Thimbleweed Park Reviews
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.
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. And really, I don't think fans would want it any other way.
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.
Review in Italian | Read full review
I have had an absolute blast playing Thimbleweed Park. The characters are full of personality, and the game itself is full of character and is a very fun adventure. The puzzles are very satisfying in hard mode, and the pixel art is top notch. Thimbleweed Park is full of references to older games, with several lines of dialogue that will surely give you a chuckle. If you're a fan of point and click games, then this is a must-have.
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.
Review in Italian | Read full review
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.
Thimbleweed Park is the right kind of throwback and a hell of an adventure game. It adheres to all of the old ideals that defined adventure games while still adding new things to accommodate new players or veterans who haven't reacclimated themselves to that old style. The puzzles can be intimidating, but they make sense, even if you're tempted to use a walkthrough to solve the more difficult ones. It sticks to a classic aesthetic, but it also knows how to deliver a compelling story to bring it all together. Time will tell if adventure game fans can call this a classic, but right now, Thimbleweed Park is certainly worth playing.
While the point-and-click adventure genre flagged and faltered a while back I think it coming back more “lean and mean” in indie form is probably the best way for it to find success again. Thimbleweed Park is simply an excellent game and puts the genre’s best foot forward to help find a new generation of fans. With so many great games on the Switch that ramp up the challenge and tension it is a great move in the opposite direction, providing an experience that you can take your time to walk through and savor… while giggling along the way.
Thimbleweed Park can be considered a contender for the title of the most heartwarming of the year, tells the story impressive, exactly the same as a skilled job with the characters, meticulous approach with which the developers have recreated the game, crashing into the cortex of the brain so deeply that I want to pay tribute to people who, despite the fact that in our time, this genre enjoys special popularity, producing projects, which are a revelation and an outlet for all fans of point-and-click.
Review in Russian | Read full review
Thimbleweed Park is a triumphant throwback to the heyday of the adventure genre, a golden era revered for its compelling storytelling as much as its wit and charm. It succeeds on all accounts and while undeniably aimed at those that miss the classic point-and-click adventures that they grew up with, its characters investigate a modern mystery that many will happily be enthralled with. And, if you hadn’t guessed already, the dead body pixelating under the bridge is the least of your concerns.
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.
Don't let the old-school look and feel hold you back. Thimbleweed Park is an amazing point 'n click adventure with some of the funniest cast I've seen in years.
Review in Portuguese | Read full review
Pixel perfection
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.
Review in Spanish | Read full review
Pays wonderful homage to its adventure gaming ancestors, including the humour and the tedium.
Thimbleweed Park is the perfect love letter to anyone that fell in love with the genre all those years ago.
Another great adventure game from Ron Gilbert. Maniac Mansion fans, you must play this ASAP.
Review in Spanish | Read full review
An enjoyable trip to the past that old school adventure gamers have been waiting for.
Thimbleweed Park was a blast providing a lengthy story and interesting characters to control at any moment.
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.