It may be a spiritual successor to games like Maniac Mansion or Day Of The Tentacle, but Thimbleweed Park has a definite X-Files, or even Twin Peaksian vibe. Two FBI agents turn up to investigate a murder. A young woman investigates the dark secrets of her family. Her dead father navigates the afterlife as a sad ghost. A very sweary clown tries to get his life back together. All the things you look at, pick up, use with your nine-verb menu are rendered in gorgeous pixelart - still somehow very expressive. And while some of the puzzle solutions do get a bit obscure (use teddy on t-rex type of thing) the game added its own version of a tip hotline if you get stuck. I have a lot of good things to say about point ’n’ click adventures, and a lot about this one specifically. If you’re not convinced, try the free mini-adventure that came out a couple of weeks ago, and see what you think.
