open the notebook again.
Sources
Store pages and media referenced in this article:
・Steam: Dimhaven - The Lost Source
・Steam: NAMCO LEGENDARY Mountains
・Thinky Games on Dimhaven - The Lost Source
・GameGrin: Top 20 New Steam Games (22-28 June 2026)
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