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:

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To kick things off, here on Steam we're running an official publisher sale for the next two weeks.

https://store.steampowered.com/publisher/draknek/sale/Draknek12Years

This 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.

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Running until September 19th, this 12th Anniversary Draknek & Friends Humble Bundle is the first time you've ever been able to get all our games in one place this cheaply. These bundles support The Trevor Project - the leading suicide prevention and crisis intervention nonprofit organization for LGBTQ+ young people. Pay what you like, get some great games, and support a charity along the way. The bundles are:

• $5 for 4 Draknek & Friends games

  • (Electrifying Incident, Sokobond, Cosmic Express and A Good Snowman)

• $10 for 6 Draknek & Friends games

  • (the previously included games, Sokobond Express, and Bonfire Peaks)

• $15 for the Entire 8 game bundle

  • (the previously included games, LOK Digital, and A Monster's Expedition

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To celebrate 12 years, we're also giving away 12 copies of Draknek & Friends games. To enter, sign up to our mailing list by heading to this link, and winners will be chosen on Friday 5th September.

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In other Draknek & Friends news:

• Spooky Express will be launching October 21st, don't forget to wishlist on Steam, and pre-order on Android or iOS!

• Bonfire Peaks is taking part in the Play for Peace - Games for Palestine 2025 Charity Bundle on itch.io

• Sokobond Express is taking part in the Game Devs of Color Support Bundle on itch.io

• The Draknek New Voices Puzzle Grant is accepting applications until September 28th

That's all for now! Until next time.

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.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/583270/Cosmic_Express/

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

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!

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 already, please don't forget to wishlist Spooky Express!

https://store.steampowered.com/app/3352310/Spooky_Express/

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 on Steam, or share the trailer below.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uewJWzD6s10

...And that's not all. If you want to hear even more about Spooky Express, we've just released a special episode of the Draknek & Friends Official Podcast. Tune in wherever you get your podcasts to hear creative director Alan Hazelden and producer Syrenne McNulty chat to the level designer Lucas Le Slo about the development of the game, and some of the other projects he's involved in.

Until next time 👋

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/The_Electrifying_Incident_A_Monster_MiniExpedition/

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!

Exciting news! Cosmic Express is now 70% off on Steam and https://draknek.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/

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 copy of LOK Digital with a launch discount of 10% off.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2207440/LOK_Digital/

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/