What are the best games like Thimbleweed Park?

It’s no secret people enjoy a comedic game with just a little extensional crisis, and Thimbleweed Park gave us just that. But what do you do when you’ve finished Thimbleweed Park and are dying for more pixelated fun? Well here are 10 more games just like it to satisfy the adventure in us all.

10. The Darkside Detective

The Darkside Detective gameplay

Walk the streets of Twin Lakes City as Detective Francis McQueen, lead investigator. Investigate with your partner in crime, Officer Dooley, to solve the unsolvable while investigating the supernatural. Evil lurks behind every corner or… every closet? No one is safe and everyone is a suspect. Who’s behind it? Probably that know-nothing bear.

Investigate: Join Detective McQueen and Officer Dooley in solving the cities darkest crimes.

Question it all: Everyone and everything must be interrogated to solve this crime.

9. Day of the Tentacle Remastered

Day of the Tentacle Remastered Gameplay

Day of the Tentacle Remastered is a quirky mind-bending game with pie-in-the-face humor. The only goal is to prevent an evil mutated purple tentacle from taking over the world. Fight the tentacle as three unlikely friends each taken to the past, present, or future by a time-toilet. Each action effects a different time period as you battle for yours.

The purple tentacle: Meet your big and bad enemy. Stop him from taking over all three time periods.

A look at the gameplay: This point and click game has some interesting situations you must work through.

8. Kentucky Route Zero

Kentucky Route Zero Gameplay

Split into five acts, Kentucky Route Zero focuses on the story line rather than complex puzzles. The ambient music provides a surreal journey as you wander the bluegrass state. Make new friends and use of all your random items in one summer night. An off the beaten path game where the journey is more important than the destination.

An eerie atmosphere: Kentucky Route Zero employs a dark theme accompanied by ambient sounds.

Meet some of the characters: This game has a unique focus on the individual characters and their role in the storyline.

7. Oxenfree

Oxenfree gameplay

Alex was just like any other rebellious teenager until her and her friends unwittingly open a ghostly rift. Inspired by World War II, manipulate your world by communicating with mysterious specters. Past tragedies shape the present. Existential crises bring out the true self. Your decisions determine your future and change the fate of your friends.

Alex and her step-brother: A look at Alex who brought her new step-brother to a party at Edward’s Island. Did they get more than they can handle?

Your choices: Throughout the game you’re faced with many choices. The game adapts to your decisions for unique gameplay every time.

6. Jenny LeClue – Detectivu

Jenny LeClue – Detectivu gameplay

Pursue the truth. Unravel the mystery. Travel as a bite size detective on a mission to solve a murder and clear your mother’s name. Observe the characters as for clues they won’t willingly reveal. Arthurton might sound like a sleepy little town, but not all is as it seems.

A view of the town: A sleepy little town holds a mystery to unravel. Will you be able to solve it?

What people say isn’t always the truth: Use clues to determine who’s honest and who’s not. Can you handle the truth?

5. Rainswept

Rainswept gameplay

Coffee, rain and more rain. Sometimes to solve a murder, your own traumas must resurface. Rumored to be a murder-suicide, a young couple is found dead in their kitchen. Play as Detective Michael Stone as he assists the local police force in solving the case. Be cautious; the more you find out, the more that will come back to haunt you.

A crime to solve: A rumored murder-suicide sets the stage for the emotional story and immersive gameplay.

Interrogations: Question the neighbors as to find out about their deep histories and distinct personalities.

4. Night in The Woods

Night in the Woods gameplay

Explore the crumbling small town of Possum. Connect to the townsfolk as you get to the bottom of a sinister mystery. The leaves are changing and something strange is happening. Night falls and the light fades. Question what is real. And what’s that in the woods?

There’s something in the woods: Maybe it’s full of porn logs or maybe it’s full of secrets as dark as the woods themselves.

Don’t panic, it’s just a maybe: Each character is unique and there’s a town full of silly friends waiting for you to find them.

3. Guard Duty

Guard Duty gameplay

Journey in a distant past and a possible future. A story of love, loss, and the end of the world. Guard duty tells the story of two very different heroes with the same goal of vanquishing evil. The past controls the future and holds the answers yet to come. Does good always overcome evil?

Journey in the past: Explore various areas in search of your stolen love. Search for her by scaling the tallest mountains and the deepest valleys.

Join the resistance: Fight alongside a group called the Guardians of New Haven as you fight to retake the planet that was lost so long ago.

2. Lamplight City

Lamplight city gameplay

Miles Fordham is a private investigator in this adapt-to-your-choices game. Set in a Victorian past, you begin to hear your partner speak to you beyond the grave. Your grip on reality is slowly being lost as you investigate the shadowy corners of Lamplight City. With five different cases and even more possible outcomes, which will you choose?

Danger lurks around every corner: Find your partners killer before you lose every shred of your sanity.

Question the suspects: Be the detective you want to be but face the consequences for it.

1. Unforeseen Incidents

Unforeseen Incidents gameplay

Play as handyman Harper with only the goal to save humankind from a contagious epidemic. Your weapon? A trusty multi-tool. Discover a conspiracy only you can solve. Join 4 unlikely friends in a journey that brings you close to a group of dangerous fanatics and expose the truth before succumbing to the disease yourself.

Unlikely friends: Travel in a group of four; a handy-man, reporter, scientist, and a reclusive artist.

A dying woman on the street: Your starting point to unraveling a diabolical conspiracy. Stop the disease from spreading across the country.

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