Montezuma’s Revenge: The 40th Anniversary Edition announced for Switch

Montezuma’s Revenge: The 40th Anniversary Edition is now in development for Switch, Eastasiasoft announced today in partnership with developers Mission Critical Studios, Handcrafted Mystical Games, and Normal Distribution. The game launches in 2025.

Montezuma’s Revenge: The 40th Anniversary Edition brings back the classic platforming adventure as a 2.5D remake with widescreen HD. Additionally, the game to 100 rooms, the total that was originally intended, but now the timeless classic has been updated.

Here’s some additional information about the game:

The 1983 classic multi-room platformer Montezuma’s Revenge returns in 2.5D glory, and now Pedro’s adventure is bigger than ever with 100 tricky rooms to explore! This time you can choose between male and female explorers, Pedro or his sister Rosita, to delve deep into the dangerous ruins and hunt for treasures untold!

Montezuma’s Revenge – The 40th Anniversary Edition is remade from the ground up with vibrant 3D visuals while preserving the 1983 original’s 2D gameplay style. Run, jump and climb your way through tricky chambers to collect valuable artifacts, avoid perilous traps and fiendish enemies, find color-coded keys to progress and survive a final showdown to escape with your riches… and your life!

Key Features

• Choose between seasoned male and female explorers!
• Explore 100 tricky chambers filled with traps, treasures and roving baddies.
• Collect valuable artifacts as you solve the ruins’ many mysteries!
• Enjoy retro aesthetics reimagined in vibrant 2.5D style.
• Relive a timeless video game classic in its most complete form ever!

A first look at the game is available via the trailer below.

Official Trailer

Montezuma’s Revenge: The 40th Anniversary Edition will be sold physically and digitally on Switch. The former will be sold by Play-Asia with pre-orders opening on October 10 here. There’ll be 2,000 units of the limited edition made, and each unit includes the game cartridge, manual, soundtrack CD, and numbered certificate plus the PC version of the expanded retro game Montezuma’s Revenge: Director’s Cut on a custom key-shaped USB drive, all packaged in a collector’s box with newly produced artwork. 

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