Lady Layton takes her professor dad’s spotlight in the next entry in the puzzle series

A new face is getting into the family business of solving stranger’s riddles and finishing their math homework.

Developer Level-5 has announced a new entry in its Professor Layton series of puzzle-based games, called Lady Layton. It stars the professor’s daughter, and it will launch in Japan in spring 2017 for 3DS, iOS, and Android. We don’t have a Western release date yet. The Layton series has so far sold over 15.5 million copies worldwide. It’s a unique franchise. Many games focus on action, but Layton titles are all about solving riddles, puzzles, and logic problems. Each game also features a mystery, with the hero using Sherlock Holmes-like deduction to save the day.