The Secret of Monkey Island: Special Edition
Worth it · Narrative · 2009
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
WAIT.
Worth it today. The Winter Sale opens Dec 17, and it was discounted in 7 of its last 8 seasonal sales; 50% in the Winter Sale 2025.
Today
$9.99Worth it
Typical seasonal cut
$3.4965% offBANGER
- Cost per hour▼
- $1.49/hr
- ReviewsS
- 95% of 6,277
- Critics
- 86 players 9 higher
- Genre rank
- Top 2% Narrative
Holding it back: Cost per hour
Why
Watch this gameOne alert at $3.49 or less.
Time and effort
- Main story
- 6.7h
- To 100%
- 7.6h 1.1x the story
Price and sales
- Sales
- 57 on record
- Typical cut
- 65% off
- Steam low
- $1.99 August 2022
- Sale every
- 56d last October 2026
Players and genre
- Online
- 11 now
- Cheaper than
- 30% of its genre
- Better reviewed
- 98% of its genre
Price and player charts
The value story
The value story
It has been discounted 57 times in the 14 years tracked here. The median cut across all of them is 65 percent, about 8 weeks apart. Past sales have already crossed the $8.19 BANGER line 57 times.
Against its own genre its score lands in the top 2 percent. It is pricier than 70 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 98 percent. Among the games that feel like it, The Curse of Monkey Island ($6.99, scores 93) beats it on value, while it beats Monkey Island™ 2 Special Edition: LeChuck’s Revenge™ ($9.99, scores 63).
More about The Secret of Monkey Island: Special Edition
The press gave it 86; the people who bought it give it 95 percent. A 9-point gap in the buyer's favour.
None of the 428 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written March 2020 to October 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 86 percent of the 565 reviews written there were positive, against 95 percent overall, and those are 11 percent of everything written about it.
Buy now or wait
Buy now or wait
Last discount ended 31 days ago.
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
What drives the score
Grades: S best, D weakest
S is the best grade and D the weakest, judged as a buyer. ▲ raises the score, ▼ lowers it, ? is an input we do not have, • is a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work
What players say
I decided to check out a short yet legendary point-and-click experience from the annals of history and I wasn't let down: a blast from the past for sure! I haven't touched Monkey Island™ with a ten-foot pole before, so no nostalgia attached. I could quite quickly see many of the innovative features that made The Secret of Monkey Island famous back in the day, as there were a few things I haven't encountered in any...
2 more reviews
Try Secret of Monkey Island-a pirate delight, Where terrible insults can win you a fight. I finished! I'm thrilled! Let the victory bells ring! Now back to real life… where I can't use a chicken on everything...
Pros: + Humor + Great vibes to the entire series + Has good length and do not drag things out + Despite it's age, still plays great Cons: - Sword fighting can get tedious - Puzzles do not use logic, but humor and are chaotic Legendary game and must play for all adventure game fans. Humor is great and the game has aged surprisingly well. But it has the same problem all Monkey Island(tm) games have - you cannot solve...
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
About the game
Back by popular demand, The Secret of Monkey Island™: Special Edition faithfully re-imagines the internationally-acclaimed classic game (originally released in 1990) for original and new audiences alike.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 256 MB of memory, 128 MB with Shader Model 2.0 capability, 2.5 GB of storage. Windows only.
No data upstream: achievement curve (Steam global achievements).
Cite this score
The Secret of Monkey Island: Special Edition scores 81/100 on the BANG Score (worth it) as of Nov 8, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/32360/the-secret-of-monkey-island-special-editionReviews set the ceiling, and price against real length moves the BANG Score inside it. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Oct 31, price as of Nov 7. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.