EN ROUTE TO THE CARIBBEAN · SINCE 1999Look
A room is more than a backdrop. A detail, sign or habit may become a clue.
New to these islands? Perfectly fine. Guybrush arrived with much the same equipment: few certainties, plenty of curiosity and a dream far bigger than his experience.
No pirate experience required
Just a willingness to look around.
Monkey Island is a series of comic adventures: explore places, talk to people, collect objects and connect ideas. Discovering how this world works is part of the pleasure.
Guybrush Threepwood dreams of becoming a mighty pirate, yet trouble always seems bigger than he is. Elaine Marley charts her own course; LeChuck brings a supernatural threat. Around them, memorable characters can turn even a simple errand into an adventure.
Listen
A conversation can make you laugh, change your objective or suggest a question you had not thought to ask.
Connect
Objects matter for what they might do, beyond their obvious purpose. A surprising answer still needs a logic.
Even a conversation can be an adventure
An original little exercise from the site, not a solution from the games.
A bell on the counter has a sign: ‘Ring if the innkeeper is absent’. The innkeeper is right in front of you, absorbed in a newspaper. You want a room. Where do you start?
Open the drawers
Twelve small discoveries. None reveals the endings; every object opens another route through the site.
The compass
Different games visit different islands. The Atlas brings documented locations together with clearly labelled artistic reconstructions, rather than claiming to be an official map.
Follow this curiosity →The mug
These Caribbean islands are a comic fantasy, full of anachronisms and surprisingly everyday concerns. You do not need a history of piracy to feel at home.
Follow this curiosity →The rubber chicken
An absurd object can become an icon. The famous chicken with a pulley captures the saga’s tone; discovering its use is something we leave to the game.
Follow this curiosity →The skull
Murray first appears in The Curse of Monkey Island: an enormous personality with very little body to contain it.
Follow this curiosity →The sword
The first game’s duels also depend on words. Listening and learning replies become part of the challenge: quick fingers are not the only kind of skill.
Follow this curiosity →The clock
The six main games arrived in 1990, 1991, 1997, 2000, 2009 and 2022. Special Editions, collections and crossovers are different routes, not extra numbered chapters.
Follow this curiosity →The score
Music builds atmosphere alongside the islands’ colours. Explore the site’s jukebox collection; the characters’ voices have their own dedicated route.
Follow this curiosity →Two portraits
The series changes its drawing style, technology and interpretation of characters. Every game has its own visual voice.
Follow this curiosity →The five-part journal
Tales of Monkey Island is one adventure told in five episodes, not five additional main instalments.
Follow this curiosity →The sealed envelope
The Secret is also a question accompanying the journey. When discussing endings, we distinguish what the games show from possible interpretations.
Follow this curiosity →A ticket to another ship
The Legend of Monkey Island is an official Sea of Thieves crossover: an adventure within that game, separate from the six main chapters.
Follow this curiosity →The newspaper clipping
Boxes, manuals, reviews and advertisements preserve how people anticipated and discovered these games. The Museum and press collection keep those memories.
Follow this curiosity →What kind of adventurer are you?
No exam: choose what attracts you and we will suggest a first route.
The Secret of Monkey Island
Start with The Secret of Monkey Island. Its official Special Edition offers updated presentation. The editions guide helps you choose.
Follow this curiosity →The Curse of Monkey Island
The Curse of Monkey Island offers an animation-inspired look and voiced dialogue. It is the third game: a spoiler-free introduction can provide context.
Follow this curiosity →Return to Monkey Island
Return to Monkey Island offers more accessible modes and a hint system. Earlier adventures give its returning characters and references more meaning.
Follow this curiosity →Six games, many doors
Release order, without obligations: pause at a door and choose when to go through.
The Secret of Monkey Island
An aspiring pirate arrives on Mêlée. Three trials and an important encounter turn a dream into a voyage.
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Monkey Island 2: LeChuck’s Revenge
A legendary treasure, a map to assemble and a new shadow over Guybrush’s tale.
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The Curse of Monkey Island
A romantic promise goes unexpectedly wrong. The sea fills with colour, voices and duels.
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Escape from Monkey Island
Coming home brings bureaucracy, business and a threat to the pirate way of life.
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Tales of Monkey Island
A curse spreads across the Caribbean. Five episodes form one journey.
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Return to Monkey Island
An old question calls Guybrush back to sea. Familiar islands hold new encounters.
Follow this curiosity →Choose how much to know
Curiosity has more than one speed. Opening one section does not reveal all the others.
No spoilers
This page introduces the atmosphere and premises. You can stop here and begin your own adventure.
A few previews
Open one chapter at a time for early story developments, without endings.
I want the whole story
A separate route covers the six games’ twists and endings, even if you do not wish to play them. Entry requires another explicit choice.
Visit the spoiler story →The Secret of Monkey Island · A few previews
Between the port, the forest and the residence of governor Elaine Marley, Guybrush discovers a world populated by swordsmen, merchants and tales of the terrible ghost pirate LeChuck. Meeting Elaine gives his ambition an unexpected direction, while a threat from the sea transforms his trials as an aspiring pirate into something much more personal.
Monkey Island 2: LeChuck’s Revenge · A few previews
To get back on the road, Guybrush must confront old acquaintances, resort to voodoo and collect clues on a map divided into several parts. The hunt takes him between different islands, each with its own rules, its own interests and characters who are not very inclined to spontaneously deliver what he needs.
The Curse of Monkey Island · A few previews
To help Elaine, Guybrush must discover how to break the spell and get back to sea. You need a ship, a crew and a route to Blood Island, but in the Caribbean none of these things are achieved without bargaining, tricking someone or solving a seemingly meaningless problem.
Escape from Monkey Island · A few previews
While Elaine tries to regain control of the situation, Guybrush finds himself faced with paperwork to sort out, new islands to visit and adversaries who have very specific plans for the archipelago. The rich Ozzie Mandrill wants to transform the world of pirates according to his own interests: to the threat of old enemies is added that of a future made of business and tourist attractions.
Tales of Monkey Island · A few previews
Separated from Elaine and landed on the singular island of Flotsam, Guybrush must first find a way to get back to sea, then look for a cure. Capricious winds, uncooperative pirates and characters with intentions that are difficult to decipher await him. Between old acquaintances and new encounters, finding your way requires much more than a good map.
Return to Monkey Island · A few previews
The Caribbean has not remained still waiting for him: new pirates are coming forward, the balance has changed and some old acquaintances have other worries. Between LeChuck's return, meetings with Elaine and the characters that animate the port, Guybrush must figure out how to get a ride and get back on the trail of the mystery.
Beyond these islands
If something caught your imagination, more doors await in the Lucas world.
Day of the Tentacle
Enjoy surreal humour and eccentric ideas?
Follow this curiosity →Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis
Prefer mysteries, exploration and ancient civilisations?
Follow this curiosity →Loom
Looking for a more wistful journey of music and imagination?
Follow this curiosity →Discover all the Lucas adventures →
The door stays open
You do not need to know every joke to join the crew. Pick a first island, a story or just a view. The rest can wait.