Telltale鈥檚 third Sam & Max season debuted in April 2010 under the name Sam & Max: The Devil's Playhouse. Released after two years after the previous season, Sam & Max: The Devil's Playhouse surprised fans with a new "grittier" look, a more cinematic presentation, console-style gamepad controls, and a serialized storyline that linked the five monthly episodes through a series of cliffhangers, building to an epic finale in August 2010.
Digital distribution was coming out of its infancy back then, but it was still in its early days. Graphics and audio had to be highly compressed to keep download sizes low, and the Devil's Playhouse episodes were designed to work on low-end computers to appeal to a mainstream audience.
In 2018, when Telltale went through liquidation, four of the studio鈥檚 original employees formed Skunkape Games and acquired the rights to Telltale鈥檚 Sam & Max games. We've now finished remastering the complete trilogy, but we don't want the originals to be lost to time.
That鈥檚 why we鈥檝e bundled the original episodes with our Sam & Max: The Devil's Playhouse remaster. With this free DLC, you can play the original episodes as they were back in the day鈥攍ow screen resolution, compressed audio, warts and all!
Due to insurmountable technical hurdles, these versions will not be updated and we can鈥檛 provide tech support. (Difficulty fixing bugs in the old game engine is a main reason we鈥檙e remastering the games in the first place!) We鈥檙e making them available for historical preservation purposes only.
