Play as Manny Calavera, a travel agent in the Department of Death. Your job is to help the recently departed leave the Land of the Dead. Depending on how many crimes were committed or how saintly your client’s life was while alive, they will either be trapped here in the eighth underworld until they’ve paid their dues, or given one of several methods of transport to the Land of Eternal Rest.
Manny was the best travel agent in his department, but with a new boss comes new troubles. Suddenly being demoted and having a storage closet as his office and all his new clients are losers or criminals, something else is going on. Train tickets going directly to the land of Eternal Rest are mysteriously missing, and Manny teams up with Glottis, an elemental spirit, to track down a newly dead named Meche, who’s ticket was stolen, is his key to unveiling this malicious plot and getting his job back!
Viva la Revolucion!

10+ hours long and well deserving of all it’s positive reviews, Grim Fandango was an absolute pleasure to play. I loved the story, worldbuilding, music, witty dialog, and having a sarcastic, pessimistic and yet heroic main character with a romantic streak. I loved all the characters and their designs, the villains, the atmosphere as well as the elemental spirits. I started this game with rather low expectations, I don’t particularly like point and click games and the quality and full voice acting caught me by surprise!
The only negative I can think of is the puzzles. While managing to finish one is nice, they can get really, really difficult since the solutions are way out of the norm. If you manage to beat this game without occasionally looking at a guide, kudos to you, because I couldn’t.

TL;DR: 10+ hours of gameplay with an epic story and fun characters, Grim Fandango is well deserving of it’s positive reviews.

Hidden Folks is a hand drawn HOG with 32 areas, look for hidden objects and people in an interactive environment with thousands of sound effects! 7+ hours long with a lot of options to change the game to dark mode or other alternatives, as well as a slider that changes the brightness level.
I really enjoyed playing Hidden Folks, there are a ton of unique re-playable levels with my favorites being the factory and beach areas and the sound effects are pretty entertaining.

Play as yourself using a government surveillance system, Orwell. Investigate the public and private lives of suspect individuals and citizens to find the one responsible for a series of terror attacks and prevent more from ever happening. Moral dilemma nothing, create profiles and collect data to submit to your superiors to bring individuals in for questioning, arrest, or deliver your own type of justice. No one is completely innocent.

Orwell: Keeping an Eye On You is a text based 7+ hour game with 5 chapters and 3 endings. Typically, reading the description of the game it would be natural to suspect Orwell is about learning the evils of government surveillance systems and their terrible effects, but both sides of the issue are shown and the game is very morally ambiguous. There are no right or wrong answers to your choices and honestly, it made the game more interesting. I took my time and ended up playing 9 hours straight instead of the 2-3 I planned. Orwell is remarkably immersive for a game and I definitely recommend you play it if you’re even slightly interested in the story.

Warnings: animal abuse (animal fighting, dog gets killed via bear), rape threats, gore, murder, mutilation, etc… And since this is an accurate depiction of the middle ages, a 13/14-year-old girl is married to a man more than twice her age.

Pillars of the Earth is based off the book with the same name. Play as three characters, Jack, the outlaw who lives in the forest with his mother; Aliena, a former noblewoman looking to fulfill her fathers dying request and find a home; and Philip, the monk and prior of a small crumbling cathedral in Kingsbridge. When a stirring war brings famine, death, and refuges to the town of Kingsbridge, Philip and a master builder begins the construction of a huge and grand cathedral to bring hope, wealth, and security to its population. Change the fate of characters in the books and maybe, just maybe, find your own happy ending.

While I would recommend against giving this game as a gift to someone with no knowledge of the game’s gruesome contents, the art and characters are quite lovely and the story is remarkable. 18+ hours to complete, 200+ hand painted backgrounds, full voice acting, and with animated character sprites it’s well worth buying at full price. The only cons I want to complain about is that Alfred disappears during book 2 and shows up at the end to remind people he still exists, and then is seriously glossed over in book 3. Book 3 also felt pretty rushed as it tied up a lot of loose ends, and ironically, I enjoyed it more than the previous two books, but still left some questions regarding individual characters I won’t get into here.

TL;DR: Uncomfortably accurate depictions of 12 century lifestyle + gore, mutilations, murder, hanging, rape threats, and child marriage wrapped up in a pretty bow that is quality art, voice acting and incredible storytelling. 18+ hours to beat, play it if you want.

100 Hidden Rams is much easier and about half as long as previous games, but it’s still a satisfying finish. There is a very cute hand drawn background complete with fun music and a few animations. However, because it’s only 6 minutes of content, I would get it only on sale.