The Secret of Monkey Island: Special Edition on Steam - User reviews, Price & Information

Back by popular demand, The Secret of Monkey Island™: Special Edition faithfully re-imagines the internationally-acclaimed classic game (originally released in 1990) for original and new audiences alike.

The Secret of Monkey Island: Special Edition is a point & click, adventure and comedy game developed by LucasArts and published by LucasArts, Lucasfilm and Disney.
Released on July 15th 2009 is available only on Windows in 5 languages: English, French, German, Italian and Spanish - Spain.

It has received 5,766 reviews of which 5,498 were positive and 268 were negative resulting in an impressive rating of 9.2 out of 10. 😍

The game is currently priced at 9.75€ on Steam, but you can find it for 1.00€ on Instant Gaming.

The Steam community has classified The Secret of Monkey Island: Special Edition into these genres:

Point & Click Adventure Comedy Classic Pirates Funny Remake Singleplayer Puzzle 1990's 2D Great Soundtrack Story Rich Cult Classic Retro Pixel Graphics Nostalgia Atmospheric Escape Room Family Friendly

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System requirements

These are the minimum specifications needed to play the game. For the best experience, we recommend that you verify them.

Windows

OS *: Windows XP® or Windows Vista®
Processor: Intel Pentium 4 3GHz or AMD Athlon 64 3000+
Memory: 256 MB RAM, 512 MB for Vista
Graphics: 128 MB with Shader Model 2.0 capability
DirectX®: 9.0c (March 2009)
Hard Drive: 2.5GB free hard drive space
Sound: DirectX® 9.0c compliant sound card
Controller support: Xbox 360 controller

User reviews & Ratings

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April 2025

Great point-and-click game, but the controls are overly complicated. Sometimes, even when I’m sure what to do, it doesn’t work because I’m using "Use" instead of "Give." Sometimes it’s "Push," and I’m doing "Pull." I know that’s how the game was originally designed, but I really wish there were an alternative option. Everything else—story, humor, puzzles—is perfect.

Feb. 2025

This is barely a positive recommendation. The original game was great, and it's great that you can switch freely between them, because the remaster has issues. The interface of the original game felt dated when it came out, but worked okay. The remaster tries to update the interface, but with limited success - and in many cases the compromise between what a modern audience expects from an interface and the archaic old interface is downright worse than the old interface. It is often needlessly frustrating to play this game - the fight is with the interface to solve a puzzle you know conceptually how to do, and this is a terrible thing for any game, but especially a point and click adventure game. It doesn't help that having played the game as a kid, and imagined what the pixelated graphics would look like - the update graphics often don't match my imagination of what the characters should look like. But - the music is all spot on - as I remember the music rather than how the music actually was - and the voice acting is great. I've only found one or two characters so far that don't sound how I think they should sound. What I want is to play the old game with the new music and the voice acting - but this will do.

Oct. 2024

I’m glad this was my first point-and-click adventure. The writing is humorous, the pixel art looks gorgeous & the voice acting is fantastic. However, due to being a complete novice, I felt overly reliant on the hint system

Aug. 2024

Simply my favorite videogame ever. Nice, fun and catchy story. The puzzles and the jokes in this game are just remarkable. Been playing it since I was a kid, so I know the game from start to finish by heart. Definitely a must play. No one should die without playing this game at least once.

April 2024

Im 40 years old and I had always seen YouTube videos of the best games of the 90s etc and this game was always talking about. (Not the SE version but still). I finally decided to have a peak into the past and I'M GLAD I DID! This game was surprisingly FUN and very entertaining. Not having played point and click games in a long long time I was very rusty and had to YouTube some help but I finally finished it and wish I could play it all over again like I did....but knowing NOTHING about it. A++++ Do yourself a favor and PLAY THIS GAME!

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