Thimbleweed Park 2 is "not really a sequel, not really a prequel," but it is in development and due out in 2028

"It's much Thimbleweed Park"

Hark! I bring connection of immoderate bully quality for those of you with an appetite for escapade games with tasty pixel art. You whitethorn retrieve that Monkey Island creator Ron Gilbert was moving connected a crippled that was described arsenic "Classic Zelda meets Diablo meets Thimbleweed Park." That got canned astatine the extremity of past year, unfortunately, but the tone of Thimbleweed Park lives on. Literally! As Thimbleweed Park 2 is successful the works.

"I person bully quality and atrocious news," Gilbert explains connected his Grumpy Gamer blog, the bully quality being 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! I’ll beryllium starting up a Thimbleweed Park 2 dev blog similar we did for Thimbleweed Park and posting regularly to support everyone up to date." The atrocious news? There is none, helium lied to us, which I'm told is thing called a joke.

The game's Steam page, portion presently bare bones, does connection a fistful much details. Explaining that the sequel is "more Thimbleweed Park than ever," the statement says agents Ray and Reyes are "back to investigate… oregon are they?" with this Schrodinger's probe taking spot astatine Edmund Mansion, focusing connected a dormant body. Interestingly, the crippled is besides seemingly "Not truly a sequel. Not truly a prequel. It’s much Thimbleweed Park and conscionable arsenic weird." Who knows what that means! I accidental we'll find retired successful 2028.

Outside of Ray and Reyes returning, there's besides Ransome, who "can't judge they conned maine into making different *beeping* game," Delores, who hears "this crippled volition beryllium doubly arsenic bully arsenic the past one," and Franklin, who hopes "the writers didn't hide astir me," due to the fact that each of these radical are existent and not accumulations of squares of colour and I won't perceive otherwise.

You tin wishlist Thimbleweed Park 2 connected Steam.