The newest game going free on the Epic Games Store is Thimbleweed Park, 2017’s retro reunion of Maniac Mansion creators Ron Gilbert and Gary Winnick. It’s a degree ‘n’ click on journey game in ye olde waye, with jokes and puzzles and pixels and a SCUMM-like ‘select actions from a menu’ sorta interface, and it’s fairly good. For free, mate, get in.
Thimbleweed Park explores the eponymous bizarre city by 5 playable characters, together with FBI brokers investigating a corpse, a ghost, and a sweary clown. Jokes, puzzles, foolishness – you get it.
Our former Adam (RPS in peace) was received over, regardless of some irksome parts, in Thimbleweed Park review:
“By the end, all of my earlier frustrations didn’t seem to matter, though it’s important to remember that they absolutely did at times during the hours I was playing, and if I was disappointed at all it was because Thimbleweed Park doesn’t pack more emotional punches into its running time. As the individual stories play out, Ransome and Delores in particular show that Gilbert and his team care for their characters and their disappointments. This is more recognisably the work of writers who showed empathy for Guybrush and Elaine and their dreams than the people who brought us insult swordfighting.”
Thimbleweed Park is free to nab for keepsies from the Epic Games Store till March seventh. You will after all must register with Epic and use their consumer, as a result of the entire level of Epic paying to cowl these giveaways is to lure extra folks onto their new digishop.
Their different massive transfer is splashing money to safe exclusives from small studios and megapublishers alike. Our John is not impressed by the scloosie play.
The subsequent free game on the Epic Games Store shall be oddball explore-o-farming game Slime Rancher, from March seventh.
