Sam & Max: The Devil's Playhouse (Collector's Edition)

Telltale knew how to send Sam and Max off in style. The Sam & Max: The Devil's Playhouse Collector's Edition for PC is a love letter to one of adventure gaming's weirdest and most beloved duos, bundling an exclusive poster and five exclusive badges alongside the game. It's a lean package, sure, but that's part of the charm.

Sam and Max never needed excess. They needed attitude, and these collectibles deliver exactly that. The badges are the highlight here, small wearable tributes to the Freelance Police that let you fly your point-and-click flag in public.

The poster captures the absurdist horror-comedy tone of The Devil's Playhouse, which remains the most ambitious season Telltale ever produced for the franchise. This was 2011, when Telltale was still the scrappy studio making adventure games for people who remembered what adventure games were. Before Walking Dead changed everything, Sam and Max was their identity.

Finding this Collector's Edition complete with all five badges intact is getting harder by the year. If you're building an adventure game shelf, this is one of the cornerstones.