 The team that built the published game also worked on the 2009 remake of "The Secret of Monkey Island".LucasArts said these games were part of an "effort at LucasArts to form several small internal development teams and give them the creative freedom to make games that surprise, amaze and inspire", after several years of mostly making licensed games.The game received "mixed" reviews on both platforms according to the review aggregation website Metacritic.