Publisher Mircroids and developer Microids Studio Paris have announced that their remake of Belgian writer and director Benoit Sakal’s Amerzone: The Explorer’s Legacy will be releasing on April 24 for PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S, and PC; Gematsu shares that a demo is available on all platforms and that save data can be transferred to the full release. The initial release of Amerzone: The Explorers Legacy was released on PC, October 18, 1999.

Amerzone: The Explorer’s Legacy is set in a mysterious realm, within a Latin American setting. You will assume the role of French journalist Alexandre Valembois who is set on an expedition to the Southern American at the behest of an explorer’s final wishes.

Gamereactor interviewed producer at Mircroids Studio Paris, Baptiste Taborin and asked what the process of modernizing Amerzone: The Explorer’s Legacy looked like, he had this to say “…I mean we have the same story, we have the same puzzles, but we wanted to do something for the first gamers, but also for the newcomers, because it’s an old-school game, it’s very hard and it doesn’t have the same quality of affordance we now require. So we bring more lore, to keep the player interested in the discovery, in the exploration. We bring more environmental storytelling by the quality of art, which we are focused to keep the same level as our previous game, Syberia: The World Before.”

Amerzone: The Explorer’s Legacy features nods to the source material in reimagined puzzles as well as content exclusive to the remake.

Amerzone: The Explorer’s Legacy seems to be off to a great start considering that the original has been generally well received and the staff at Microids Studio Paris have proven themselves capable adventure game developers with their work on the Syberia Series. Fans of this twenty-some year old tale will get to relive or experience it for the first time come April.