Randal’s Monday

Randal Hicks is the kind of selfish, foul-mouthed disaster who can turn a friend’s engagement party into a potential apocalypse. After waking with a brutal hangover and stealing his best friend Matt’s wallet, he casually pawns the engagement ring inside—triggering a curse that traps him in the same catastrophic Monday. Matt’s death becomes the turning point in a bleakly comic time-loop story, forcing Randal to repair damage he barely understands while reality starts coming apart around him. The mood is proudly crude, cynical, and packed with references to films, comics, television, games, and cult nerd culture.

Play follows the traditional point-and-click adventure formula: inspect hand-drawn locations, collect absurd inventory items, interrogate a large cast of oddballs, and combine objects in increasingly ridiculous ways. Randal revisits key moments of the day, using knowledge gained in earlier loops to alter conversations, uncover new opportunities, and edge closer to recovering the ring. Puzzles often rely on lateral thinking and deliberately cartoonish logic, so players should expect to experiment with dialogue options and item combinations rather than brute-force action sequences. There is no combat system or character-building grind; progression comes from solving multi-stage problems and surviving the consequences of Randal’s terrible decisions.

What separates Randal’s Monday from many retro-styled adventures is its commitment to being gleefully unpleasant. Randal is not a lovable scoundrel, and the writing knows it, using his cruelty and incompetence as the engine for dark jokes rather than asking players to admire him. The colourful 2D art, extensive voiced dialogue, and appearances tied to Kevin Smith’s View Askewniverse give it the feel of a raunchy animated cult comedy filtered through the structure of Monkey Island and Day of the Tentacle. It suits veteran adventure fans who enjoy dense dialogue, pop-culture callbacks, and challenging old-school puzzle design far more than players seeking a gentle or emotionally earnest time-loop tale.