Last updated on May 30th, 2023 at 10:30 am
Layton: Curious Village in HD
Layton: Curious Village in HD is one of the best $9.99 to play game in the App Store.
Developed by Level-5 Inc., Layton: Curious Village in HD is a Adventure game with a content rating of 4+.
It was released on 25th September 2018 with the latest update 6th June 2022
Whether you are a fan of Adventure, Entertainment, or Puzzle games, you will find this game interesting and will absolutely like it.
Rating
270 people have rated 1.0.5
You can download the game Layton: Curious Village in HD from APP STORE.
Description
Awarded Best Handheld Game of 2008. Discover the title that launched a legacy!
With over 17 million units sold worldwide, discover the original title that shaped the puzzle-adventure genre and launched a legacy. Digitally remastered in HD for mobile devices and with new, never-before-seen animated cutscenes, it’s time to run the cerebral marathon with Professor Layton and the Curious Village.
The tale begins as Professor Layton, a true English gentleman and famous archeologist, drives to the remote settlement of St. Mystere with his apprentice, Luke, in response to a request from the widow of a wealthy baron. The baron’s will indicates that the family treasure, the Golden Apple, is hidden somewhere within the village, and whoever finds it will inherit the whole of the Reinhold Estate. The Professor and Luke must search the town for clues leading to the precious heirloom.
Featuring a distinctive artistic style that oozes old-world charm, the game’s quirky cast of characters instantly comes to life. The animated cutscenes, remastered in HD, tell key parts of the tale in gorgeous detail. And ever-present in the background, the original soundtrack, beloved by many players, keenly captures the mood of the Layton universe.
Based on the "Atama no Taisou" (lit. "Head Gymnastics") books by Akira Tago, Professor Layton and the Curious Village brings together more than 100 brain teasers including slide puzzles, matchstick puzzles, and even trick questions to flex players’ observation, logic, and critical thinking skills. In addition, rather than just selecting challenges from a list, players uncover puzzles through conversations with the villagers or by investigating their surroundings.
If you are obsessed with mind-bending puzzles, Professor Layton and the Curious Village is for you!
Game Features:
- 1st installment of the Layton Series
- Over 100 puzzles, designed by Akira Tago, that can be tackled on the way to solving the case
- New! Exclusive, never-before-seen animation footage
- Beautifully remastered in HD for mobile devices
- Engaging mini-games that include collecting gizmos and pieces of a mysterious painting, as well as pursuing side characters
- Offline play after initial download
This game can be played in English and French only.
- Requires OS 8.0 or higher (iPhone 4S and iPad 2 or newer)
Updated on 6th June 2022
Bug fixes.
Layton: Curious Village in HD Reviews
Im a huge fan of the Layton games- its our childhood. These bring us such happy memories. Level 5 please make all the Layton games available on mobile!!!!!
The puzzles that have a letter as answer dont recognize the keyboard. We are stuck and we paid a game that is not playable.
The gameplay is just how we remember it on the Ds. Love the story and puzzles. The cutscenes look so much better and smoother, as do the game graphics. There are some bugs, but very few. We need more Professor Layton HD remakes of the other games. PLEASE!!!!!!!!!!!!!
So. . . When does unwound future come out?
We loved the DS version and loved this version! If you are a fan of the professor Layton series, we highly recommend playing it. It has most from the original but also some new things which we loved. Cant wait till they release the whole series hopefully,
Please continue to remake the rest of the series, they were our childhood.
One of our favorite games of all time. It was really fun to relive the adventure as well as see some new scenes before and after the main story of the game. If you loves puzzles or love great stories, or both, you need to get this game!
It seems expensive but the amount of time and care that has gone into making these games as delightful as the Layton series is on other platforms makes this so worthwhile. We hope that Curious Village is just the first and developers continue to do the whole series for iOS.
We seem to be one of the only people who did not originally play this game on the Nintendo DS. We had our reservations playing for the first time on iOS, but this HD port does this game an INCREDIBLE service. Everything looks fantastic on the iPhone / Pad screen and theres enough puzzle content and challenges to keep you playing for a while if the story isnt enough. Im very impressed by this port in a time of half-baked remasters.
We havent a single bad thing to say about the game, story, or level of captivity this game brings. The craftsmanship and care put in to every detail causes Professor Laytons world to truly come alive.
This game was our life as a kid! Its so nice to replay this a decade later. Please port Diabolical Box too, that one was our favorite!!
If you like solving puzzles, you will enjoy this game a lot. It has a great story line, well developed puzzles, nice graphics and a charming cozy setting.
We remember when this game first came out for the DS. We loved every moment. Every puzzle, every character, every bit of mystery. For a 12 yr, it was an excellent challenge. Now seeing that we can play it on our phone all these years later, it warms our heart. Im still getting these happy feelings when we play. See it in HD and little extra cutscenes make it even more exciting. We feel like Im 12 again playing this for the first time. We love this whole series; it is one of our favorite game series of all time and Im happy to be able to play it again. So much love for this.
This game is great, but much much easier than the others in the series, which is why its a perfect first game. It is in no means easy though. We fully recommend to any Ace Attorney and Danganronpa fans too, as even though you arent solving murders it using similar energy in your mind.
We’ve been a fan of the series since Diabolical Box. This is a fantastic game with a good story. This remake is a perfect port to phones. We really hope the company ports the rest of the series.
Just buy the bundle you save so much money and get easily 50 hours of gameplay with the first 3 games this whole series is amazing.
We are 200% in love with Professor Layton and am sorry we did not get into the series much sooner. The aesthetics and the music are simply the most charming, even if the puzzles can be absolutely boggling at times. Eagerly awaiting the release of the second game on iOS. Otherwise, Ill just have to hunt down an old cartridge!
Add the other games to ios.. We’ll pay anything!!
It is a fascinating game but we could not find Korean subtitle for the game. We want a refund to purchase it at korean appstore.
Absolutly fantasic reworking of the original game! The only problem is that puzzle number 046 is slightly bugged.
When a puzzle is deemed incorrect, anything in the puzzles memo gets erased. Please fix this issue, as it is very bothersome.
You cant enter in a correct answer for some puzzles because the backslash character / cant be read and it just becomes a question mark ?. Its also really annoying to accurately draw with your finger. You also cant view the movies in landscape during gameplay. Some puzzles are worded terribly so it doesnt take seemingly worthy solutions.
We would have loved this in the 1980s, but today tapping incessantly to advance the slooooow dialog drives us crazy and makes our finger sore. If the story and dialog were minimized, we would get a lot more enjoyment out of the many, many great puzzles. If you dont want to spend the majority of your time tapping, skip this game.
Havent played the game yet, our if you have your ringer volume off the game volume wont work. Dont know why thats the case but it is!
Love the puzzles but when we come back to it, it wont play from where we left off.
Every time we try to it just kicks us out of the app. We’ve tried deleting it and downloading it again but we get the same problem. We cant even play the game we paid 10 bucks for.
Not very happy. Paid for the game but can’t get any sound.
$10 app with absolutely no sound. We tried uninstalling it, phone off and on… Nothing.
We cant get get by puzzle 38 becouse it is telling us to do with line but it wont let us do with one line can fix you fix it or give us our money back.
This game is fantastic! Every bit as good as it was on DS.
We really hope they create apps for the rest of the series!!!!
Amazing game. Bought it when we had an Android and but it on iOS. Cant wait for the other Layton games to come out for mobile.
This game was an awesome surprise to find! We loved this game as a kid and it was just as amazing on the phone! Cannot wait for another one!
Played the game as a kid and to bring it back on the iPhone was a great idea, hours of entertainment! Please make another adaptation to the iPhone ASAP!!!!
Edit: its good but we cant access hint 2 on any puzzle. We are only able to get hint one??? This hasnt burdened us yet but we know as we progress this will be a big pain so we havent finished this version of cv yet but we’ve played it on ds and gotta say… Professor layton is our life and we love him thanks and goodnight!
This is a fabulous game, we encourage any puzzle lovers to play it. Developers, one issue that really needs fixed is the memo option in the puzzles. We dont know about phones, but on the iPad it cuts off the bottom bit of the puzzle which is a real problem in several puzzles. Is there any way to fix that?
We love this game, so much like the original and it was a very fun childhood memory of ours BUT we have no volume, none of the cut scenes none of the text noises, as the original had. Please help, we want to fully enjoy this!
We cant believe this costs $10. Some of the puzzles are a little hard, but the storyline and the graphics are boring. It should really be clearly labeled that this is meant for children and not adults. Wish we could get a refund.
We’ve played most all the puzzles… Did notice one issue on puzzle 116. It says Arrange nine unique numbers between one and 51 when it should say Arrange nine unique numbers between one and 52. 51 is needed and is not between 1 and 51.
We played this game as a kid on our DS but we never had all the games in the series. Its so fun and reminds us of great memories! We hope Level 5 keeps coming out with each game in the series so worth the buy in our opinion.
This is not a puzzle game – it is a game filled with brain teaser puzzles … Each puzzle completely unrelated to any other puzzle in the game. Also, the dialogue is aimed at 12 & under. This is not at all what we were expecting and we’re disappointed that the App Store review was so misleading. The graphics are fun but it’s too expensive for what it is. However, if you like to solve lots of random brain teasers – this is your game.
We always enjoyed the game when we played it on Nintendo DS, and was happy to see it now in the App Store. However if you put out puzzles, you better check the correctness of your answers, especially when you punish the score if you do not get it correct. The clock puzzle (on the clock tower) is incorrect. It includes the 12:22 as a valid score (as shown in the hint). On a 12 hour clock (am/pm), the clock goes at 11:59 back to 00:00, and never will show 12:22. This number only shows on a 24 hour clock (once).
Level-5 PLEASE TO THE WHOLE SERIES we WOULD BUY ALL FOR THE SAME PRICE. SOOO GOOD. Hershel Layton it our home screen. Please do the series.
Playing this again was like a dream come true, everything was done so well!!!! Please do the rest or at least the sequel, we miss our hamster.
Just beat it! Bring on the Box!
Really fluid transfer from DS to iOS, hoping for more to come.
A lot of the people playing this game will get it because they were fans of the series already. Hopefully advertising gets to the point where more people can see this series! For those who havent played any PL games, this is the first in a series of 8 games (1 being PL vs AA). Theyre the best puzzles games you can play in which theres an actual story, in our opinion. We dont want to say too much, but the character development is really well done, and the twists are amazing. Hopefully they continue to port the series over to iOS. Diabolical Box/Unwound Future on iOS? Heaven. Id love to be able to have this entire series on our phone.
No. 29 wont let us put in a letter for the answer.