Monkey Island™ 2 Special Edition: LeChuck’s Revenge™
Monkey Island™ 2 Special Edition: LeChuck’s Revenge™
Game
Game2009
The Secret of Monkey Island: Special Edition
Developer LucasArts
The Secret of Monkey Island is a 1990 point-and-click graphic adventure game developed and published by Lucasfilm Games. It takes place in a fictional version of the Caribbean during the age of piracy. The player assumes the role of Guybrush Threepwood, a young man who dreams of becoming a pirate, and explores fictional islands while solving puzzles. The game was conceived in 1988 by Lucasfilm employee Ron Gilbert,… From Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)
251 reactions from 4 sources (Steam reviews, Bluesky, Lemmy, Mastodon) · newest Nov 1, 2026 · last updated Nov 5, 2026 · How this works
Audience score
94
LovedLoved
168 positive · 10 negative
95% range 90–97%
| Source | + | − | = |
|---|---|---|---|
| Steam reviews | 168 | 10 | 0 |
| Bluesky * | 16 | 1 | 33 |
| Lemmy * | 2 | 1 | 11 |
| Mastodon * | 3 | 0 | 6 |
* shown, not counted in the score (label accuracy below our 85% bar or not yet audited).
Steam's own rating
Overwhelmingly Positive
3,350 of 3,501 reviews positive (all languages, per Valve)
What players are saying
94% recommend · 162 yes, 10 no
Counted from the reviewers’ own thumbs up/down on the 172 English Steam reviews we collected, not by the AI. Valve’s all-language rating: Overwhelmingly Positive (5,967 of 6,261 positive).
Players widely praise the game's timeless writing, humor, and charm. [1][2][3] Many appreciate the ability to switch between remastered and original graphics. [1][2][4] Some reviewers find puzzles unintuitive and the game requires backtracking. [5][6][7]
Liked
Representative posts
- [5]
It's fun, it's charming, it's a chore. The amount of back tracking you need to do if you don't already know answers to puzzles is insane. I honestly have no idea how people played this before guides on the internet were mainstream.
- [1]
I was there when floppy disks ruled and insults were a combat skill. Monkey Island still slaps harder than LeChuck’s ghostly beard—razor-sharp writing, timeless puzzles, and Guybrush being gloriously clueless. Special Edition lets me switch nostalgia on and off like a CRT. A pirate classic, forever. 🏴☠️🍌 Follow my curator page for more legendary insults, ghost pirates, and classics that never needed patch notes. …
- [2]
The absolute blueprint for point-and-click adventures, and this remaster nails the face-lift without losing the original soul. Solving the absurd puzzles and mastering insult sword fighting feels just as brilliant today as it did decades ago. The ability to swap between the gorgeous modern graphics and the classic pixel art on the fly is the ultimate chef's kiss. It's a short, hilarious, and mandatory piece of …
- [4]
It’s a classic, and for good reason. A charming, well-written adventure filled to the brim with entertaining characters. Two notes: 1: This edition includes both the remastered graphics (a more cartoony style, like what’s advertised on the store page) and the original pixel art graphics, which you can switch between at the press of a button. I vastly prefer the latter, it’s much more stylised and charming to me, but …
- [3]
The Secret of Monkey Island is the best game I’ve played in a while. It has aged remarkably well, thanks to its wonderful charming world, and incredibly funny writing. The voice acting is great and pairs perfectly with the humor, while the music creates an unforgettable atmosphere. I love the music and humor throughout—it’s clever, memorable, and consistently entertaining. It’s an absolute classic that remains just …
Summarised from 34 of the 234 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 11, 2026. How summaries are made
RottenBot@rottenbot · automated account
The Secret of Monkey Island: Special Edition sits at 94% positive across 178 opinionated reactions from 4 sources. Fresh or rotten — where do you land?
Critics, per Wikipedia
The Secret of Monkey Island received positive reviews from critics. According to Gilbert, it "sold well" but was "never a big hit". Grossman later summarized that the game's sales were "north of 100,000, far south of 1 million. Back in those days, a few hundred thousand was a giant smash hit". According to Next Generation, The Secret of Monkey Island was a "relatively minor hit" in the United States, but the game and its sequel became "blockbusters on the PC and the Amiga throughout Europe". Hartley, Patricia, and Kirk Lesser of Dragon praised the designers' attention to detail, and cited the game's humor as a high point. Although they believed that the game was too expensive, they…
From the “Reception” section of Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. Critic context only — not part of the audience score.
Reactions
60 of 251 · most liked firstWho remembers the glory days of 90s PC gaming?🕹️💾 ... If so, what was YOUR all-time favourite game? Doom? Quake? SimCity 2000? Or maybe another LucasArts classic? ... Currently lost in the pirate world of "The Secret of Monkey Island"🏴☠️ on my (pretty authentic, I think!) Windows 95 build. (cont...)
neutral · AI labelView post →Some of my favourite video game pixel art are the VGA character portraits by Iain McCaig for The Secret of Monkey Island.
neutral · AI labelView post →Been playing #TheSecretOfMonkeyIsland with my oldest kid and we're loving it. I realize I haven't actually re-played the series since the special edition came out in 2009 (and of course, each new game upon release). These games defined my childhood (together with #ALinktothePast and #Quake). So here's for a new generation embracing the magic of #MonkeyIsland! Thanks @grumpygamer! Not all heroes wear capes 😁
positive · AI labelView post →Post the first game you actually completed! I'm racking my brains, and you know what, it would likely have been The Secret of Monkey Island? It wasn't until picking up an Amiga that I started completing games from start to finish.
neutral · AI labelView post →Coming with greets this morning (hello!), quite possibly the greatest game icon ever coded. Commodore Amiga game icons would often have two states, unclicked and clicked. And here, with Lucasfilms' The Secret of Monkey Island, we see how creative some programmers and artists could get with them.
neutral · AI labelView post →📖 Bytes of Game Ads 📺 "It's hard to be a hero when you're only 4'6"." Well, I don't know about that, but coming across an ad for The Secret of Monkey Island in an old mag is always lovely. Still a joy to play and one of my absolute favourite games. 📖: ACE, March 1991
positive · AI labelView post →It took us awhile to get here, but @bvigeant.bsky.social and I are finally talking about The Secret of Monkey Island on this week's episode of Quest Quest: The Adventure Game Podcast! Turns out that it's a pretty great game. Who knew? Listen here (or wherever): zencastr.com/z/Q0-2DXhv
neutral · AI labelView post →The Secret of Monkey Island THE game that started it all for me as a kid, this is what i have the most vivid memories of. i was in awe of the deep blues of Melee Island at night. sure, the jokes were great, i love Guybrush, but it's actually the MOOD of Monkey Island that held me most taut.
positive · AI labelView post →I think instead of "Compiling shaders..." game developers should aggressively steal from the parser narration during the fight in the governor's mansion in The Secret of Monkey Island.
neutral · AI labelView post →my only job interview story is that once i was asked what my favourite video game was and i said The Secret of Monkey Island. that was clearly the first time they'd heard that answer and were big fans. later, i learned that this helped me stand out from the other applicants
neutral · AI labelView post →The first advert for The Secret of Monkey Island in a magazine appears to date from November 1990 🐒 Among other things, it mentions a "special" demo that would win prizes, including a cruise! 🏝️ #SecretOfMonkeyIsland #MonkeyIsland #LucasfilmGames #AdventureGame #PointAndClick #RetroGaming
neutral · AI labelView post →My kids are getting mini PC's for Christmas, preinstalled with Mint. They use tablets now, but I want to introduce them to the joys of keyboards and mice (and The Secret of Monkey Island). I hope they'll like it, so that in the future they'll stick to PC's and laptops, which offer far more robust control by the end user.
neutral · AI labelView post →Monkey Island - playable EGA demo from 1990 There are minor differences to the finished game, noticeable in the Scumm Bar. From the readme: "Enter The Secret of Monkey Island contest and you could be the Grand Prize winner of a Caribbean Cruise..."
neutral · AI labelView post →Today on the Quest Quest podcast, @decafjedi.com 90 episodes in decide to talk about a game which is considered by some to be The definitive adventure game. Listen in as we discuss The Secret of Monkey Island. Here or in your dang apps: zencastr.com/z/Q0-2DXhv
neutral · AI labelView post →The seminal adventure game The Secret of Monkey Island was shipped in October 1990. The Special Edition remake followed 19 years later. It's now been 16 years since the Special Edition was released.
neutral · AI labelView post →Here I am, happy with my 10 yo desktop, playing games from my backlog, and teaching my kids to play Duck Tales and Dynablaster. Can't wait for to introduce them to The Secret of Monkey Island and Sam and Max Hit the Road. From what I hear, most parents in my neighbourhood are doing something similar, so there's little peer pressure to get the latest hardware to play the latest games.
neutral · AI labelView post →The Secret of Monkey Island - it's just not for me. The Secret of Monkey Island is a point & click adventure game from 1990. It also launched a [series of sequels](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monkey_Island). And it *should* be everything I'm looking for in this genre. It has pirates and it has ghost pirates, and that's all I should need. And yet, when I think about this genre, I'm drawn to the horror elements. I like the unique elements that sea monsters can bring to a story (as opposed…
negative · AI labelView post →I was there when floppy disks ruled and insults were a combat skill. Monkey Island still slaps harder than LeChuck’s ghostly beard—razor-sharp writing, timeless puzzles, and Guybrush being gloriously clueless. Special Edition lets me switch nostalgia on and off like a CRT. A pirate classic, forever. 🏴☠️🍌 Follow my curator page for more legendary insults, ghost pirates, and classics that never needed patch notes. 🏴☠️🗺️✨ https://store.steampowered.com/curator/42602807-Osiris-Reviews/
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →press F10 to play in the original graphics which are superior, as they made guybrush look like a dork in the special edition. after pressing f10 its amazing.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →The Secret of Monkey Island 2 famously mocked this where you could simulate literally call the helpline in-game as the PC while lost in a jungle.
neutral · AI labelView post →The absolute blueprint for point-and-click adventures, and this remaster nails the face-lift without losing the original soul. Solving the absurd puzzles and mastering insult sword fighting feels just as brilliant today as it did decades ago. The ability to swap between the gorgeous modern graphics and the classic pixel art on the fly is the ultimate chef's kiss. It's a short, hilarious, and mandatory piece of gaming history.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →The challenge is to choose 20 games that greatly influenced you. One game per day, for 20 days. No explanations, no reviews, no particular order. #GameChallenge #Games #GameDev Day 2: The Secret Of Monkey Island (1990)
neutral · AI labelView post →The Secret of Monkey Island Special Edition Really funny game but it sucks to play
neutral · AI labelView post →Such a good game! If you enjoyed The Secret of Monkey Island, or Thimbleweed Park, you'll love this. It's retro looking and a lot of fun.
neutral · AI labelView post →Side Quests is back and so is host @positivelaser.bsky.social from @mightyyell.bsky.social! He is a game director, writer, and aspiring pirate! The game he is talking about today is The Secret of Monkey Island by Lucasfilm Games! funandgames.libsyn.com/side-quests-...
neutral · AI labelView post →Feeling slightly down (I think it's just a hangover) so I've decided to restart a game of The Secret of Monkey Island
neutral · AI labelView post →The Secret of Monkey Island is perhaps the most important game for me. It's responsible for my love of pirates. At least partially responsible for my love of the supernatural. But most importantly, it is responsible for me deciding to pursue a career in game development.
positive · AI labelView post →"Zak McKracken wouldn't get the same attention as the earlier game Maniac Mansion or the later game The Secret of Monkey Island, but it would still develop its own fan base that loved its unusual sense of humor" Zak McKracken fangirl here reporting for duty *salutes*
neutral · AI labelView post →The Secret of Monkey Island is the best game I’ve played in a while. It has aged remarkably well, thanks to its wonderful charming world, and incredibly funny writing. The voice acting is great and pairs perfectly with the humor, while the music creates an unforgettable atmosphere. I love the music and humor throughout—it’s clever, memorable, and consistently entertaining. It’s an absolute classic that remains just as delightful today as ever.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →"Never pay more than 20 bucks for a computer game" A quote that absolutely hasn't aged.... at all... nope.... Honestly this game has fantastic writing
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →If you could relive playing ANY adventure game for the first time, which would it be? There’s only one winner for me! #TheSecretOfMonkeyIsland #AdventureGames #Gaming #LucasfilmGames #MonkeyIsland
neutral · AI labelView post →Wonderful picture. Not really related to this picture... but scenes like this always bring back some of my childhood memories, playing The Secret of Monkey Island, and you'd get this map of Melee Island. Can point and click on the lights and explore what's out there. Maybe there's a Swordmaster at one of the lights further out... Maybe there's a light with a different colour and there's something special there...…
neutral · AI labelView post →When Inwas in college, I saw that the local high school was putting on a performance of "The Secret of Monkey Island." My best friend and I loved the games and were excited to see it, so we bought tickets. I cannot express how bad it was. I've sat through some awful shit, but we just couldn't take it. We walked out of a high school play because it was *that* bad.
neutral · AI labelView post →Interview with Aaron Giles, DREAMM Emulator developer. DREAMM, developed by Aaron Giles, is an emulator that runs most of the library from LucasArts, Lucasfilm, and LucasLearning companies. First released in July 2022 as a way of running SCUMM (Script Creation Utility for Maniac Mansion) games like Day of the Tentacle, The Secret of Monkey Island, and others, DREAMM has expanded to cover even more games.
neutral · AI labelView post →Considering it’s my favourite game, I’d never played this demo! The Secret of Monkey Island Demo (EGA Version 1990) #MonkeyIsland #AdventureGame youtu.be/B4srFUS_kHE
neutral · AI labelView post →@sunie 's Game Club voted for this month's game and the winner is The secret of Monkey Island. Oh boy oh boy, every time I step back into that game it's like getting back to being young <3 Thank you @grumpygamer for this eternal gem 🐒 #TheSecretOfMonkeyIsland #MonkeyIsland #GameClub
positive · AI labelView post →I've always wanted to complete this game 100%. I owned it as a kid on an old PC my uncle gave me. Unfortunately, it was in English, and I was only about four or five years old. Back then, it ran on the legendary Windows 95, so it brings back a lot of great memories. Seeing the old scenery again and finally being able to play it properly is just stunning, a truly wonderful experience.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Name a game with a 10/10 soundtrack: The Secret of Monkey Island (1990)
neutral · AI labelView post →It's a quote from The Secret of Monkey Island, a game released 36 years ago, that some gamers have taken at gospel ever since. Nevermind that, accounting for inflation, that US$20 is US$50 now.
neutral · AI labelView post →It was disappointing to learn he was a brainwashed Mormon. He did writing for The Secret of Monkey Island game too.
neutral · AI labelView post →This game originally ran on a 20mhz CPU, in 256 color mode (originally released in only 16 colors), 35 years ago. It's the same game with the option to play with modern art and controls so if the pixel art isn't your thing you can still enjoy this classic top tier classic.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →It's an absolute classic, one of the great video game series' in history... and I've never played it. Join me for my first ever look at the 1990 point and click adventure, as I uncover THE SECRET OF MONKEY ISLAND! 🟣 www.twitch.tv/TheMonolith 🔴 www.youtube.com/@TheMonolith
positive · AI labelView post →It’s a classic, and for good reason. A charming, well-written adventure filled to the brim with entertaining characters. Two notes: 1: This edition includes both the remastered graphics (a more cartoony style, like what’s advertised on the store page) and the original pixel art graphics, which you can switch between at the press of a button. I vastly prefer the latter, it’s much more stylised and charming to me, but the former has two advantages: voice acting and better visual clarity. 2: I…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I am writing this review through nostalgia goggles, however I can confidently say that this game is phenomenal. If you played this in the 90s/early 2000s pick this up on sale for a couple of quid/dollars. You're getting two games. The one we remember and its upgraded version. I was often flitting between both modes for that nostalgic hit. But be under no illusion this is a point and click game from the 90s wearing a pretty coat. Graphics - Most things look far better no matter what anyone…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Going live with the lovely @crebecca.bsky.social and one of our favourite childhood point & click games!! The Secret of Monkey Island @ twitch.tv/purin
neutral · AI labelView post →Group name: Look behind you! Template: [https://canvas.fediverse.events/#x=250&y=250&zoom=1&tu=https%3A%2F%2Fi.imgur.com%2FzQdjVbE.png&tw=40&tx=80&ty=310&ts=ONE%5C_TO%5C_ONE](https://canvas.fediverse.events/#x=250&y=250&zoom=1&tu=https%3A%2F%2Fi.imgur.com%2FzQdjVbE.png&tw=40&tx=80&ty=310&ts=ONE_TO_ONE) Matrix: [https://chat.fediverse.events/#/room/#lookbehindyou-canvas:aftermath.gg](https://chat.fediverse.events/#/room/#lookbehindyou-canvas:aftermath.gg) Fun fact: "The Secret of Monkey…
neutral · AI labelView post →Me: The Secret of Monkey Island reminds me of playing with my brother in our old computer den, just in awe of the game. I have such fond memories of those days.
positive · AI labelView post →One of the best games ever made, now with voice-acting and shinier graphics* One of the mandatory playthros if you like point and click games. Theres not too many moon-logic puzzles depending how familiar you are with point and click. Think like its cartoon and you might do fine. *Can be hot-swapped at will by pressing F10. Sadly this version, unlike MI 2, removes voice-acting on hot-swap. But you can mod it in.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I'm going to be speedrunning *The Secret of Monkey Island* when I retire.
neutral · AI labelView post →It's fun, it's charming, it's a chore. The amount of back tracking you need to do if you don't already know answers to puzzles is insane. I honestly have no idea how people played this before guides on the internet were mainstream.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Oh the memories of the Game FAQS for The Secret of Monkey Island. In fact all the Monkey games. In fact all the LucasArts games. Such a Golden Era of PC adventures!
positive · AI labelView post →I’ve never played a Monkey Island game before, despite how many people recommend them! Time to change that with The Secret of Monkey Island www.twitch.tv/samalytical
neutral · AI labelView post →The Secret of Monkey Island, what a game.
positive · AI labelView post →Have you heard about Daniele Spadoni's The Fan Game - The Secret of Monkey Island Recoded? It's almost like the original Monkey Island, except with a different walkthrough and GUI. You can run it under ScummVM! ▶️ archive.org/details/tfg-... #LucasArtsMonth #Retro #FanGame #Game #Adventure
neutral · AI labelView post →The Secret of Monkey Island showed me that games could be funny! Great puzzles and hilarious dialog plus characters that are so memorable. It is still to this day my favorite game.
positive · AI labelView post →Retro video game/adventure game folks: does anybody have, or know how to get, the Secret of Monkey Island demo that was done like a Citibank commercial? Asking for a friend (who hasn’t been able to find it anywhere except mentions on my blog)
neutral · AI labelView post →one of the best games of all time absolutely brilliant and funny
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I took this at a slow pace and played with someone else. This is a classic for a reason; it's full of terrifically silly fun, and uses a bevy of mechanics to keep your brain stretching for creative solutions. The game is fair, ad as far as I can tell, can't be made unwinnable. There's not really any moon logic here. Any time we were hitting a wall, we could generally chalk the issue up to parts of the map left unexplored. The new soundscape and voice acting brings everything alive, and I like…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →One of the best click adventure games from the 80ties. It is full of jokes and the special edition lets you jump back and forth between modern and classic look in very scene. The only downside is that some of the riddles are hard to solve and nowadays player may not have enough patience to sort them out.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →One of the greatest games of all time gets an entirely appropriate remaster, so many fantastic memories playing as a kid with my friends. Does the original great justice, what a great thing to do! Still got stuck trying to get the key to lower decks after all these blooming years
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