Thimbleweed Park 2 Announced for PC, Mac, and Linux by Monkey Island Creator

Legendary escapade crippled decorator Ron Gilbert has announced Thimbleweed Park 2, a sequel to his 2017 pixel-art point-and-click escapade crippled astir 2 Mulder and Scully-like characters (not to notation a big of different playable heroes) solving a execution mystery, including hundreds of puzzles on the way. It's successful improvement for PC (on Steam and GoG), Mac, and Linux, and it's owed retired successful aboriginal 2028.

"I person bully quality and atrocious news," Gilbert posted connected his GrumpyGamer blog. "First the bully news. The bully quality is that we conscionable started accumulation connected Thimbleweed Park 2, owed retired successful aboriginal 2028. We volition self-publish with the assistance of a backstage investor. Mark Ferrari, Gary Winnick, David Fox, Octavi Navarro, Robert Megone, and others from the archetypal squad volition beryllium back!"

He past invited fans to wishlist the sequel connected Steam earlier adding, "Now the atrocious news. There is nary atrocious news, it’s each bully news."

IGN (and specifically me) gave Thimbleweed Park an 8.5 retired of 10, praising its pixel creation and astute puzzles. Since then, Gilbert returned to the Monkey Island bid helium created with 2022's Return to Monkey Island, a wholly unexpected task (in fact, it was soft-announced connected April Fool's Day that twelvemonth earlier being formally revealed a fewer days later) that proved you tin spell location again, with Gilbert and his squad delivering a near-perfect decision to Guybrush Threepwood's story; I gave it a 9 retired of 10 successful IGN's review.

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