Delores: A Thimbleweed Park Mini-Adventure similar games & best alternatives

Delores: A Thimbleweed Park Mini-Adventure

PC (Microsoft Windows), Linux, Mac • 2020

Should you play it?

Delores is back home and working as a photographer for the Nickel News. Thimbleweed Park hasn’t changed at all in the year she’s been away… or has it? Sample Ron Gilbert’s new adventure game engine in this free prototype that uses “found art” from the award-winning Thimbleweed Park.

What works
  • Free to play
  • Nostalgic and charming pixel art style
  • Clever and enjoyable puzzles
  • Humorous writing and dialogue
  • Short, accessible gameplay sessions
Things to keep in mind
  • No manual save feature, forced restarts after each assignment set
  • Limited exploration area
  • Minimal story and character development
  • Some repetitive gameplay due to replaying assignments
  • Lack of voice acting and polish

What to play next

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Top picks

Games that feel the closest overall

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  • Loco Motive

  • 1 Moment Of Time: Silentville

  • Cleo - a pirate's tale

  • Tiny Room Stories: Town Mystery

  • Milo and the Christmas Gift

  • Gordian Rooms 1: A curious heritage

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Hidden Gems

Less popular games with surprisingly high similarity

  • Cleo - a pirate's tale

  • Gordian Rooms 1: A curious heritage

  • Slice of Sea
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Each dot is a game. They are arranged from the same motivation profile as in the “Why this game works” section below. Closer dots usually mean more similar reasons to play (exploration, competition, relaxation, etc.)—not that one game is “better” than another.

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Why don’t the axes read like a score? This view uses t-SNE: it only keeps who is close to whom. The scales are not “good to bad” or hours played—they separate groups on the map. Read distance between dots, not the axis numbers (hidden on purpose).

Delores: A Thimbleweed Park Mini-Adventure: A very typical example of its motivational profile. Motivations that often define this kind of title include Violence, Fantasy, Story, Thrill. Here, the score leans higher than usual among comparable games on Fantasy. It leans lower than usual among comparable games on Expression, Survival.

Why this game works

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