It’s not an April Idiot’s joke – the ‘actual’ Monkey Island 3 is coming from the journey sport sequence’ unique creators, and the Return to Monkey Island launch date is down for this yr. It’s a collaboration between Lucasfilm Video games and Devolver Digital and is ready after the occasions of Monkey Island 2.

On April Idiot’s day, Monkey Island sequence creator Ron Gilbert posted a joke on his Grumpy Gamer weblog that he’s “determined to make one other Monkey Island”, which nobody took significantly. As we speak, Return to Monkey Island is introduced, with Gilbert confessing that he “felt dangerous in regards to the April Fools’ joke, so over the weekend I whipped up the sport so nobody was disillusioned”.

Return to Monkey Island is the sixth sport within the long-running pirate sport sequence, nonetheless, it’ll be canonically set as an alternate Monkey Island 3. Ron Gilbert has acknowledged many occasions that LucasArts’ personal Curse of Monkey Island – which was made after he left the corporate – took the sequence in a really completely different course from how he envisioned it, so his third sport will decide up after Guybrush is trapped as somewhat child in the Massive Whoop carnival on the finish of Monkey Island 2.

Return To Monkey Island launch date

Return to Monkey Island will launch in 2022.

Secret of Monkey Island administrators Ron Gilbert and Dave Grossman – who himself helped lead Telltale’s fifth sport, Tales of Monkey Island – are heading it, with Dominic Armato again as Guybrush Threepwood and Denny Delk as Murray (who was launched in COMI, in order that’s one character who’s not being retconned). Authentic sequence composers Michael Land, Clint Bajakian, and Psychonauts 2’s Peter McConnell are again collectively for the primary time since Escape From Monkey Island.

As for the sport itself, the web site exhibits Melee Island from the unique sport, with major villain LeChuck’s cursed ship docked. The announcement trailer incorporates a skeletal pirate taking part in LeChuck’s theme tune, which Murray pops out of the shadows to hearken to. The graphics appear in step with the Particular Editions of the primary two video games.

Except for being an affect on each point-and-click journey sport ever made, the primary two Monkey Island video games helped launch the profession of Double High-quality’s Tim Schafer. The present Prime Gaming free video games for April embrace Monkey Island 2 Particular Version, so you’ll be able to catch up for nothing for those who’re a subscriber.