Sam & Max Hit the Road

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Grab your nightstick, squeal like a siren, and Hit the Road with Sam & Max, Freelance Police, as they attempt to crack their toughest case. Sam (a canine shamus) and Max (a hyperkinetic rabbity thing) are hot on the trail of a runaway carnival bigfoot across America’s quirky underbelly in this deranged animated adventure!

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Developer:
LucasArts
Publisher:
Activision Italia
Engine:
SCUMM
Release date:
16 November 2018
Genre:
Recent Steam reviews:
Very Positive (13)
All Steam reviews:
Overwhelmingly Positive (906)

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Description

Grab your nightstick, squeal like a siren, and Hit the Road with Sam & Max, Freelance Police, as they attempt to crack their toughest case. Sam (a canine shamus) and Max (a hyperkinetic rabbity thing) are hot on the trail of a runaway carnival bigfoot across America’s quirky underbelly in this deranged animated adventure!

Solving this case is up to you! You direct the actions of Sam & Max, tearing down the road with mayhem on their minds and Corn Duds™ on their breath, on a peril-fraught mission to make the world safe for Sasquatches and sentient mammals everywhere!

Based on Steve Purcell's unconventional cult comic books, Sam & Max will take you on an irreverent road trip adventure that will put hair on your back. Collide with tacky tourist traps and intimidate their bizarre denizens.

Help our frightening, furry flatfoots find the fugitive freak! Do it now!

• Enjoy edgy animation and twisted humor!
• Endless hours of fun playing mini-games like Wak-A-Rat and CarBomb!
• Indulge in gratuitous antisocial behavior!
• Roadside attractions your parents refused to stop at!
• This game is powered by ScummVM.

Recommended system requirements

minimum*

OS *:
Windows XP or newer
Processor:
1 GHz
Memory:
256 MB RAM
Graphics:
3D graphics card compatible with DirectX 7
DirectX:
Version 7.0
Storage:
250 MB available space
Sound Card:
16-bit sound card
Additional Notes:
Mouse, Keyboard

recommended*

Processor:
1.4 GHz
Memory:
512 MB RAM
Graphics:
3D graphics card compatible with DirectX 9.0c
DirectX:
Version 9.0c

User reviews

Dead Baron
Recommended | 22 Mar 2026
27 min played

This works GREAT on the steam deck and should NOT be rated "unsupported". You just need to bind an unused button to Ctrl F5 to bring up the menu to save/load/quit. Like many older games on Steam, it's just loading a

Helpful: 10
Marinkidink92
Not recommended | 04 Apr 2026
15.4h played

Ok, I think to even out the reviews I'm going to have to say "no" to recommending it. I can understand that people like it due to nostalgia, but for someone playing it for the first time now, it's so difficult. The

Helpful: 1
mposky
Recommended | 27 Apr 2026
7.7h played

I remember Sam and Max from when I was a very small boy. At the time, a lot of the humor missed me. Playing the game again as an adult with the wife was a good laugh. We ended up downloading all the Sam and Max games

Helpful: 3
Laser
Recommended | 22 Mar 2026
4.9h played

I've beaten this game with a guide, as some puzzles have very obscure solutions. I like the art style and the details of this game. The secrets and optional banter are fun to hear, and the many outstanding moments,

Helpful: 4
ThunderChunkyXL
Recommended | 07 May 2026
5.8h played

This game is hilarious, but good lord is it hard to figure out solutions on your own. I suggest looking up guides for this and honestly any other pre-telltale point and click. But if you’re okay with that then it’ll be

Helpful: 0
Marianox
Recommended | 18 May 2026
7.3h played

I love these two Gays so much, they're so endearing the game was worth playing just to see them doing silly things. Some of the puzzle solutions are a bit too surreal for me to have found them on my own lol

Helpful: 1