# What is the best Tim Schafer game?

> Pirate puzzles, skeleton noir and a psychic summer camp: three decades of one designer's strangest ideas.

*By YPB Team · Published October 30, 2026 · https://youpick.best/ranking/what-is-the-best-tim-schafer-game*

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1. **Day of the Tentacle** — score 1000/1000
   Schafer and Dave Grossman's 1993 time-travel cartoon adventure starring Bernard, Hoagie and Laverne.
2. **Grim Fandango** — score 1000/1000
   The 1998 film-noir adventure set in the Land of the Dead, starring travel agent Manny Calavera.
3. **Psychonauts** — score 600/1000
   Double Fine's 2005 platformer where psychic cadet Raz dives into the minds of campers and counselors.
4. **Psychonauts 2** — score 599/1000
   The 2021 sequel that sends Raz into the Psychonauts headquarters and earned some of the best reviews of Schafer's career.
5. **Brütal Legend** — score 466/1000
   Heavy-metal open-world action game from 2009 with Jack Black as roadie Eddie Riggs.
6. **Broken Age** — score 466/1000
   The Kickstarter-funded point-and-click adventure that splits between two teenagers' parallel stories.
7. **The Secret of Monkey Island** — score 0/1000
   LucasArts' 1990 pirate adventure, co-written by Schafer, that made Guybrush Threepwood a comedy icon.
8. **Monkey Island 2: LeChuck's Revenge** — score 0/1000
   The 1991 sequel, again co-written by Schafer, famed for its puzzles and its baffling ending.
9. **Full Throttle** — score 0/1000
   Schafer's 1995 biker adventure following Ben, leader of the Polecats gang, through a dusty future highway.

Tags: games, adventure, tim schafer, double fine