Grim Fandango Remastered

this game is absolute peak. I would recommend playing with a walkthrough in hand though, easy to not know what you're doing. PLEASE PLAY THIS GAME

Nothing original about this review, same as the rest.

Peak storytelling, visual aesthetic, and world-building slightly bogged by hilariously obtuse puzzles.

Have a guide at the ready and enjoy one of the best story games Steam has to offer.

For Completionists: This game can be 100%'d in a single playthrough, but make sure your guide has achievement instructions. This game is on a linear storyline, missing an achievement means you'll have to start another playthrough.

The story of this game is so gripping I would love this to become an animated film in the same animation style as Pixar's Coco!!!

After all the problem's I had with this game I gave up and looked up the ending on youtube. sad but at least I got to see the ending

Classic.
Story? Fun and engaging. Characters? Charming and memorable. Voice acting? Soundtrack? Both make passionate love to your ears. Art? Immaculate. Puzzles? Sometimes - good, sometimes - absolute dogshit. Do I care? Fuck no. Should you? Nah. Don't miss on the masterpiece just coz you don't want to pick up a guide from time to time.

the game is very charming. i love it but one problem i have the audio is very choppy. due to the game not downloading properly and i cant figure out how to fix it. even with that problem i still love it

Absolutely horrible puzzles. The worst i have seen so far in a point and click adventure. Absolute cancer.

But great story. Apparently point and click adventures was what LucastArt was known for in the past. Not only were they known for it, they were the cornerstone of the genre. Classic worth playing in my opinion.

Love the devs of this game they also made psyconauts! Just wish the direction was a little more clear you wont get it without using a guide. Still amazing game with fun characters and more than worth the purchase.

Great game, great story, great atmosphere. Nostalgia!

Overall the experience of playing this game is worth it.
From the voice acting and the old school pre-rendered graphics all the way to the plot.
This game does suffer from pretty wild to guess puzzles (e.g. some of the puzzles make no sense whatsoever), which is quite common for the genre/time period, but is especially true for Grim Fandango.

If you've been wanting to try this game:

I would recommend to play the game until you get stuck, then for that part specifically look up in a guide how to advance and then just resume playing normally (rinse and repeat where necessary). This way you get to experience the full world and take it in on your own time.

On the flip side of this if you just stick to the guides that are out there and just follow those, I feel like you're missing out on most of the charm this game has to offer.

it's a great blast from the past, I personally have great memories from the original version and the remastered did not disappoint. Old school with improved graphics, great story and lore, amazing characters, and one of the best game music score ever. Very unique ambience and funny-but-gloomy conversations you'll remember for a long time.
Considering its low price and the improved graphics, it's absolutely a must have if you into the adventure genre. You can go through it in 8-ish hours or you can spend more to discover everything.

Straight from the best era of LucasArts.

Oh, did I mentioned the music? Music is awesome.

I remember that Grim Fandango was the talk of the town back in the day, but the point and click adventure game style never clicked with me, nor has anything changed nowadays.

Many years later I finally got my hands on it and whilst I did try it back then, I wasn't in the mood to continue and ever since it's been collecting dust in my games library. Picking it up now after all this time, I was determined to play through it and finish it.

It's a story of a salesman who helps guide the souls if the dead to the Ninth underworld - their final resting place. Suspicions that something is very wrong with the current system as it's been a long time since he had managed to sell the good packages for his clients who he believes deserved more than a 4 year walk through Eighth underworld - starts him on a path to finding the answers. Due to his failure rate, he's subject to sacking and thus, he proceeds to outsmart his competitor and boss by getting a surefire client - a saint, whose package sale would get him back on rails only to end up on an extensive 4 year long quest after his plan backfires.

In the best traditions of point and click adventure games, one controls the character - Manny, by clicking various points of interest in the current scene to look for ways to interact with them, pick stuff up for later use, talk to other characters who feature witty dialogue that sometimes even manages to produce a healthy giggle and, of course, to traverse the world in search for that fitting key item with the most bizarre use for it.
Speaking of bizarre, the riddles are quite traditional for their time - nonsensical and sometimes made me scratch my head so much I felt like I was stating to develop a bruise, with the end result being so jaw dropingly hilarious and over the top that makes them worth the investment.

Art style was quite well done, even though some things are really difficult to notice as some interactables blended in with the background really well, while objects that play no significance tended to really pop. The character design is simple, yet elegant. I felt like I was watching a gag cartoon.

Sound design wasn't great, while music felt right, some of the voice acting was quite out there, felt like some actors were commissioned to yell into the microphone during recording. Then again, it's possible that exaggeration was the intent. The lingo was very pleasant and I was looking forward to hearing the blend of English and Spanish languages.

To sum it up, Grim Fandango is a classic point and click adventure game made in the best traditions of the time. I feel, today's audience won't be able to enjoy it, but as a nostalgia piece for those born in the 80's or 90', this is a must play.

For me the score is a 7/10, but don't let my rating influence your decision. See you on the other end, hombre.

What a fund game of back in the day and is still fun to play.

任何巨魔单机游戏玩家的必修课！

I have never done the original but the remaster is swell. Although there are a few bugs here and there.

So lovely. Quite a lovely game.
I felt smart whenever I didn't have to search up a guide, i love Manny, manny my beloved

Having played all the Monkey Island games before this, Grim Fandango feels like a much more poignant adventure.

Good:
- Superb Voice acting

Bad:
- Fast forward could've helped a lot
- Personally, some puzzles were a bit difficult to go through

Quite enjoyable, with fun dark humor. Also nice to see a form of Mesoamerican Art Deco.

good game but how tf are we supposed to figure out some of these puzzles without guides, dont buy this if you dont like going thru a game with tutorials

Great game. The problem is you often (more likely) will not understand what it wants from you. I wouldn't have done it without walkthrough in other hand and maybe that's only because I'm a big dummie.
The characters are great. The voice acting is awesome. The plot is incredible. See it yourself.

the puzzles will make you question reality, but the iconic lines will force you to write them in a book because they never end.

I started playing Grim Fandango around 1998-1999. Then life hit me like a train and it was forgotten. Years passed and I nearly died two times from infection and burst appendix. Then I had kids and.. Yeah years passed.
So in 2016 I picked up the remastered version and started playing it. But once again in had to be set aside due to health problems, and also getting bullied and abused by a teenage daugher on a rampage, divorced and there was additional drama from that for past 3 years. Oof...

A couple weeks ago I started this game up again and continued. I finished the game and story today.

Grim Fandango might not seem much to you young people, but it is worth it! It is one of the games I will remember and feel nostalgic about, and with its own story and atmosphere. Once again that prove that fancy graphics isn't what makes a game good and give an experience that matter, and will be remembered.
But you will need a bit of patience, and think a bit inside and outside the box. Also, remember to save regularly.

This is a gem, and I am thankful I got to complete it, take part of the story and gameplay in my life.

fun characters and world that'll keep you entertained all four years. VERY tricky at times to the point where you'll be baffled at how you were expected to know what to do. with the use of a guide highly rec

RAAAAHHHHH this game has consumed my brain i genuinely love it so much i would give anything to see a current day remaster or even a Grim Fandango 2 one day (if not at least please give us a spin off of Glottis and his little dudes)

esse jogo é muito bom

10/10 absolute banger. Puzzle solutions don't always need to make sense when your game looks and sounds this good.

An absolute classic! Grim Fandango Remastered brings this iconic game back to life with updated visuals and a fantastic soundtrack. The humor, characters, and story are timeless. A must-play for any adventure game fan!

this is mexico's monkey island

Not bad

i need manny. bad.

One of the most epic games I've ever played. I was entertained by every bit of the story and the characters all throughout. I haven't smiled/laughed this much at a game since later alligator. So much of the animations and dialogue made me laugh out loud and the story was genuinely really investing.
It's a shame about those dang puzzles though. So much of this game was so tedious and boring to me because I had no idea what to do. I've never been amazing at puzzles despite loving many puzzle games, but even as a puzzle game lover, I rolled my eyes after reading what I was supposed to do because there's no way a person could reasonably guess what to do in a reasonable time frame without a guide. Usually puzzle games are at least a little nice to their players by offering hints or a feature where you can easily see what you're supposed to interact with or click on. Not really an option here though, I guess people just had infinite time in the '90s?
So, would I recommend this game?
Uhhhhhhhhhhhhh ... sure? But only if you get it at a discount and you adore puzzle games/are really good at puzzles. Or if you're willing to use a guide like me. I had a much better time after I started using a guide but even then some chunks of this game got really boring and tedious at points even with the guide (year 1 pt 2 and year 2 specifically.) If the story and characters weren't as amazing as they were I honestly wouldn't recommend it and it might just be better to just watch a playthrough instead. But hey, who knows, maybe you'll know what to do without a guide unlike me.

Great style, story, and voice acting. A bit clunky and there are times you have to pixel hunt. Can get frustrating at times, but the ending is worth it. I recommend a guide if you get stuck since it can quickly become tedious.

I don't need the hernia

Lots of dead people, a potential romance, mass corruption, and lots of money. Lovely adventure game full of wit and humor.

One of the best point-and-click adventures of all time, if not the best. The art direction, voice acting, and setting are all fantastic, 10/10. It's still pretty clunky to control at times, though, but you quickly get used to it.

And as with any older adventure game, there are a few esoteric solutions to puzzles at times, so you may want to use a walkthrough if you value your time, but I would highly recommend a mostly-blind run for the experience, only resorting to checking a walkthrough when you're totally stumped. There are some great ones online that give hints to the part you're stuck at before spoiling the solution, so try one of those!

Going through it at a normal pace and exhausting all the NPCs' dialogue and exploring everywhere will take you about 10 hours or so, maybe longer if you find yourself stuck more often. I do highly recommend going through all the dialogue for every NPC and examining and interacting with everything you come across. The writing is fantastic and witty and genuinely entertaining throughout.

Great game, good remake, fun commentary.

There's a reason this game is a cult classic.

Great Setting, Fun Characters and Bumping soundtrack!

To Say anymore would spoil that first time and that is the worst thing you can do besides pushing up daises ;)

Good nostalgia

this is really really good. if you dont like it you are stupid and wrong

One of the best adventure games ever! Good story and all is the same like the original.
The graphics are better than the original, however a real upgrade of aspect ratio and 4K graphics are still missing in my opinion. Worth the money if you want a good story and laugh.

This game is a masterpiece and remains a favorite classic for me.

There's a bug in the level where you're trying to cross a bridge with the demon (fire) beaver. Supposedly you should take a path going to the tar's river edge and throw some bones in the river as a bait.

The damn beaver are stuck on the ledge.

I give up trying and proceed with uninstall.

A brilliant piece of work. Grim Fandango is just as sharp, witty, and exciting as I imagine it was in 1998. This was my first time experiencing Grim Fandango, or any third-person point-n-click for that matter, and while my play-through had some snags, the endless charm oozing out of every last pore, or er, bone, from this world and its inhabitants had me yearning for more. While I definitely got stuck on some puzzles, the solution rarely seemed absurd or illogical, easing frustrations. I think the constant backtracking and filtering through dialogue is an unfortunate consequence of not knowing a puzzle's solution, but I really don't think they're as obtuse as you might imagine.

However, this remaster is not everything one would hope for. Crashes were fairly frequent, and many animations or models were straight-up broken. I appreciate the option to use the original graphics, which I used the whole time, but at its core this version still has a lot of jank. It's very much still playable, and I'm not sure how it compares to the original release, but just SAVE REGULARLY and you'll be alright.

Grim Fandango may be one of my favourite stories I've had the pleasure of experiencing, and I'll be thinking about its fully realised characters and their outstanding performances for a long time, perhaps til I end up in the Land of the Dead myself.

Oh Wow! A great game overall. The puzzle design is superb, the graphics and audio are A+. If you're a point and click fan, this is one you *need* to play.

Yeahhhh…she steals from the rich, and gives to me to pour…

Wouldnt have gotten through this without a guide but thats true for any point and click game for me. Its funny and the characters are likeable. Thats all that matters.

Its got style and comedy over the edge

Finally got the oppertunity to play this classic game. Had fun and reminded me of the good ol' days of point and click games like Freddi Fish and the Case of the Missing Kelp Seeds

This game is so much fun and extremely hilarious. I loved the grim reaper character, he's so sneaky.

One of the best Tim Schafer games