Return to Monkey Island confirmed by Ron Gilbert as real, slated for 2022 launch

Return to Monkey Island, teased by Ron Gilbert on his official blog last week on April Fools' Day, has been confirmed as an actual video game that will release in 2022.

The game's announcement came as the very first April Fools' joke in Gilbert's 18 years of operating the blog Grumpy Gamer. Or at least it appeared to be an April Fools' gag. On Monday, Gilbert followed his post up by saying that he felt "bad" about the joke, adding, "Over the weekend, I whipped up the game so no one was disappointed."

Elsewhere, Gilbert said that the game has been in development for roughly two years by the team at Terrible Toybox, which also worked on the 2017 adventure game Thimbleweed Park. But Terrible Toybox has picked up a notable new partner this time around: Dave Grossman, who co-wrote and co-designed many legendary point-and-click games at LucasArts, including the first two Monkey Island titles.

Other familiar names include Dominic Armato, who will reprise the role of Guybrush Threepwood, and the original LucasArts musicians, who will provide the game's score.