Thimbleweed Park™

Have you ever said to yourself, 'If I was rich I'd get Looking Glass Studios back together and have them make a proper goddamn Thief sequel!'? Or, you know, whatever game gets you really wound up about such things. It's a pleasant fantasy, but not something th…

Released in 2017, Thimbleweed Park is a LucasArts-style point-and-click adventure about murder in a small town, headed up by LucasArts veterans Ron Gilbert and Gary Winnick. All that LucasArts pedigree added up to an 84% score in our review , on the strength o…

Have You Played? is an endless stream of game retrospectives. One a day, every day, perhaps for all time. I know as much as the next gal that classic adventure games aren’t for everyone. But if you were thinking of dipping your toe in the genre, Thimblew…

Thimbleweed Park, the point and click adventure game from Monkey Island's Ron Gilbert, has a sequel. Sort of. Gilbert has created a mini-standalone follow-up featuring character Delores, set one year on from the main game's events. This follow-up was originall…

We’re all invited back to the strange town of Thimbleweed Park for a free new little spin-off. Over the weekend, Ron Gilbert and pals released Delores: A Thimbleweed Park Mini-Adventure, a new story standalone story which grew out of a prototype for Gilb…

The latest game going free on the Epic Games Store is Thimbleweed Park , 2017’s retro reunion of Maniac Mansion creators Ron Gilbert and Gary Winnick. It’s a point ‘n’ click adventure game in ye olde waye, with jokes and puzzles and pix…

In case you missed the announcement a couple weeks ago, Thimbleweed Park , the goofy X-Files-esque point-and-click adventure from Monkey Island and Maniac Mansion creators Ron Gilbert and Gary Winnick, is now free on the Epic Games Store .    Thimble…

If you haven't had the chance to pick it up yet, you're in luck— Thimbleweed Park is the next game to go free on the Epic Games Store for a limited time from February 21 until March 7. The quirky, point and click murder mystery from the makers…

Ron Gilbert's wilfully retro point-and-clicker Thimbleweed Park might be excellent , but it's not - thanks to its precisely structured narrative - an experience that felt like it would benefit from additional story DLC. Which is probably how we've ended up wit…

Ransome the Clown is a foul-mouthed character in Thimbleweed Park , the retro-styled point-and-click adventure released last year by Terrible Toybox. Not in a way that will get you kicked out of nice restaurants, though: His way with words is softened in the g…

The Total War games have a tradition, so they can dodge the censors and get a lower age rating, of toning down the gore then releasing a big bucket of blood and mutilation as paid DLC. That way, teens still get to murder but adults can see the full consequence…

http://cdn.edgecast.steamstatic.com/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/27852310/b7831999d992a4c100a8916c9e3f505ea6ab204e.png The mystery adventure game Thimbleweed Park may have five playable characters, but let's face it: Ransome the Clown steals the show. If…

I finished the Dragon Age games on 'nightmare'. I just want you to know that. I was advised not to waste words proving my 'gamer cred'. I was like, "Sure, I’ve been playing since the Exidy Sorcerer and reviewing games profession…

Tim Clark: Simulacra   Look, I'm nothing if not entirely predictable, so to the surprise of absolutely nobody, least of all myself , I failed to catch up on Assassin's Creed: Origins. To be fair I did boot it up and made it through a couple of m…

Every few years, someone claims that adventure games are dead. But adventure games never died: they just changed. "I think what they really mean is the death of point-and-click adventure games," says Ron Gilbert, creator of Monkey Island and, more re…

Adventure game remakes are common. But not everyone likes to see their old favourites revived. Mitch Kocen asked veteran point-and-clickmen Ron Gilbert and Tim Schafer, among others, when they think it s OK to remaster the classics Without intervention, every …

The voting for the Golden Joystick Awards presented with Omen by HP closes in just under three weeks (November 3rd), and before that happens, we want to see our favourites from the last 12 months get the recognition they deserve. Not to manipulate the process …