The Secret of Monkey Island: Special Edition overview

Overview

The Secret of Monkey Island: Special Edition comes from LucasArts and is published by LucasArts, Lucasfilm, Disney. It arrived on Steam on Jul 15, 2009, and it sits naturally among Single-player, Full controller support, Steam Cloud, Remote Play on Phone, Remote Play on Tablet, Remote Play on TV, and Family Sharing. SteamPulse tracks it across Windows and Steam so readers get a quick useful snapshot, not just a wall of numbers.

Players and reviews

The Secret of Monkey Island: Special Edition's latest SteamPulse observation recorded 12 players at 26 September 2026 - 03:58:21 UTC, with a tracked peak near 629. This peak is the highest value in the available SteamPulse record and may not include activity before tracking began. Player reaction is 95% positive across 6,126 reviews.

Language and system requirements

The Secret of Monkey Island: Special Edition is available in 5 languages including:

5 regional rating boards including esrb, pegi, usk, oflc, and nzoflc

Sales, recommendations, and streams

The Secret of Monkey Island: Special Edition has sold up to 240,000 units and has 5,342 Steam recommendations. The estimated VGI revenue is $1,500,000. On Twitch, 0 streamers are live with around 0 total watchers.

The Secret of Monkey Island: Special Edition overview details

The Secret of Monkey Island: Special Edition combines live player counts with reviews, pricing, platform support, Store metadata, dated player history, media, recent news, and related games.

Steam Store description

Return to Monkey Island About the Game 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 development team at LucasArts is bringing the game into the modern era with an all new re-imagined contemporary art style, a re-mastered musical score, full voiceover, and an in-depth hint system to help players through the game’s side-splitting puzzles. Purists will also delight in the ability to seamlessly switch between the updated hand-drawn re-imagining and the original classic version. The game's twisty plot leads our naive hero on a hilarious, swash-buckling search for the fabled secret of Monkey Island. Tales of pirate wealth lure him to the port of Mêlée with high hopes, no money, and insatiable curiosity. If clever enough, he will win the confidence of Mêlée's pirates and find himself blown by the winds of fate toward the terrifying and legendary Monkey Island -- an adventure that would chill the bones of even the most bloodthirsty buccaneer. Relive the swashbuckling humorous misadventures of the wannabe pirate Guybrush Threepwood Go on a daring adventure in your attempt to become the most infamous pirate in the Caribbean Win the heart of the beautiful governor, Elaine Marley Along the way, confront the evil ghost pirate, LeChuck Play it again for the first time All new re-imagined contemporary art style, hand-drawn to feature animation quality Re-mastered music score presented in full orchestrated detail Comple…

SteamPulse editorial summary

The Secret of Monkey Island: Special Edition is listed as a game with $9.99. It supports Windows, belongs to Single-player, Full controller support, Steam Cloud, Remote Play on Phone, Remote Play on Tablet, Remote Play on TV, and Family Sharing, and is associated with Adventure. SteamPulse's latest observation records 12 players at 26 September 2026 - 03:58:21 UTC, a tracked peak of 629, and 95% positive reviews.

Overview tags

Point & ClickAdventureComedyClassicPiratesFunnyRemakeSingleplayerPuzzle1990's2DGreat SoundtrackStory RichCult ClassicRetro

Support and legal notes

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