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The Map Is the Thing

The Map Is the Thing is a casual, mind-bending puzzle game. Explore a dungeon where you solve puzzles by folding your map to open new paths. Find keys to defeat barriers and find the fabled GaMuffin.

18 June 2025

The Map Is the Thing is an indie developed by Muffin Man Games, released 18 June 2025 on PC (Microsoft Windows).

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What The Map Is the Thing is

The Map Is the Thing is an indie game developed by Muffin Man Games and released in 2025. It is available on PC (Microsoft Windows) only. It runs on Godot.

The premise, in the publisher's words

The Map Is the Thing is a casual, mind-bending puzzle game. Explore a dungeon where you solve puzzles by folding your map to open new paths. Find keys to defeat barriers and find the fabled GaMuffin.
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How it plays

It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.

What it launched against

The Map Is the Thing launched on 18 June 2025, within three weeks of Death Stranding 2: On the Beach, Dune: Awakening, The Alters and Elden Ring Nightreign.

Released around the same time: Death Stranding 2: On the Beach, Dune: Awakening, The Alters, Elden Ring Nightreign.

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When did The Map Is the Thing come out?
The Map Is the Thing was released on 18 June 2025 for PC (Microsoft Windows).

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