The Last Monday for Windows

Quick overview

The Last Monday is a short horror demo that places familiar Garfield comic characters into a creepy, parody-style scenario created by Alex Craig. You take on the role of Jon Arbuckle and end up asking the orange cat for help finding a misplaced key. As in the strips, Garfield’s love of lasagna and disdain for Mondays remains part of the flavor, but here it’s wrapped in unsettling, supernatural moments.

Narrative and atmosphere

Early on you discover a garage door opener tucked inside a dog house and use it to open the garage—only to catch a brief, disturbing glimpse of something inside. Garfield immediately moves to block the doorway. After picking up a key on the doorstep, Jon unlocks the back door and is shoved down into the basement by the cat. From there the sequence of events becomes increasingly strange and tense, with the game drip-feeding lore through items and set pieces.

Core objectives you’ll encounter

• Prepare a lasagna as part of a ritual-like task that ties into the game’s odd themes.
• Crack a safe by working out a numeric code, revealing more about the story.
• Spray peculiar symbols around the environment, which appear to be connected to the demo’s mysteries.

Discovering the mystery

The story is deliberately cryptic. Details are scattered across the environment and puzzles, so putting the full picture together is rewarding but often puzzling. The demo hints at a deeper, mind-bending backstory that encourages exploration and repeated playthroughs to catch what you missed.

Technical considerations

Because this is an early demo, performance can be inconsistent. Several players report noticeable frame-rate drops during certain scenes, so expect some stutters on lower-end hardware or in graphically intense moments.

Final take

Even as a demonstration piece, The Last Monday delivers memorable, jaw-dropping moments and an eerie reinterpretation of Garfield characters that may appeal to fans of oddball horror. Just be prepared for rough performance in places and a deliberately opaque narrative that invites speculation. If you want something different after trying it, one alternative to consider is Captain Willie Free.