Thimbleweed Park™
Worth it · Narrative · 2017
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
BUY IT.
Worth it at $19.99, a BANGER if it drops to $10.25.
- Length
- 10.5h
- Value
- $1.90/hr
- Reviews
- 93% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, Intel HD 3000 or better, 1 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
In Thimbleweed Park, a dead body is the least of your problems. Switch between five playable characters to uncover the surreal secrets of this strange town in a modern mystery adventure game from the creators of Monkey Island and Maniac Mansion. The deeper you go, the weirder it gets.
What drives the score
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The value story
It has never been cheaper than $4.99. That was September 2022. It has been discounted 41 times in the 9 years tracked here, typically at 60 percent off, with about 12 weeks between sales. Today it is at full price. The last sale was about 13 weeks ago, and on this game's rhythm the next one tends to arrive within 12 weeks. The math puts its BANGER price at $10.25. The record reaches that level 32 times.
Value puts it in the top 2 percent of the games it competes with. It is pricier than 92 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 95 percent. Among the games that feel like it, There Is No Game: Wrong Dimension ($12.99, scores 77) beats it on value, while it beats The Darkside Detective ($14.99, scores 67).
84 from critics against 93 percent from players, and the player number comes from people who own the game.
Steam's global achievement data puts 34 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. The median game this site can measure sits at 8. Of the 453 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, none come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written March 2020 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 73 percent of the 136 reviews written there were positive, against 93 percent overall, and those are 4 percent of everything written about it.
Valve rates it Steam Deck Verified, and at 10.5 hours it is short enough to finish on one.
The drop-off
97% start to 34% finishPeople genuinely stick with this one. Steam global achievements
Players
5 players at peak in the last day.
The chart appears once this game has been counted more than once.Player counts via SteamSpy.
What players say
A true masterpiece. Real pixel art, not AI sloppa. Great voice acting. The game plays to its strengths. Very rewarding casual experience. It's all about the vibe, the ambiance, taking it all in. Just enjoy the coffee and pie, my guy. After your third playthrough, it's fun to switch up the music. Strange Trails by Lord Huron or Meddle by Pink Floyd come to mind. Don't forget to enable Ransom's uncensored speech...
I you like Lucas Arts games from the 90s, or enjoy playing games in the ScummVM style of click through adventures, you will absolutely adore this title. I already feel like I'm back in the era when I play. It's so wonderfully executed, we the same cheeky in-game references and fourth wall breaking jokes. I got it when it was on sale the other day, but I would say it's still worth 20 bucks if you wanted to get it...
This was my first quest ever and it was hilarious. I think that you should play this game even in you never played old quests
Player reviews from Steam: the most helpful all-time, plus the newest that clear the same quality bar, with the hours each player had put in when they wrote it. The mix of Recommended and Not recommended follows the game's Steam ratio. Rotates daily. Opinions are theirs.
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Thimbleweed Park™ scores 73/100 on the BANG Score (worth it). The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/569860/thimbleweed-parkThe BANG Score is one number for value, 0 to 100: price against how it reviews and how long it was built to be. It answers the money question and stops there; whether the game is for you is still your call.
Reviews set the ceiling and price moves you inside it, so a cheap game that reviews badly cannot climb. Ratings from few reviewers are shrunk toward the middle, so 100 percent from nine people does not outrank 96 percent from ninety thousand. Length comes from HowLongToBeat where it can be matched, measured against a per-genre floor so a five-hour narrative game is judged against other narrative games rather than against a sixty-hour RPG. Where no verified length exists the score says so and carries a dock, because the biggest input is then a guess. The full method, including where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Aug 1, price as of Sep 24.
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