How much does a footstep weigh? Could you pay a debt in miles wandered, loves lost, and feelings felt? Fiscal deficit peels off of people until all that remains are workable bones. The hungry, self-subsuming organ of the state argues that for the consolidation of an archaic greater good, we must build a highway directly through your house. Just fifty dollars and we'll be out of your hair. Just an arm and you'll be debt free. Though of course, you know that the road will be haunted - by the house, by its neighbours, by you. The debt state does not mind, however, having consolidated away any need to remember a ghost long ago, and those of us who remain are left to build cities in graveyards.

And I can't feel at home in this world anymore

Gorgeous, full of love, snark and chalky working-class pessimism, the afterlife which Grim Fandango illustrates is a gorgeous dance, seeped in a love for sepia-noir and Mexico's Día de los Muertos. Everything from the voicework to the expectedly golden Doublefine-touch in the art and writing makes Grim Fandango an absolute pleasure from start to finish. Fans of their contemporary titles - see: Psychonauts 2, and its original; are sure to love this kitchy, art-deco, jazzy romp through both the grime and the good times in the underworld.

Not a moment of gameplay is left without the insightful, funny, wise-cracking commentary from the phenomenal character that is Tony Plana's Manuel 'Manny' Calavera, best travel agent in the Ninth underworld. Rest assured - you'll be both entering, and with any luck; leaving the afterlife with a big dumb smile on your face.