Grim Fandango Remastered
Something's rotten in the land of the dead, and you're being played for a sucker. Meet Manny Calavera, travel agent at the Department of Death. He sells luxury packages to souls on their four-year journey to…
Grim Fandango Remastered is an adventure developed by Double Fine Productions, released 26 January 2015 on Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, PlayStation Vita and Xbox One. The main story takes about 10.5 hrs to finish.
What Grim Fandango Remastered is
Grim Fandango Remastered is an adventure game developed by Double Fine Productions and released in 2015. It is available on Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, PlayStation Vita, Xbox One, Android, iOS, Linux, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows). It runs on GrimE.
The premise, in the publisher's words
In the Land of the Dead, the recently departed must undertake the Four Year Journey of the Soul to reach their final eternal rest. Those who led virtuous lives earn luxurious travel packages to ease the passage, the finest being the Number Nine, an express train that whisks its passengers to their destination in mere minutes, while the less deserving are left to make the long trek on their own. Manny Calavera works as a travel agent at the Department of Death in the city of El Marrow, grudgingly selling these journeys to work off a mysterious debt. Frustrated at being stuck with unworthy clients, Manny discovers that a pure-hearted new arrival named Mercedes "Meche" Colomar has been wrongly…
How it plays
It is played from a bird view / isometric perspective. Its themes are comedy and drama. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. There are 47 achievements to unlock.
How it was received
Grim Fandango Remastered holds a critic score of 82 out of 100. That places it above 76% of the 7,527 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2015 averaged 69, so it scored 13 points above the year average. Player ratings track closely with critics at 81, across 234 votes.
How long it takes, and what that costs
The main story runs about 10.5 hrs.
What you need to run it
The minimum specification calls for Intel® Core™ 2 Duo 2.4 GHz, AMD Athlon™ X2 2.8 GHz, or higher, 4 GB RAM and ATI Radeon HD 4650 / NVIDIA GeForce GT 220 / Intel HD 4000 Graphics, or equivalent. At 4GB of RAM, it will run on essentially any working PC — that is below what a budget laptop ships with today. Install size is roughly 6GB.
What it launched against
Grim Fandango Remastered launched on 26 January 2015, within three weeks of Life Is Strange, Dying Light: The Following - Enhanced Edition, Dying Light and Resident Evil HD Remaster. It reviewed better than 2 of the 4. It arrived 2 years into the PlayStation 4's life, so it was built for hardware developers already knew well.
Released around the same time: Life Is Strange, Dying Light: The Following - Enhanced Edition, Dying Light, Resident Evil HD Remaster.
Cheats and codes
We have not confirmed any working cheat codes for Grim Fandango Remastered yet. Rather than reprint a list we have not tested, this section stays empty until one is verified.
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