Adventure game Thimbleweed Park will revolve around puzzles

The game Thimbleweed Park from the makers of Maniac Mansion and Monkey Island will be a parody of Twin Peaks, The X-Files and True Detective, with a Stephen King sauce. The creators go back to the roots of the classic point ‘n’ click game.

That’s what art director Gary Winnick said in an interview on Gamesradar. The makers think that the charm and innocence that the graphic style with large pixels and simple icons radiates, allows players to easily fill in details themselves from their own imagination.

The story is about two detectives who find a body just outside Thimbleweed Park. The town was once full of successful businesses and overcrowded with tourists, now it’s a shadow of its former glory. A place that no one will ever go looking for, but that everyone will always encounter, according to the makers.

The player can have fun with five different characters, including a cursed clown, Ransome, who lives in an abandoned circus site and can never take off his make-up. Besides some ‘normal’ people there is also Franklin, a dead man who has just woken up on the thirteenth floor of a hotel. The game is further enhanced with puzzles, just like in the old days.

It should be a game with difficult puzzles. In the interview, Gilbert says he thinks games have gotten easier. That’s not necessarily a bad thing, especially not because games have become much more casual, but there are also people who like difficult games, especially within the Adventure genre, according to Gilbert.

The developers state that they have learned from their earlier games, such as Maniac Mansion and The Cave, when it comes to how to tell a story well, but the feel has to be an adventure from the eighties.