Games like The Secret of Monkey Island: Special Edition
If The Secret of Monkey Island: Special Edition is your kind of game, the closest matches are Monkey Island™ 2 Special Edition: LeChuck’s Revenge™, The Curse of Monkey Island and Escape from Monkey Island™ — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its nostalgia factor, writing quality is exceptional and nostalgic. 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.
Get personalized picks →The Secret of Monkey Island: Special Edition brings LucasArts' classic 1990 pirate adventure to modern audiences. This dialogue-driven point-and-click game tasks players with solving puzzles as they guide Guybrush Threepwood through a whimsical narrative. The remaster features an optional toggle between the original pixel art and updated hand-painted graphics, a design choice that reviewers highlight as a major appeal for the title. The game holds playable status on Steam Deck and is available for $9.99. It maintains a strong 96% positive rating from over 3,000 Steam reviews. Players describe the experience as nostalgic, with the ability to seamlessly switch between visual styles serving as a particularly memorable hook for both returning fans and newcomers to the series.
About The Secret of Monkey Island: Special Edition: Back by popular demand, The Secret of Monkey Island™: Special Edition faithfully re-imagines the internationally-acclaimed classic game (originally released in 1990) for original and new audiences alike.
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Monkey Island™ 2 Special Edition: LeChuck’s Revenge™
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Shares point and click adventure and a whimsical mood with The Secret of Monkey Island: Special Edition.
Top pick for The Secret of Monkey Island: Special Edition fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with The Secret of Monkey Island: Special Edition.
Wannabe pirate Guybrush Threepwood, and the now zombie pirate LeChuck, return in what has long been considered one of the greatest LucasArts adventure games of all time.
The Curse of Monkey Island
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Shares point and click adventure and puzzle solving with The Secret of Monkey Island: Special Edition.
Second-strongest match for The Secret of Monkey Island: Special Edition fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with The Secret of Monkey Island: Special Edition.
The only pirate adventure that asks the question: What's sharper, your sword or your wit?
Escape from Monkey Island™
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Shares a nostalgic mood with The Secret of Monkey Island: Special Edition.
Third-strongest match for The Secret of Monkey Island: Special Edition fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with The Secret of Monkey Island: Special Edition.
Fourth in the legendary Monkey Island series of graphic adventures!
Day of the Tentacle Remastered
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Shares a nostalgic mood with The Secret of Monkey Island: Special Edition.
Ranked #4 for The Secret of Monkey Island: Special Edition fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with The Secret of Monkey Island: Special Edition.
Originally released by LucasArts in 1993 as a sequel to Ron Gilbert’s ground breaking Maniac Mansion, Day of the Tentacle is back in a remastered edition that features all new hand-drawn, high resolution artwork, with remastered audio, music and sound effects.
Grim Fandango Remastered
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Shares point and click adventure and puzzle solving with The Secret of Monkey Island: Special Edition.
Ranked #5 for The Secret of Monkey Island: Special Edition fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with The Secret of Monkey Island: Special Edition.
One of the most acclaimed adventure games of all time is now back, better than ever. Grim Fandango Remastered has the all the beautiful art and engaging story fans remember, but has also been remastered to look, sound, and control even better than the award-winning original release.
Maniac Mansion
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Shares a nostalgic mood with The Secret of Monkey Island: Special Edition.
Ranked #6 for The Secret of Monkey Island: Special Edition fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with The Secret of Monkey Island: Special Edition.
Quick, Dr. Fred's Kidnapped Sandy and he's about to start the experiment...
The Night of the Rabbit
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Shares a nostalgic mood with The Secret of Monkey Island: Special Edition.
Ranked #7 for The Secret of Monkey Island: Special Edition fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with The Secret of Monkey Island: Special Edition.
Lose yourself in a tale of magic and wonder, where anything is possible and where nothing is quite as it seems: join young Jerry and follow a peculiar white rabbit to the wondrous realm of Mousewood, a land where critters can speak and where mystery abounds.
Tales of Monkey Island Complete Pack: Chapter 5 - Rise of the Pirate God
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Ranked #8 for The Secret of Monkey Island: Special Edition fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with The Secret of Monkey Island: Special Edition.
About Chapter One The saga begins with a heated battle involving the brave but often bumbling Mighty Pirate™ Guybrush, his beloved wife Elaine, and their nemesis, the demon pirate LeChuck. When the showdown goes up in flames, Guybrush finds himself marooned on a strange island with winds that always blow inward.
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Thimbleweed Park™
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Shares a nostalgic mood with The Secret of Monkey Island: Special Edition.
Reviewers of The Secret of Monkey Island: Special Edition cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Adventure with The Secret of Monkey Island: Special Edition.
In Thimbleweed Park, a dead body is the least of your problems. Switch between five playable characters to uncover the surreal secrets of this strange town in a modern mystery adventure game from the creators of Monkey Island and Maniac Mansion. The deeper you go, the weirder it gets.
Simon the Sorcerer 3D
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Shares a nostalgic mood with The Secret of Monkey Island: Special Edition.
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Simon is back and this time in 3 dimensions! Once again explore with Simon a vast fantastical world and help him find a way back home by uncovering the secrets of 'The Nexus'. Do this before your arch nemesis, Sordid, can use its power for more evil means.
Deponia
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Shares puzzle solving and a whimsical mood with The Secret of Monkey Island: Special Edition.
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In Deponia, the world has degenerated into a vast garbage dump, in which the crotchety Rufus ekes out his sorry existence.
Escape from Monkey Island™
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Shares a nostalgic mood with The Secret of Monkey Island: Special Edition.
Reviewers of The Secret of Monkey Island: Special Edition cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Adventure with The Secret of Monkey Island: Special Edition.
Fourth in the legendary Monkey Island series of graphic adventures!
Myst
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Shares puzzle solving with The Secret of Monkey Island: Special Edition.
Reviewers of The Secret of Monkey Island: Special Edition cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Adventure with The Secret of Monkey Island: Special Edition.
Welcome to Myst: a starkly beautiful island, eerily tinged with mystery and shrouded in intrigue. Built from the ground up to play in 2D & VR, explore Myst in a whole new dimension! Journey to the Ages, unravel puzzles, and be a part of the surrealistic adventure that will become your own.
DIG THE GROUND
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Reviewers of The Secret of Monkey Island: Special Edition cross-mention this title as a similar play.
Dig the Ground is a unique Match3 puzzler in which you have to match gems of the same color and use all sorts of tools to clear the ground tiles beneath you.
Elysium
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Reviewers of The Secret of Monkey Island: Special Edition cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Adventure with The Secret of Monkey Island: Special Edition.
Wake up on a paradise-like abandoned island with your friends. Explore the lands of an ancient civilization and uncover the mysteries behind their collapse as you build, craft, and tame corrupted machines. Most importantly, survive the unwelcome lands of Elysium!
The Longest Journey
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Shares point and click adventure and puzzle solving with The Secret of Monkey Island: Special Edition.
Reviewers of The Secret of Monkey Island: Special Edition cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Adventure with The Secret of Monkey Island: Special Edition.
The Longest Journey is an amazing graphical adventure, where the player controls the protagonist, April Ryan, on her journey between parallel universes.
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Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below The Secret of Monkey Island: Special Edition at current Steam store prices.
POSTAL 2
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Priced ~90% under The Secret of Monkey Island: Special Edition on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with The Secret of Monkey Island: Special Edition.
Live a week in the life of "The POSTAL Dude"; a hapless everyman just trying to check off some chores. Buying milk, returning an overdue library book, getting Gary Coleman's autograph, what could possibly go wrong?
GRIS
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Priced ~63% under The Secret of Monkey Island: Special Edition on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with The Secret of Monkey Island: Special Edition.
Gris is a hopeful young girl lost in her own world, dealing with a painful experience in her life. Her journey through sorrow is manifested in her dress, which grants new abilities to better navigate her faded reality.
The Test
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Priced ~80% under The Secret of Monkey Island: Special Edition on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with The Secret of Monkey Island: Special Edition.
You will answer a series of questions that will reveal truths from deep within. These questions may make you uncomfortable, but with great knowledge comes great sacrifice. Can you make it all the way through The Test, and if you do, are you sure you want the answers you seek?
LEGO® Star Wars™ - The Complete Saga
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Priced ~50% under The Secret of Monkey Island: Special Edition on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with The Secret of Monkey Island: Special Edition.
Kick Some Brick in I through VI! Play through all six Star Wars movies in one videogame! Adding new characters, new levels, new features and for the first time ever, the chance to build and battle your way through a fun Star Wars galaxy on your PC!
The Room
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Priced ~50% under The Secret of Monkey Island: Special Edition on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with The Secret of Monkey Island: Special Edition.
A mysterious invitation leads to the attic of an abandoned house. In the room is a cast-iron safe laced with strange carvings and on top, a note from your distant companion. It promises something ancient and astonishing concealed in the iron chamber - you need only find a way in.
Milk inside a bag of milk inside a bag of milk
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Priced ~85% under The Secret of Monkey Island: Special Edition on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with The Secret of Monkey Island: Special Edition.
A short story about what sort of challenges everyday little things can be. Help the girl buy milk, be the first not to disappoint her.
Blood and Bacon
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Priced ~90% under The Secret of Monkey Island: Special Edition on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with The Secret of Monkey Island: Special Edition.
This Co-op Shooter , has Day and Night levels, multiple maps, players will take on 25 enemy types and numerous bosses, like Gargantuan Monsters and Minibosses every 10 days as you explore, shoot and run for your life against the onslaught of porcine monstrosities.
A Short Hike
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Priced ~60% under The Secret of Monkey Island: Special Edition on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with The Secret of Monkey Island: Special Edition.
Hike, climb, and soar through the peaceful mountainside landscapes of Hawk Peak Provincial Park as you make your way to the summit.
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Doki Doki Literature Club!
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
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Life is Strange - Episode 1
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with The Secret of Monkey Island: Special Edition.
Episode 1 now FREE! Life is Strange is an award-winning and critically acclaimed episodic adventure game that allows the player to rewind time and affect the past, present and future.
Ultimate Custom Night
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
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ENA: Dream BBQ
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with The Secret of Monkey Island: Special Edition.
Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.
The Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
Sonic the Hedgehog...was murdered!? Get to the bottom of the mystery in this brand-new adventure!
Indigo Park: Chapter 1
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with The Secret of Monkey Island: Special Edition.
Explore the abandoned childhood wonder of Indigo Park! Guided by Rambley the Raccoon, help restore power to the destroyed amusement park while you run from the reason it shut down.
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STAR WARS™ Republic Commando™
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Shares a nostalgic mood with The Secret of Monkey Island: Special Edition.
Another title from LucasArts, the studio behind The Secret of Monkey Island: Special Edition.
You are the leader of an elite squad of Republic Commandos, your mission is to infiltrate, dominate, and ultimately, annihilate the enemy. Your squad will follow your orders and your lead, working together as a team - instinctively, intelligently, instantly. You are their leader. They are your weapon.
STAR WARS™ - The Force Unleashed™ Ultimate Sith Edition
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Another title from LucasArts, the studio behind The Secret of Monkey Island: Special Edition.
A game that will show gamers the deepest, darkest side of the Force in a story that puts them on a collision course with Luke Skywalker himself.
The Curse of Monkey Island
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Shares point and click adventure and puzzle solving with The Secret of Monkey Island: Special Edition.
Another title from LucasArts, the studio behind The Secret of Monkey Island: Special Edition. Shares Adventure with The Secret of Monkey Island: Special Edition.
The only pirate adventure that asks the question: What's sharper, your sword or your wit?
Monkey Island™ 2 Special Edition: LeChuck’s Revenge™
WHY THIS
Shares point and click adventure and a whimsical mood with The Secret of Monkey Island: Special Edition.
Another title from LucasArts, the studio behind The Secret of Monkey Island: Special Edition. Shares Adventure with The Secret of Monkey Island: Special Edition.
Wannabe pirate Guybrush Threepwood, and the now zombie pirate LeChuck, return in what has long been considered one of the greatest LucasArts adventure games of all time.
STAR WARS™ Dark Forces (Classic, 1995)
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Another title from LucasArts, the studio behind The Secret of Monkey Island: Special Edition.
Behind a veil of secrecy the evil Empire is creating a doomsday army - one that, if finished, will become the final cog in the Empire's arsenal of terror and domination. Your Mission? Join the Rebel Alliance's covert operations division, infiltrate the Empire.
STAR WARS™ Episode I Racer
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Shares a nostalgic mood with The Secret of Monkey Island: Special Edition.
Another title from LucasArts, the studio behind The Secret of Monkey Island: Special Edition.
Two Engines. One Champion. No Limits.
STAR WARS™ Jedi Knight: Dark Forces II
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Shares a nostalgic mood with The Secret of Monkey Island: Special Edition.
Another title from LucasArts, the studio behind The Secret of Monkey Island: Special Edition.
Jedi Knight: Dark Forces II picks up where the award-winning Dark Forces™ game left off...with even more features and firepower in dazzling 3D graphics. As Kyle Katarn, you must acquire a lightsaber and learn the ways of the Force to become a Jedi Knight.
Indiana Jones® and the Fate of Atlantis™
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Shares point and click adventure, puzzle solving and a nostalgic mood with The Secret of Monkey Island: Special Edition.
Another title from LucasArts, the studio behind The Secret of Monkey Island: Special Edition. Shares Adventure with The Secret of Monkey Island: Special Edition.
The Man With The Hat Is Back In His Greatest Adventure Yet! 1939 - The eve of World War II. Nazi agents are about to get their hands on a weapon more dangerous than the atom bomb. Only Indy can stop them before they unleash the deadly secret that sank Atlantis.
Frequently asked about The Secret of Monkey Island: Special Edition
- Does The Secret of Monkey Island: Special Edition run on Steam Deck?
- The Secret of Monkey Island: Special Edition is rated Playable on Steam Deck — it runs, but expect some manual adjustments (control remapping, text size, or graphics settings) for the best experience.
- How much does The Secret of Monkey Island: Special Edition cost?
- The Secret of Monkey Island: Special Edition is listed on Steam at 9.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to The Secret of Monkey Island: Special Edition?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside The Secret of Monkey Island: Special Edition are Monkey Island™ 2 Special Edition: LeChuck’s Revenge™, The Curse of Monkey Island, Escape from Monkey Island™.
- Who developed The Secret of Monkey Island: Special Edition?
- The Secret of Monkey Island: Special Edition was developed by LucasArts and published by LucasArts, Lucasfilm, Disney.
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