Indie pixel-art game Thimbleweed Park, a mystery adventure game in the retro style made famous by point-and-click games like Maniac Mansion and Monkey Madness, launches today on Xbox One, Windows, Mac and Linux. Check out the Thimbleweed Park launch trailer below:
Led by industry icons Ron Gilbert and Gary Winnick, over 15,000 backers pledged over half a million dollars to help bring Thimbleweed Park to life via its 2014 kickstarter.
Gameplay centers around five different playable characters between whom you switch to uncover the surreal secrets of Thimbleweed Park, spurred by a body under a bridge. The body is that of a European tourist without a connection to the local community. But that body is part of a suspicious sequence of events, including the sudden death of town founder Chuck Edmund as well as his brother Franklin’s mysterious disappearance.
Locations include in Thimbleweed Park include a haunted hotel, an abandoned circus, a burnt-out pillow factory, toilets that run on vacuum tubes and more. Some of Thimbleweed Park ’s lively characters include two uninvited federal agents, disgraced entertainer Ransome the Clown, and pillow factory heiress Delores Edmund.
“We want Thimbleweed Park to be like an undiscovered classic LucasArts' adventure game you'd never played before. A game discovered in a dusty old desk that puts a smile on your face and sends a wave of nostalgia through you in the same way it does for us,” stated the creators on their Kickstarter page.
Thimbleweed Park is available now on Steam, GOG, Xbox One, or the Mac App Store for $19.99. It has English voice acting with English, German, French, Spanish, and Italian subtitles available; Russian subtitles are forthcoming in a later free update. Also available are the Thimbleweed Park soundtrack as well as some merch.
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