Key Takeaways
- Argonaut Games has confirmed the release of its Croc: Legend Of The Gobbos remaster has been pushed to 2025.
- That means the pre-order period for physical copies has been extended until December 27, 2024.
- The studio has also confirmed there will be a Croc 2 remaster, and potentially even a Croc 3, if the remaster sells well enough.
There’s good news and bad news regarding the upcoming release of the Croc: Legend Of The Gobbos remaster. The bad news is it won’t be here before the end of 2024 as planned. The good news is that gives you another chance to pre-order the game. The even better news is Argonaut Games has confirmed there have already been discussions to do more with the series beyond the initial remaster.
The Croc devs issued a statement on Friday confirming that its remaster of the first Croc game will no longer be released this month. Legend Of The Gobbos remastered now has a new launch window of Q1 2025. Not the longest delay in the world, and Argonaut was very open about the possibility of the remaster’s release needing to be pushed into early next year if it didn’t feel the game was ready to go by Christmas.
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The pre-order period for the Croc remaster’s physical version, as well as its collector’s edition, was supposed to come to an end this Tuesday, December 10, 2024. However, since that date was chosen with a December release date in mind for the digital version of Croc, Rock It Games, the storefront handling the remaster’s physical version, has extended the pre-order period. It will now run until December 27, 2024.
The Croc Remaster Has Been Delayed, But There’s More Good News Than Bad
Potentially A Croc 2 Remaster, And Even A New Game In The Series
Argonaut Games has been fielding questions about the future of Croc ever since the remaster’s delay was announced. Quite a few fans asked if there are plans to remaster Croc 2, the sequel that followed in Legend Of The Gobbos footsteps two years on from the first game’s launch. The studio didn’t confirm a Croc 2 remaster will happen, but did confirm there will be one if the first game performs well enough.
If the Croc remaster sells well enough, and then Croc 2 does too, there have even already been discussions to finally complete the trilogy. Argonaut was in the process of developing a third Croc game, Stone of the Gobbos, when the studio closed in 2004 and the series’ IP was sold. The third Croc game was canceled and until the upcoming remaster, outside of a few mobile games, there had been nothing from the platforming crocodile for 25 years.
Croc: Legend of the Gobbos
Help Croc, the crusading crocodile, rescue his peace-loving Gobbo Islander friends from the grasp of the evil magician Baron Dante. This game has five different 3-D worlds to explore and includes volcanoes, forests, ice glaciers, and underwater caves, each with its own unique elements, terrifying monsters, and mind-boggling obstacles.