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Thimbleweed Park

Thimbleweed Park

Terrible Toybox·Released Mar 30, 2017·Single player

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Genres
AdventurePuzzleIndie
Critic79/100
Across 8 reviews
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About

Thimbleweed Park is the curious story of two washed up detectives investigating a dead body found in the river just outside of town. It's a game where you switch between five playable characters while uncovering the dark, satirical and bizarre world of Thimbleweed Park.

Reviews

11 reviews
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Critic80/100
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Point-and-click beginners may struggle with the myriad puzzles Thimbleweed Park lays across its curiosity-piquing plot, but its developers have rightfully made it possible to get ahead even when all you see are dead ends, with the inclusion of the tips line.

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Critic80/100
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Given the origins of Thimbleweed Park as a Kickstarter project, it's not at all surprising to find that it's firmly aimed at a very specific audience. To that end it does deliver, with interesting characters, an enticing core mystery, and loads of puzzles, all wrapped up in a package that closely follows the tenets of the those classic Lucasarts titles.

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Kotaku
Jason Schreier·Mar 31, 2017
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Early in Thimbleweed Park, a new graphical adventure game, a pair of pigeon-suited plumbers tell you not to worry about dying, because there’s no way to

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IGN
Ryan McCaffrey·Mar 30, 2017
Critic85/100
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Thimbleweed Park is a time capsule adventure game, buried in 1987 and unearthed in 2017. And a great one at that.

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At the beginning of the game, I'd hoped to solve a mystery and have a few laughs, but now I miss the company of this little crew. It's a smart game though and a thoughtful one, even if it sometimes hides those qualities behind its clown makeup and a beaglepuss.

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GameSpot
Matt Espineli·Mar 30, 2017
Critic70/100
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Thimbleweed Park is a point-and-click adventure full of enticing secrets to uncover, but its adherence to the genre's unremedied issues sometimes brings it down.

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PC Gamer
Andy Kelly·Mar 30, 2017
Critic84/100
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A quality adventure game with challenging puzzles, oddball characters, and an intriguing, mystery-laden plot.

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