Games like Day of the Tentacle Remastered
If Day of the Tentacle Remastered is your kind of game, the closest matches are Grim Fandango Remastered, Full Throttle Remastered and Monkey Island™ 2 Special Edition: LeChuck’s Revenge™ — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its funny, lighthearted 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 →Day of the Tentacle Remastered is an adventure game released in 2016, developed by Double Fine Productions and Shiny Shoe, available for $14.99. Players navigate a time-travel narrative using character-switching mechanics that enable creative puzzle-solving, where puzzles require lateral-thinking over brute force. The game features inventory-management, item-combination puzzles, and multi-era progression that lets players exploit historical anachronisms across different time periods. Players describe the experience as funny, lighthearted, and nostalgic, with the retro art and music enhancing the comedic tone. Reviewers note that the time-travel premise enables absurd historical mashups that create whimsical scenarios. The remastered edition features updated visuals and audio, and runs as playable on Steam Deck. It holds a 98% positive rating from over 1,900 Steam reviews.
About Day of the Tentacle Remastered: 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.
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Grim Fandango Remastered
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Top pick for Day of the Tentacle Remastered fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with Day of the Tentacle Remastered.
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.
Full Throttle Remastered
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Shares inventory management and a funny mood with Day of the Tentacle Remastered.
Second-strongest match for Day of the Tentacle Remastered fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with Day of the Tentacle Remastered.
Originally released by LucasArts in 1995, Full Throttle is a classic graphic adventure game from industry legend Tim Schafer, telling the story of Ben Throttle; butt-kicking leader of biker gang the Polecats, who gets caught up in a tale of Motorcycles, Mayhem and Murder.
Monkey Island™ 2 Special Edition: LeChuck’s Revenge™
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Shares a whimsical mood with Day of the Tentacle Remastered.
Third-strongest match for Day of the Tentacle Remastered fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with Day of the Tentacle Remastered.
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 Secret of Monkey Island: Special Edition
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Shares a nostalgic mood with Day of the Tentacle Remastered.
Ranked #4 for Day of the Tentacle Remastered fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with Day of the Tentacle Remastered.
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.
Time Gentlemen, Please! and Ben There, Dan That! Special Edition Double Pack
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Shares a funny mood with Day of the Tentacle Remastered.
Ranked #5 for Day of the Tentacle Remastered fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with Day of the Tentacle Remastered.
Ben There, Dan That! and Time Gentlemen, Please! are a couple of rip-roaring point-and-click adventure games . With tongue firmly in cheek, sit back, relax, and put your mind to work solving puzzles, and reading some very funny dialogue. It's like a book, only good!
Maniac Mansion
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Shares a funny mood with Day of the Tentacle Remastered.
Ranked #6 for Day of the Tentacle Remastered fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with Day of the Tentacle Remastered.
Quick, Dr. Fred's Kidnapped Sandy and he's about to start the experiment...
Fenimore Fillmore: 3 Skulls of the Toltecs
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Shares a funny mood with Day of the Tentacle Remastered.
Ranked #7 for Day of the Tentacle Remastered fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with Day of the Tentacle Remastered.
3 Skulls of the Toltecs was one of the last classic point & click adventure release in 1996, now you can play it again in this wonderful remastered version with enhanced graphics up to 4k.
The Night of the Rabbit
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Shares a nostalgic mood with Day of the Tentacle Remastered.
Ranked #8 for Day of the Tentacle Remastered fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with Day of the Tentacle Remastered.
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.
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Thimbleweed Park™
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Shares a funny mood with Day of the Tentacle Remastered.
Reviewers of Day of the Tentacle Remastered cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Adventure with Day of the Tentacle Remastered.
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.
Full Throttle Remastered
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Shares inventory management and a funny mood with Day of the Tentacle Remastered.
Reviewers of Day of the Tentacle Remastered cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Adventure with Day of the Tentacle Remastered.
Originally released by LucasArts in 1995, Full Throttle is a classic graphic adventure game from industry legend Tim Schafer, telling the story of Ben Throttle; butt-kicking leader of biker gang the Polecats, who gets caught up in a tale of Motorcycles, Mayhem and Murder.
Return to Monkey Island
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Shares a funny mood with Day of the Tentacle Remastered.
Reviewers of Day of the Tentacle Remastered cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Adventure with Day of the Tentacle Remastered.
Return to Monkey Island is an unexpected, thrilling return of series creator Ron Gilbert that continues the story of the legendary adventure games.
Maniac Mansion
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Shares a funny mood with Day of the Tentacle Remastered.
Reviewers of Day of the Tentacle Remastered cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Adventure with Day of the Tentacle Remastered.
Quick, Dr. Fred's Kidnapped Sandy and he's about to start the experiment...
The Little Acre
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Shares a whimsical mood with Day of the Tentacle Remastered.
Reviewers of Day of the Tentacle Remastered cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Adventure with Day of the Tentacle Remastered.
While searching for his father, Aidan travels to a strange new world. Lily - his heroic daughter - sets off after him. Fully voiced and with hand-drawn animations, The Little Acre is a lovingly crafted adventure developed by Pewter Games with Executive Producer Charles Cecil.
Deponia
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Shares a funny mood with Day of the Tentacle Remastered.
Reviewers of Day of the Tentacle Remastered cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Adventure with Day of the Tentacle Remastered.
In Deponia, the world has degenerated into a vast garbage dump, in which the crotchety Rufus ekes out his sorry existence.
Unavowed
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Shares a whimsical mood with Day of the Tentacle Remastered.
Reviewers of Day of the Tentacle Remastered cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Adventure with Day of the Tentacle Remastered.
A demon has possessed you and used your body to tear a swath of bloodshed through New York. You are now free, but life as you knew it is over. Your only path forward is joining the Unavowed - an ancient society dedicated to stopping evil. No matter what the cost.
There Is No Game: Wrong Dimension
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Shares a funny mood with Day of the Tentacle Remastered.
Reviewers of Day of the Tentacle Remastered cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Adventure with Day of the Tentacle Remastered.
There is no game. So don't go messing things up by clicking everywhere. You don’t want to be kicked out of your video game world, do you? Of course not!
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Day of the Tentacle Remastered at current Steam store prices.
PEAK
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Priced ~47% under Day of the Tentacle Remastered on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with Day of the Tentacle Remastered.
PEAK is a co-op climbing game where the slightest mistake can spell your doom. Either solo or as a group of lost nature scouts, your only hope of rescue from a mysterious island is to scale the mountain at its center. Do you have what it takes to reach the PEAK?
Inscryption
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Priced ~47% under Day of the Tentacle Remastered on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with Day of the Tentacle Remastered.
Inscryption is an inky black card-based odyssey that blends the deckbuilding roguelike, escape-room style puzzles, and psychological horror into a blood-laced smoothie. Darker still are the secrets inscrybed upon the cards...
Noita
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Priced ~47% under Day of the Tentacle Remastered on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with Day of the Tentacle Remastered.
Noita is a magical action roguelite set in a world where every pixel is physically simulated. Fight, explore, melt, burn, freeze and evaporate your way through the procedurally generated world using spells you've created yourself.
POSTAL 2
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Priced ~93% under Day of the Tentacle Remastered on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with Day of the Tentacle Remastered.
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?
OneShot
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Priced ~60% under Day of the Tentacle Remastered on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with Day of the Tentacle Remastered.
OneShot is a surreal top down Puzzle/Adventure game with unique gameplay capabilities. You are to guide a child through a mysterious world on a mission to restore its long-dead sun. The world knows you exist.
Human Fall Flat
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Priced ~60% under Day of the Tentacle Remastered on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with Day of the Tentacle Remastered.
Human Fall Flat is a hilarious, light-hearted platformer set in floating dreamscapes that can be played solo or with up to 8 players online. Free new levels keep its vibrant community rewarded.
GRIS
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Priced ~75% under Day of the Tentacle Remastered on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with Day of the Tentacle Remastered.
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 ~87% under Day of the Tentacle Remastered on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with Day of the Tentacle Remastered.
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?
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Doki Doki Literature Club!
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
The Literature Club is full of cute girls! Will you write the way into their heart? This game is not suitable for children or those who are easily disturbed.
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 Day of the Tentacle Remastered.
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.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
Bongo Cat
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
Bongo cat needs your help. Bongo cat needz more hatz!!! Every time you press a key, Bongo cat will punch your taskbar. Type, click, play, work to collect more points. Which hats will you find?
ENA: Dream BBQ
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with Day of the Tentacle Remastered.
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 Day of the Tentacle Remastered.
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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More from Double Fine Productions
Other recommendable Steam games by Double Fine Productions, ranked by review count so the studio's hits land first.
Psychonauts
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Shares a funny mood with Day of the Tentacle Remastered.
Another title from Double Fine Productions, the studio behind Day of the Tentacle Remastered.
A Psychic Odyssey Through the Minds of Misfits, Monsters, and Madmen. This classic action/adventure platformer from acclaimed developers Double Fine Productions follows the story of a young psychic named Razputin.
Psychonauts 2
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Shares a funny mood with Day of the Tentacle Remastered.
Another title from Double Fine Productions, the studio behind Day of the Tentacle Remastered. Shares Adventure with Day of the Tentacle Remastered.
Combining quirky missions and mysterious conspiracies, Psychonauts 2 is a platform-adventure game with cinematic style and tons of customizable psychic powers.
Brutal Legend
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Shares a funny mood with Day of the Tentacle Remastered.
Another title from Double Fine Productions, the studio behind Day of the Tentacle Remastered. Shares Adventure with Day of the Tentacle Remastered.
Brütal Legend is an action-adventure that marries visceral action combat with open-world freedom. Set in a universe somewhere between Lord of the Rings and Spinal Tap, it’s a fresh take on the action/driving genre, which in this case is full of imitation cover bands, demons intent on enslaving humanity and Heavy metal tunes.
Grim Fandango Remastered
WHY THIS
Another title from Double Fine Productions, the studio behind Day of the Tentacle Remastered. Shares Adventure with Day of the Tentacle Remastered.
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.
Broken Age
WHY THIS
Another title from Double Fine Productions, the studio behind Day of the Tentacle Remastered. Shares Adventure with Day of the Tentacle Remastered.
A family friendly, hand-animated, puzzle-filled adventure game with an all-star cast, including Elijah Wood, Jack Black and Masasa Moyo. Funded by a record breaking crowdfunding campaign and designed by industry legend Tim Schafer, Broken Age is a timeless coming-of-age story.
Spacebase DF-9
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Another title from Double Fine Productions, the studio behind Day of the Tentacle Remastered.
In Spacebase DF-9, you'll build a home among the stars for a motley population of humans and aliens as they go about their daily lives. Mine asteroids, discover derelicts, and deal with the tribulations of galactic resettlement in Earth's distant future.
Costume Quest
WHY THIS
Shares a nostalgic mood with Day of the Tentacle Remastered.
Another title from Double Fine Productions, the studio behind Day of the Tentacle Remastered. Shares Adventure with Day of the Tentacle Remastered.
A Halloween adventure from Tim Schafer's Double Fine Productions.
Full Throttle Remastered
WHY THIS
Shares inventory management and a funny mood with Day of the Tentacle Remastered.
Another title from Double Fine Productions, the studio behind Day of the Tentacle Remastered. Shares Adventure with Day of the Tentacle Remastered.
Originally released by LucasArts in 1995, Full Throttle is a classic graphic adventure game from industry legend Tim Schafer, telling the story of Ben Throttle; butt-kicking leader of biker gang the Polecats, who gets caught up in a tale of Motorcycles, Mayhem and Murder.
Frequently asked about Day of the Tentacle Remastered
- Does Day of the Tentacle Remastered run on Steam Deck?
- Day of the Tentacle Remastered 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 Day of the Tentacle Remastered cost?
- Day of the Tentacle Remastered is listed on Steam at 14.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Day of the Tentacle Remastered?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Day of the Tentacle Remastered are Grim Fandango Remastered, Full Throttle Remastered, Monkey Island™ 2 Special Edition: LeChuck’s Revenge™.
- Who developed Day of the Tentacle Remastered?
- Day of the Tentacle Remastered was developed by Double Fine Productions, Shiny Shoe and published by Double Fine Productions.
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