What We Know So Far

There’s still a fair bit we don’t know about “Return to Monkey Island”. A specific release date (beyond 2022) and pricing information are both still under wraps, as is the story itself. However, there are some interesting tidbits we can pick out. For starters, “Return to Monkey Island” has been in the works since 2020, and is being handled by LucasFilm Games, Devolver Digital, and Gilbert’s Terrible Toybox that produced a sort of “Monkey Island” and “Maniac Mansion” spiritual successor in 2017’s “Thimbleweed Park.”

The trailer for “Return to Monkey Island” includes fan favorite talking head (literally) Murray from the third game, “Curse of Monkey Island,” and it sounds like he’s still being voiced by Denny Delk. This has since been confirmed by Gilbert, who stated that Murray will be in the new game “big time.” We have additional confirmation that the third game, “Curse of Monkey Island,”isn’t being wiped from series canon, though whether or not the fourth and fifth games will also be included hasn’t been cleared up yet.

Gilbert has also confirmed that the original composers — Clint Bajakian, Michael Land, and Peter McConnel — are returning along with Dave Grossman, who also worked on the design of the first two games. Oh, and according to the trailer Dominic Armato will be reprising his role as the iconic voice of Guybrush Threepwood himself.

Hopefully we won’t have to wait long to learn what happened to Guybrush in the intervening years, how LeChuck’s most likely come back (again), and so on.