{"id":86911,"date":"2026-07-30T17:07:13","date_gmt":"2026-07-30T21:07:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/?p=86911"},"modified":"2026-07-31T10:37:53","modified_gmt":"2026-07-31T14:37:53","slug":"thimbleweed-park-2-announced-for-pc-mac-and-linux-by-monkey-island-creator","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/?p=86911","title":{"rendered":"Thimbleweed Park 2 Announced for PC, Mac, and Linux by Monkey Island Creator"},"content":{"rendered":"<section data-transform=\"mobile-ad-break\">\n<p>Legendary adventure game designer Ron Gilbert has announced Thimbleweed Park 2, a sequel to his 2017 pixel-art point-and-click adventure game about two Mulder and Scully-like characters (not to mention a host of other playable heroes) solving a murder mystery, including hundreds of puzzles along the way. It&#8217;s in development for PC (on Steam and GoG), Mac, and Linux, and it&#8217;s due out in early 2028.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I have good news and bad news,&#8221; Gilbert posted on his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.grumpygamer.com\/twp2_announce\/\">GrumpyGamer blog<\/a>. &#8220;First the good news. The good news is that we just started production on Thimbleweed Park 2, due out in early 2028. We will self-publish with the help of a private investor. Mark Ferrari, Gary Winnick, David Fox, Octavi Navarro, Robert Megone, and others from the original team will be back!&#8221;<\/p>\n<section data-transform=\"ignvideo\" data-slug=\"thimbleweed-park-review\" data-loop=\"\">\n<p>He then invited fans to <a href=\"https:\/\/store.steampowered.com\/app\/4932120\/Thimbleweed_Park_2\/\">wishlist<\/a> the sequel on Steam before adding, &#8220;Now the bad news. There is no bad news, it\u2019s all good news.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>IGN (and specifically me) gave Thimbleweed Park an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ign.com\/articles\/2017\/03\/30\/thimbleweed-park-review\">8.5 out of 10<\/a>, praising its pixel art and smart puzzles. Since then, Gilbert returned to the Monkey Island series he created with 2022&#8217;s Return to Monkey Island, a completely unexpected project (in fact, it was soft-announced<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Legendary adventure game designer Ron Gilbert has announced Thimbleweed Park 2, a sequel to his 2017 pixel-art point-and-click adventure game about two Mulder and Scully-like characters (not to mention a host of other playable heroes) solving a murder mystery, including hundreds of puzzles along the way. It&#8217;s in development for PC (on Steam and GoG),&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":34,"featured_media":86913,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-86911","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-external"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86911"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/34"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=86911"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86911\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":86915,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86911\/revisions\/86915"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/86913"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=86911"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=86911"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=86911"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}