Gobliiins Collection Reaches Xbox Without Its Newest Game

Gobliiins Collection is on Xbox Series X|S, PlayStation 5, and Nintendo Switch as a $24.99 five-game pack that stops short of the sequel Pierre Gilhodes already released.

Red Art Games put the set on digital stores on May 27, 2026, after four years of work. A PlayStation 5 disc follows on September 24, 2026, in a collector box that ships a rigid floppy disk with a signed postcard.

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Five Games, Three Engines, and No Source Code

The pack holds Gobliiins (1991), Gobliins 2 (1992), Goblins 3 (1993), Gobliiins 4 (2009), and Gobliiins 5 (2023). Jérôme Labbé, CTO at Red Art Games and director on the port, said the team only had source code for the fifth game. The sources for the first four, he said, had been lost.

That gap shaped the whole job. Labbé said Red Art used an existing solution to run the first three games, then rebuilt Gobliiins 4 from watching the original, a 3D entry that had no leftover code to compile. The work meant three different engines on three consoles, which is why a small team spent four years on a set that looks, on a store page, like a simple reissue.

The first three games ship in more than one vintage build, including MS-DOS, CD-ROM, and Mac cuts. Reviewer Dave Ozzy, writing after an Xbox Series playthrough, noted that those early games can be run in floppy or CD form, with auto-saves and a few quality-of-life tweaks such as less item juggling in the 1991 game. Each title still uses its own menus and button map, which makes hopping from one to the next clumsier than a single remaster would.

Labbé was blunt about who this is for. He said the first four games are not an easy on-ramp for newcomers, and that he would point a first-timer at Gobliiins 5. The extras around that advice are a music player, 3D models of the old boxes, a gallery of design papers, and a filmed interview with Gilhodes, shot at his home. Red Art even rang Roland Oskian, founder of original studio Coktel Vision, during the project.

GOBLiiNS6 Already Shipped in February

Gilhodes did not wait for the console set. After Gobliiins 4’s 3D experiment in 2009, he went back to 2D for a fifth game he built himself in Adventure Game Studio. His 2023 Kickstarter campaign lists 450 backers and €7,774 in pledges. Gobliiins 5 landed on itch.io on May 2, 2023, then on Steam on July 20, 2023 at $10.99, where 92% of 70 user reviews are positive.

But, I think that the gamers prefer my 2d world, so here it is again, the new 2 D Gobliiins, just like before, for PC, 640 pixels by 480.

Pierre Gilhodes, Gobliiins co-creator, Kickstarter project page

He kept going. GOBLiiNS6 on Steam for $11.99 came out on February 13, 2026, 103 days before the console collection. It is a 16-level 16:9 sequel to Gobliins 2 that brings back Fingus and Winkle. Steam tags it Positive, with 86% of 22 user reviews in favor. A separate 2024 Kickstarter for that sixth game lists 468 backers and €11,383 pledged against a €4,000 goal.

Labbé said Gobliins 6 was announced and released before Red Art’s pack, and that folding it in would have pushed the console project back at least another year. He also said that delay may have frustrated some players. The store copy still sells “the first five iconic titles.” The living series is already on number six, sold by Schnibble Productions, not by Red Art.

HOW THE PACK FELL BEHIND ITS OWN SEQUEL

1. Early 2022: Labbé sees the Gobliiins 5 crowdfunding, calls Gilhodes, and learns Gilhodes holds rights to the first four games.
2. May 2, 2023: Gobliiins 5 goes up on itch.io as a four-part 2D adventure.
3. February 13, 2026: GOBLiiNS6 ships on Steam while the console collection is still in testing.
4. May 27, 2026: Gobliiins Collection goes live digitally on Xbox Series, PS5, and Switch, still capped at five games.
5. August 6, 2026: A Switch 2 build adds mouse controls, 4K, a free upgrade, and save import.
6. September 24, 2026: Europe gets the PS5 Standard and Collector discs, still without game 6.

William Worrall scored the console set 8 out of 10 and wrote that if you can wrap your head around the puzzle logic, you will find a stunning cartoon adventure within. Chase Curnow put the five games at more than 20 hours. Those hours do not include the sixth game, which still lives on PC as a separate $11.99 download.

Why the Collection Stops at Consoles

Ask for a PC build of this museum and Red Art’s answer is a rights split, not a lack of demand. Labbé said the collection could only come out on consoles because the PC rights to the first three Gobliiins games already sit with another publisher. If that ever changes, he said Red Art would want to put the set on PC.

Gilhodes, in Labbé’s account, owns the franchise rights that made the console deal possible and was the main contact across the four years. Muriel Tramis, co-creator of the original games with Gilhodes at Coktel Vision, was in the early talks. The first three titles once rode Sierra’s American catalogs; the new pack never needed that pipeline because it is not going to Steam as a bundle.

That split is why a 35-year-old PC series is making its home-console debut as a console exclusive. It is also why the sixth game, which Gilhodes can still publish himself on Steam, sits outside the box that claims to gather the saga.

A Floppy Disk for a PlayStation 5

Red Art’s real product cadence shows up in cardboard. Digital copies have been on sale since May. The object collectors are waiting for is a European PS5 disc dated September 24, 2026. Retail listings dated September 8 still treated that disc as a pre-order.

Red Art’s PS5 standard disc is €39.99 and, in the shop’s own words, is just the game, with no sleeve and no extras. The Collector’s Edition is €64.99. Labbé said players helped the team chase old box scans and archive scraps when official files ran out, which is the same instinct the collector SKU is selling back to them.

THE PS5 COLLECTOR BOX

• The disc: One PlayStation 5 copy of the five-game set, in a box modeled on old PC packaging.
• The booklet: A dedicated print companion in the collector carton.
• The floppy: A rigid, decorative 3.5-inch disk. It is a prop, not a boot disk.
• The card: A postcard signed by Pierre Gilhodes.

There is still no physical Switch edition, which is the request that came back first when Red Art posted the surprise digital drop. People who keep original PC big boxes are the audience this SKU is built for. The same announcement thread also asked for Woodruff and the Schnibble of Azimuth, Gilhodes’ other 1990s adventure, which is not in this pack either.

What Xbox Players Get for $24.99

On Microsoft hardware the set is a one-time purchase. The $24.99 Xbox Series listing marks it as optimized for Xbox Series X|S, with 4K Ultra HD, achievements, and cloud saves. It is rated Teen for mild violence, sexual themes, and use of alcohol. The store lists Xbox Series X|S as the playable hardware, not Xbox on PC.

The five-game Xbox launch is the first time this French puzzle line has sat on a Microsoft console. Languages on the listing run to six. Across the set you get English, French, Italian, German, and Spanish, with one gap: Gobliiins 5 has no Italian. European print copies carry a PEGI 16 mark.

THE XBOX STORE BUILD

• Price: $24.99 as a download, with no Game Pass badge on the product page.
• Hardware: Xbox Series X|S only, with 4K and cloud saves.
• Rating: ESRB Teen, for mild violence, sexual themes, and use of alcohol.
• Play: Single-player, with achievements, and no Xbox on PC option listed.

Ozzy’s main knock after that Series playthrough was Gobliiins 4, the 3D rebuild, which he said has aged poorly next to the 2D games. That is the same title Labbé’s team had to reconstruct by eye because the source was gone. You are paying for a museum that includes the awkward middle chapter, not a greatest-hits cut that leaves it in the vault.

Switch 2 Puts the Mouse Back

Point-and-click games of this vintage want a cursor. Red Art’s original Switch build leaned on buttons and touch. On August 6, 2026, the publisher put up a Switch 2 version with mouse controls and 4K output for all five games, plus a free upgrade and save import for anyone who already bought the Switch copy.

That mouse mode is the closest this pack gets to “the way they were designed and played back in the 90s,” which is Red Art’s own line for the Switch 2 SKU. At launch on Switch, the company also flagged bugs and said a patch would add a How to Play screen before Gobliiins 1, 2, and 3, a confirm step before starting a new game in that trio, and better touch behavior across all five titles.

Switch remains digital-only. If you want a box, a booklet, and a disk you cannot boot, the path is still the September 24 PlayStation 5 collector carton. Xbox and Switch owners keep the cheaper download and, on Switch 2, a cursor that finally matches the puzzles.

Gilhodes is still the person Labbé named as the only one who should make new Gobliiins games, and he is already selling the sixth one on PC. The console set that arrives on disc later this month is a careful, incomplete museum: five games, three engines, no original source for the first four, and a floppy that never has to work.