Games like Return to Monkey Island

The closest matches to Return to Monkey Island: Tales of Monkey Island: Complete Season, Monkey Island™ 2 Special Edition: LeChuck’s Revenge™, The Secret of Monkey Island: Special Edition, 3 Minutes to Midnight® - A Comedy Graphic Adventure, and Thimbleweed Park™. Ranked by imho.run from Steam co-play data, shared tags and reviews.

If Return to Monkey Island is your kind of game, the closest matches are Tales of Monkey Island: Complete Season, Monkey Island™ 2 Special Edition: LeChuck’s Revenge™ and The Secret of Monkey Island: Special Edition — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers describe it as cozy, funny and nostalgic, and single out its dialogue tree and inventory highlighting. Each pick is ranked by what players of this game also play, shared genres and tags, and review-mined similarity — not a generic popularity list.

Return to Monkey Island is a point-and-click adventure developed by Terrible Toybox and published by Devolver Digital, released in 2022 for $24.99. The single-player experience features hand-drawn 2D visuals and centers on classic adventure gameplay, with dialogue trees, inventory management, and map traversal among its core mechanics. A trivia-card system adds an optional extra layer for those seeking it. Players describe the overall tone as cozy, funny, and whimsical, with puzzles that are mostly fair and include optional hint options. Reviewers highlight that a recap book efficiently brings players up to speed on the series lore, and that the storybook-style presentation enhances both the humor and warmth of the experience. The game holds a Metacritic score of 87 and maintains a 90 percent positive rating from over 4,800 Steam reviews, with verified functionality on Steam Deck.

About Return to Monkey Island: Return to Monkey Island is an unexpected, thrilling return of series creator Ron Gilbert that continues the story of the legendary adventure games.