Games like The Secret of Monkey Island: Special Edition
If you like The Secret of Monkey Island: Special Edition (point-and-click adventure, comedy and pirates), these 10 games are similar in what you do and how you play. They go from most to least similar.
Monkey Island™ 2 Special Edition: LeChuck’s Revenge™
- In common: thinking and story
When you're in the mood for a funny point-and-click adventure where you can't die and the game gives you hints if you get stuck.
HIVESWAP: ACT 1
- In common: story and a relaxed pace
When you have a free afternoon and want a fun point-and-click adventure that wraps up in about two hours.
Chants of Sennaar
- In common: thinking
When you want to think calmly and feel like a linguist: every word you decipher is a small victory.
Oddworld: Abe's Exoddus
- In common: thinking
- Difference: more intense
When you want a classic puzzle game with dark humour and fart jokes that you can put down at any moment.
Tales from the Borderlands
- In common: story
- Difference: less thinking
When you fancy an episodic comedy adventure: each episode lasts around an hour and a half.
Psychonauts
- In common: story
- Difference: more action
When you fancy a platformer with tons of personality, level by level, in hour-long sessions.
Wandersong
- In common: story and a relaxed pace
- Difference: less thinking
When you want a gentle adventure that doesn't punish you: if you mess up a section, you retry it almost instantly.
Valiant Hearts: The Great War
- In common: story
When you fancy a short, moving story, in sessions of one or two hours.
Portal
- In common: thinking
When you have an afternoon and want a complete, clever and fun experience.
To the Moon
- In common: story and a relaxed pace
- Difference: less thinking
When you fancy a moving story for one or two afternoons, with no challenge or pressure.
How we pick them
We compare the tags the Steam community gives each game with our own classification: what you do (action, story, building…), the difficulty, how long sessions last and whether you play alone or with others. Nobody pays to appear.
About The Secret of Monkey Island: Special Edition
Guybrush Threepwood wants to be a pirate: you talk to everyone, pick up anything not nailed down and use it in absurd puzzles, and sword fights are won with insults. A remake with new voices and art that lets you switch to the original.
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