Day of the Tentacle Remastered

It's a funny game and takes a bit of trial and error to get it right, classic type of game like Sam and Max

Played the original in the 90s and now the remastered. This game is pure fun.

Nice remastered version of a great classic

best game for puzzle loving oldtimers

pretty dated, wouldn't recommend unless you love old school point and click like I do

Day of the Tentacle Remastered is an excellent remaster of the original 1993 classic, a game combining wit, charm, and madness in a point-and-click adventure.

It drops players into a world of time travel, where quirky characters and absurd scenarios await. It blends slapstick, wordplay, and dark humor while nodding to the pop culture of the 1980's and early 1990's.

I first attempted this game back in the 90's but couldn’t quite figure it out. This time around I used this guide to complete the game and obtain all the achievements. The puzzles can be challenging, and without a guide, I would have given up in frustration because the story doesn't have the payoff for the effort required.

The remaster itself is fantastic, beautiful, and modern, allowing you to switch to the original graphics at any time. Again, on the third floor of the mansion in the present, the full game of Maniac Mansion can be played on the computer in the right-side room. I played and completed the main game on the Steam Deck, where it worked perfectly.

All in all, this is a great little game to check out if you have the patience and can think like a cartoon character!

8/10

Challenging, amuzing, full of humor, great storyline! Played this game in 1990s, played it again in 2025, same fun!

Another old point and click 90s adventure game given a delightful coat of paint without losing anything. The game itself is hilarious and you should play it, of course. Being able to switch between new and old versions on the fly was nice too. Clearly done by people who loved the original game and wanted to keep the spirit. Highly recommended!

One of the old school point and click games, Day of the Tentacle is a classic that everyone should enjoy

quiet fun, though a hint system would be nice, alot of the puzzels arent just straight foward and i dident plan on spending entire weeks over one puzzle

Get it on sale, have a blast for a few hours. Game has fun slapstick characters and scenes while having just this cute personality and style. It never gets old and always a fun play-through every few years.

nice classic point and click adventure. story not bad, puzzles are fun.

Point & click adventure masterpiece. In the same league as monkey island 2. Its personal preference what you prefer of the two. Highly recommended.

A classic from the 90s with lots of fun Easter eggs referencing other movies and games. It's light hearted and relaxing fun.

this videogame is cool. absolute point and click cinema

Lots of leaps in logic and obtuse solutions, but I appreciate the game for its positives, since it's clear that LucasArts had a lot of fun with this one.

If you love Monkey Island or Sam & Max, this is a must-play. It oozes ‘90s LucasArts charm, with top-tier humor, clever time-based puzzles, and a cartoony aesthetic that still holds up. Get the remastered version for modern convenience but keep the original voices—it’s pure gold. If you haven’t played it yet, turn in your nerd card.

A fun callback to when I was a kid :) and Finally found out how to beat it

is very god easy game

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The GOAT for point and click adventure games, although all of the LucasArts adventure games are amazing, so just play em all!

This version is a solid remaster of my favorite point'n click adventure game, and a big nostalgia of dos gaming.

Pros:
+ A lot of fun searching for passages and items, finding out what item goes to where, and even conversations with the npc:s. Can take a while to solve everything if you're new to this game as some puzzles can be a bit cryptic and farfetched.
+ Colorful and cartoony visuals with great animations. Aged very well.
+ A unique storyline with many humors and gags that will give a good laugh if you're into that. Has some fun clichés too.
+ A choice to switch between the classic visuals from the original DOS game, and the smooth remastered graphics.
+ Unlike it's prequal (Maniac Mansion), you can never die or lose in this game.
+ The achievements are a nice bonus.

Cons:
- Once you complete it, it will be quite easy to remember the puzzles, making the gameplay alot quicker. But the charming story and humor makes up for that.
- Personal opinion, but I like the suction sound effect on the original DOS game better. The sound in the remaster makes a weaker impact when the tentacles walk.

Highly recommending this, especially if you're into point'n click adventure games!

Very good remaster, true to the original. I liked the addition of achievements. Definitely recommended.

Great game and memories for 90's era

It's not hard to see why this game is still considered a classic, even for those who aren't superfans of the point and click adventure genre. I played Maniac Mansion on NES years ago and loved it, and while this game is a bit of a departure from it (you don't build a party at the beginning, the three characters don't interact in the same environments), it brings a lot of fun new elements to the table, like the amazing voicework (apart from Laverne, who feels almost comatose by comparison).

The graphics (I played the "retro version", which I'd recommend) are fun and colorful and cartoony, and remind me distinctly of Earthwork Jim. One of my few complaints about the game is the sound design; it's full to bursting with all manner of rehashed Saturday morning cartoon sound effects, which work fine, but the background music is drab and uninteresting. I only bring it up because Maniac Mansion had some of the best music of any game of any generation.

The game does have some intensely moon brain puzzle logic, but in my experience if you're playing a tongue-in-cheek cartoony point and click game, that's part of the package. One of the achievements, which you get after a particularly implausible puzzle, is actually called "Oh yeah, I'm playing a cartoon".

This game isn't for everyone, just as this genre isn't for everyone. But if it's For You, you'll know it.

A classic from the good old days of adventure gaming. Beautiful remaster.

If you love adventure point and clicks, this is the gold standard.

Classic!

Good 100% Archievments

It is what it says. A remaster of the classic DotT. I have not seen anything removed or changed in any bad way. It is the same game - but with better graphics. Also there is a possibility of having some of the creaters comment as you play along. That is a huge feature in itself.

Perhaps it appeals less to people not familiar with DotT. But if so it is a more modern way to play the game.

It is a very well meant and well made remaster of a fantastic game.

I absolutely love this game. Played it through so many times back in the days of 486 pcs. Can still pretty much breeze through it all. Only recently played Manic Mansion, just for the history and gotta say DOTT is a vast improvement - especially the way they split the 3 characters so that each have their own purpose. Love the voice acting, the humour, the puzzles - everything - 10/10 game.

Love love love this game ! Originally had this game on a old Win 95 comptuer without sound ! This was so good to replay with sound ! Loved this game so much. I don't know why but i was hoping for a little bit more in a remaster.

I can remember getting stuck for a long time over one simple action and be like "holy fuck, that's what i had to do ?!?!?!?!? .

Bought this game and beat it in a 2 hour session, just love love love this game !

Impossible to lose at this game unless you are not crafty and able to read the storyline well !!!

One of my favorite games from the '90s. I was just a child back then, so this game had a huge impact on me. Installing it floppy by floppy, hoping for no sector errors, and then running it—hearing actual voices through my Sound Blaster 16—wow, those were amazing memories. The game itself is so much fun, with three characters whose actions affect each other. It’s truly a delight to play.

Brings back a lot of memories playing this game! Nice how they upgraded the visuals without losing the original feel.

amazing, always fun to beat in under hour and a half. the achievements made it more fun.

awesome

What is there to be said about Day of the Tentacle? It's an all time classic adventure made at a time when CD-ROM gaming was new, and it would help finally put the PC on the map as far as gaming systems went! (Yes I am aware that there were a lot of games on the PC before DotT, but DotT really got peoples attention).

Anyway what is it like 30+ years later? More importantly how is the remaster?

The remaster isn't bad, its a nice crisp 1080p update of all the original art. It all looks nice and clear and they didn't skimp on the animation. It's not just the Graphics either, all the sound has been cleared up as well, both music and voice.

However it has in this remaster mode a new control scheme has been implemented as well, and its more the 'rotor' system that Full Throttle used. It's not bad, it works, but not perfectly with DotT due to the extended nature of the inventory in this game compared to FT, and that examining items in this game is needed to help beat some of the puzzles. Its a question of preference though so I'm not holding it against the game much.

Oh and if you don't like the new art, the clearer sound (for some reason), or the control scheme, You can switch back to the 1993 originals at any time.

As for the rest of the game how well is it holding up three decades later? Well its a classic point and click and it follows LucasArts winning formula for such games. There are no dead ends, there are no deaths or locks soft or hard on progression. Most if not all puzzles have a good logic to them even if they are not obvious. All great.

The story, a very silly one about stopping a tentacles plan for world domination via time travel silliness is used to stop him. It's daft but it works.

While the gameplay and the story are evergreen, some of the humour... unfortunately 30 years on that is the thing that can age a bit more like a cheese in a broken fridge, than a fine whiskey.

Yes first up there is a gag (taken very light heartedly as well) concerning depression and suicide, for one puzzle in the game, and its now lands like a brick and a sack of crap. There's also some light hearted gags involving autism, and trans folk that also just a touch tasteless, now that time has passed on.

That and some Jokes like one about the IRS, that are very American centric and not overly laugh out loud as a Brit.

I know I'll get some comments accusing me of being that rather 'annoying' term. But I am not entertaining any of that nonsense (I'm actually super sick of the modern 'culture wars', so don't even go there). I'm just pointing out that media sometimes (even stuff thats only 3 decades old) can age badly, and sadly while some of the Tex Avery style humour in DotT is fine, other parts have just aged a bit badly. Like mold on cheese.

Otherwise Day of the Tentacle is still an important game in the history of PC gaming and worth checking out for that alone, and this remaster is also very well done.

Steam Thumbs up

4.5 out 5

Was already a great and very funny game 30 years ago.

Fantastic game, great humour, challenging but not brain melting puzzles and safe me to say I wish we could get some kind of future sequel for this ingame universe.

Day of the Tentacle still holds up as one of the best point-and-click comedy adventures. I've been playing this since the early 90s and it still makes me laugh.

holy cow this is boring

press f1

Wow... I have fond memories playing DOTT on our 586 Intel Pentium back in 1995 on a Win '95 OS in MS-DOS. Back then, LucasArts showcased creativity in their point & click adventures with DOTT being my favorite between Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis, Sam & Max, Full Throttle, and Escape from Monkey Island. There was also The Dig but I never got around to playing it. The silly story and wacky characters is what kept me coming back to solving the game's puzzles and finding the conclusion to the story. The game allows you to swap between the OG 1993 MS-DOS based pixel graphics or the newly remastered graphics. Though, my eyes welcome the latter. I still very much enjoy classic OG video gaming but I can't deny it. The updated graphics are so much cleaner and easier on the eyes. The game still plays as I remember it, and since others have already mentioned it, you can play the original Maniac Mansion within DOTT itself. You just have to find it. I highly recommend this experience to anyone wanting to venture out into the quirky side of last decade's gaming. An old, dusted off gem indeed.

Neat

Excellent game, but remaster could be better

ive seen enough with tentacles to see where this is going

"Maniac Mansion: Day of the Tentacle," first encountered in The LucasArts Archives Vol. I during the mid-90s, remains a cherished game that I've enjoyed repeatedly over the years. Renowned for its vibrant characters and captivating settings, this point-and-click adventure follows Bernard Bernoulli, a geeky college student, and his companions Hoagie and Laverne. Together, they undertake a quest to foil the dastardly plans of the malevolent Purple Tentacle, a self-aware tentacle with ambitions of global conquest. I highly recommend it.

A classic that is as funny and smart as i remembered it.

Ps. use a controller for the ring the bell achievement.

Classic LucasArts point and click. Ran flawlessly on Steam Deck and puzzles are on point for difficulty level. Only had to look up one puzzle and it was just not seeing the item.

If you like old classic adventure games, this one is very fun. Characters and whole world is fun and colorfull.