Grim Fandango Remastered for free on Gog

Adventure/Lucasfilm Games
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At the moment you can get Grim Fandango Remastered for free on Gog.com and serveral LucasArts games/adventures with a discount.

/edit: The special offer is over/closed.

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Thanks. I never got something free from GOG.com. Do you know if it will stay in my library once the giveaway finishes?

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Yes, it will stay in your library (forever). It’s like buying the game for 0 Dollar/Euros.

(That was valid for all free games I got in the past… :slight_smile: )

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  1. There are games which are always free on GOG like BASS, Lure of the Temptress or FOTAQ, also some demos and DLCs: free stuff
  2. In case of such promotions like Grim Fandango Remastered the game should be directly added to your library.
    Note: There may be cases you get gift codes (e.g. when you already own this particular game). Be aware that gift codes from such sales often have a short expiration time (like one month).
    Interestingly this is not the case with GF (~3 years!).
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Thank you!

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Such a great game… My favourite after Monkey Island. :heart_eyes:

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An article on Grim Fandango was just published.
https://www.filfre.net/2024/11/grim-fandango/

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I was quite excited when checking the forum to find Grim Fandango Remastered free on GOG, just after reading that article yesterday.

Then I noticed the “7 years later”. :frowning:.

Not that the article would have instilled the urge to replay that game, though I think Jimmy may be a bit too harsh on the gameplay and a bit too enthusiastic about the story. I did like the overall atmosphere of Grim Fandango, though, and I am positive I must have completed it with little to no outside help. If the ending would have been more satisfying, I think the incentive for replaying might be bigger.

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I played Grim Fandango a bit back in the day, but I didn’t get very far. I think its English may have been above my ken, but it’s possible the game design didn’t do it any favors either. I did enjoy and finish MI4 a couple years later, however.

I bought Grim Fandango Remastered not too long after it came out, but I somehow never got around to playing it. Games I played in the interim include Psychonauts, Costume Quest and Psychonauts 2.

Curiously, some people say Psychonauts is a great story with a weak game, while to me Psychonauts is a fantastic game but I find the story one of Schafer’s weaker ones. (Don’t get me wrong, that’s still means it’s quite good.)

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The first time I tried playing Grim Fandango I didn’t get very far and wasn’t really into it.
Though when I tried it for a second time I finished it and enjoyed it quite a lot.

The problem initially is that the first few sections (in Year One) are kind of linear and a mixed bag of little underdeveloped areas. I reckon a lot of people stop playing before they make it out of Year One.

Though once you get to Rubacava, it gets a lot better. That’s the best part of the game for me, when it opens up into a good-sized area and becomes more like other classic adventure game areas. It’s sort of the “Melee Island” area of the game.

After you leave there, there’s a couple of other decently memorable locations - they’re better than the start, but it never gets as good as that time in Rubacava again.
In the final part, I remember being disappointed in a casino place, where it felt sort of unfinished and underwhelming.

I didn’t find the puzzles as frustrating as that article was saying - there were only a couple of times I looked up a solution.
Both were where I had actually figured out what to do, but the controls made it difficult to actually implement it and so I wanted to know if I was wasting my time going down an incorrect route.

I should probably go play the remastered version with the mouse cursor at some point.
Though I wish they had a 2D version of the game, preferably with the verb interface. It just had the misfortune of being made at time when 3D was the hot new thing, but also the clunky and misshapen new thing.

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I agree with @Paul, my experiences with the game were nearly the same.

I had to look up the elevator and the casino puzzles. :smile:

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Mine were the elevator one (with the fork-lift) and the axe (on the tile).

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It’s been 25 years so I don’t recall the exact details, but indeed I never made it past that.

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