Twin Peaks and X-Files-inspired Thimbleweed Park 2 announced
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Monkey Island creator Ron Gilbert has officially announced point-and-click mystery Thimbleweed Park 2, coming to PC in 2028.
It's been nearly a decade since point-and-click mystery Thimbleweed Park was released to critical acclaim. While the game did receive a small spinoff in 2020 that wrapped up some loose threads, the classic adventure game seemed finished. So it came as a surprise on Thursday when creator Ron Gilbert announced a sequel is in development.
Gilbert announced on his personal blog Grumpy Gamer that production on Thimbleweed Park 2 has begun. The game will be self-published, as was the first. Gilbert also revealed that a number of developers from the first Thimbleweed Park are returning, including Mark Ferrari, David Fox, Octavi Navarro, Robert Megone, and co-creator Gary Winnick. The sequel is due to be released in early 2028 for Linux, macOS, and Windows PC. Gilbert shared that he will be starting a dedicated Thimbleweed Park 2 dev blog soon.
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The original Thimbleweed Park was part of the point-and-click revival of the 2010s, alongside games like Kentucky Route Zero and Broken Age. The story, which took major inspiration from and parodied Twin Peaks and The X-Files, followed two FBI agents as they investigated a murder in the titular town. The town itself was populated by numerous strange residents whom players get to know during the investigation.
Gilbert and Winnick are best known for their work on classic point-and-click adventure games from LucasArts, where the pair worked on projects like the Monkey Island series and Maniac Mansion. The latter served as one of the biggest influences on Thimbleweed Park. While other games in the genre's revival sought to improve and tweak the point-and-click formula, Thimbleweed Park stuck closely to the iconic titles of the 1980s and 1990s.
Gilbert and the rest of the development team couldn't have picked a better time to return to Thimbleweed Park's X-Files-inspired world. The series itself is going through a renaissance, with Ryan Coogler (Black Panther, Sinners) currently developing a reboot.
