The Secret of Monkey Island: Special Edition

I love the "breaking the 4th wall" humour in this game. It all feels so ahead of it's time. A masterpiece in light of the year it was created.

A funny, good old classic quest with relatively easy puzzles, except maybe the third part, where it wasn't obvious HOW to use the powder

The Secret of Monkey Island: Special Edition beautifully remasters the beloved classic with enhanced visuals, voice acting, and refined gameplay. Its witty humor, memorable characters, and engaging puzzles make it a timeless adventure. A must-play for fans of point-and-click classics!

i beat it, (i had this on my xbox360 like 7 years ago)

Never pay more than 20 bucks for a computer game. -Guybrush Threepwood

Great!

Great point-and-click game, but the controls are overly complicated. Sometimes, even when I’m sure what to do, it doesn’t work because I’m using "Use" instead of "Give." Sometimes it’s "Push," and I’m doing "Pull." I know that’s how the game was originally designed, but I really wish there were an alternative option. Everything else—story, humor, puzzles—is perfect.

Fun

It's a point and click adventure game if that's your jam. It's not too shabby i guess. I liked the music. And now I can say I played this classic game finally

i am rubber, you are glue

Look! a three headed monkey!

Don't let the three hours tag fool you. I've played this game on a non-steam version and re-purchased it here... Then speedran it, I guess?

Classic point and click adventure game with good sense of humour throughout.
If you like point and click and don't already know who Guybrush is he is one of the mainstays and this is the first game in the series.

Classic point-and-click game with updates mechanics and look. Mix of actual puzzles and wearying trial-and-error pseudo-puzzles, along with a few "Oh, come on!" moments when learning what the solution was to a particular quest or action (as in, oh, come on, who would have reasonably thought of that?).

ohhh that just brings back the young days, amazing game for everyone even after 35 years

I remember that as a kid, I could never get the hang of this game… and all these years later, nothing has changed for me ;D

This is coming from someone who has barely ever managed to beat any classic adventure game on their own. Back then or now—my brain just isn’t wired for figuring out all the item combinations and their intended uses. And here, you can even perform eight different actions on every single object. Even though this is the “remastered” version, it still feels a bit clunky at times. Luckily, for complainers like me, there’s a wonderful hotkey—“H” for hints.

Sure, the old-school game design, where you have to click the same item dozens of times, might scare off zoomers. But if you push through that and get used to it, you’ll uncover a delightful and entertaining story. This is only the second classic adventure game I’ve completed in the past few years, but oh my god—the humor here is absolutely brilliant and clever. There are thematic jokes, witty wordplay, fourth-wall breaks, hilarious absurdities, sword-fighting duels—it all feels surprisingly fresh and fun even in 2025.

Even though I struggled a lot through the first third of the game, and even with hints it didn’t always go smoothly, I was genuinely thrilled. I kept being amazed at how each new situation was more inventive than the last.

Now I finally understand why this adventure game series (or at least some of its entries) is so beloved.

I can't believe that they butchered my boy Guybrush so badly. He looks like he was run over a few times and had an accident with a lawnmower, too.

You had one job and you fucked it up.

I play this game with the OG graphics and voices which is not possible with this version. But you can use this version to generate the "Ultimative Talkie Edition" of the game. Which is the best version of the game imho.

They didn't butcher MI2 SE like they butchered this game.
MI2 SE is an improvement over the original.

Expected more monkeys

exceptional

10/10

The dialogue is hilarious, the puzzles were fun, but in the fashion of any 90s game there are some ridiculous game mechanics (i.e. saying the same thing to the same person enough times will get you a different response). There were plenty of times I would use Universal Hints and be like "how on EARTH was I supposed to know how to do that?! If you're used to those sort of annoyances, though, this game is definitely worth a play through for anyone who loves a puzzle adventure game.

A classic in the graphics adventures genre, and the special edition is a huge improvement in terms of graphic quality and added voice over. 100% recommended for anyone who likes these types of games

Good point-and-click game for its time.

I play this game once every 10 years or so on my best-of rotation. It definitely shows its age with the graphics and animation but mechanically it's very responsive and enjoyable. The story is great, the humor is classic, the music is peak nostalgia for me, and it's fun.

This game is hilarious and the puzzles are great. The rush you get from figuring it out is what makes it truly great.

However, some of the puzzles were REALLY annoying to figure out. Luckily, the special edition has a hint system which make it much easier to beat.

This game isn't worth having to constantly look things up. Needing to use a guide isn't fun. Isn't it great how far puzzle games have come for how awful this style of game is to play

Really good special edition! I had played the original a number of times over the years, but it had been a long time when I loaded the special edition up. I had bought it quite a while back, but don't think I had actually played it through.

I loved the updated look, and the ability to switch to the original version on the fly is nice to see how the art style has been respected when they did this update.

If you like adventure games this is a absolute classic of the genre, and if you have never played an adventure game, I can't think of much of a better place to start than this updated version of one of the best games of the genre.

Brings back good memories.

One of the classics, a must for all Lucasarts fans out there.

Never pay more than 20 bucks for a computer game.

https://youtu.be/lUOE9WR2Ecc

More than a decade and a half old the updated 2009 update to the 1990 classic is still worth checking out for adventure game players.

The absolute classic and arguably best point and click adventure game was not done justice with this half cooked remaster.

The updated soundtrack is great and it's good to see the cast from Curse come back and reprise their roles for the classic game in the series. Gameplay is very much the same. Where the remaster slips up is in the remastered character model designs and also, to a lesser extent, the environments. The characters and environments had such a charm and magic to them back in the day, the remaster style is very lifeless and bland in comparison. However, this remaster was released in 2009 so I can hardly expect modern day levels of detail here and i recall it being available on smart phones at the time which was pretty cool. I'm glad the ability to jump between old and new graphics is there but why is there not the option to play the old style graphics with the voices? Perhaps you can, I just didn't know how to activate it. This is just an old man rambling about the past, I don't think anyone new to the series will have a second thought about my issues with it. It is still a fantastic game.

Anyway, had a good time regardless revisiting this classic from my childhood with my own kid. He enjoyed it a ton. On to LeChucks Revenge..

Played this when i was younger and was still fantastic to replay again years later (female player). Good story, decent script. I love a good point and click and obscure puzzles. This version seemed more straight forward, but still got stuck a couple of times.

Cult classic beautifuly remastered. It let's you switch between old and new graphics mid game with only 1 key.
Interesting and challenging puzzles. Although sometimes it can be a bit hard to figure out what you are suposed to do next, so don'r be ashamed to look for a guide or use the help key. It still one of the most charming and funny games storywise and almost all dialogues are pure gold.

A fantastic game and one of the best point-and-clicks ever made! As someone who played the Telltale games in this series first, I was very excited to play the game that started it all and it did not disappoint! Humorous, engaging, fun, challenging, and that fantastic pirate-y world make for one of the best point-and-click games out there and an easy recommend.

An absolutely amazing start to one of the most stupidly hilarious point and click adventures out there.
Solid game-play, good story, amazing characters.

I love the ability to swap between the redone artwork and the original pixel art. Adore the rework but the pixel art is just so detailed and AAAUGH.
Anyways i love monkey island

My favourite game of all time in the 90s and it still is today.
Funny, clever and replayable over and over. I go back to this every year for the 3-4 hour journey on Melee Island and beyond.

Look behind you... A three headed monkey

GREAT

good old game with great amount of all kind of puns.

One of the best games ever made

fun reading and puzzle solving game

Fabulous, picked this up for next to nothing in the Steam sale - for old time's sake - I'd played it previously on my Amiga 1200 in the 90s (yes I'm old). It's still great fun, although it has been tidied up and modernised I'm sure. A great little trip down memory lane.

very good and fun and classic game do not let its age fool you

This game is the absolute worst offender for wasting your time with slow walking animations and NO fast travel. It's a shame, because the game's writing is quite charming and humorous, but I frequently knew what I was supposed to do yet the fact that simply getting to the location would take FOREVER is gravely unforgivable. It's unplayable. I could read an entire news article on my phone while moving from one area to the other.

If watching a character needlessly shuffle across multiple screens of the same rotation of mediocre art backdrops is also your pet peeve, save your sanity and don't buy this.

It's also not voiced in other languages like its sequel is. I played the French version and the translations sometimes deviate nonsensically in meaning from the English audio. I think classic point-and-click games can be a great tool for foreign language learning, but this one is poor value, so be warned.

Classic game that has held up over the years.

very good!

A great game full of funny moments and a great storyline.

"When there is only one candidate, there is only one choice!"

"The Secret of Monky Island" is the first game that started my interest in quest point and click games, at least I think so. When I was a kid, we didn't have a rimaster or great voice acting, so I was left to figure out on my own what the appearance of the characters were and what their funny voices were.

"Monky Island" remembered me with great characters, great dialog, sparkling level of jokes and gave me the confidence that if you want a discount from Stan the salesman - you need to ask three times, or better five, or maybe ten...Duuude, with this guy really need to be persistent. The absurdity of the humor and the situations in which the slightly awkward but insanely funny Guybrush Threepwood found himself left me completely enthralled! Going to the circus to participate in the preparation of a trick, wearing a pot on his head? Yeah, come on, we only live once! Find the girl of my dreams and rescue her from the clutches of the enemy, only to realize at the end that she can work out her own issues? Pfft, we love breaking clichés. That's why Monkey Island is such a great game!

I was thrilled with the game mechanics! Imagine you have a game for teens, a game quest to be exact, you have to come up with interesting battle mechanics. That doesn't sound like an easy task, does it? Ron Gilbert and Tim Scheife have solved it: What do kids love most? Lacking physical strength, they often try to figure out how to hurt their opponent in a fun way!
Therefore, the brave Guybrush wounds his opponent not with a sharp blade, but with a word. These are great quotes that I am sure I will tell my children, such as: How appropriate, you fight like a cow!

I'm kidding. This game really gave me a childhood and probably made me the person I am now, giving me a good dose of humor and interest in a franchise that grew me into a pirate-girl.

One of the best games ever.

The Secret of Monkey Island was yet another game that is heralded as an amazing game that can do no wrong. And once again, I come away completely disappointed and wondering what everyone else was playing. This game took me 8 hours to complete and that was with liberal use of the hint system. I don’t know how anyone could have played this game before the special edition put in a hint system. Just about everything you’re supposed to do is so convoluted and illogical that there is no way you would ever think of the next step on your own. You should not use your brain here, but rather the most idiotic thing you can think of.

I thought I knew where this story would go, that Guybrush would go through his pirate trials, become a pirate, join a crew, and eventually fight the great pirate LeChuck. Yeah… once you’re out of Part One: The Three Trials, which is by no means superb, the game quickly goes downhill. I mean, for heaven’s sake, part two is just creating a soup to pass out and end up on Monkey Island! And why did we have to save the mayor just for her to not be in any danger at all? How does your crew end up in Hell when I needed a head to give me broken directions? How does the mayor get the same ghost-killing spray when she was locked up on a ship the entire time and I was traversing an entire island having to do fetch quests before achieving my goal? This game must have inspired the entire genre of fetch quests games.

I must say that whoever created this special edition deserves to be smacked upside the head. Whereas the classic version had the action keys right on the screen where you have easy access to them, the SE puts them in separate screens that are near impossible to maneuver. It was far easier to switch to classic mode when you needed to do some quick work with the action keys. The absolute best example of this is when you have to transport a mug of grog across town and have to switch it between mugs before it disintegrates. It is impossible to do with the SE screens, I tried twice! I had to switch to classic to accomplish it. This just shows that there was no testing of this game.

At the end of the day all I can say is, at least I didn’t ‘pay more than $20 for this game’.

The best game ever!!!!

it took me 28 years to find this game (i last had it on floppy disk) and it took me 8 hours to complete it, may play again on the classic settings but i loved the game, and am glad to have finally completed it