We already knew a remaster of Sam & Max: The Satan’s Playhouse was on its manner from Skunkape Video games, however now now we have a launch window. It’ll arrive Spring 2024.

Technically, it is a delay, however the announcement of a 2023 timeframe by no means occurred. It was only a shared hallucination.

Sam & Max: The Satan’s Playhouse was the final of Telltale’s revival of the Sam & Max license and likewise form of the final conventional point-and-click journey that they need you to recollect earlier than the system modified with The Strolling Lifeless. Jurassic Park: The Sport by no means occurred. It was only a folie à deux.

Skunkape has been going to work saving the three seasons of Sam & Max from being buried alongside Telltale. Whereas these video games have been nonetheless technically obtainable, they have been from an uncomfortable interval of PC gaming and didn’t assist the beefy resolutions now we have at present. Skunkape has taken a brush to the primary two seasons and touched them up fantastically with higher lighting and lip-syncing. Now it’s Sam & Max: The Satan’s Playhouse’s flip.

Indulge me

I performed Sam & Max: The Satan’s Playhouse again in 2010 once they have been being launched one episode at a time. I obtained about midway by means of episode three after I misplaced curiosity and by no means went again. I’d say that’s a part of why the episodic format is so uncommon nowadays, however I’m fairly positive Telltale requested for gamers to pay upfront for all of the episodes at that time, so that they didn’t lose gross sales to poor consideration spans.

What I did play sticks with me to today as a result of the humor felt loads darker than the primary two seasons. Whereas I don’t assume sequence creator Steve Purcell contributed to the final season, they did usher in Mike Stemmle, who helped design 1993’s Sam & Max Hit the Highway.

After Sam & Max: The Satan’s Playhouse, I’m hoping that Skunkape remasters one other Telltale title, Robust Dangerous’s Cool Sport for Enticing Folks. Telltale lately misplaced the rights to it, which I hope implies that they have been picked up by Skunkape. The Brothers Chapman themselves are making video games within the Homestar Runner universe, with Dangeresque: The Roomisode Triungulate having launched this previous August (it’s incredible). The time is true. Or possibly I ought to say, “Gimme.”

The remaster of Sam & Max: The Satan’s Playhouse is about to launch Spring 2024 for PC, Swap, PS4, and Xbox Sequence X|S.