Thimbleweed Park

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49% of scored reviews fell within the range of 80 to 86 / 100

Ryan McCaffrey (IGN)

8.5/10

“You certainly get your $20’s worth out of Thimbleweed Park. The voice cast doesn’t elevate the script in the way they always did in the LucasArts “talky” days, but an enjoyable, self-referential story and hundreds of puzzles to solve make it worthy of a place on your shelf next to Maniac Mansion and Monkey Island.”

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Caty McCarthy (USgamer)

4/5 stars

“Thimbleweed Park has sharp, often hilarious writing and convoluted puzzles to spare. All in all, it’s a welcome return to the point-and-click adventure, even if it ends up feeling a bit like a b-side to the classics before it.”

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Daniel Quesada (Hobby Consolas)

89/100

“A real pleasure for point and click lovers. It’s not only superb on its own merit, but also as a homage to the great classics of the genre.”

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Outlet	Author	Score	Date	Quote	Read
33bits	Ricardo Oyón Rodríguez	85 / 100	05-06-2019	A return to the origins of the point&click adventure, by the same authors of those classic adventures. Excellent in all its aspects, with several levels of reading and a melancholic point at the end.	Read review
ACG	Jeremy Penter	Recommended	03-30-2017	Video Review	Read review
Arcade Sushi	Sarah LeBoeuf	8.5 / 10	04-07-2017	Thimbleweed Park has more than made good on its promise, bringing the joys of pointing, clicking, and verb usage to the modern era.	Read review
Areajugones	Víctor Rodríguez	10 / 10	04-16-2017	Thimbleweed Park is the finest example of a graphic adventure: an outstanding game full charm and personality. Every aspect is a great work and this game is a true masterpiece.	Read review
Ars Technica	Steven Strom	Not Recommended	04-07-2017	Try before you buy. Thimbleweed Park is an unabashed adventure game throwback with all the good and bad that brings. When it parlays that love of a bygone era into interesting challenges, it borders on great. When it simply emulates the past, it’s a real slog.	Read review
Atomix	Alberto Desfassiaux	88 / 100	09-11-2017	Another great adventure game from Ron Gilbert. Maniac Mansion fans, you must play this ASAP.	Read review
CGMagazine	Lane Martin	9.5 / 10	04-19-2017	Thimbleweed Park is an excellent experience made by masters of their craft. Every speck of it drips with quality and care.	Read review
COGconnected	Anthony Bacchus	88 / 100	04-07-2017	Thimbleweed Park is the perfect love letter to anyone that fell in love with the genre all those years ago.	Read review
ComiConverse	Alan Stock	Recommended	09-25-2017	Thimbleweed Park is a charming game overall.	Read review
Cubed3	Adam Riley	7 / 10	04-01-2017	Those who yearn for more of that type of interactive fun, this will likely be a blast.	Read review
Destructoid	Kevin McClusky	9 / 10	03-30-2017	When the Kickstarter for Thimbleweed Park was launched, the stated goal was to create a game that plays like a lost LucasArts adventure title. In my opinion the developers succeeded brilliantly, creating a game that feels like a forgotten relic of LucasArts’ heyday, but with enough touches to make it a little more relevant to a modern audience. It’s fair to say no one makes them like this anymore, particularly since Telltale discovered a more lucrative formula based on popular franchises and keeping track of player actions. It was a rare pleasure to get to play a game like this again. I had a blast exploring Thimbleweed Park, and if you’ve ever enjoyed telling Bernard Bernoulli or Guybrush Threepwood what to do, you will too.	Read review
Digital Chumps	Steven McGehee	9.5 / 10	04-03-2017	Thimbleweed Park is a great callback to the heyday of LucasArts-esque adventure games. It’s wonderful characters and winding plot deliver a memorable and fun experience.	Read review
Digitally Downloaded	Nick Hu.	4 / 5 stars	03-31-2017	Ultimately, this is a game anyone that loved adventure games will enjoy, and find entertainment in. There are quite a few nods to the Lucasarts/Lucasfilm stable, cameos and a continuation of jokes that have been there since the first Edison encounter. In terms of where it would sit alongside the earlier adventure games, it’s definitely a B-side, but being a B-side to the likes of Monkey Island, Zak McKracken and Day of the Tentacle is still a pretty mean feat.	Read review
DualShockers	Ryan Meitzler	8 / 10	03-30-2017	Instead, Thimbleweed Park shows that adventure games very much have a place in 2017 as they did in the ’80s and ’90s thanks to its loving callbacks to the genre, but also its willingness to improve upon them in many ways. As the game’s trailers have used the slogan that “a dead body is the least of your problems” in the game’s dilapidated town, Thimbleweed Park hides many more secrets and ways of enjoying it beyond its murder-mystery plot, for those willing to look just a little bit deeper.	Read review
Eurogamer	Cassandra Khaw	Recommended	03-31-2017	Thimbleweed Park is what would happen if you moved Nightvale into Monkey Island, and gave everyone too much rum.	Read review
Everyeye.it	Enrico Spadavecchia	9 / 10	04-03-2017	Thimbleweed Park is a nostalgic point & click adventure, another great masterpiece made by Ron Gilbert, author of Monkey Island and Maniac Mansion.	Read review
Expansive	Expansive	8.5 / 10	03-31-2017	Thimbleweed Park is an extraterrestrial joy and the reinvigoration the genre has desperately needed	Read review
FNintendo	António Branquinho	8 / 10	10-12-2017	Thimbleweed Park proposes an experience that is not common nowadays but which used to be abundant more than two decades ago and it works very well. The game is full of well designed puzzles, good sense of humour and an overall fun gameplay. It would be even better if it played more like a classic point and click adventure but Thimbleweed Park does its job very well and nobody will walk out disappointed.	Read review
Game Informer	Elise Favis	8.5 / 10	03-30-2017	Thimbleweed Park is endlessly entertaining, with clever humor and several references to classic adventure games	Read review
Gameblog	Gianni Molinaro	9 / 10	03-30-2017	Wtih Thimbleweed Park, Ron Gilbert proves that he has definitely not lost the magic wand he used decades ago to conceive point and click adventures. This game is ridiculously fun and well-built, will make you think and laugh really hard from the beginning to the end. It really fells like an undiscovered LucasArts game we’ve never played before.	Read review
Gamefa	Hossein Sadri	8 / 10	03-24-2017	Thimbleweed Park is the epic return of point and click classical adventure games. Everything’s right as it should be. But sometimes the game becomes too Old School to be enjoyable.	Read review
GameGrin	Gary Sheppard	10 / 10	04-01-2017	Another masterpiece from Ron Gilbert. The game is a joy to play and provides the perfect mix of humour, challenge and engaging storyline. I genuinely have nothing but praise for the game and I can’t recommend it enough.	Read review
GameMAG	xtr	9 / 10	04-09-2017	Thimbleweed Park is a celebration of the 90th with a mystical TV show, strange characters and decadent ideas about the future.	Read review
Gamerheadquarters	Jason Stettner	8.6 / 10	03-30-2017	Thimbleweed Park was a blast providing a lengthy story and interesting characters to control at any moment.	Read review
GameSpew	Jamie Parry-Bruce	9 / 10	04-10-2017	If it’s anything at all, Thimbleweed Park is a brave game. It’s a standalone adventure with no sequel tie-ins. It’s a self-contained story with interesting characters and an intriguing mystery to solve. It’s unafraid to embrace its heritage and it’s not afraid of modernising to improve on the old formula.	Read review
GameSpot	Matt Espineli	7 / 10	03-30-2017	Thimbleweed Park is a point-and-click adventure full of enticing secrets to uncover, but its adherence to the genre’s unremedied issues sometimes brings it down.	Read review
GamesRadar+	David Roberts	3.5 / 5 stars	03-30-2017	Thimbleweed Park is like the HD remaster of a lost LucasArts adventure from the ’80s, with all the hilarious, self-aware dialogue and sometimes frustrating design of the era brought forward into the 21st century.	Read review
GameWatcher	Chris Capel	9 / 10	03-30-2017	Small complaints aside, anyone looking for a missing LucasArts adventure from the early 90s needs to play Thimbleweed Park and will be very happy with it. You know, that period filled with the best adventure games ever made from the best adventure game developer ever? Good. Play it.	Read review
Gaming Nexus	Randy Kalista	8 / 10	04-28-2017	A buddy-cop duo, a gypsy-cursed clown, and a hopeful video game developer walk into a reboot of Maniac Mansion. Jokes ensue. Thimbleweed Park’s sense of humor works best if you can easily laugh at easy laughs. It’s a great throwback, but I don’t expect today’s adventure games to borrow much from this lovingly refurbished template. You don’t have to be a Gen X’er to appreciate it, but it wouldn’t hurt.	Read review
GamingTrend	Christian DeCoster	75 / 100	04-10-2017	Thimbleweed Park is a game that was created with a specific audience in mind, and that audience is adults who grew up on classic LucasArts adventure games. If you’re part of that audience, you owe it to yourself to check it out. If you aren’t, there really isn’t much for you here.	Read review
GearNuke	Ali Moin	8.5 / 10	04-08-2017	Thimbleweed Park is a return to the form for Ron Gilbert. It provides an engaging experience with well written characters that has the potential to achieve cult status among fans.	Read review
Geeks Under Grace	John Campbell	8.5 / 10	10-24-2017	While the ending is weak, the gameplay and puzzles make up for this nostalgic game.	Read review
God is a Geek	Chris White	8.5 / 10	04-03-2017	I’ve missed having a great adventure game to play, and thanks to the skilled veterans at Terrible Toybox, this one is up there as one of the best ever.	Read review
Hey Poor Player	Francis DiPersio	4.5 / 5 stars	03-30-2017	From the perfect cast of characters to the superb writing and puzzle designs, Thimbleweed Park is a must-play title that no fan of the point-and-click genre should miss out on, and hopefully the latest of many more adventures in store from Ron Gilbert and Gary Winnick.	Read review
Hobby Consolas	Daniel Quesada	89 / 100	04-02-2017	A real pleasure for point and click lovers. It’s not only superb on its own merit, but also as a homage to the great classics of the genre.	Read review
IGN	Ryan McCaffrey	8.5 / 10	03-30-2017	You certainly get your $20’s worth out of Thimbleweed Park. The voice cast doesn’t elevate the script in the way they always did in the LucasArts “talky” days, but an enjoyable, self-referential story and hundreds of puzzles to solve make it worthy of a place on your shelf next to Maniac Mansion and Monkey Island.	Read review
IGN Italy	Francesco Destri	9 / 10	03-30-2017	Do you miss the LucasArts adventures of the ’90s? Thimbleweed Park is the best way to win the nostalgia and to play an adventure game that is already a must.	Read review
IGN Spain	José L. Ortega	8.2 / 10	03-30-2017	Nostalgic attack incoming! Thimbleweed Park it’s a complete and funny tribute to graphic adventures. It will push in the heart of the most veteran gamers.	Read review
Kotaku	Jason Schreier	Recommended	03-31-2017	This is simultaneously a joke about pixel hunting, a joke about adventure games, and a joke about the dumb things that players will do in video games. Did you ever think you’d want to hunt for pixels again? And did you ever think that the act of hunting pixels might be fun? Thimbleweed Park somehow both subverts pixel-hunting and makes you want to hunt pixels, which is just about all you can ask for in an adventure game.	Read review
M3	Malin Granberg	10 / 10	04-10-2017	Thimbleweed Park is a remarkable adventure game, that not only feel like a spiritual sequel to Maniac Mansion and Day of the Tentacle – it’s in many ways a better game than those. An instant classic that will be remembered in years to come.	Read review
Marooners’ Rock	Adam Bankhurst	8 / 10	10-04-2017	Thimbleweed Park is a great game from one of the masters of the genre and it deserves a place in your library if you have any fondness of those older titles or love stories and puzzle solving. While the faithful recreation of a point-and-click-style game may have been a brought forward some of the baggage of the past, the good shines through and through.	Read review
Metro GameCentral	GameCentral	8 / 10	03-31-2017	The best point ‘n’ click adventure since the glory days of LucasArts, filled with smart dialogue and even smarter puzzles.	Read review
New Game Network	Josh Hinke	69 / 100	04-15-2017	Thimbleweed Park feels like a party that Gilbert threw for his core audience, a true sign of appreciation for those who loved his previous work, and backed this game almost sight unseen. But for others, who aren’t fans of Gilbert or the classic adventure genre, it’s tough to recommend.	Read review
Nintendo Life	Mike Diver	8 / 10	09-21-2017	Point-and-click beginners may struggle with the myriad puzzles Thimbleweed Park lays across its curiosity-piquing plot, but its developers have rightfully made it possible to get ahead even when all you see are dead ends, with the inclusion of the tips line.	Read review
NintendoWorldReport	Bryan Rose	8 / 10	09-21-2017	undefined.Thimbleweed Park is a wonderful love letter about everything that made 1980s games great. The Switch probably has the best console version due to the touch screen controls, as the physical controls can be a chore if you’re playing on the TV. With such a focus maintained on nostalgia I’m not really sure someone who likes Telltale’s adventure games are going to appreciate Thimbleweed Park. Regardless, there’s enough humor and witty writing to keep gamers of all ages entertained.	Read review
NoesPaisparaFrikis	Jamie Snow	7.8 / 10	01-03-2019	Thimbleweed Park does not stay in the pure homage, as it happens to many other titles that look to the past to try to succeed, but it is also a magnificent graphic adventure and a great title that we recommend to everyone, lovers or not of the gender.	Read review
NZGamer	Tony Hsiang	8.9 / 10	04-13-2017	Pays wonderful homage to its adventure gaming ancestors, including the humour and the tedium.	Read review
Oyungezer Online	Eser Güven	9.2 / 10	04-12-2017	You shouldn’t say no to a game that’s coming straight from the golden era of adventure games. Thimbleweed Park not only is one of the best games in recent times, it’s also one of the best in the history of adventure games.	Read review
Pardis Game	Seyyed Mohammad Reza Mojab	8 / 10	04-25-2017	Thimbleweed Park is a class in game development in every sense. Despite using 30 year old mechanisms and pixelated visuals, the fantastic narrative and characters plus awe inspiring dialogues and a great sense of humor, it’s one of the best adventure games in recent memory. If you like an introduction to old school adventure, Thimbleweed Park is the one to go for	Read review
Paste Magazine	Stuart Arias	10 / 10	04-13-2017	And I admit, they game does reach those levels, many times in fact. But if we hope to see this often-maligned genre grow out of the worst parts of its history, we should also set a higher standard for the kind of stories it can tell. Or in Thimbleweed Park’s case, how it tells them and with what amount of conviction.	Read review
PC Gamer	Andy Kelly	84 / 100	03-30-2017	A quality adventure game with challenging puzzles, oddball characters, and an intriguing, mystery-laden plot.	Read review
PC Invasion	Tim McDonald	8 / 10	04-04-2017	A love letter to the old LucasArts adventures. A must-play if you fondly remember them, and a should-play even if you don’t.	Read review
PCWorld	Hayden Dingman	4.5 / 5 stars	03-30-2017	Thimbleweed Park is excellent, both as tongue-in-cheek homage and in its own right. It’s a LucasArts adventure game the way you remember them being, with the same witty humor and, yes, the same sometimes-asinine puzzles. The good and the bad.	Read review
PlayStation Universe	Neil Bolt	9 / 10	08-22-2017	As improbable as it sounds, Thimbleweed Park has brought the Lucasarts adventuring heyday kicking and screaming like a three-headed monkey into 2017 with the sort of verve few would have expected. Thimbleweed Park is utterly essential for point and click adventurers everywhere.	Read review
Polygon	Whitney Reynolds	8 / 10	03-30-2017	Thimbleweed Park is almost too successful channeling a different era of adventure games.	Read review
Press Start	Ewan Roxburgh	8 / 10	04-14-2017	Thimbleweed Park absolutely achieves what it sets out to, its unpredictable narrative contributing to a beautifully presented point-and-click adventure, worthy of being considered a true spiritual successor to the classics to which it pays homage. Bar a couple of design issues, Thimbleweed Park achieves something special, and longtime point-and-click fans should rejoice.	Read review
pressakey.com	Kevin Christmann	Recommended	07-20-2017	Ron Gilbert und sein Team haben es geschafft, mit Thimbleweed Park bei mir genau das auszulösen, was ich von einem geistigen Nachfolger von Maniac Mansion im Jahre 2017 erwarte. …] Fans der alten LucasArts-Adventures sollten daher unbedingt zugreifen, wenn sie es nicht ohnehin schon gemacht haben. Wenn man keinen Bezug zu klassischen Point-and-Click-Adventures und der LucasArts-Ära hat, wird es daher wohl nur schwer möglich sein, die Faszination nachvollziehen zu können. Trotzdem ist Thimbleweed Park so gut designed, dass ich es auch jedem interessierten Genreneuling wärmstens empfehlen kann.	Read review
PS4Blog.net	ThaRaven403	Recommended	09-05-2017	If you like point and click games, you’re in for a really good time with this game, even more so if you’re a fan of Maniac Mansion! Ron Gilbert and Gary Winnick have worked on quite a lot of great games in the past, and Thimbleweed Park is a worthy addition to their lists. I hope we don’t have to wait too long for their nexst game!	Read review
Push Square	Alex Stinton	8 / 10	08-22-2017	Given the origins of Thimbleweed Park as a Kickstarter project, it’s not at all surprising to find that it’s firmly aimed at a very specific audience. To that end it does deliver, with interesting characters, an enticing core mystery, and loads of puzzles, all wrapped up in a package that closely follows the tenets of the those classic Lucasarts titles.	Read review
Rock, Paper, Shotgun	Adam Smith	Recommended	03-30-2017	At the beginning of the game, I’d hoped to solve a mystery and have a few laughs, but now I miss the company of this little crew. It’s a smart game though and a thoughtful one, even if it sometimes hides those qualities behind its clown makeup and a beaglepuss.	Read review
Saving Content	Justin Celani	5 / 5 stars	09-01-2017	Thimbleweed Park isn’t going to bring any newcomers to the genre if it’s never been the type of game to draw player’s attention. Otherwise this is a wonderful love letter to the genre from one of the original creators. It’s funny, brain busting, and just a fun title that truly brings out the best aspects of the point and click genre.	Read review
Slant Magazine	Aaron Riccio	3 / 5 stars	04-11-2017	Thimbleweed Park ends up feeling like a flashback to the good old days of LucasArts adventure games.	Read review
SomHráč.sk	Róbert Herda	85 / 100	04-24-2017	Thimbleweed Park is probably the best detective adventure game released in recent years and a great tribute to retro gaming classics.	Read review
SpazioGames	Francesco Ursino	9 / 10	03-31-2017	An adventure game with a style that is clearly recognizable, traditional and innovative at the same time, nostalgic and ironic, tender and sarcastic. A gameplay crafted by masters, in which even the casual mode shines, proudly closed in its 1987 mood, and yet so much modern and with many more things to say than many other point and click games. It is not the nostalgia who talks: it is the voice of a hand-crafted videogame.	Read review
Stevivor	Steve Wright	8 / 10	04-17-2017	Thumbleweek Park is a stellar mix of mystery and humour	Read review
TechRaptor	Courtney Ehrenhofler	8.5 / 10	03-30-2017	Thimbleweed Park provides a very intriguing, out of the box story and well thought out characters, but the determination to adhere to retro adventure game mechanics can be a bit of a hindrance.	Read review
The Games Machine	Claudio Todeschini	9.1 / 10	03-29-2017	It’s basically a paradox, but we need to party like it’s 1986 to find a game so beautiful, polished, deep and fun. Everything, in Thimbleweed Park, works like clockwork (better yet, like a pendulum clock in the hall of a creepy mansion), and at the end of the day is one of the finest adventures you’ll play this year, and probably one of the best ever made.	Read review
TheSixthAxis	Aran Suddi	8 / 10	04-05-2017	Thimbleweed Park is a game that will resonate strongly with those who enjoy adventure games, and especially fans of some of the older games in the genre. It is a labour of love and that’s something that shines through the game. There are points though where some puzzles can feel a bit too obtuse in relation to their end goals, leading to a bit of frustration, though that can be countered with the casual mode. Thimbleweed is a strong entry to the adventure genre from the minds of those who helped cement it, though it can be tough at times.	Read review
TheXboxHub	Paul Renshaw	4 / 5 stars	04-18-2017	All in all then, there’s really not much to criticise here at all, apart from the aforementioned fourth wall breaking, and this is a testament to the care and attention to detail that has gone into Thimbleweed Park. The story will hook you in and keep you playing, some of the puzzles will have you banging your head on the wall (or sneaking onto Youtube for a look at the solution), and the animation and personality of the characters will have you really caring what happens to them.	Read review
TrueAchievements	Sam Quirke	4 / 5 stars	04-09-2017	Thimbleweed Park is a strange ride. It’s compelling throughout, with a strange story full of eccentric characters coupled with some very competent and rewarding puzzle construction; arguably the best of its kind, even including the LucasArts classics.	Read review
USgamer	Caty McCarthy	4 / 5 stars	03-30-2017	Thimbleweed Park has sharp, often hilarious writing and convoluted puzzles to spare. All in all, it’s a welcome return to the point-and-click adventure, even if it ends up feeling a bit like a b-side to the classics before it.	Read review
VGN	Francesca Guido	9 / 10	03-30-2017	Thimbleweed Park marks the return of the brilliant game designer Ron Gilbert, with a Kickstarter-funded ironic and compelling graphic adventure that every gamer who loved Maniac Mansion, Monkey Island and Day of the Tentacle will definitely enjoy.	Read review
VideoGamer	Alice Bell	8 / 10	03-30-2017	A point and click adventure for the now, Thimbleweed Park takes everything great about classic Lucasfilm games and leaves out the flaws. You might not love all the central characters, but this is as weird and compelling a town as Twin Peaks.	Read review
Windows Central	Jen Karner	4.5 / 5 stars	03-31-2017	Thimbleweed Park is a fun and challenging point-and-click adventure game. With a great noir feel, a cast of interesting characters, and tons to explore, this game is great for old fans of the genre and new fans alike. There is a ton to see, do and interact with, delivering a fantastic all-around game.	Read review

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Lost along a dusty stretch of highway, the town of Thimbleweed Park once boasted an opulent hotel, a vibrant business district and the state’s largest pillow factory, but now it teeters on the edge of oblivion and continues to exist for no real reason. It’s a town that makes you itch and your skin crawl. It’s a place no one ever looks for, but everyone seems to find. Thimbleweed Park is the curious story of two washed up detectives investigating a dead body found in the river just outside of town. It’s a game where you switch between five playable characters while uncovering the dark, satirical and bizarre world of Thimbleweed Park.

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