Sam & Max: The Devil’s Playhouse Remastered is coming in 2023, and Skunkape Games has released a new trailer teasing the return of what is arguably the world’s wildest ride-bonkers entry, so it’s a cosmic, magical adventure. I hope you are ready. series. Beginning in 1993, Sam and Max are pretty venerable characters in PC gaming, and it’s good to see them looking so good again.
This is, after all, an entry involving an alien invasion, a straight-up cosmic god of terror, Max’s magical artifact toy, and a sort of apocalypse. See, even by Sam and Max standards, it’s going to be wild.If you like wacky adventures, I think the other two remasters will serve you well enough to keep you playing whenever they release in 2023. increase.
This superlative series about Sam the suit dog and Max the “hyperactive rabbit” was created in the late 2010s/early 2010s by Telltale, based on the LucasArts adventure game and cartoon series from the early 1990s it was done. This series of remasters is from his 2020, Sam and Max Save the World Remastered (opens in new tab).
These remasters are done by Skunkape Games, a developer made up of members of Telltale’s original development team. Speaking of which, this is what the studio is named after, the alien space gorilla General Skun-ka’pe.
We’ve long considered the series the peak of detective-driven comedy PC games, but whatever that really means, the original is on our list of the best detective games on PC. (opens in new tab)It has the odd leaps of logic that were characteristic of LucasArts games of the time, but said it was “genuinely entertaining throughout.”
If you’re not already familiar with the series, this is a goofy comedy classic. Earlier this year, we dug into a feature article on his 2006 production of Sam and Max Hit the Road. (opens in new tab),