Developer: Mark Bauermeister
Release Date: April, 2026
Graphics: 2D
Version: Alpha
Genre: Point & Click
Players: 1
Description
The most iconic graphic adventure game of all time is now receiving a PS1 port that aims to bring the original experience to Sony’s 32-bit console. More than 30 years after its original release by LucasArts, The Secret of Monkey Island is finally making an unexpected arrival on the original PlayStation through a new homebrew project.
Extra Info
The Secret of Monkey Island was originally released in 1990 by LucasArts and quickly became one of the defining titles of the point-and-click genre thanks to its humor, memorable characters, and clever puzzle design.
Like the original game, this homebrew project is a point-and-click adventure focused on exploration, dialogue, and puzzle solving. Players take control of Guybrush Threepwood, a young man whose dream is to become a pirate. Throughout the adventure, players must explore different locations, interact with characters, collect objects, and solve puzzles in order to progress through the story.
One of the elements that made the game so iconic was its humor and writing. The dialogues are full of jokes, absurd situations, and memorable exchanges that helped define the identity of LucasArts adventure games during the 1990s. Unlike action-focused titles, the gameplay is much slower and relies heavily on observation, experimentation, and logical thinking.
From a technical perspective, the current PS1 homebrew port is still in an early stage of development. The first footage shows the introduction sequence running at 320x239 resolution, with performance currently hovering around 5–6 FPS. The developer is testing the project using DuckStation configured to simulate 8MB of RAM, suggesting that optimization work is still ongoing. Despite these early limitations, the project already demonstrates the ambition of bringing a classic point-and-click adventure to original PlayStation hardware.
An alpha version of the project is currently available through the developer’s Patreon (around €4), giving early supporters a chance to try it out.
