Stylish spy adventure Puzzle Spy International sets new mission date: March 30, 2026
Oakland, CA, USA, February 20, 2026. Indie development team Travel-Friendly Cake will be launching Puzzle Spy International, a 1960s spy adventure full of thinky puzzles, on Steam on March 30, 2026. The colorful retro puzzle game has a new trailer this week launching in conjunction with the upcoming Steam Next Fest. The game’s stand-alone demo is available to play on Steam. The title was a recent finalist in the third annual Thinky Awards for Most Anticipated Game of 2026 and was featured in last year’s Cerebral Puzzle Showcase.
Mixed in with the puzzles, players will enjoy engaging and witty conversations and optional flirting. It’s all packaged up with period-appropriate mid-century modern art and a thrilling spy music soundtrack. A comprehensive hint and answer-checking system ensures that agents of all skill levels will be able to complete the missions. With a variety of fun and challenging wordplay, logic, and rules discovery puzzles, it’s sure to delight fans of Puzzle Hunts, NYT puzzles, and other classic paper puzzles.
“We love participating in monthly Puzzled Pints and wanted to create something with that kind of variety and challenge, only wrapped up in a larger story,” said husband-and-wife team Michael and Talia Dashow of Travel-Friendly Cake. “Working within the framework of a 1960s spy adventure gave us an interesting time period and a fun and recognizable visual style to explore.”
The dev team added “We love solving puzzles together – whether it’s Puzzled Pint or the many daily puzzles we do as a team. We hope that some players will work together to solve Puzzle Spy International as well. Tackling the puzzles with a friend or three is a lot of fun. Every person playing it will spot something different or know different idioms, so the social play makes it easier too. Our demos have gathered big crowds of people working collectively to solve the puzzles and having a blast!”
Steam Page: https://store.steampowered.com/app/3406690/Puzzle_Spy_International
Social Media: https://bsky.app/profile/agentepsilon.bsky.social
About Travel-Friendly Cake: Travel-Friendly Cake is a husband-and-wife indie game studio based in Oakland, California, concentrating on colorful, fun puzzle games with a lot of character. Co-founder Michael Dashow (who also creates all of the art and UI for the studio) is a long-time games industry veteran, perhaps best known for creating much of the character art for Blizzard’s classic Diablo II, as well as Art Director roles with Kabam, Gree, Nexon, and others.
