Thimbleweed Park

This is a dream come true for a point-and-click adventure fan like me. Pixels. Mystery. Characters. Eerie, creepy, murdery feelings. I am so in love with this game!

I just finished the game. It's a big world, lots of puzzles that always make a lot of sense (expect to get quite a few Aha! moments). It certainly feels a bit bigger than Monkey Island 2 and definitely bigger than DotT. If you are into the type of movies / books / games that the trailers appeal to, you'll love the game all the way through. Technically, while sporting big fat pixels, you can tell how much love was put into crafting every single background and animation. The music is superb and the voice acting is funny and touching. I'm a huge point-and-click adventure fan and I think this might be my new favourite adventure. It hits the right spot between funny, drama, crime and finding a spot in the heart of adventure game's lovers.

Do you remember, back in the day when there was no internet? When you were stuck on an island with basically just some three-headed monkeys? When you, a base-capped fatso, helped George Washington to an exploding cigar? Do you remember putting eggs in microwaves in mid-air? If you do remember at least some of those scenarios, chances are you did play through point-and-click adventure classics. And if you did, you are the target group for Thimbleweed Park. It comes in pixelated retro style. Modern gamers will not enjoy. It contains a lot of references to games from the 90s. Modern gamers will not enjoy. It has a lot of meta humour. Modern gamers will not reckon that special at all. It has hardly any cul-de-sacs in story design, there are -- almost -- no sudden endings. Modern gamers will not notice. It is pretty well-designed in terms of getting on in the game. Modern gamers will not know otherwise. It has some control shortcuts (the letter block to the left of the keyboard for the "verbs" or maps for quick travel or the middle mouse button for speech short-cuts). Modern gamers will still yawn by the lengths it will take just to move a character through the roads and paths, or will moan about (pointless) recurring animations, for instance when in an elevator or when climbing a radio antenna. It has a pretty good-quality texting. Modern gamers will still complain about ever-repetitive texts and about poor quality in side-texts (such as in a huge library, composed of backers' texts -- a neat idea, but no quality at all here). Compared to the old adventures played by people being able to focus longer than just half an hour on basically one and the same scenario, this game offers a lot of variety. For modern gamers, it is lame. Being one of the best adventures so far, it still falls short of modern gaming in every major respect. And even compared to classics its humour seems shallow. A must-play for fans! A solid game for all others, without major flaws.

I enjoyed every bit of this game. The atmosphere, the storyline, the graphics. Everything was just amaxing

What to say. This was the best run kickstarter project i ever backed and the result shows. Say hello again to the witty humor and brainbreaking puzzles from the 90's classic point & click adventures and enjoy !