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Thimbleweed Park 2 is “not really a sequel, not really a prequel,” but it is in development and due out in 2028
Ron Gilbert has announced that Thimbleweed Park 2 has entered production, with an early 2028 release planned. The new adventure game revives the world of 2017’s Thimbleweed Park after Gilbert’s separate Zelda- and Diablo-inspired RPG was cancelled, and reunites several members of the original development team.
Gilbert says the game will be self-published with support from a private investor, and that Mark Ferrari, Gary Winnick, David Fox, Octavi Navarro and Robert Megone are returning. Its Steam page describes it as neither a straightforward sequel nor prequel, but as “more Thimbleweed Park”, with agents Ray and Reyes investigating a body at Edmund Mansion alongside returning characters including Ransome, Delores and Franklin.
In short
- Thimbleweed Park 2 is now in production.
- It is due for release in early 2028.
- Several original developers and characters will return.
Explained simply
Thimbleweed Park is a point-and-click adventure game released in 2017, created by Ron Gilbert and a team of experienced developers. The game was a nostalgic recreation of adventure games that were popular in the 1980s and early 1990s, featuring mystery-solving and puzzles in a colourful world.
Ron Gilbert is a renowned game designer whose work in the 1980s and 1990s helped define the adventure game genre. The return of Gilbert and several original team members to develop a new Thimbleweed Park project is noteworthy because such collaborations between veteran creators are uncommon.
Adventure games were hugely popular in the 1980s and early 1990s but fell largely out of favour in mainstream gaming. The original Thimbleweed Park found an audience by reviving this older style, appealing to players nostalgic for the era and newcomers interested in the genre. A new entry in the series offers both groups a chance to experience this gaming world.