# Just released adventure games **URL:** \ **Category:** Adventure/Lucasfilm Games\ **Created:** [August 15, 2017, 7:49pm UTC](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/t/just-released-adventure-games/1428 "2017-08-15T19:49:38Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 21
**Author:** ![ZakPhoenixMcKracken](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/forums.thimbleweedpark.com/zakphoenixmckracken/32/41_2.png) [@ZakPhoenixMcKracken](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/u/ZakPhoenixMcKracken)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2019, 11:54am UTC](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/t/just-released-adventure-games/1428/445 "2019-08-27T11:54:49Z")
I am tempted to buy The Castle… as a fan of Maniac Mansion, and after having read your comments… do you suggest to spend 5 euros to buy it? ---
**Author:** ![seguso](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/forums.thimbleweedpark.com/seguso/32/1232_2.png) [@seguso](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/u/seguso)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2019, 2:51pm UTC](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/t/just-released-adventure-games/1428/446 "2019-08-27T14:51:32Z")
> [@ZakPhoenixMcKracken](#): > > do you suggest to spend 5 euros to buy it? are you crazy? It’s worth much more than that. 🙂 Don’t fall in the temptation to read the walkthrough. Rather, when you see a room object that’s suspicious, use everything on it. ---
**Author:** ![tlammert](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/forums.thimbleweedpark.com/tlammert/32/22_2.png) [@tlammert](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/u/tlammert)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2019, 2:56pm UTC](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/t/just-released-adventure-games/1428/447 "2019-08-27T14:56:25Z")
Bought it, I´m curious. Let´s see 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![seguso](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/forums.thimbleweedpark.com/seguso/32/1232_2.png) [@seguso](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/u/seguso)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2019, 2:57pm UTC](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/t/just-released-adventure-games/1428/448 "2019-08-27T14:57:25Z")
be prepared. 70% of the puzzles are very hard _and_ fair, 30% are very hard and unfair. ---
**Author:** ![tlammert](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/forums.thimbleweedpark.com/tlammert/32/22_2.png) [@tlammert](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/u/tlammert)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2019, 2:59pm UTC](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/t/just-released-adventure-games/1428/449 "2019-08-27T14:59:43Z")
Sounds good 😃 ---
**Author:** ![ZakPhoenixMcKracken](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/forums.thimbleweedpark.com/zakphoenixmckracken/32/41_2.png) [@ZakPhoenixMcKracken](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/u/ZakPhoenixMcKracken)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2019, 3:26pm UTC](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/t/just-released-adventure-games/1428/450 "2019-08-27T15:26:17Z")
> [@seguso](#): > > 30% are very hard and unfair. Uhh, similar to the first version of Maniac Mansion! ---
**Author:** ![seguso](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/forums.thimbleweedpark.com/seguso/32/1232_2.png) [@seguso](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/u/seguso)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2019, 3:27pm UTC](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/t/just-released-adventure-games/1428/451 "2019-08-27T15:27:27Z")
I’d say Maniac Mansion has fewer unfair puzzles, or none. out of memory. Right now I don’t recall one. Which ones would you call unfair? ---
**Author:** ![ZakPhoenixMcKracken](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/forums.thimbleweedpark.com/zakphoenixmckracken/32/41_2.png) [@ZakPhoenixMcKracken](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/u/ZakPhoenixMcKracken)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2019, 3:30pm UTC](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/t/just-released-adventure-games/1428/452 "2019-08-27T15:30:45Z")
> [@seguso](#): > > Which ones would you call unfair? #1: when Dr. Fred goes to play Meteor Mess game… if you didn’t fix the wires in time, he will never play again. And if he will never play, he will never set a new Hi-score. And the new Hi-score is SUPER important to win the game… #2: there are a limited number of dimes to use with the telescope. If you fail to understand what to see, you’ll never get another chance. #3: if you use the paint remover on something other than the paint bloch on the wall, you’ll be in a dead end, because behind that paint there is a door… ---
**Author:** ![seguso](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/forums.thimbleweedpark.com/seguso/32/1232_2.png) [@seguso](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/u/seguso)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2019, 3:31pm UTC](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/t/just-released-adventure-games/1428/453 "2019-08-27T15:31:37Z")
wow, I didn’t know that. There is a thin line between dead ends and unfair puzzles… you are not talking about object combinations that make no sense, or that make sense but for which there was no reason at all to focus on that. ---
**Author:** ![Sushi](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/forums.thimbleweedpark.com/sushi/32/163_2.png) [@Sushi](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/u/Sushi)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2019, 4:00pm UTC](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/t/just-released-adventure-games/1428/454 "2019-08-27T16:00:06Z")
> [@AnaMoon](#): > > I played the game when it was for free before its release Why didn’t you post about it before? Ah well, it is only 5€/$ ---
**Author:** ![Sushi](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/forums.thimbleweedpark.com/sushi/32/163_2.png) [@Sushi](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/u/Sushi)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2019, 4:06pm UTC](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/t/just-released-adventure-games/1428/455 "2019-08-27T16:06:29Z")
Not sure about #1. Unless you use a walkthrough, you are not aware of the puzzle until dr Fred tries to play and makes a comment. I am 100% sure you can solve it then and you’ll get another cutscene later. But perhaps that first cutscene starts a timer were he won’t play again if…? I have even seen the opposite happen: he’ll play it again, setting some new scores and effectively changing the code to the door. ---
**Author:** ![Sushi](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/forums.thimbleweedpark.com/sushi/32/163_2.png) [@Sushi](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/u/Sushi)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2019, 4:07pm UTC](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/t/just-released-adventure-games/1428/456 "2019-08-27T16:07:33Z")
> [@seguso](#): > > when you see a room object that’s suspicious, use everything on it. Just like it’s 1986! ---
**Author:** ![seguso](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/forums.thimbleweedpark.com/seguso/32/1232_2.png) [@seguso](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/u/seguso)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2019, 4:10pm UTC](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/t/just-released-adventure-games/1428/457 "2019-08-27T16:10:58Z")
> [@Sushi](#): > > Just like it’s 1986! Yeah. 🙂 Basically, the trick in this game is to first understand which room objects are important and which room objects are only scenery. If the room object has a suspicious or unusual description, even if short, this means it must be used with something. Isolating these objects is 70% of the difficulty. then you try everything on it. Unfortunately even this is not always sufficient, because sometimes you need to combine two or even three inventory objects, (the third one for no apparent reason), before you have the composite object to combine with the room object. But this happened only once. And once I found a room object that had no suspicious description and there was no reason at all to do something on it and not on similar objects… ---
**Author:** ![Nor\_Treblig](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/forums.thimbleweedpark.com/nor_treblig/32/216_2.png) [@Nor\_Treblig](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/u/Nor_Treblig)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2019, 6:02pm UTC](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/t/just-released-adventure-games/1428/458 "2019-08-27T18:02:19Z")
> [@ZakPhoenixMcKracken](#): > > The Castle > [@ZakPhoenixMcKracken](#): > > do you suggest to spend 5 euros to buy it? No, I don’t suggest to do this. Wait until it is released on itch.io and then spend at least two times the value on it, or three times. > [@ZakPhoenixMcKracken](#): > > #1: when Dr. Fred goes to play Meteor Mess game… if you didn’t fix the wires in time, he will never play again. And if he will never play, he will never set a new Hi-score. And the new Hi-score is SUPER important to win the game… I’m not aware of such problem. Is this reproducible? Maybe it was fixed in later versions of the game? I agree with #2 and #3. Another unfair one would be intercepting the packet where you have to either be lucky or already know it. And also ripping the envelope open. ---
**Author:** ![Nor\_Treblig](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/forums.thimbleweedpark.com/nor_treblig/32/216_2.png) [@Nor\_Treblig](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/u/Nor_Treblig)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2019, 6:11pm UTC](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/t/just-released-adventure-games/1428/459 "2019-08-27T18:11:25Z")
> [@seguso](#): > > There is a thin line between dead ends and unfair puzzles Yes that’s true. Often dead ends are unfair (e.g. opening the envelope), other times they are OK (e.g. most deaths are foreseeable). _Moon logic_ is the problem I have seen you describing the most with The Castle. E.g. you have to use everything with everything because you don’t have any other clues and it doesn’t make any sense. > [@Sushi](#): > > Why didn’t you post about it before? She posted it on her blog on 5th of August. You clearly should read more Spanish blogs! ---
**Author:** ![AnaMoon](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/forums.thimbleweedpark.com/anamoon/32/12720_2.png) [@AnaMoon](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/u/AnaMoon)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2019, 7:28pm UTC](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/t/just-released-adventure-games/1428/460 "2019-08-27T19:28:48Z")
> [@Nor\_Treblig](#): > > She posted it on her blog on 5th of August. You clearly should read more Spanish blogs! 😂 I knew the game by chance by comments on twitter. Yesterday I saw all the traffic coming to my blog from this forum. I didn’t know it despite I’m a huge fan of Thimbleweed Park. This is a bit off topic but I have a few gameplays on my youtube channel: casual mode, hard mode, all the books in the library, all the phone messages… ---
**Author:** ![Nor\_Treblig](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/forums.thimbleweedpark.com/nor_treblig/32/216_2.png) [@Nor\_Treblig](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/u/Nor_Treblig)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2019, 8:05pm UTC](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/t/just-released-adventure-games/1428/461 "2019-08-27T20:05:42Z")
> [@AnaMoon](#): > > This is a bit off topic Yeah, the The Castle posts deserve a separate thread anyway. > [@AnaMoon](#): > > all the books in the library, all the phone messages Oh wow, all the phonebook messages! 😮 https://www.youtube.com/embed/videoseries?list=PLDt6PqGYXtBf2olA7rTsL8ymyuzWqkhrR&wmode=transparent&rel=0&autohide=1&showinfo=1&enablejsapi=1 And I’ve found the library videos: [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/VSBVSpJ58oE/maxresdefault.jpg "Thimbleweed Park. All the books. First floor") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VSBVSpJ58oE) [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/KNPWl1xmNdQ/maxresdefault.jpg "Thimbleweed Park. All the books. Second floor") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KNPWl1xmNdQ) [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/psSlpNU6Kxc/maxresdefault.jpg "Thimbleweed Park. All the books. Third floor") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=psSlpNU6Kxc) ---
**Author:** ![Sushi](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/forums.thimbleweedpark.com/sushi/32/163_2.png) [@Sushi](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/u/Sushi)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2019, 9:42pm UTC](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/t/just-released-adventure-games/1428/462 "2019-08-27T21:42:21Z")
> [@AnaMoon](#): > > This is a bit off topic but Yeah, we frown upon off-topic here 🤪 > [@Nor\_Treblig](#): > > You clearly should read more Spanish blogs! The _very same_ ones! > [@AnaMoon](#): > > all the books in the library 😮 Hey! There are mine! ---
**Author:** ![Someone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b77776/32.png) [@Someone](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/u/Someone)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2019, 10:27pm UTC](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/t/just-released-adventure-games/1428/463 "2019-08-27T22:27:55Z")
> [@Nor\_Treblig](#): > > It now has been released also to the common folk! So you would recommend it? 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Nor\_Treblig](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/forums.thimbleweedpark.com/nor_treblig/32/216_2.png) [@Nor\_Treblig](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/u/Nor_Treblig)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2019, 12:16am UTC](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/t/just-released-adventure-games/1428/464 "2019-08-28T00:16:38Z")
I tried it on the weekend but it was more or less just a technical test 🙂 But it’s great from what I can say from following the development process. And reception from other backers match with my expectations. What I **can** say is that the settings menu is great. Redefinable controls etc. You can access the credits from there and use up/down to scroll through them (that’s a nice feature for Kickstarter projects with thousands of backers in credits, e.g. Broken Age). They support achievements and co-op on GOG. So technically it makes a **very** good impression. And I like the art style anyway. Expect an in-depth review from me in 5 to 10 years (btw. I haven’t redeemed my copy of Gibbous yet, tsts). [Previous page](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/t/just-released-adventure-games/1428.md?page=20) [Next page](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/t/just-released-adventure-games/1428.md?page=22)