Thimbleweed Park

Thimbleweed Park Thimbleweed Park plunges you into a horror mystery as five strangers explore a haunted park together or apart. Stay sharp, collect clues, solve puzzles, and reveal what’s really going on.

Thimbleweed Park

Thimbleweed Park is a horror adventure where you control five strangers. They can travel together—or split up—to investigate a strange park filled with disturbing mysteries. Expect haunted locations, abandoned attractions, eerie bodies hidden in unexpected places, and countless other frightening sights. To survive the chaos, you’ll need to stay focused, hunt for clues, and work through a variety of puzzles. The big question remains: will you uncover what’s really going on in the park?

The game includes two difficulty modes: Casual and Hard. Hard mode raises the challenge with more demanding puzzles and tougher problem-solving.

Story

1987 Investigation

In 1987, FBI agents Angela Ray and Antonio Reyes arrive in the town of Thimbleweed Park to investigate a murder. Their inquiries lead them to several key people of interest:

• Chuck Edmund — the recently deceased owner of the PillowTronics robotics company
• Ransome the Clown — forced to keep his makeup forever after crossing the line during cruel performances



• Delores Edmund — a computer programmer and Chuck’s niece
• Franklin — Delores’s troubled father

Death, Evidence, and Hidden Motives

Franklin tries to promote his business ideas to Chuck, but he’s murdered at the town hotel and later appears as a ghost. Delores learns that Chuck has removed her from his will—fueling her rage over her decision to pursue a career in video games.

Ray and Reyes collect blood samples, fingerprints, and photographic evidence. They also arrest Willie T. Wino, a homeless man who insists he’s innocent. After leaving town, the agents return undercover to pursue their own objectives:

• Ray is ordered to steal computer secrets.
• Reyes wants to clear his father’s name regarding a fire that destroyed the PillowTronics factory.

The Factory Revelation

Ray, Reyes, Delores, and Ransome infiltrate the factory. Delores disables the security systems and discovers that Chuck has uploaded his own personality into the factory computer. Chuck then explains the horrifying truth: everyone in the town is trapped inside a repeating video game. To escape, the group must delete the game.

Final Resolution

Ransome apologizes to the citizens of Thimbleweed Park, restoring his reputation. Franklin bids farewell to his daughter and moves on to the afterlife. In the local paper, Reyes publishes a confession from Chuck that clears his father of blame for the factory fire. Ray steals a game design document from game designer Ron Gilbert, and her employers transfer her out of the game.

Delores then enters the “wireframe world”—a simplified, prototype version of Thimbleweed Park—and shuts down the computer.

Features

• Created by Ron Gilbert and Gary Winnick, the minds behind Monkey Island and Maniac Mansion.
• A neo-noir mystery set in 1987.
• 5 playable characters you can coordinate… or accidentally annoy.
• Not a walking simulator.
• Rewarding puzzles woven into a twisting story you’ll remember.
• A large, strange world to explore at your own pace.
• A joke every 2 minutes… guaranteed!*
• Casual and Hard modes with different difficulty levels.
• English voice acting with subtitles in English, German, French, Italian, Russian, and Spanish.

Useful Touch Tips

You can find extra guidance inside the Settings. When you first start the game, you’ll also see an overview of the controls.

Basic movement and interaction:

• Tap to move.



• The verbs shown on-screen tell you how to interact with objects. For example:
  • Pick up: Tap “Pick up,” then tap the object.
  • Use: Tap “Use,” tap the item, then tap the item you want to use it with.
  • Give: Works the same way, but it only applies to other people.

Advanced gestures:

• Double-tap and hold to make your character follow your finger without repeatedly tapping to walk long distances.
• Move your finger back in the opposite direction to cause your character to change direction.
• Double-tap an object to trigger its default action:
  • For people: “Talk to”
  • For doors: “Open” or “Close”
  • For most items: “Look at”
  • The main exception appears to be tiny dust specks, which default to “Pick up”

  

Skipping dialogue and scenes:

• Swipe with two fingers to skip dialogue.
• Swipe with three fingers to skip cut scenes.
• Note: you can’t skip the opening cut scene, even on your second playthrough.

Hotspot interaction:

• Tap and hold anywhere on the screen to reveal all available hotspots.
• Then drag your finger to a hotspot and lift to interact.

Choosing dialogue options:

• Drag your finger over the dialogue choices until the one you want becomes highlighted.
• Lift your finger to select it.
• This is especially helpful on smaller screens (like iPhone), though it’s still useful on iPad because text can be close together.

Player Feedback

Players describe Thimbleweed Park as a high-quality game with many hours of content, engaging puzzles, and memorable characters. You alternate between multiple characters throughout the story, switching whenever you need to progress or solve problems.