Thimbleweed Park

This plays like the old adventures from *way back when* but in wide-screen and without the dead ends and fear of messing up and not being able to restore the (dumb) decisions you made earlier ;) An interesting story, set in 1987, which starts with a dead body. From there on, you play as different characters to ultimately solve this case. There's no boring puzzles, but there are items you need to find to be able to progress. I liked the game play big time and there's enough to explore to make for many hours of investigating. If you like a good adventure and don't mind the "vintage" look & feel, this is the game for you!!

Well, yes it's a great Point'n'Click Adventure. The graphics are nice retro style. The characters are very good. Lot's of different reasons why to work finally together. And the humor is very funny. Don't let yourself be confused about the different graphic Style at the ending. The production didn't went out of money, if you listen the story you will know, what's the reason for that (they are the same places in a different style).

This game is a true masterpiece"-a-reno" (players of Thimbleweed will understand that reference). I can only echo and mirror the countless other raving 5 star reviews on GoG. Impressively this game has found a way to keep up with the times. It has absolute polish and appeal at all levels and the art style and humour bring me back to my early years. Most importantly, it recognises that we as modern gamers no longer have the patience or the time of our younger selves. If you're an seasoned gamer like me, and were to fire up old adventure games of the past, (short of walkthroughs or remembering the puzzles) we would likely get frustrated and impatient with the puzzles and user interface. Thimbleweed will have none of it! It holds your hand very nicely and is a breeze start to finish. The in-game hint system drip feeds you clues if you're stuck, until it eventually tells you exactly what to do if you keep using. You never feel lost or that you've hit a roadblock. There is literally no need to look up solutions or spend hours trying to figure something out that you just can't seem to solve. Thimbleweed Park feels oddly familiar even on your first run through. It's screams Lucas Arts adventure games even though technically it isn't - The flavour and comedy of Monkey Island and the character switching of Maniac Mansion and Day of the Tentacle work beautifully in this game. The puzzles are intelligent, logical and humorous, the characters are rich and the story is well thought out. I can't recommend this game enough, and I will be watching the makers closely for any other gems they may decide to work on in the future. I very much hope they do. Do yourself a favour and buy this game.

This game can hardly be discussed separately from its creator, Ron Gilbert (of Maniac Mansion and Monkey Island fame). It's definitely a throwback, or "retro" game - funded on Kickstarter primarily on promises of nostalgia. From a pure mechanical gameplay perspective, you get a barely updated experience compared to the point-and-click games of the late 80s, early 90s. The graphics, while updated with lighting effects, many-layered parallax scrolling, and other niceties, is also definitely and purposely retro. I'd say it's mostly as if Monkey Island was running on high-end arcade hardware from the day, as opposed to scrappy home computers. Still, there's something here that cannot be overlooked. This game is the culmination of Ron Gilbert's experience in developing adventures. It's a seamless, fun, polished gameplay experience. If you are familiar with the genre and its criticism, you'll find that many of the rough edges common to it have been polished away, or, ironically, integrated and self-referenced in a fourth-wall-breaking manner. It's a strange, unique piece of art. (And no, I don't mean "high Art", the game holds no such pretenses... just, you know, "art" with a lowercase a.) A perfected, relatively high-budget, director's cut example of an undead genre. It's as if Charlie Chaplin went back to make one final silent film, with modern Hollywood tech, a proper budget, and all his experience from his heyday and watching films evolve since. It's surreal and unique. I mean, the game world itself is surreal in a Twin Peaks way, but what's even more surreal is the fact that this game exists at all. I'd say if you're nostalgic for the Monkey Island days, you should get it. If you're too young to be nostalgic, and are wondering what we liked about those games, this is probably the best single game to try in the genre, even if you never play one of these ever again. The price is relatively high compared to other retro games, but it's worth the pricetag.

It is a very interesting and funny adventure game. Highly recommended.