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Sam & Max Hit the Road
Developer Lucasfilm
Sam & Max Hit the Road is a 1993 graphic adventure video game released by LucasArts during the company's adventure games era. The game was originally released for MS-DOS in 1993 and for Mac OS in 1995. A 2002 re-release included compatibility with Windows. The game is based on the comic characters of Sam and Max, the "Freelance Police", an anthropomorphic dog and "hyperkinetic rabbity thing". From Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)
378 reactions from 4 sources (Steam reviews, Bluesky, Lemmy, Mastodon) · newest Nov 4, 2026 · last updated Nov 5, 2026 · How this works
Audience score
91
LovedLoved
172 positive · 16 negative
95% range 87–95%
| Source | + | − | = |
|---|---|---|---|
| Steam reviews | 172 | 16 | 0 |
| Bluesky * | 51 | 1 | 125 |
| Lemmy * | 2 | 0 | 8 |
| Mastodon * | 0 | 0 | 3 |
* shown, not counted in the score (label accuracy below our 85% bar or not yet audited).
Steam's own rating
Very Positive
830 of 877 reviews positive (all languages, per Valve)
What players are saying
92% recommend · 171 yes, 15 no
Counted from the reviewers’ own thumbs up/down on the 186 English Steam reviews we collected, not by the AI. Valve’s all-language rating: Overwhelmingly Positive (1,038 of 1,090 positive).
Many note the puzzles are cryptic and often require a guide. [1][2][3] Some players see Sam and Max as a gay couple and wish they kissed. [4][5][6]
Liked
Representative posts
- [17]
I adore the Sam & Max franchise, the characters, the world, and nearly everything about it. I'm thankful this game was made because it lead to the (now) trilogy of remade telltale games. The writing is sharp and witty, the animations are fun, and the voice work is memorable. Good lord this game is clunky. After you get used to the controls its not that bad, but still with the sometimes baffling puzzle solutions it …
- [7]
You would think a comedy game this old would'nt be funny anymore. I am exited to inform you that you would be wrong, this is downright the funiest game I think Ive ever played. Well worth the six dolars.
- [1]
Sam and Max Hit The Road is an incredible point n' click game, especially for its time. The sprites are beautiful, the music is immersive and the voice acting is great! It stills holds up very well to this day... but it also doesn't... Hit The Road has this familiar 90's difficulty where you end up being stuck again and again. I had to use a guide way too often and maybe I'm not too bright but I had a very hard time …
- [2]
I couldn't finish this game without a guide, but I do love it. Gay dog and bunny go on jolly adventure
- [3]
You will hit the road. You will not like it at first, believe me. You will realize that you suck at point-n'-click games. You will form a maternal affection for Max. You will look up a guide, use it for one puzzle, and then close it, believing that you won't need it again. In two minutes, you will be opening your browser again for that exact same guide. You will begin to watch your pride drift away, and every …
Summarised from 34 of the 350 public posts collected about this game; every point cites the posts behind it ([n] opens the post) and the split is counted from the posts’ own ratings. Updated Oct 12, 2026. How summaries are made
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Sam & Max Hit the Road sits at 91% positive across 188 opinionated reactions from 4 sources. Fresh or rotten — where do you land?
Critics, per Wikipedia
According to Steve Purcell, Sam & Max Hit the Road was commercially successful. He remarked in 2000 that the numbers were never comparable to Star Wars but it sold enough that it was considered a hit by most standards. Sam & Max received a favorable reception from the gaming industry's press, holding a rating of 84% on the review aggregator site GameRankings. Charles Ardai of Computer Gaming World in 1994 liked it "measurably less" than Day of the Tentacle. He compared the latter to a Looney Tunes cartoon and the former to an underground comic book, observing that Sam & Max's style of humor "can all be funny, but only to a point ... its main characters are basically jerks" and the story was…
From the “Reception” section of Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. Critic context only — not part of the audience score.
Reactions
60 of 378 · most liked firsta full sequel to Sam & Max Hit The Road could've averted the Global War on Terror
neutral · AI labelView post →Decades ago, I played a game called "Sam & Max Hit the Road." Early on, one of the characters reaches into a cartoon-style mouse hole in the wall, and pulls out an item that's just a massive wad of cash. The item description was "It's more money than you'll ever need." More games should do that.
positive · AI labelView post →Sam & Max Hit the Road collectors edition is finally landing on people’s doorsteps. This release took way too long to design 😭 but I’m so happy with how everything turned out!
positive · AI labelView post →I was eight when Sam & Max Hit the Road came out. Playing this with my *own* eight-year-old last night felt like I was walking into the past, except Lost in Play feels like a modern adventure game that's deeply approachable for kids and families. Great stuff.
positive · AI labelView post →Shame the parchment port of Sam & Max Hit the Road wasn't great
negative · AI labelView post →playing Sam & Max: Hit the Road for the first time! www.twitch.tv/brutalmoose | www.youtube.com/@moose2
neutral · AI labelView post →When re-coloring and re-lighting Sam & Max's office for the remaster, we ultimately ended up centering on two sources: the colors from Steve Purcell's paintings of the office, especially this from Fox Kids magazine, and the way Sam & Max Hit the Road used crisp-edged spotlights with wild abandon:
neutral · AI labelView post →Sam & Max Hit the Road (1993)
neutral · AI labelView post →Everything said on this 1993 marketing sell-sheet for Sam & Max Hit the Road is real and actually happened.*
neutral · AI labelView post →Telltale Games was founded in 2003 by a pair of LucasArts employees who had been working on a sequel to Sam & Max Hit the Road, called "Sam & Max Freelance Police." The game was canceled and the team was laid off. Many of that team eventually ended up at Telltale. www.youtube.com/watch?v=MCqD...
neutral · AI labelView post →And again, inspiration for the colored outlines and how they work was taken from Steve Purcell's paintings which use rich color instead of black for outlines, as well as his background work on adventure games like The Secret of Monkey Island, and the way Sam & Max Hit the Road used color & outlines.
neutral · AI labelView post →I've a tradition, from back when I lived alone, of playing at least one Lucasarts adventure game on my birthday. In time that became all-day streams seeing how many I could get through in a day It's a tradition I still love, this year had to be Sam & Max Hit The Road You crack me up, little buddy
positive · AI labelView post →Spending the holidays playing my favorite kind of games, point & click adventure games. I just finished Loco Motive by @robustgames.bsky.social. Strong ‘90s LucasArts vibes, 👍. Next up: Unavowed by @wadjeteyegames.bsky.social, Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis, and Sam & Max Hit the Road (GOAT)
positive · AI labelView post →Hi!! I’m live for DOSember playing Sam & Max Hit the Road for the first time ever!! I can’t wait. See you there right now on twitch.tv/ashsaidhi
neutral · AI labelView post →Sam & Max: Hit the Road (LucasArts, 1993) #DOSgaming #retrogaming
neutral · AI labelView post →I reeeeally want to make a Columbo game where you play the criminal and Columbo is basically the Nemesis from RE3. Any clues you leave behind fill his “One More Thing” meter, its game over once its 100% Art style borrowed from Sam & Max Hit the Road
neutral · AI labelView post →Ever wondered what was actually upstairs in Sam & Max: Hit the Road? Thanks to @changis.bsky.social, now we know, and it's... disturbing. #SamAndMax #adventuregames
neutral · AI labelView post →Rolled out of bed and #RandomGameSaturday is the most obvious thing on my bookshelf, Sam & Max Hit the Road! This game helped develop my comedic voice in writing and performing probably more than anything else, and getting it to run with a boot disk on a home PC was an important learning for me.
positive · AI labelView post →My missing @limitedrungames.com boxes of Loom, Sam & Max - Hit the Road! and Return of Monkey Island arrived! 🥲 #LucasFilmGames #ReturnToMonkeyIsland #SamAndMax #Games #Game
neutral · AI labelView post →And with Sam & Max Hit the Road finally arriving, the collection is now complete! 🙌 (Awesome work, @stevepurcell.bsky.social & @rodkin.online ✌️)
positive · AI labelView post →I preordered this Sam & Max Hit the Road reissue/collector’s edition literal YEARS ago, and it’s finally arrived! The box is so perfect I almost don’t even want to open it, LOL. This takes me back in time in the best of ways. Bravo @limitedrungames.com!
positive · AI labelView post →I realized I've been posting progress on this for like two years and maybe not everyone knows what I'm doing. Here's the intro scene to Sam & Max Hit the Road from 1993 www.youtube.com/watch?v=4yWn...
neutral · AI labelView post →Today in Mojo History—33 years ago today: Sam & Max Hit the Road released.
neutral · AI labelView post →My Top 10 video games in no particular order: -Tetris -Psychonauts 2 -Civilization 2 -Mass Effect 2 -Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past -MegaMan X -Persona 5 -Timberborn -Sam & Max Hit the Road -The Saboteur
positive · AI labelView post →i like when the dog and the rabbit do funny things
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →A game about a gay couple who saves big foot from a Elvis impersonator.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I'm live right now on Twitch with Sam & Max Hit the Road. Drop by and join the fun! twitch.tv/decafjedi
neutral · AI labelView post →Sam & Max Hit the Road PC LucasArts, 1993 #retrogaming
neutral · AI labelView post →Epic I wish Sam and Max were real so I could vote them for president
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Very fun! They should have kissed at the end
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →"Sam & Max Hit The Road" is the best search action game of the 90s.
positive · AI labelView post →I always liked discovering another game inside a video game as a kid. This scene from Sam & Max Hit the Road. The lunar lander in The Dig. Maniac Mansion in Day of the Tentacle. The various arcade games in Space Quest. The in-game Mac Plus in Cosmic Osmo. It was like gaming squared
positive · AI labelView post →It's Retro Adventure Wednesday, and I'm live with Sam & Max Hit the Road! Drop by and join the fun! twitch.tv/decafjedi
neutral · AI labelView post →Not open world but I wish more games did the “you cannot do this yet/ever” function like Sam & Max Hit The Road
positive · AI labelView post →"Max where should I put this so it doesn't hurt anyone we know or care about?" "Out the window Sam, there's nothing but strangers out there."
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →My Favorite Games: Sam & Max Hit the Road A game that was so obviously one of my favorites and most formative that even I forgot to include it
positive · AI labelView post →Just in case you haven't seen it. It's a very early draft of the Maniac Mansion gang in the Dott style from around 2007. It was made by Mister L. You can see that some character were recreations of characters from Sam & Max Hit the Road. #retro #pixelart #game
neutral · AI labelView post →It's time for another idiotic and baffling episode of Quest Quest the Adventure Game podcast. @decafjedi.com and I are joined by our friend @sarahjoy.bsky.social to discuss Sam & Max Hit The Road and man what fun it was to revisit this game. enterprise.zencastr.com/z/6AGB6-U3
neutral · AI labelView post →Started an AGS project at the end of last year to keep the creative muscles exercised. No idea if it's going anywhere but it's been fun building & learning again, de-rusting old art and scripting skills. Love Sam & Max Hit the Road so I'm paying a lot of homage. #ScreenshotSaturday #AdventureGames
neutral · AI labelView post →Part two of my Sam & Max Hit the Road playthrough just went up on YouTube. This one holds such a special place in my heart — just an absolute delight from start to finish.
positive · AI labelView post →It's Retro Adventure Wednesday, and I'm back on Twitch tonight at 9:30 p.m. EST with Sam & Max Hit the Road! Join me as I embark on a cross-country road trip in search of a missing bigfoot. twitch.tv/decafjedi In the meantime, catch up on part one of my playthrough on YouTube: youtu.be/uYrwANLJX4M
neutral · AI labelView post →Can't believe I pre-ordered this two years ago, but it's finally arrived: Lucasart's SAM & MAX: HIT THE ROAD from @limitedrungames.com - a hefty box based on ye olde original PC big box design with even more feelies inside (including a boardgame based on one of the comics and game pieces)!
neutral · AI labelView post →Sam & Max Hit the Road turned 30 this month It's wild to think how long this collection of games, cartoons & comics have been part of my life To say that these characters are important to me is a hell of an understatement, and I'm grateful to have had them be part of my journey 🐶🐰 #samandmax
positive · AI labelView post →This week on Quest Quest, @bvigeant.bsky.social and I are joined by the amazing @sarahjoy.bsky.social to discuss Sam & Max Hit the Road! I don't know about you, but my mind is a swirling miasma of scintillating thoughts and turgid ideas. Listen here or elsewhere: enterprise.zencastr.com/z/6AGB6-U3
neutral · AI labelView post →salmon and mack never kiss
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Mojo screenshot of the day: “Sam & Max Hit the Road”
neutral · AI labelView post →In Sam & Max Hit the Road, when you repeatedly try to pick a stationary object up. https://www.youtube.com/shorts/szTtHNEg6vo
neutral · AI labelView post →i love gay people!
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →#365Games 99: Sam & Max Hit the Road. A wonderfully off-kilter American road trip with everyone's favorite freelance police. Weird, charming, and funny, with some of my favorite examples of adventure game meta-humor. youtu.be/6c13pJN3ZAE?...
positive · AI labelView post →The rest of the top ten: 6. System Shock 7. Heroes of Might and Magic II 8. X-COM: UFO Defense 9. Warcraft II 10. Sam & Max Hit the Road
neutral · AI labelView post →this game wouldve been 10/10 if they kissed in it, but they didnt. 9.9/10
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Crebruary is back, baby, and today I am joined once again by the lovely @purinpuyo.bsky.social for more classic Point and Clicks! Today, we'll be checking out Sam & Max Hit The Road! I remember very little about this game, save that it is very silly. www.twitch.tv/crebecca2015
neutral · AI labelView post →....sooo I was today years old when I realized Telltale made a spiritual successor to the "I Can't Pick That Up" gag from Sam & Max Hit the Road ^^; @stevepurcell.bsky.social @skunkapegames.com @samandmaxuk.bsky.social
neutral · AI labelView post →I think posting can wait when set against real life (still, nice to have the thread), hope things went well. ::: spoiler Shadowrun: Dragonfall I finished the game. As a whole it's a better experience than the previous title, with slightly more interesting writing (both are great), better balance and an expanded format of acting as a shadowrunner. There's only one issue that really affected my enjoyment throughout and that's the amount of large combat scenarios (waves or rooms with 10+ enemies…
neutral · AI labelView post →The year of adventure returns tonight at 5 PM Eastern with a bit of catch-up as I need to first finish Sam & Max Hit the Road this week and then finish ANOTHER game before Sunday to stay on track! Swing by and join me tonight at twitch.tv/boozybadger!
neutral · AI labelView post →The dress-up doll mingame in Sam & Max Hit the Road made me queer
positive · AI labelView post →You would think a comedy game this old would'nt be funny anymore. I am exited to inform you that you would be wrong, this is downright the funiest game I think Ive ever played. Well worth the six dolars.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This works GREAT on the steam deck and should NOT be rated "unsupported". You just need to bind an unused button to Ctrl F5 to bring up the menu to save/load/quit. Like many older games on Steam, it's just loading a ScummVM virtual machine that sips power so the battery lasts ages. (I don't understand why most scummVM games have mixed compatibility ratings for the Deck, they all work great, especially the point and clicks) It's awesome revisiting the classics. Could have easily found a free…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Sam & Max: Hit the Road - Featured in our book - The Art of Point-And-click Adventure Games Crammed with stunning game imagery, concept art, and interviews with legendary designers. Reprints due 21st May, get a stock alert here: www.bitmapbooks.com/collections/... #bitmapbooks #booksky #gaming
neutral · AI labelView post →They did a whole cartoon series back in the day There's a bunch of comics, multiple games (Sam & Max Hit the Road, and the TellTale Game series that's been remastered recently are both very much worth checking out)
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