Maniac Mansion: Day of the Tentacle

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9.2

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Score Breakdown Based on 1395 ratings

1. 10 (740)
2. 9 (508)
3. 8 (104)
4. 7 (26)
5. 6 (7)
6. 5 (3)
7. 4 (3)
8. 3 (0)
9. 2 (0)
10. 1 (4)

Most Helpful Positive Player Reviews

• Rating:9.6

  Great game from Lucas Arts

  By RedneckGamer87 | Review Date: Apr 17, 2007 | PC

  Gameplay: Day of the Tentacle follows the point-and-click 2-D adventure game formula, first established by the original Maniac Mansion. So you start off the game like this. A Purple Tentacle, one of crazy Dr. Fred's Craz... Read Full Review

  5 of 5 users found the following review helpful

What Gamespot Users have to say about Maniac Mansion: Day of the Tentacle

• Rating:7

  Day of the Tentacle Remastered

  By Ignition_jammy | Review Date: Oct 11, 2022 | PC

  Day of the Tentacle is a sequel to Maniac Mansion which is included in this game if you use a certain in-game computer to play it. You don't need to play the first game since it doesn't seem like there's many elements th... Read Full Review

  1 of 1 users found the following review helpful
• Rating:9

  Great Free game to be beating in a single sit.

  By enzo2606 | Review Date: Jan 07, 2017 | PS4

  I tried this game for two reasons:1) It reminded me one of the first game I tried in PC in more than 20 years ago. (at that time I could even get to the 20% of progress).2) It was given for free by PSN to Plus member du... Read Full Review

  1 of 1 users found the following review helpful
• Rating:9.5

  In my opinion Lucas Arts does just about a perfect job, this is an excellent adventure game!

  By RevengeNegative | Review Date: Aug 26, 2013 | PC

  Day of the Tentacle, also known as the sequel game to Maniac Mansion from 1987, is a point & click puzzle-adventure game with three young protagonists (a laid-back metalhead, a loney pre-med student and a uber nerd) tryi... Read Full Review

  0 of 0 users found the following review helpful
• Rating:10

  A true milestone. One of the best games ever. The peak of Point & Click Adventure gaming era.

  By mao-ga-sas | Review Date: Nov 18, 2011 | PC

  A true milestone. One of the best games ever. The peak of Point & Click Adventure gaming era. The graphics and sound may be outdated at present, but at its time it was considered revolutionary. I wish they would sti... Read Full Review

  0 of 0 users found the following review helpful
• Rating:10

  Perfect Point-Click Adventure

  By BessenStock | Review Date: Dec 04, 2010 | PC

  Any fan of DOS-based point-and-click adventures are going to love this game. It's seriously not serious. The game is meant to tickle your funny bone, which is does very well at doing. You don't really need to have a cert... Read Full Review

  0 of 0 users found the following review helpful
• Rating:9

  Genuinely funny, and very clever. An excellent example of what a point and click adventure should be.

  By ebbderelict | Review Date: Sep 01, 2009 | PC

  There was a time when PC gamers would look forward to the next exciting point and click adventure title to come from Lucas Arts (and LucasFilm Games) and Tim Schaffer. Games like Day of the Tentacle is the reason why. ... Read Full Review

  3 of 3 users found the following review helpful
• Rating:9.5

  A must for every adventure gamer.

  By Stan42 | Review Date: Dec 16, 2008 | PC

  You've probably read "this is the best game ever" more than once while browsing the reviews. And it's actually not that much of an overstatement. All nostalgia set aside. I recently replayed this masterpiece after we... Read Full Review

  1 of 1 users found the following review helpful
• Rating:10

  Simply one of the greatest games ever made

  By scigeni | Review Date: Aug 15, 2008 | PC

  This game is a masterpiece. This game is a classic. This game is even better than the Monkey Island series. This game is simply amazing! It is very fun and it is also filled with a lot of puzzles. Although the puzzles ar... Read Full Review

  3 of 4 users found the following review helpful
• Rating:10

  There are no words to describe this amazing game.

  By nameless-one | Review Date: Mar 02, 2008 | PC

  As I said, there's no words to describe this game, if you're an old school gamer like me and you've played it like a hundred times like I did, then I'm sure you've laughed at the the same things over and over. Games like... Read Full Review

  2 of 2 users found the following review helpful
• Rating:9

  "Are you here for the Human show?"

  By jkmetalf | Review Date: Nov 30, 2007 | PC

  A long, long time ago, in a galaxy far away, Lucas arts created adventure games. This was one of their greatest. At the time of this review writing, the Genre is on life support. But in 1993, it was thriving. Game creat... Read Full Review

  2 of 2 users found the following review helpful

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