Tooltips over screen hotspots guide the player's actions: when the cursor is moved over an interactive zone of the scene, a brief phrase appears, suggesting what action Guybrush will take. The user interface is different from previous 2D Monkey Island games. The player controls the pirate Guybrush Threepwood, who sails the seas and visits islands. This can be done by exploring locations, talking to non-player characters to acquire information, collecting items and using them at the right time.

The objective is to move the story forward by solving narrative-based puzzles. Return to Monkey Island is a 2D point-and-click adventure game. The game received generally positive reviews. Dominic Armato reprised his role as the protagonist, Guybrush Threepwood. Return to Monkey Island was announced in April 2022. The Walt Disney Company acquired the rights to Monkey Island when it purchased Lucasfilm in 2012 in 2019, Gilbert negotiated to create a new Monkey Island with the designer Dave Grossman, who had worked on the first two games.

Further installments were developed by LucasArts and Telltale Games without him. Gilbert worked on the first two Monkey Island games before leaving the development company, LucasArts, in 1992. It was the first Monkey Island game by the series' creator, Ron Gilbert, since Monkey Island 2: LeChuck's Revenge (1991). The sixth Monkey Island game, it was released for macOS, Nintendo Switch, and Windows on September 19, 2022, for Linux on October 26, 2022, and for PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X/S on November 8, 2022. Return to Monkey Island is a point-and-click adventure game developed by Terrible Toybox and published by Devolver Digital.

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