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The classic adventure game is making a comeback.
In 1990, LucasArts released The Secret of Monkey Island, a point-and-click adventure game for PCs that would go on to become one of its biggest hits, building a cult following that’s still going strong to this day. The game’s puzzles and dialogue were written by Ron Gilbert, Dave Grossman, and Tim Schafer, but while these three would return for the game’s first sequel, LeChuck’s Revenge, they all departed LucasArts soon after. No subsequent Monkey Island game had their involvement, nor their stamp of approval.
On April Fools’ Day last week, Gilbert announced on his Twitter that a new Monkey Island game was coming soon. Everyone wrote it off as a joke, of course, but yesterday, he released a trailer proving it to be all too real: a new game, Return to Monkey Island, created with support from LucasFilm, Devolver Digital, and Gilbert’s own Terrible Toybox is releasing later this year. Apparently, this game has been under clandestine development for over two years, and it’s the first Monkey Island game since LeChuck’s Revenge to have both Gilbert and Grossman involved.
Introducing Return to Monkey Island, a new game by Ron Gilbert coming in 2022. https://t.co/6ys3jdcWGU pic.twitter.com/cOFJSW2JDc
— Lucasfilm Games (@LucasfilmGames) April 4, 2022
The game will also include work from many Monkey Island alumni, including the original LucasArts musicians providing the game’s score, as well as Dominic Armato reprising his role as the series protagonist, Guybrush Threepwood.
