- He Who Watches is OUT NOW! - 2 September 2026
Hey there!We have some important news to share from us at Draknek & Friends! We're excited to announce that, in collaboration with solo developer Bobby Vanden (as Danga Games), our first-person puzzle game He Who Watches is OUT NOW on Steam and itch.io! To celebrate the game’s release, we’ve made a special ‘talky’ launch trailer! The gravity-shifting in our game can be a little overwhelming, so we thought we should make something a little different. This 'explainer' trailer has voice-over from the game’s solo-developer Bobby Vanden, discussing the game. It’s very different from our usual gameplay-heavy trailers! You can watch this special launch trailer below or click here.We hope you enjoy the game! If you do, please consider leaving a review on Steam. It really helps the game reach other players who would also enjoy this mind-bending gravity-shifting puzzle adventure. Thank you to eve…
- Release date for a new Draknek & Friends game! - 5 August 2026
Hey there!If you’re a fan of our games here at Draknek & Friends, you might also enjoy what we’ve been working on lately! So here’s an exciting announcement about the next game we’re publishing:We’re thrilled to announce that our next published game, He Who Watches, in collaboration with solo developer Bobby Vanden (as Danga Games), will launch on September 2, 2026.Delve deep into a mind-bending dungeon full of puzzles and secrets🏹Traverse walls and ceilings to solve puzzles by shifting blocks with a magical bow 🏹Over 100 handcrafted puzzles, each one more devious and demanding than the last 🏹 Seek guidance when stuck, with a playable hint system 🏹 For the curious, investigate secrets that lurk in every nook and crannyHe Who Watches is a first-person puzzle game about walking on walls, manipulating gravity, and discovering secrets. Delve deep into an ancient labyrinth of intricate c…
- Celebrating Cerebral Puzzle Showcase! - 28 May 2026
We're excited to announce that Cosmic Express is taking part in this year's Cerebral Puzzle Showcase! From May 28th to June 4th get the game for 75% off. We're also discounting the whole library of Draknek & Friends games, which you can check out here.In addition to the discounts, at this year's showcase we're also debuting two upcoming games that we're publishing. If you enjoyed Cosmic Express, we think you'll love both of them.Introducing: DittoriWe're excited to officially announce our upcoming game, Dittori today as part of Thinky Direct. Created by Blookerstein Games, in Dittori you have the power to split objects to be in two places at the same time: whatever happens to one, happens to the other. Learn to wield this simple power and discover its reality-breaking consequences.In an ancient temple deep beneath the world, a primordial god with the power to manipulate space awakens, a…
- Spooky Express is OUT NOW! 🚂🎃 - 21 October 2025
We have some exciting news to share:Spooky Express, the newest game from the developers of Cosmic Express is OUT NOW!The monsters can't wait to eat you – er, we mean meet!Note: this is a spiritual successor to Cosmic Express, but we’d like it to be received as a standalone game more than as a sequel. Spooky Express has deeper mechanics, more approachable puzzles, a helpful hint system, and a story told in comic-style cutscenes.Take charge of the Spooky Express; the only rail service willing to carry the undead passengers of deepest, darkest Trainsylvania. In your new role, you'll plan routes and lay train tracks to meet your creepy commuters' demands, and create a rail network spanning more than 200 thoughtfully designed levels.Trainsylvania spans a host of unique locations, with each puzzle forming a cosy diorama, complete with spooky soundtrack. Whether you're probing the Pumpkin Patc…
- Celebrating 12 years of Draknek & Friends - Steam Publisher Sale - 29 August 2025
Have you heard the news? This week* is the 12th anniversary of Draknek and Friends! 🎉*technically it's tricky to pinpoint the exact date we were founded, but it's been 12 years since the first release of our first game, Sokobond. So this seems the most plausible time to celebrate our anniversary!With the 5 year anniversary of A Monster's Expedition next month too, we have a bunch of exciting things happening this month and next. Check them out:12th Anniversary Sale on SteamTo kick things off, here on Steam we're running an official publisher sale for the next two weeks.store.steampowered.com/publisher/draknek/sale/Draknek12YearsThis sale includes all the games we've developed, published, and the new demo for our upcoming game, Spooky Express.It also features some of our deepest discounts yet, so now is an excellent time to pick up a new game.Humble Bundle - Draknek & Friends: 12 Years…
- Cosmic Express is 70% off in the Steam Summer Sale! - 27 June 2025
Cosmic Express is 70% off in the Steam Summer Sale!Cosmic Express is a puzzle game about planning the train route for the world's most awkward space colony, from the minds behind A Good Snowman Is Hard To Build and the art of Tyu from Klondike. It's cute, harder than it looks, and guaranteed to give you hours of frustrating fun across hundreds of levels.Or check out the complete Draknek & Friends collection as part of the sale 👇🌳 A Monster's Expedition ⚡ The Electrifying Incident ☃️ A Good Snowman is Hard to Build 🔥 Bonfire Peaks ⚗️ Sokobond 🧪 Sokobond Express🚀 Cosmic Express⬜ LOK Digital
- Cosmic Express is 75% off in the Cerebral Puzzle Showcase! - 29 May 2025
We're excited to announce that Cosmic Express is taking part in this year's Cerebral Puzzle Showcase! From May 29th to June 5th get the game for 75% off 👇 https://store.steampowered.com/app/583270/Cosmic_Express/ This year's showcase returns for the fourth year running, and features: 💸 Hundreds of puzzle game discounts to find your next favourite game 🎮 Countless puzzle demos, including brand new content 🕹️ Special showcase puzzle game bundles But that's not all, keep an eye out on the official livestream this weekend and watch tonight's Thinky Direct at 6pm BST. We'll be revealing an exciting new trailer for Cosmic Express's spookier successor, Spooky Express. You don't want to miss it!
- Play the demo for Spooky Express, the spookier successor to Cosmic Express - 22 May 2025
We've been working on the spooky successor to Cosmic Express, and are excited to announce that the demo is OUT NOW! https://store.steampowered.com/app/3352310/Spooky_Express/ Plan the train route for the world’s spookiest theme park! Transport monsters to their destinations — but keep everything on track and don’t let them bite the passengers or you’ll have a grave problem. This is our first ever demo for Spooky Express, and we're excited to invite you to play. The demo's features include: More than 35 levels of the theme park to explore and build tracks for Three colourful characters, which is just a sneak preview of the full game A fantastic soundtrack by Priscilla Snow This demo will be available for a limited time and will be participating in not one but two upcoming events on Steam: Vampires vs. Zombies Festival The Cerebral Puzzle Showcase And last but not least... If you haven't…
- Announcing the spooky successor to Cosmic Express! 🎃 - 8 May 2025
Hey there! We have some very exciting news for fans of Cosmic Express. If you enjoyed planning the train route for the world's most awkward space colony... Then things are about to get a lot spookier 🎃 Announcing: Spooky Express! Plan the train route for the world’s spookiest theme park! All the passengers are all just dying to ride the Spooky Express. Pick up the creepy cryptids and drop them at their destinations around the park. But be careful! Don’t let them scare or bite the human passengers. Stay on track of the situation or you’ll have a grave problem. https://store.steampowered.com/app/3352310/Spooky_Express/ Spooky Express is great follow-up to the award-winning thinky puzzle game, Cosmic Express and will feature over 100 brand new and unique levels with countless monsters, maps and mechanics. If that sounds like something you might be interested in, please give us a wishlist…
- The Electrifying Incident is OUT NOW! ⚡ - 15 April 2025
We have some exciting news to share! The Electrifying Incident: A Monster Mini-Expedition is OUT NOW on Steam! https://store.steampowered.com/app/3352300/The_Electrifying_Incident_A_Monster_MiniExpedition/ Featuring the monster from A Monster's Expedition and A Good Snowman is Hard to Build in a new sci-fi setting, The Electrifying Incident will have you explore a mysterious facility and manipulate the many electrical hazards and locked doors to find a way deeper, towards the source of the problem. Your only tool: a mechanical grabber-arm allowing you to lift and move boxes from afar. Are you ready to step into the mysterious facility and solve it's puzzles? Think hard, because the reactor core could go into meltdown at any moment. Please Note: The Electrifying Incident is a small, bite-sized experience - about 30-90 minutes for most players. https://store.steampowered.com/app/3352300/T…
- Draknek's upcoming puzzle game, The Electrifying Incident launches April - 18 February 2025
Hey puzzle game fans! We’re excited to announce that The Electrifying Incident, our latest thinky puzzle game from Draknek & Friends, will launch in April on Steam. https://store.steampowered.com/app/3352300 Featuring the same monster you'll recognise from Cosmic Express and A Monster's Expedition, this new game will have you explore the facility and manipulate the many electrical hazards and locked doors to find a way deeper, towards the source of the problem. Your only tool: a mechanical grabber-arm allowing you to lift and move boxes from afar. If you’ve liked our past games, we’re confident you’ll love this one too. If you’re excited for the game, play the demo now and wishlist here: https://store.steampowered.com/app/3352300 We can't wait to share all the exciting things Draknek & Friends will be up to this 2025!
- Cosmic Express is ON SALE for 70% off! - 23 January 2025
Exciting news! Cosmic Express is now 70% off on Steam and itch.io. To mark the launch of LOK Digital on Android and iOS, we're offering a discount on all Draknek & Friends games. Now's the perfect time to discover your new favourite puzzle game! You can pick up any one of our thinky puzzle games, including: LOK Digital A Good Snowman is Hard to Build A Monster's Expedition Bonfire Peaks Cosmic Express Sokobond Sokobond Express Or grab the complete Drankek & Friends puzzle bundle here: https://store.steampowered.com/bundle/3556/Draknek__Friends_Puzzle_Bundle/
- LOK Digital is OUT NOW! - 11 December 2024
Hey there, We have some exciting news about another game being published by us at Draknek & Friends: LOK Digital is OUT NOW. We just announced it in the Day of the Devs: The Game Awards Edition. Learn the rules as you go and uncover how each new word has its own special ability to change the world around you in deep and surprising ways. Expand your vocabulary through 15 distinct worlds, each one exploring a new mechanic and completely shaking up the way you solve puzzles. With approachable mechanics and mind-bending gameplay, LOK Digital invites you to return every day for new procedurally generated puzzles showcasing the breadth and depth of mechanics. Bring the LOK creatures to life by spelling words that shape their world. They can only live on blackened tiles, so by solving puzzles you're expanding their horizons and helping their civilization thrive. To celebrate launch, get your c…
- Our merch store is now live - 7 November 2024
Hey there 👋 We have some exciting news to share! We now have an official merch store, featuring t-shirts, mugs, desk mats and stickers from Cosmic Express. Everything in the store is printed on demand, but if you order now you'll receive your print before Christmas. What's more, we'll be adding a lot more in the coming weeks. So if there's anything in particular you'd like to see printed, let us know! Check out the Cosmic Express collection here 🚀 P.S. You may also be interested to know that we, Draknek & Friends also recently launched the Draknek & Friends Official Podcast today too. In the pilot we discuss a little of what goes into making and publishing a game like Cosmic Express and what we're working on next. You can check it out on your preferred podcast streaming service. https://store.steampowered.com/app/583270/Cosmic_Express/
- Get your very own monster train driver plush toy! - 7 June 2024
Hey cosmic train drivers 👋 We have some exciting news! We're thrilled to announce that we've been working with Makeship on a plush toy of the titular character from A Monster's Expedition, who is also the very same train driver you'll recognise from Cosmic Express! This plushie is available for the next 5 days only - after which point it will be gone forever. So if you've ever wanted your very own Monster, now's your only chance. 👉👉 Get your Monster's Plush Toy 👈👈 Additionally (and perhaps most importantly), we need to hit a minimum threshold of 200 plushies pre-ordered to ensure it gets made, so please pre-order, signal boost, and share with anyone else who might want this! We have one in-hand and the quality is incredible. Thank you!
- Cosmic Express is 70% off in the Cerebral Puzzle Showcase! - 23 May 2024
We're excited to announce that Cosmic Express is taking part in this year's Cerebral Puzzle Showcase! From May 23rd to May 30th get the game for 70% off 👇 https://store.steampowered.com/app/583270/Cosmic_Express/ Watch an Interview with the Developer 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 - 4 April 2024
Hey there! If you enjoyed playing Cosmic Express, 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 g…
- Cosmic Express collides with Sokobond in new game puzzle Sokobond Express - 23 February 2024
What happens when you combine two great puzzle games? You get one puzzle game which makes me, an accredited professional fool, feel dizzy with noncomprehension. That game is Sokobond Express , which launched yesterday and combines the atom-shoving chemistry of Sokobond with the route-planning puzzling of Cosmic Express . So you have to draw paths around a grid to gather atoms to correctly build a desired molecule. That's all. Just molecular chemistry and pathing, at the same time. Oh, my poor foolish head. Read more
- Sokobond Express is available today! - 22 February 2024
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! https://store.steampowered.com/app/1701330/Sokobond_Express/ 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 c…
- Cosmic Express is 6 years old today! - 16 March 2023
Today is the sixth anniversary of Cosmic Express. Time flies while you're solving puzzles! Thank you to everyone who has played this game over that time. Thoughtfully, Steam has organised the Spring Sale to celebrate our little anniversary, so you can get the game for 75% off or even send it as a gift for a friend: https://store.steampowered.com/app/583270/Cosmic_Express/ 2023 is also the tenth anniversary of Draknek & Friends, and the tenth anniversary of our very first game, Sokobond. We're hard at work on the cross-over sequel of these two games, Sokobond Express, which you can wishlist now. https://store.steampowered.com/app/1701330/Sokobond_Express/ Thanks so much for your support! Alan
