The legendary journey recreation sequence Monkey Island is about to get an all new entry to the franchise this 12 months. The brand new recreation can be referred to as Return to Monkey Island, and improvement is being led by authentic sequence creator Ron Gilbert at his new studio, Gilbert’s Horrible Toybox.

The sport is being developed in collaboration with Devolver Digital and Lucasfilm Video games. The trailer itself doesn’t actually reveal something in regards to the new story, however the brand new recreation will reportedly happen after Monkey Island 2: LeChuck’s Revenge. The final recreation within the sequence was really Telltale’s Tales of Monkey Island launched in 2009, however Return to Monkey Island seems to be unrelated to that recreation.

Gilbert revealed on Twitter that he has really been engaged on the sport in “full secrecy” for the previous two years, however he hasn’t revealed precisely why he selected to make one other Monkey Island recreation (a reality dropped at our consideration by the unlucky cranium within the trailer):

A bit of one thing we have been engaged on for the previous 2 years in full secrecy.https://t.co/qwmxpYjpe5

— Ron Gilbert (@grumpygamer) April 4, 2022

Gilbert isn’t engaged on the sport alone, in fact. Additionally becoming a member of Gilbert in improvement is Dave Grossman, a author and programmer for the unique Monkey Island Collection in addition to numerous different Lucasfilm Video games initiatives. Additionally within the trailer, we are able to see that the unique composers Michael Land and Peter McConnel are again to make the music for this new recreation, in addition to Clint Bajakian who labored on Monkey Island 2 in addition to different Lucasfilm video games as effectively. Lastly, Dominic Armato will reprise is position because the would-be-pirate Guybrush Threepwood.

No particular date for launch has been given for Return to Monkey Island aside from the discharge window of “2022,” however we should always undoubtedly count on extra details about the persevering with adventures of Guybrush Threepwood within the coming months.

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