TGS 2026 pulled 257,642 bodies through Makuhari Messe over four days before Typhoon No. 25 torched the planned fifth day, a 30th-anniversary flex that turned into a safety-first shrug. LEVEL-5 still dropped full playthrough footage of its three big demos — Professor Layton and the New World of Steam (14 minutes, English text option), DECAPOLICE's case-solving and city-patrol modes (45 minutes), and Holy Horror Mansion's Mononoke-collecting horror-lite — giving the rest of the world the hands-on they missed when the storm hit.

Layton drops December 10 on PS5, Switch 2, Switch, and Steam. The other two sit in 2027 with the rest of LEVEL-5's slate. Japanese outlets and Gematsu posted the raw footage days after the show wrapped, confirming the demos ran on the actual hardware shown on the floor.

Crowds still showed up hard despite weekend rain, with Saturday hitting peak numbers. Exhibitors called the early close a mixed bag — relief for exhausted staff, logistics scramble for teardown trucks. CESA already locked next year's dates for another five-day run September 16-20, 2027.