Joe Richardson's Painting-Collage Adventure Trilogy Hits PS5, Xbox and Switch as a Single Anthology

The Immortal John Triptych, developer Joe Richardson's decade-long project of building playable worlds out of collaged Renaissance and Baroque paintings, launched as a unified anthology on August 27, 2026, according to Tech Times. It's now available on PS5, Xbox Series X|S, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch, Nintendo Switch 2, and PC via Steam.

Richardson has described his own hands as "whittled to nubs" after ten years of cutting up Old Master paintings to build the three games in the collection, per Tech Times. Nintendo World Report gave the anthology an 8.5 rating at launch.

What's In the Box

Every title got a unified UI overhaul and quality-of-life fixes for the console release, according to Tech Times.

Four Last Things, the first game in the series and originally released in 2017 without any manual save function, finally has one. The Procession to Calvary picked up the ability to perform backflips, a feature that did not exist before. Full controller support was added across all three games, which matters because the series was originally built around a PC-only point-and-click interface.

Then there's the fanfare button. Press it whenever you want, and the game fires off what the developers call, in their own words, a "superfluous trumpeted fanfare." It serves no gameplay purpose. Tech Times calls it consistent with everything else Richardson has made, which tracks for a series built on collaged religious paintings turned into adventure games.

Composer Eduardo Antonello contributed new recordings made with actual medieval and Renaissance instruments for the anthology's expanded soundtrack, layered with public-domain classical pieces that shift as each story progresses, per Tech Times.

Pricing and Who Gets What

On Steam, the anthology costs $14.86, which Tech Times reports is a 55% discount off the combined price of buying all three games separately at $33.26. PlayStation and Nintendo platforms are running a separate 10% launch discount on top of that. On the Xbox UK storefront, the bundle lists at £20.99, roughly $28.

Players who already own one or more of the individual games on Steam get those titles unlocked immediately inside the anthology, with the rest unlocking once they buy the bundle. Steam owners of the standalone games also got a free quality-of-life update pushed to their existing copies, meaning they benefit from the manual-save and interface fixes without paying for the anthology at all.

PC buyers on Steam additionally get access to what's officially named The Immortal John Triptych: Weird Extra Content Art Gallery DLC Thing-y, which includes timelapse videos of Richardson's collage process, according to Tech Times.

What's Still Unclear

One thing to watch: whether the console versions carry the same free-update policy as Steam, or whether PlayStation and Nintendo owners of any prior standalone releases are required to buy the full anthology to get the manual-save and backflip fixes. Tech Times' reporting only confirms the free update applies to Steam's standalone titles specifically.

Beyond Nintendo World Report's 8.5, no other major outlet review score was available at the time of the anthology's launch. Whether the console ports hold up against the original PC releases, particularly on Switch given the games' painting-heavy, high-resolution art style, remains an open question for players deciding which platform to buy on.