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beamish14 wrote: Wed Sep 09, 2026 7:45 pm

Mr Sausage wrote: Wed Sep 09, 2026 4:32 pm I’m guessing some Alan Wake style third-person mystery.

An old school LucasArts style point and click like Maniac Mansion could be great

The creator of Maniac Mansion, Ron Gilbert, did that about 10 years ago with Thimbleweed Park

soundchaser wrote: Wed Sep 09, 2026 6:16 pm If the leak is accurate, there were only two placeholder achievements, one of which was a test. I'm not sure this is anything we'll actually see in the future, but ya never know.

There was also, somehow, a full list of achievements for an Alf game.

Yeah, I would not read too much into this. The "leak" was Steam's API exposing achievement (trophy) data for unreleased and unannounced titles, so crawlers have scraped a lot of achievement data for various packages on Steam's back-end. One such package has two achievements associated with it:
1. Test Achievement (This Is A Test Achievement)
2. Welcome to Twin Peaks (Reach the Double R Diner)

And that's all. There's no title, no developer, no publisher. Might be an old abandoned package, or, more likely, given how open and uncurated Steam is, someone's fan project that is not licensed nor officially associated with Twin Peaks.

Achievements can also have wry allusions to other media in them as well, so just namechecking Twin Peaks and the Double R Diner in one may not necessarily be anything more than an in joke for when the player reaches a particular location.

That said, as the posters above have mentioned, Twin Peaks is all over games already, from Mizzurna Falls and Thimbleweed Park (which mashed up Twin Peaks with X-Files), to the first Life Is Strange game (which mashed up Twin Peaks with Donnie Darko), and of course the notorious Deadly Premonition (which mashed up Twin Peaks with copious amounts of hallucinogenics)

There already was/is an official VR “game” for Twin Peaks. I never bothered. Lynch is dead, and TP is beautifully complete. I have no interest in spin offs or remakes.

Zot! wrote: Sun Sep 13, 2026 8:26 am There already was/is an official VR “game” for Twin Peaks. I never bothered. Lynch is dead, and TP is beautifully complete. I have no interest in spin offs or remakes.

Generally, I agree. But if Mark Frost ever wants to do more ancillary material - well, it was his show as much as it was Lynch's, and Lynch would've been the first one to say that. I'm not saying it would be an automatic read or anything, but he earned the right to expand the universe as much as Lynch did with FWWM.

DimitriL wrote: Sun Sep 13, 2026 8:08 pm

Zot! wrote: Sun Sep 13, 2026 8:26 am There already was/is an official VR “game” for Twin Peaks. I never bothered. Lynch is dead, and TP is beautifully complete. I have no interest in spin offs or remakes.

Generally, I agree. But if Mark Frost ever wants to do more ancillary material - well, it was his show as much as it was Lynch's, and Lynch would've been the first one to say that. I'm not saying it would be an automatic read or anything, but he earned the right to expand the universe as much as Lynch did with FWWM.

Sure, but the supplementary stuff is also pretty complete, soundtracks, books, audio books, keychains, magazine articles, etc…. I really don’t need this to be a franchise. If anybody wants to spend money on their TP addiction in 2026, I can confirm that a trip to the locations is still magical and as soon as you leave Seattle on I90, the feeling in the woods is palpable. Such a beautiful and interesting area, and even the fan traps are first rate. Recommended if you want to fully nerd out.