Professor Layton And The Curious Village Remake Officially Announced

Level-5 Just Announced A Surprise Professor Layton And The Curious Village Remake Published Sep 10, 2026, 10:08 AM EDT Joshua Robertson is an editor for TheGamer, having working in news, guides, features, and reviews since 2022. They have written thousands of news stories, ranging from industry-breaking events, to smaller, more personal community pieces, and have covered several high-profile showcases such as The Game Awards and Nintendo Directs. Joshua is considered an expert in soulslikes, horror, JRPGs and everything Final Fantasy, having written extensive coverage for massively popular online titles like Final Fantasy 14. Sign in to your TheGamer account Earlier this week, Level-5 announced a lot of stuff at Nintendo's latest Direct, one of which was the release date for the latest Professor Layton game, The New World of Steam. You'd have thought they'd use the event to show off everything they had planned, but it seems as though there wasn't enough room for all the Professor Layton announcements they had. Revealed via a random YouTube video simply uploaded to Level-5's Japanese YouTube account, it's been announced that Professor Layton and the Curious Village, which released for the Nintendo DS back in 2008, is getting a full-blown remake. Unfortunately, since the only available trailer is in Japanese right now, there aren't many details unless you speak the language. However, we do know that it will be launching at some point in 2027, and that it won't be exclusive to Nintendo hardware. You can see at the end of the trailer that this remake will also be launching on PC and PS5, along with both Nintendo Switch consoles. We also have a link to the game's official website as well, although it is once again in Japanese. However, there are a few before and after pictures that you can see that give you an idea of the scale of the remake, and it does seem to be pretty impressive, even this far away from release. It's good to see the game be made more playable, especially what with the original still shackled to the Nintendo DS. That being said, we have a different Professor Layton game on the way first, that being the aforementioned New World of Steam. Just like this newly announced remake, The New World of Steam will be available on all platforms apart from Xbox, and it finally got a release date of December 10 earlier this week. It's looking like a pretty decent year ahead for the Professor Layton fans out there. Systems Released February 10, 2008 ESRB E Developer(s) Level 5 Publisher(s) Nintendo Genre(s) Puzzle, Adventure