Grim Fandango Remastered

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

One of the best Adventure games ever made. The remaster is respectfully adding to it modernizing the exact right things without changing style and vibe.

Fascinating world that left lasting marks after the journey was complete.

An old favorite!

wow

Glottis stay with me forever

Grim Fandango is such a fantastic game! The blend of film noir and Mexican culture is just brilliant. You step into the shoes of Manny Calavera, a charming travel agent in the Land of the Dead, and the whole experience is filled with clever puzzles and quirky characters. The humor is spot-on, and the art style is truly unique. Plus, the soundtrack is just perfect. If you haven't played it yet, you’re definitely missing out on a classic that still holds up today!

coolest game ever

ill finish it one day

Playing "Grim Fandango" was a mixed experience for me. The game is really creative, with a cool mix of film noir and Mexican culture. Manny is very charming and fun, and the rest of the ensemble full of unique and witty characters.However, I found the gameplay to be pretty clunky. Navigating the world was often frustrating, and some puzzles felt more annoying than clever. The game asks you to think OUTSIDE of outside of the box, which can be interesting but also really tough at times. There aren’t very many hints, and with such a vast world, it’s incredibly difficult to know that the fire extinguisher from the garage in the main city is supposed to be used in the river with the lava beavers in tandem with throwing.
I also had an issue with the game crashing 10+ times, which doesn’t happen with any of my other games via Steam. I found myself losing motivation to play it because of that.

Overall, "Grim Fandango" has a lot of charm and a unique story, but its awkward mechanics can make it a challenge to enjoy fully. If you're willing to put up with the frustrations, there’s a great adventure in there, it just wasn’t an adventure for me.

amazing and fun game puzzles can get abit confusing but once you get it great story and play! reminds me when i was first on dial up lol

manny calavera

Its just as buggy as the original. After getting stuck for the n-th time I said fuck it and played something else.

One of the great (greatest?) adventure games.

Having played the demo for this when I was a new model, I knew what to expect. Don't embark on this journey with illusions of self-sufficiency. Consult the guides. It's not worth it. Many of the puzzles can be solved with lateral thinking... but if you've already spent 5, 10, 15 minutes backtracking and talking to everyone for the third time... just read a guide. It's still a blast, and still fun.

The writing, gags, characters, world design, premise. It's running on all cylinders.

You know what I felt when I finished Grim Fandango for the first time last year? Delight. I can't remember the last game that left me with that feeling.

Good game

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The game's funny enough and clever enough, but the puzzles don't make any sense and that's why I stopped. It's no fun repeating the same scene over and over again, trying to figure out that you need to put the balloon in the sand which fills up the chamber so the maintenance has to come, leaving the door open so you can sabotage the lock so you can get in later and... I mean who thinks like that? The game is unsolvable without a walkthrough because nothing follows rationality, so there's no way you can win on your own merits.

Look, I played this in my youth and it was formative, so I won't be objective. I just love the vibe, the writing and the characters. It's definitely got its awkward bits (controls take a bit to get used to and pacing feels a bit rushed towards the end).

If the puzzles got you jammed, definitely check out Universal Hint System (UHS) to give you a nudge in the right direction!

Great Storyline, impeccable dialogues and loads of fun

Game is goated eventhough it's a difficult 90's point and click adventure game. I love the atmosphere, the characters and the music. The visuals are dated but give off a nostalgic sense.

9/10 would recommend

Very neat puzzles, nice art and atmosphere.

Remasters are always a good excuse to replay old classics. And you can get hardly more classical than Grim Fandango, with its genius setting in the Land of the Dead, it's more-often-than-not brilliant visuals (despite the clunky 3D), the great story and characters, the amazing music, and the unbelievably, world-famously horrible controls :) And now, with the remaster version adding a point-and-click interface next to the visual improvements, things should be perfect, right? Well, almost...

As for the visuals, the updated lighting is nice, but the original visual design is so good that it's really just a small improvement; the texture updates nearly go unnoticed. The point-and-click controls are mostly good, although they tend to fall apart a bit towards the end - and they also highlight the rather bad structuring of the locations, especially in year 2. Not a huge issue, but annoying.

However, the biggest problem has nothing to do with the remaster. I remembered Grim Fandango for the great puzzles - problem is, they're mostly from year 1. Year 2 puzzles start going downwards, and years 3 and 4 and downright terrible. Especially year 3, there's hardly anything we need to do makes much sense, sometimes not even with the benefit of hindsight. Compounded with misleading visual cues and the occasional interchangeability of the "pick up" and "use" verbs, the second half of the game was pretty dreadful (even the music went to hell at places) - yet, year 3 was saved by the great character interplay, and year 4 by the grand finale (not to mention the Hell Train scene).

All in all, Grim Fandango is still a great game, after all these years, it's just not the absolutely top echelon tour de force I remembered. The remaster does add some improvements, and it's worth your money, whether you played the original or not.

Constant crashes on steam deck when starting the game with recommended settings, with several proton. So far the game started just twice after two days trying, so right now it's unplayable and it is verified?