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’s in development for PC (on Steam and GoG), Mac, and Linux, and it’s due out in early 2028.<\/p>\n
“I have good news and bad news,” Gilbert posted on his GrumpyGamer blog<\/a>. “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!”<\/p>\n He then invited fans to wishlist<\/a> the sequel on Steam before adding, “Now the bad news. There is no bad news, it\u2019s all good news.”<\/p>\n IGN (and specifically me) gave Thimbleweed Park an 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’s Return to Monkey Island, a completely unexpected project (in fact, it was soft-announced on April Fool’s Day that year before being formally revealed<\/a> a few days later) that proved you can go home again, with Gilbert and his team delivering a near-perfect conclusion to Guybrush Threepwood’s story; I gave it a 9 out of 10 in IGN’s review<\/a>.<\/p>\n Ryan McCaffrey is IGN’s executive editor of previews and host of both IGN’s weekly Xbox show, Podcast Unlocked<\/a>, as well as our semi-retired interview show, IGN Unfiltered<\/a>. He’s a North Jersey guy, so it’s “Taylor ham,” not “pork roll.” Debate it with him on Twitter at @DMC_Ryan<\/a>.<\/p>\n