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Return to Monkey Island (PC Digital Download)

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GOG has Return to Monkey Island (PC Digital Download) for $9.99.

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  • Note: Games sold by GOG are DRM free (no activation or online connection required to play).
Newegg has Return to Monkey Island (PC Digital Download) for $9.99.Product Details:
  • Single Player
  • Genre: Adventure
  • Steam version is Steam Deck compatible (Verified)
  • Return to Monkey Island is an unexpected, thrilling return of series creator Ron Gilbert that continues the story of the legendary adventure games.

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  • About this deal:
    • Please see the original post for additional details & give the WIKI and additional forum comments a read for helpful discussion.
  • Ratings & Reviews:
    • Return to Monkey Island for PC has an excellent 87% positive critic rating and 7.6 out of 10 user rating on Metacritic.
  • About this store:
    • GOG (Good Old Games) is a subsidiary of CD Projekt Red Group (the developers of The Witcher game series, Cyberpunk 2077, and more).
    • Steam is the world's largest digital distribution platform for computer games and is owned/operated by Valve Corporation (the developers behind several classic video games including Half-Life, Portal, Team Fortress, Counter-Strike, Left 4 Dead, Dota 2 & more).

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GOG has Return to Monkey Island (PC Digital Download) for $9.99.

Thanks to Deal Hunter Eragorn for finding this deal.
  • Note: Games sold by GOG are DRM free (no activation or online connection required to play).
Newegg has Return to Monkey Island (PC Digital Download) for $9.99.Product Details:
  • Single Player
  • Genre: Adventure
  • Steam version is Steam Deck compatible (Verified)
  • Return to Monkey Island is an unexpected, thrilling return of series creator Ron Gilbert that continues the story of the legendary adventure games.

Editor's Notes

Written by RevOne | Staff
  • About this deal:
    • Please see the original post for additional details & give the WIKI and additional forum comments a read for helpful discussion.
  • Ratings & Reviews:
    • Return to Monkey Island for PC has an excellent 87% positive critic rating and 7.6 out of 10 user rating on Metacritic.
  • About this store:
    • GOG (Good Old Games) is a subsidiary of CD Projekt Red Group (the developers of The Witcher game series, Cyberpunk 2077, and more).
    • Steam is the world's largest digital distribution platform for computer games and is owned/operated by Valve Corporation (the developers behind several classic video games including Half-Life, Portal, Team Fortress, Counter-Strike, Left 4 Dead, Dota 2 & more).

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Apr 19, 2025 02:02 AM
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Apr 19, 2025 02:02 AM
BobRetroApr 19, 2025 02:02 AM
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Played it on Xbox. Highly recommended if you like the genre.
Apr 19, 2025 01:25 PM
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Apr 19, 2025 01:25 PM
drawzApr 19, 2025 01:25 PM
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This is a great game.
Apr 20, 2025 05:16 PM
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Apr 20, 2025 05:16 PM
DastardlyAnomieApr 20, 2025 05:16 PM
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The ending of this game was a lazy waste of time, especially if you're a fan of the other installments in the series, but the 90% up to that point was quite good. As a huge fan of the series, I'd wait to get this at like $6ish
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Apr 20, 2025 06:10 PM
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ubertroutApr 20, 2025 06:10 PM
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Quote from DastardlyAnomie :
The ending of this game was a lazy waste of time, especially if you're a fan of the other installments in the series, but the 90% up to that point was quite good. As a huge fan of the series, I'd wait to get this at like $6ish
Its fine not to like the ending but calling it lazy is just wrong - they clearly built the game to lead up to ending. As a huge fan of the series going back 30 years I personally loved the ending - especially as someone old enough to have played it for 30 years.
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Apr 20, 2025 06:47 PM
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PotusDealApr 20, 2025 06:47 PM
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Purchased at Newegg, thanks!
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manaknightApr 20, 2025 09:29 PM
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Quote from DastardlyAnomie :
The ending of this game was a lazy waste of time, especially if you're a fan of the other installments in the series, but the 90% up to that point was quite good. As a huge fan of the series, I'd wait to get this at like $6ish
yep this was a pretty big FU to the fans (and doubly so if curse was your favourite). i shouldn't have been surprised since the lead is still sort of bitter that installments that he wasn't involved in have been better received then the ones that he was.

its worth a run through at about $5, but after going through it man do i wish telltale could have kept going with it instead.
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Apr 20, 2025 11:15 PM
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EJ42Apr 20, 2025 11:15 PM
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Quote from ubertrout :
Its fine not to like the ending but calling it lazy is just wrong - they clearly built the game to lead up to ending. As a huge fan of the series going back 30 years I personally loved the ending - especially as someone old enough to have played it for 30 years.
Nah. The developer is a bitter a-hole. Don't let nostalgia cloud your judgment.
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Apr 21, 2025 04:26 AM
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DastardlyAnomieApr 21, 2025 04:26 AM
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Quote from ubertrout :
Its fine not to like the ending but calling it lazy is just wrong - they clearly built the game to lead up to ending. As a huge fan of the series going back 30 years I personally loved the ending - especially as someone old enough to have played it for 30 years.
I politely disagree. The ending was just a rehash of Monkey Island 2's ending and was both expected and disappointing. I also feel it's really unfair to your fans to ask them to genuinely engage with a narrative for hours on hours and then to rip the rug out at the last second and claim in your post-game interviews that it was part of your mid life crisis manifesto.

Imagine you launched a new Pokemon game and the first line was, "Welcome to the world of Pokemon. Did you know your parents will die someday? Here's your stupid Pikachu I guess."

We didn't enter that game to be reminded that life sucks actually and nothing is real or matters. We entered it for piratey nonsense.

Ron Gilbert specifically uses the cop-out "meta" ending way too much, to the point that I really don't feel it's worth engaging with his works genuinely at all anymore. maybe that works well for you? But not for me, for sure, and I think it's a controversial ending for very justifiable reasons.
Apr 21, 2025 04:51 PM
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Apr 21, 2025 04:51 PM
ubertroutApr 21, 2025 04:51 PM
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Quote from DastardlyAnomie :
I politely disagree. The ending was just a rehash of Monkey Island 2's ending and was both expected and disappointing. I also feel it's really unfair to your fans to ask them to genuinely engage with a narrative for hours on hours and then to rip the rug out at the last second and claim in your post-game interviews that it was part of your mid life crisis manifesto.

Imagine you launched a new Pokemon game and the first line was, "Welcome to the world of Pokemon. Did you know your parents will die someday? Here's your stupid Pikachu I guess."

We didn't enter that game to be reminded that life sucks actually and nothing is real or matters. We entered it for piratey nonsense.

Ron Gilbert specifically uses the cop-out "meta" ending way too much, to the point that I really don't feel it's worth engaging with his works genuinely at all anymore. maybe that works well for you? But not for me, for sure, and I think it's a controversial ending for very justifiable reasons.
I think it depends how you engage with it. If you care about Guybrush as a character it was a dick move of an ending, in some ways. But I really don't - he's a comical buffoon and we enjoy his hapless and increasingly improbable successes which only make sense if the deck is stacked in his favor.

Like most people who played it, I was 11-12 when I first played it and I'm 30 years older now. I really felt the passage of time and the game is kind of about that. The puzzle with the code wheels felt inevitable and beautiful and once were there the ending felt necessary, and I loved the little moment of quiet at the end.

I actually disliked the ending of MI2 way more than Return. It felt harsh (not to mention the difficulty spike) in a way Return didn't. But all opinions are valid here - I can simply say that the ending of Return worked for me.
Apr 22, 2025 04:47 PM
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darthcircuitApr 22, 2025 04:47 PM
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It's his story, and he can do what he wants with it, but it is a little disappointing that 3 of his games have basically the same ending. MI2, Return and Thimbleweed Park all are basically the same at the end. They are fun games with good storytelling, but I agree that the endings are out of place, and would have wished for something nicer.

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