We always liked the Syberia series alot. Aside from all the Lucas Arts classics, we also (very) enjoyed playing the following 90/2000 (style) adventures:
- The Broken Sword series
- Broken Sword 2.5: The Return of the Templars | Download free version
- Runaway: A Road Adventure
- Runaway 2: The Dream of the Turtle
- Thimbleweed Park
- Edna & Harvey: The Breakout
- Edna & Harvey: Harvey's New Eyes
Historic
- Flight of the Amazon Queen | Free at GOG
- Touché: The Adventures of the Fifth Musketeer
- Nelly Cootalot: The Fowl Fleet
- Ankh | Ankh: Heart of Osiris | Ankh: Battle of the Gods
Fantasy, fairy tales
- Discworld
- Discworld 2: Missing Presumed...!?
- Inherit the Earth
- The Simon the Sorcerer series - mainly part 1 and 2
- The Legend of Kyrandia
- The Legend of Kyrandia: Hand of Fate
- The Legend of Kyrandia: Malcolm's Revenge
- The Book of Unwritten Tales
- The Book of Unwritten Tales 2
- The Book of Unwritten Tales: The Critter Chronicles
- The Whispered World
SciFi
If you are unhappy with suggested XSane, but only want an OSS solution, I do not know a good alternative.
Possible non-OSS solution
Although I am an open source enthusiast, there are few application where I use commercial, even non-OSS solutions on Linux. One of this exceptions is for scanning.Background: I "administrate" some legacy Epson scanners used with my family's Linux boxes and got them all to run with a software called VueScan, with the following restrictions:
As you see, it might be a bit of luck, if a device works out of the box or not.
Unfortunately your Epson Stylus SX435W seems not to be listed under the supported Epson devices (click red button "All drivers" to see all supported Epson scanners).
If you happen to find no solution, I suggest to use the trial version of VueScan and check if your Epson simply runs or not.
EDIT: sorry, I forgot to mention. that the VueScan GUI has plenty of those processing options you are searching for.