Professor Layton and the Unwound Future: Gameplay, Platforms and Key Facts

Professor Layton and the Unwound Future (2008) is a point-and-click, puzzle, visual novel video game developed by LEVEL-5, available on NDS. It holds an aggregated critic and player score of 88/100 on IGDB.

What is Professor Layton and the Unwound Future about?

As with previous Professor Layton games, Unwound Future is an adventure game where the player solves puzzles offered by local citizens to progress the story forward, through dialogue and around 32 minutes of full motion video. The player moves about the game through still images of locations. The player can use the DS touchscreen to tap on non-player characters to start a dialog or to obtain a puzzle, and also can search anywhere on the background for hint coins, with some areas needing to be tapped several times to reveal a secret hint coin or puzzle. Puzzles are brainteasers of many varieties, including visual, math, and logic. There is no time limit to solve puzzles, and the player can get up to 3 hints at a cost of one hint coin each; a new feature in Unwound Future is a "super hint", costing 2 coins, that can only be bought after the other 3 hints have been revealed, but that nearly

Key details

Professor Layton and the Unwound Future was released in 2008 and supports single player. Platforms: NDS. Developer: LEVEL-5.

Should you play Professor Layton and the Unwound Future?

With a 88/100 aggregate score, Professor Layton and the Unwound Future ranks among the best-reviewed games in its genre and is widely considered a must-play.