Rayman Legends Retold Just Showed 6 Minutes of Everything New

A New Trailer, and a Lot More Game Than Expected

Ubisoft dropped a six-minute overview trailer for Rayman Legends Retold on September 22, and it’s the clearest look yet at how much of a rebuild this actually is. Developed by Ubisoft Montpellier and Ubisoft Milan, it’s not a coat-of-paint remaster of 2013’s Rayman Legends — there’s new story content, a brand-new realm, and traversal options the original never had.

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Rayman Legends Retold - Game Overview Trailer

Why It Matters for Dads

The headline addition is Land of the Livid Dead, an entirely new realm that wasn’t in the 2013 game, alongside new cutscenes that actually give the story some shape — the original was famously thin on narrative between its gorgeous level design. There’s also new music-level content on top of the originals’ rhythm stages, which were already the best thing Legends ever did.

None of that changes what makes this a genuinely good pick for family game nights: it’s still a side-scrolling platformer built around forgiving checkpoints, bright and readable level design, and drop-in four-player couch co-op where nobody has to sit out. If your household already runs on the kind of couch co-op we cover in our LEGO games family co-op guide, Rayman slots into that same slot — just with tighter platforming and less collecting. It’s also arriving day one on Switch 2, which is worth knowing if that’s the console doing the family-room heavy lifting these days; see our best Switch games for family game night for what else belongs in that rotation.

This is also the second major Ubisoft catalog game to get the full from-scratch remake treatment this year, after Assassin’s Creed Black Flag Resynced — a pattern worth watching if you’ve got other Ubisoft favorites gathering dust.

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What’s Next

Expect gameplay demos and hands-on previews to ramp up now that the overview trailer is out — the game was already playable on the gamescom show floor in August. We’ll have our full review ready around launch.