Aside from just a couple minorly obtuse puzzles, this is hands-down the best old-school adventure game I have played since the death of adventure games. It's this very close to perfect combination of irreverence towards the genre, storytelling, and world- and character-building.

Point-and-click adventure games are dead; long live point-and-click adventure games.

-- EDIT 8/28/23

(from a now-deleted reply to a now-deleted comment:)

I meant that as the figure of speech "The (old) king is dead; long live the (new) king" - adventure games never died, they only changed, Thimbleweed Park being "the new king".

Anyhow -- now as it's over 6+ years old and I decided to do yet another round of casual + hard playthough to ensure the walkthrough I wrote was still all nice and good and workable (still not good enough for speedruns but that was never the point) I feel I should tone down my initial enthusiasm from 6+ years ago.

This is a great adventure game with a somewhat polarizing last third/ending. I feel confident that if you liked point-and-click adventure games, you'll enjoy the initial 2/3rds of the storyline. After that, it's up to your personal preference.

Aside from just a couple minorly obtuse puzzles, this is hands-down the best old-school adventure game I have played since the death of adventure games. It's this very close to perfect combination of irreverence towards the genre, storytelling, and world- and character-building. Point-and-click adventure games are dead; long live point-and-click adventure games. -- EDIT 8/28/23 (from a now-deleted reply to a now-deleted comment:) I meant that as the figure of speech "The (old) king is dead; long live the (new) king" - adventure games never died, they only changed, Thimbleweed Park being "the new king". Anyhow -- now as it's over 6+ years old and I decided to do yet another round of casual + hard playthough to ensure the walkthrough I wrote was still all nice and good and workable (still not good enough for speedruns but that was never the point) I feel I should tone down my initial enthusiasm from 6+ years ago. This is a great adventure game with a somewhat polarizing last third/ending. I feel confident that if you liked point-and-click adventure games, you'll enjoy the initial 2/3rds of the storyline. After that, it's up to your personal preference.