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Day of the Tentacle Remastered

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4.6/5

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4.6

152 Reviews

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Day of the Tentacle Remastered
Description
Originally released by LucasArts in 1993 as a sequel to Ron Gilbert’s ground breaking Maniac Mansion, Day of the Tentacle is a mind-bending, time travel, cartoon puzzle adventure game in which three unlikely friends work together to prevent an evil mutated purple tentacle from taking over the world!...
Genre:
Adventure - Point-and-click - Sci-fi
Tags:
Adventure, Story Rich, 2D, Sci-fi, Puzzle, show 8 more... Science, Great Soundtrack, Pixel Graphics, Funny, Point&Click, Family Friendly, Cartoony, Remake
Critics reviews
88 %
Recommend
IGN
8.8/10
PC Gamer
87/100
Game Informer
8.3/10
User reviews

4.6/5

( 152 Reviews )

4.6

152 Reviews

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Product details
2016, Double Fine Productions, ...
System requirements
Windows 7 / 8 / 10, 1.7 GHz Dual Core, 2 GB RAM, NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260, ATI Radeon 4870 HD, Intel H...
Description
Originally released by LucasArts in 1993 as a sequel to Ron Gilbert’s ground breaking Maniac Mansion, Day of the Tentacle is a mind-bending, time travel, cartoon puzzle adventure game in which three unlikely friends work together to prevent an evil mutated purple tentacle from taking over the world!

Now, over twenty years later, Day of the Tentacle is back in a remastered edition that features all new hand-drawn, high resolution artwork, with remastered audio, music and sound effects (which the original 90s marketing blurb described as ‘zany!’)

Players are able to switch back and forth between classic and remastered modes, and mix and match audio, graphics and user interface to their heart's desire. We’ve also included a concept art browser, and recorded a commentary track with the game’s original creators Tim Schafer, Dave Grossman, Larry Ahern, Peter Chan, Peter McConnell and Clint Bajakian.

Day of the Tentacle was Tim Schafer’s first game as co-project lead, and a much beloved cult classic! This special edition has been lovingly restored and remade with the care and attention that can only come from involving the game's original creators.
  • 100% new hand painted, high resolution artwork
  • Switch on the fly between classic mode and remastered mode
  • Remastered high quality voices, sound effects and music, with emulated “iMuse” style dynamic music
  • Choose between two remastered music modes: modernized, re-voiced music, or classic music which sounds just like it did in the 90s
  • Concept Art Browser
  • Highly customizable user interface and experience, with mix and match options for old and new play styles - play with the verb bar in remastered mode, or the new verb dial in classic mode
  • Commentary track with original creators: Tim Schafer, Dave Grossman, Larry Ahern, Peter Chan, Peter McConnell and Clint Bajakian.
  • Game within a game: Includes full playable version of Maniac Mansion!
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wallpapers wallpapers (mobile)
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Game details
Genre:
Adventure - Point-and-click - Sci-fi
Tags:
Adventure, Story Rich, 2D, Sci-fi, Puzzle, show 8 more... Science, Great Soundtrack, Pixel Graphics, Funny, Point&Click, Family Friendly, Cartoony, Remake
Works on:
Windows (7, 8, 10, 11), Linux (Ubuntu 16.04, Ubuntu 18.04), Mac OS X (10.11+)
Release date:
{{'2016-03-22T00:00:00+02:00' | date: 'longDate' : ' +0200 ' }}
Company:
Double Fine Productions / Double Fine Productions
Size:
2.2 GB
Links:
Forum discussion
Game features
Cloud saves
Controller support
Overlay
Single-player
Languages
English
audio
text
Deutsch
audio
text
español
audio
text
français
audio
text
italiano
audio
text
Critics reviews
85
Top Critic Average
88 %
Critics Recommend
OpenCritic Rating
IGNby Jared Petty
8.8/10
Thanks to the timeless quality of the writing, Day of the Tentacle remains as enjoyable today as it was when first released over twenty years ago. Faithfulness to the original art design is reflected in every lovingly-drawn line and hue of the gorgeous graphical presentation, and the zany humor is consistently spot-on. New players should be aware that the leaps in logic can make a few of the puzzles very difficult, but the witty wisecracks keep the search for solutions tremendously entertaining.
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PC Gamerby Andy Kelly
87/100
A lovingly remastered version of a LucasArts classic. Day of the Tentacle is every bit as funny and entertaining as it was back in 1993.
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Game Informerby Elise Favis
8.3/10
With stellar use of humor and brain-teasing puzzles, this adventure game provides plenty of fun (and many laughs)
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Posted on: June 29, 2025

cepeleon

Games: 121 Reviews: 2

Classic Masterpiece

Loved it when I was a kid, still love it now. Great game, great artwork, good voiceacting, humerous and enjoyable with some good challanges to work through.

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Posted on: March 23, 2017

ComradeAart

Verified owner

Games: 471 Reviews: 30

Remake of the best adventure game ever

Day of the Tentacle is (in my opinion) the best adventure game ever made. It has different characters, multiple worlds and it does not take itself too seriously. Back in the day the puzzles combined with the time travel aspect blew my mind. If you never played this, don't hesitate to buy this game. If you did play the original, this remake will not offer you anything new. I had the diskette version, so I had no voice acting. The graphics are nice and look very much so like the original graphics only in high definition. Besides that the interface became significantly less user friendly. Still it is a solid game that aged well, but if you have the original, leave this version be.

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Posted on: December 5, 2017

WilliamKalfelz

Verified owner

Games: 465 Reviews: 21

Just the best

Just love this game and loved the remaster. Is not perfect, but heck, who cares, it plays perfectly. ;-) I didn't like the new music, too much reverb for my taste. So I stick with the classical music and SFX. A nice option to be able to pick those on the fly and compare.

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Posted on: August 2, 2018

mastrick

Verified owner

Games: 354 Reviews: 2

Excellent remaster

This is an excellent remaster, scaling nicely on a 4k monitor and the sounds are great. It has that scumm feel without being to "retro". I took off one star because, for price, you're only getting about 6 hours of gameplay (unless you count the embedded Maniac Mansion hidden in the game). Additionally, there is a lot of walking in this game and no way to skip it. Newer point to clicks will warp you to the next room on a double click. I feel like this would have been a good improvement to the original.

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Posted on: December 25, 2019

gcb0

Games: Reviews: 3

missing content

this game has voice in 4 or 5 languages. I'd expect the ultimate version to include all of them :(

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