Grim Fandango Remastered

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It is a game that I was too young to witness when it came out. Now, it feels dated (even remastered), and while I was playing it, I was constantly thinking about wasting my time and would rather watch it being played on YouTube. I appreciate it for what it is.

She a fan of my dango till i grim, Calavera

grim fandango

Awesome story. A classic and the puzzles are way less frustrating in the remaster

Fun interesting story. I would recommend having a guide on standby just in case, there's always the issue of these types of games having some crazy leaps in logic but also things you click on can overlap so it can be hard to know what exactly is interactable.

Nice story, likable characters, refreshing concept overall; but puzzles are nonsensical for me. I couldn't play without a walkthrough. I'd love to see it as a movie though.

Goofy point and click adventure game with good humour. Art style is very fitting. Story and characters are well written. Many Calavera is very relatable and it is nice to see his development through out the game. At the very end, the feeling of completing your journey really hits you. Game has two problems though. One is bugs there are tons visual and gameplay bugs. You can easily get locked out of progressing. Be sure to save your game very frequently. The other is some puzzles are really cryptic and because of the bugs sometimes you think what you tried was wrong but it was actually the right way.

Funny latin-american skeletons overthrowing a corrupt system and become anarcho-communists

It's like playing a Saturday morning cartoon made by Pixar, pre-Disney; it's got jokes for kids and jokes for adults. And playing it directly after Disco Elysium, the communism and union bits made me very happy.

Though very goofy and full of old-school adventure game logic, this game has a story and vibe that's unlike anything else in the space. Play this game with a guide if you want, but do, indeed, play it.

i'd sacrifice سهيل for you Mr. Calavera.

one of very unique game that I ever played. I've already finished this game more than 10 years ago. but I just bought on steam for pay a respect. and wanted to kept the connections with this game and reminiscing the whole good memories back then. that specific day of the dead vibe, flowers, romance, noir and witty. this game influenced me in a lot.

Top-notch.

Very unusual and atmospheric game. I've played it twice over the past few years and on both occasions I needed some help. I'll probably play it again in the future, it was that enjoyable.

for real gamers

Great art style and atmosphere. A lot of the puzzle solutions are very subtlety explained in cutscenes/dialogue which led to a fun experience. But some puzzle's solutions are "read the developers mind" or interact with an object/character at very specific moments.

great game

Its a fun adventure game. it needs clues to beat the game

Awesome game, great story, love the art style. Classic point and click from back when they made those kinds of games. The interface is much more forgiving for modern players with the update. If you like adventure games, check this one out!

Whenever you are stuck for a while not knowing what to do next, just check a guide for that particular thing and then continue on your own. You'll experience the story without sacrificing the fun. Not all the puzzles are logical. They are just there to slow you down...

great adventure sadly no sex missions :(

Exquisite game with such a unique atmosphere, story, and even sound. However sometimes figuring out what to do next is very complex, needing some backtracking, which may not be for everyone (I didnt mind).

10/10 game must buy

One of the greats. I bought this when it came out and I still go back to it every few years.
It's cute, it's funny, and the puzzles are clever without being crazy difficult.
Also, the atmosphere (day of the dead + film noir) really works.

This version does not work on Steamdeck. Fix your dependencies!

Amazing, hilarious, incredible, fun game

One of those games where you are bummed out in the end not because the ending is sad but because it's ended, it was just that good

so funny and the art style is very funky and cool

I hate this game so much for its absurdly stupid level of puzzle difficulty (making it impossible to complete naturally without outside help), as much as I love its story, art, characters, humor, music, and scenario of this game.

The most impressive thing is how the main character, Manny Calavera, slightly reminds me of one of the greatest actors of all time - Humphrey Bogart - due to specific references to classic 1940s films throughout the story, including the all-time greatest hit, Casablanca (1942).

The whole Día de los Muertos (The Day of the Dead on English) theme as the core concept of the story is crazy, funny, and surprisingly believable. This is a true masterpiece from Tim Schafer and Lucasfilm Games.

I highly recommend it to anyone who loves extraordinary stories. And strongly recommend playing with hints or a walkthrough, or else you’ll end up completely lost.

VIVA LA RESISTANCE

Timeless and abSOULutely hilarious, dry like a good mezcal!! A must!

This game has a great story and has so much personality in it. If you haven't played it before just buy it.

This was a very enjoyable point and click adventure game. I honestly don't remember the exact details, as I played it in 2020, but I remember being bummed there wasn't a sequel...as far as I know... I'm actually going to install it and play it again right now!!

I don't play a lot of Point & Click Adventure type games. Sure, I have played a bunch of Telltale games but I never really looked at the classics like the Monkey Island games. I really liked the aesthetics of this one and decided to try it out.

I finished the game in 3 days and here I am still thinking about it! The game has great characters, music and a good plot. That being said, I do think the story had a few hiccups. However, there is a lot of individual moments in this game that are spectacular and they are living rent free in my head!

I used a guide for the entirety of this game. If I didn't I would have had absolutely no idea what to do and where to go. They do not tell you what you need to do, so if you are going to play this game without a guide, i wouldn't recommend it as you are given very little to go off of. That, and when you have an idea of something you can do, sometimes your actions won't register, making you think that what you tried wasn't the correct way of doing it.

The characters are really good. The main character, Manny, is a likable guy, but he pales in comparison to everybody's favorite demon Glottis. He just might be one of my favorite characters in all of gaming and I was smiling every time he was on screen!

Overall, this game is a short but fun adventure that's worth trying out. If you like the genre, it's a must-play. If you don't, I would recommend it if you like the aesthetics, world etc. In my opinion, this game is definitely worth a shot.

Hopefully you are not a completionist like me though, so you don't have to play the game with Tank controls. Damn you Tim Schafer!

I've own ed this game for 9 years, finally played it, and Grim Fandango is a great game. Funny, fun, and cheap right now. Maybe a classic.

I remember watching gameplays of this game,, I don't regret getting it for myself either. It is very tricky,, you really gotta put your mind to it if you wanna try to do it without a walkthrough or guide because there is basically no hints for what you need to do next.

Great Story, Great characters. Actually pretty hard, expect to refer to the internet for help at least a few times. The story and world is so good I think it's still worth it to play even if you need alot of help. Level 2 is by far the longest and hardest level out of four levels and will require the most patience and thinking if you want to avoid getting help from the internet. Pay attention to cutscenes and everything characters say, sometimes there are hints there that are needed to progress. Everything that is interactable will be indicated by your cursor, which helps tone down "random clicking everywhere" like in some puzzle games. For the most part, even if I needed help for certain parts, I think every "puzzle" in the game has at least some hint or logic to it, so its mostly not totally "le random" solutions. Great game if you like puzzle games and adventure games.

4/5

It's hard because I really want to recommend this game... but I can't, as my whole playthrough was plagued with crashes and screen blackouts. At some point, I started saving the game at every scene just to get through. I think this game deserves a better-working remaster. It's such a remarkable piece of a game.

GRAPHICS
🔲 You forget what reality is
✅ Beautiful (considering that the og version of the game came out in 1998)
🔲 Good
🔲 Decent
🔲 Bad
🔲 Terrible
🔲 Don’t look at it

GAMEPLAY
🔲 Very good
🔲 Good
✅ It's just gameplay
🔲 Meh
🔲 Watch paint dry instead
🔲 Just don't

AUDIO
🔲 Eargasm
🔲 Very good
✅ Good
🔲 Not too bad
🔲 Bad
🔲 I'm now deaf

AUDIENCE
🔲 Kids
✅ Teens
✅ Adults
🔲 Grandma

PC REQUIREMENTS
🔲 Check if you can run paint
✅ Potato
🔲 Decent
🔲 Fast
🔲 Rich boi
🔲 Ask NASA if they have a spare computer

GAME SIZE
🔲 Floppy Disk
✅ Old Fashioned
🔲 Workable
🔲 Big
🔲 Will eat 10% of your 1TB hard drive
🔲 You will want an entire hard drive to hold it
🔲 You will need to invest in a black hole to hold all the data

DIFFICULTY
🔲 Just press 'W'
🔲 Easy
🔲 Easy to learn / Hard to master
🔲 Significant brain usage
🔲 Difficult
✅ Dark Souls (it’s almost impossible to figure out how to solve some puzzles, so a guide will be helpful)

GRIND
✅ Nothing to grind
🔲 Only if u care about leaderboards/ranks
🔲 Isn't necessary to progress
🔲 Average grind level
🔲 Too much grind
🔲 You'll need a second life for grinding

STORY
🔲 No Story
🔲 Some lore
🔲 Average
🔲 Good
✅ Lovely
🔲 It'll replace your life

GAME TIME
🔲 Long enough for a cup of coffee
🔲 Short
✅ Average (it depends on how long it takes you to solve the puzzles)
🔲 Long
🔲 To infinity and beyond

PRICE
🔲 It's free!
✅ Worth the price
🔲 If it's on sale
🔲 If u have some spare money left
🔲 Not recommended
🔲 You could also just burn your money

BUGS
🔲 Never heard of
✅ Minor bugs
🔲 Can get annoying
🔲 ARK: Survival Evolved
🔲 The game itself is a big terrarium for bugs

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A classic masterpiece.

I'm not the first to call it the best point-and-click adventure of all time, but after all these years I do still call it that. And I've played a LOT of point-and-click adventure games!

I wish I could give this more of a "meh" vote rather than a straight-up recommendation. Of all the classic LucasArts adventure games, this is one of my least favorite. It isn't all that funny, the characters aren't all that interesting, and the puzzles are sometimes downright nonsensical. Most adventure games, I at least always have a sense of what I'm supposed to be doing, so even if the solution is weird, I can at least see how it furthers my goals. Here, much of the time when I solved a puzzle, I had no clue why I was solving it, how it helped in any way, or anything. Many times I had no idea what just happened even after everything played out. It's not a bad game - the graphics still hold up (especially with the remastered 3D models), the music is good, the voice acting is good, and the dialogue is sometimes clever. If you love adventure games, this is one of them, and you definitely could do worse. But if you're looking for a good gateway to the genre, look elsewhere.

Despite GF being on top of some adventure games rankings, and despite loving other LucasArts classics like Monkey Island 1-3 and Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis, Grim Fandango never gripped me back in the day, and it does not grip me now.

This is due to a number of problems that add up. One is the graphics - the game was created during the dawn of 3D when 3D was ugly though cool. And it shows. Though LucasArts did an impressive job with the technology available at the time, GF still looks much uglier than the gorgeous 2D hand-painted titles of the same era - e.g. The Dig, Monkey Island 3 and Broken Sword 1.

The 3D introduced a secondary problem in terms of controls. The original had obnoxious tank control that made movement a hassle. This remaster mercifully adds point-and-click. But we still have to deal with the confusing and dated camera switches from the same era.

A game-breaking bug presents another issue. Toward the end of Act I, there is a spot where you have to switch to windowed mode and to classic rendering mode to be able to progress due to a breaking bug. A quick online search led me to the solution; but it's still kind of lame not to have fixed this in the decade since the release of the remaster.

Another problem are the puzzles. Adventure games always had silly puzzles, particularly a number of the classics of the golden age such as Monkey Island, Simon the Sorcerer and Discworld. But Grim Fandango goes overboard. Practically every puzzle only makes sense in retrospect, and I found myself simply following a walkthrough. There is challenging, and then there is abstruse gotcha.

All of that said, my impression always was that the game's saving grace were the characters and the story. Well, I got to Act II (out of four), and I can't say I care about the characters or the story. The skeletons and the noir vibe are tolerable; but the childish demon driver breaks all tone and immersion. The game can't decide if it wants to be slapstick or noir and succeeds at neither.

So I'm thumbs down here. I think this particular classic is over-rated, and is a good example of why people stopped playing adventure games in the late 1990s.

My Glorious King Tim Schafer

I bought this game when I had shoulder surgery and couldn't use one of my hands. Very engrossing, very beautiful and well written. I enjoyed it a lot

⭐ Rating: 7/10

Grim Fandango Remastered is a solid update to a classic adventure game, though not without its flaws. The original 1998 game was a masterpiece of storytelling, atmosphere, and humor, and this remaster by Double Fine Productions does a good job of preserving that charm while making some much-needed improvements.

The Good:
✅ Great Story & Characters – The game’s noir-inspired plot and witty dialogue hold up remarkably well. Manny Calavera is still one of the best protagonists in gaming.
✅ Updated Graphics & Music – The improved character models and lighting make the game look better while keeping the original art style intact. The remastered soundtrack is also fantastic.
✅ Point-and-Click Controls Added – A huge plus! The old tank controls are still available for purists, but the modernized controls make the game much smoother to play.

The Not-So-Good:
❌ Puzzles Can Be Obscure – Some solutions are frustratingly unintuitive, leading to trial-and-error moments or reliance on guides.
❌ Clunky Animations & Bugs – Some of the remastered animations feel stiff, and there are occasional glitches.
❌ No Major Overhaul – While it's a faithful remaster, it doesn’t go as far as some fans might have hoped in modernizing the experience.

Final Verdict:
Grim Fandango Remastered is a great way to experience this legendary adventure game, but it still feels like a product of its time. If you love classic LucasArts adventures or enjoy unique storytelling, it’s definitely worth playing—just be prepared for some old-school puzzle frustration.

Would I recommend it? Yes, but mostly to fans of adventure games. 🎭💀

I've been granted the opportunity to play this one without any nostalgia goggles, and even then, it's perhaps one of the best games I've ever played, hands down (hell, the writing beats a good many movies and books I've seen). The aesthetic is on point, and if you look close, you can see a ton of background details lifted from real-life Maya Revival and Art Deco buildings. That's probably not a major draw for every player, but seeing the 3d render equivalent of a Family Guy reference to Hugh Ferriss's work made me snort.

Caveat emptor, however! Save often! There has been one time wherein I lost progress due to the game crashing. While "only once" may not be so bad, it still sucks.

It's still fantastic, however. Highly recommended.

A GREAT GAME FOR PROBLEM SOLVERS AND THOSE WHO ARE ABOUT TO BECOME PROBLEM SOLVERS. Not for those with a short attention span.

good luck

Played it as a kid, so a bit biased. One of the "must plays" from the old adventure game era.

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unique story with original characters
phenomenal voice acting and music (I still listen to the OST)
overall art direction is perfectly balanced
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outdated mechanics
remaster fixed bugs but still feels buggy at times

9.5/10

Wonderful music, masterful voice acting and script, and an incredibly clever story line! The world is so rich and diverse. It really makes you want to explore every inch of the game and learn about each quirky character. I would love to see more of this type of game development.

I found out about this game when i was like 13 and have thought about it ever since i finally got it on sale back in like november and played thur the whole thing with my girlfriend the wait was worth it fucking amazing time please buy tim and the gang always putting up a billion on the scoreboard

I got stuck so many times in this game, and while I loved the story and characters, I found the puzzles and their progression a bit too linear. A lot of them felt overly complicated or just plain frustrating, which might be a big turn-off for some players. I personally had to rely on guides and walkthroughs to get through most of it. Still, it was a great, funny, and beautiful ride!