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Ah Sam and Max... A comedic point and click game where you do stupid things to progress. Isn't life awesome?
0 found this helpful, 2026-06-09
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Telltale Games / Jun 15, 2007 / Action, Adventure
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CompareSam & Max: Episode 1 - Culture Shock - The former child stars of the Soda Poppers TV show are wreaking havoc all over the neighborhood! But this is no ordinary tale of child stars gone awry. There's a dark force behind the Poppers' baffling antics.
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89% positive, 391 reviews
Ah Sam and Max... A comedic point and click game where you do stupid things to progress. Isn't life awesome?
0 found this helpful, 2026-06-09
Notice: Sam & Max 101: Culture Shock is no longer available on the Steam store.
2 found this helpful, 2026-06-04
This game broke me. It broke my mind. The point where you have to discredit the renaimated statue of Abraham Lincoln by making him read "cue cards" and setting him up with a girlfriend... It killed my sanity. And thank god for that, it was really starting to cramp my style. Classic adventure gaming at it's weirdest and funniest.
135 found this helpful, 2014-10-05
Disclaimer: Steam only shows the play time for the first episode. Short version: 85% TellTale’s first take on Sam & Max starts slow but builds into the familiar hilarious absurdity that characterises the Freelance Police. It also shows the ingenuity of the developers, who managed to build a funny, entertaining adventure game on a small budget and even smaller playing areas. Long version: Sam & Max Save the World...
28 found this helpful, 2017-11-19
(note says 3.5 but I have 13 hours for entire season 1 according to each episode time played) A nice puzzle adventure game like monkey island though with more chaotic bunnies. It does have those "try something on everything" moments though most of the puzzles are easy enough to know what you need to do. In order to get it to work (each time you want to play) 1. fresh install 2. go to properties 3. set launch option...
33 found this helpful, 2017-06-18
This series is FANTASTIC. I have played the other Telltale Games and even the original Sam & Max, and I adore this series. This first season is the weakest entry in the series, (with Devil's Playhouse contrastly being one of the best adventure games out there), but the series gets better and better with each episode. However, this does have a hard time running on Windows 10, and there is no patch for it from...
32 found this helpful, 2015-10-09
Warning: This is NOT a game with QTEs, where you walk around to solve easy "puzzles" and make important decisions like the recent Telltale games. This is a classic, 90's-stlye point-and-click game with medium to hard puzzles and dialogues are only important to solve the puzzles, (the story is quite linear). Tip: you need the Telltale Custom Resolution Tool to play the game in the reoslution you want (you cannot...
18 found this helpful, 2017-01-28
(Review counted as the Complete Sam and Max Seasons 1,2 and 3 HOWEVER seasons 1 and 2 currently do not work on Windows 10) Really entertaining and funny point and click adventure game. Though I admit I am a bit dumb when it came to puzzles in this game...often ended up looking up guides >w> SHHHHH! In all honesty the puzzles (basicly everything you do in the game) are all well thought out so there isn't any super...
19 found this helpful, 2015-06-22
Your very traditional point-and-click adventure game with goofy characters, pun-based humor, and passable storylines. The whole is greater than the sum of its parts. If you like point-and-click adventure games that are light-hearted and fairly well-polished with your typical point-and-click puzzle elements, then it is hard to go wrong with any Sam & Max game. These are really terrific to throw on a low-powered laptop...
36 found this helpful, 2014-08-23
This episode is short, and fairly simple if you understand the game's cartoon logic. It still holds up as a silly story despite not having 1080p for some reason. But then Telltale always was behind the times and had a pretty mediocre engine. It doesn't matter. The game is fun for other reasons. This was my second time playing this since it came out. You can't buy it anymore, but I can still review it. If you have it...
5 found this helpful, 2021-11-19