Thimbleweed Park™

From the crowdfunding get-go, Thimbleweed Park's design team promised to recreate the look and feel of old-school computer gaming. They absolutely succeed, but not solely through the genre, pixelated graphics, or verb menu UI. The writing captures the essence and heart of the Lucas Arts era. It begins a touch bland, but the wacky world widens rapidly, and by the third hour I was warped to the mid-90s in my friend's basement at 2AM of a Saturday night sleepover, guzzling Surge and giggling through Day of the Tentacle. The creators (featuring some old titans of the field) clearly understand the draws and snags of the genre, and intentionally recreate both. Yes, even the snags; there's an almost literal pixel-hunting achievement challenge throughout, and it's as easy as ever to get stuck and resort to item combination spamming. Despite being a nearly perfect recreation of early 90s adventure gaming, it is, like most of those games its emulating, far from perfect. The early and late chapters are weaker than the middle. The endgame is rushed and incomplete, as if the team ran out of Kickstarter funds. Various areas, puzzles, and NPCs scream of aborted plans for greater importance. The game has the mind-boggling option of an easy mode. But what tiny target demographic are they expecting to play a mode that just removes a large percentage of the puzzles when the plot is catered to and the Kickstarter was funded by old-school adventure diehards. The plot is interesting, but messy, and unexplained and incomplete threads abound. But none of these problems are particularly important because the games is funny, the puzzles are strong and fair, and anyone who has a soft spot for what they're trying to do is going to be more than willing to forgive the weaknesses.

One of my favourite games of all time. I've replayed it a lot. Love the characters, the setting, the art, the humour. Amazing. Would live in Thimbleweed Park if I could. I've owned this on GOG for years. But wanted to buy it on Steam just so I could leave a review. 10/10 The signals? Very strong tonight.

I played this years ago when it was given away on Epic and remembered liking it a lot, so when I saw it for a new historical low at the Steam sale I decided to pick it up for a replay, with achievements and trading cards a nice added bonus. Playing through it again, I liked it even more than I remembered. I guess maybe it helped that the -- at this point predictable to the point of cliche in a Ron Gilbert game -- fourth wall breaking/meta/whatever you want to call it aspect was anticipated so it didn't come as an annoying surprise. Putting that aside, every aspect of this game is top notch. Very well written story, great characters, uniformly excellent voice acting, good music, good art work, long for a modern adventure game. Lots of puzzles were at the perfect level of difficulty for my tastes -- logical, hard enough to be consistently challenging and make me feel clever when I figure them out, but not hard enough that I needed a walkthrough except in a few isolated cases where I needed a small clue to remind me of something or someone that was relevant to the solution. Thimbleweed Park deserves a place among the list of all-time great adventure games as far as I'm concerned.

From a point and click fan, I cannot recommend this game enough! GO PLAY

This game was a nice flashback to old times. I like the atmosphere and the wackiness. However, I found the interaction buttons, while true to the old games, did not serve the game. They only made certain bits tedious and opaque. I quite enjoyed the first two thirds of the game; but the mystery doesn't quite hold up what it promises, unfortunately. Some of the puzzles were also very difficult to figure out, and while there's an ingame hint system, a lot of the puzzles could have used more nudges for the player to figure it out. I'd still recommend the game, if you really like adventure games and don't mind plotholes or some very hard puzzles.

Absolutely naff game! Terrible. you basically have to follow the script. Looks like the game was created in the 1980's zero excitement or challenge.

Super fun - was looking for a nostalgic hit to remind me of the games I played in the 90s like Sam and Max and Day of the Tentacle - this was exactly it. Played in Hard Mode which at times very much lived up to its name but was challenging in a good way!

90's LucasArts point and clicks are some of my favorite games of all time. This definitely reminds me of the formula that made those so successful. This is an excellent game with great voice acting.

What a beautiful game. Best Ron Gilbert ever, and that says it all. The old school graphics made me hesitant - and I'm still not convinced that moder graphics would not have made the game even better. But who cares? The scenario is fantastic. The humor is fantastic. The gemaplay is fantastic. If you love adventure games and beautiful stories, you want to play this game.

I loved it!

i loved this