{"id":766874,"date":"2026-09-11T04:20:10","date_gmt":"2026-09-11T04:20:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/766874\/"},"modified":"2026-09-11T04:20:10","modified_gmt":"2026-09-11T04:20:10","slug":"first-professor-layton-game-gets-ps5-remake-curious-village-out-in-2027","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/766874\/","title":{"rendered":"First Professor Layton Game Gets PS5 Remake, Curious Village Out in 2027"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n

You’ll be able to play the latest Professor Layton<\/a> title, the New World of Steam<\/a>, on PS5 this December as the character makes his PlayStation debut. However, also, the original title that started the series is being remade.<\/p>\n

Level-5 has announced today in its latest livestream that a full PS5 remake of Professor Layton and the Curious Village<\/a> is releasing next year. You can catch the reveal trailer above.<\/p>\n

As for the kind of updates and improvements you can expect in the remade version, the official website mentions the following:<\/p>\n

3D-rendered characters
\nImmersive exploration
\nHigh-resolution animation
\nWidescreen support<\/p>\n

Obviously, the visuals have been given a facelift too. The PS5 remake is set to launch at some point next year.<\/p>\n

Professor Layton and the Curious Village debuted as a Nintendo DS game in 2008, and released to critical acclaim as an excellent puzzle experience. It’s got an 85 rating on Metacritic<\/a>, and 18 years ago, our sister site Nintendo Life<\/a> awarded the game a 9\/10, concluding:<\/p>\n

“Professor Layton and the Curious Village is unquestionably one of the best Nintendo DS games released thus far. If you enjoyed games such as Brain Age or Phoenix Wright, you\u2019ll be more than satisfied with this puzzling adventure.”<\/p>\n

Will you play the original Professor Layton game on PS5 next year? Let us know in the comments below.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"You’ll be able to play the latest Professor Layton title, the New World of Steam, on PS5 this…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":766875,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[10519,59,4007,132375,112,86,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-766874","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-technology","tag-announcements","tag-gb","tag-level-5","tag-professor-layton","tag-ps5","tag-technology","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/766874","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=766874"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/766874\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/766875"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=766874"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=766874"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=766874"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}