Tim Schafer, manden bag titler som Day of the Tentacle, Full Throttle og selvfølgelig Grim Fandango, har luftet nogle af sine fremtidsplaner og drømme offentligt. Blandt andet siger han, at han har ladet sig inspirere af Grand Theft Auto V til sine seneste spilideer, og at han drømmer om at lave en efterfølger til Grim Fandango med sandkasse-elementer. I et interview med Kotaku siger han:
"I've had this urge to make a fully 3D version of El Marrow, where it's more like an open world game. You're running around the city and stuff. Games like Grand Theft Auto have a lot of the elements of adventure games, and if there was just an inventory that wasn't guns, you could probably do a full adventure game in one. That's something I've thought about since the '90s."