Toy Story 3's Long-Lost PS3 Game Revived in New Remaster

If you played Toy Story 3 on PS3 back in 2010, you probably remember Toy Box Mode: a sprawling Wild West sandbox where you could customise a town, unlock Pixar characters, and ignore the story missions for hours. If you didn't play it, there's a good chance you simply couldn't. The game vanished from digital storefronts as platforms moved on, and physical copies became increasingly hard to track down. That changes in October.

Atari and Digital Eclipse announced today that Toy Story 3 Complete Edition and Toy Story: Retro Roundup will both launch on October 15 across PS5, PS4, Xbox Series X/S, Xbox One, Switch, Switch 2, and PC via Steam. Toy Story 3 Complete Edition is a full remaster of the 2010 game with up to 4K resolution and 60fps on supported platforms, while Retro Roundup packs 11 games from the franchise's first decade into a single collection. Both are priced at $25 digitally, with a physical bundle available for pre-order at $40 on most platforms. The Switch 2 physical edition runs $50.

Digital Eclipse is the right studio for this. Their work on Atari 50 and the Tetris Forever collection showed they understand how to treat retro games as cultural artefacts rather than quick cash-ins, wrapping them in developer interviews, concept art, and design documents that give context to the games themselves. Retro Roundup follows that same template, bundling behind-the-scenes content and archival materials alongside the playable games.

What's Actually in the Box

Retro Roundup covers a lot of ground. The full list includes Toy Story (1995) on Genesis, SNES, and Game Boy; Toy Story 2: Buzz Lightyear to the Rescue (1999) on PlayStation; Toy Story 2 on Game Boy Color; Buzz Lightyear of Star Command (2000) on PS1 and Game Boy Color; Toy Story Racer (2001) on PS1 and Game Boy Color; and A Bug's Life (1998) on PS1 and Game Boy Color. That's nine Toy Story titles and two A Bug's Life games across 11 total entries when you count the different platform versions. All of them get rewind functionality, save states, cheat codes, playthrough guides, and enhanced visuals with the option to toggle back to the original look.

Toy Story 3 Complete Edition is the bigger deal here, though. The original game was widely considered one of the best movie-to-game adaptations of its era, largely because Toy Box Mode gave it a life well beyond the film's storyline. You could drop into a sandbox town, take on non-linear missions, unlock vehicles and characters from other Pixar films, and play cooperatively with a friend locally. The remaster preserves all of that, including content that was previously exclusive to the PS3 version. Digital Eclipse studio head Mike Mika called it "one of the great movie-to-game adaptations ever made" in the announcement.

I think the PS3-exclusive content is the detail people should pay attention to. The 2010 game shipped across PS3, Xbox 360, Wii, and PC, but the PS3 version had extras the others didn't. Rolling all of that into a single definitive package, running at modern resolutions and frame rates, makes this the version the game probably should have been from the start.

One oddity: according to the listing details, there's no physical Xbox release. The physical bundle covers PS5, PS4, Switch, and Switch 2 only. No explanation has been given for the omission, and it's a strange gap when the digital versions cover every current platform including Xbox One.

Both releases are timed to the Toy Story franchise's 30th anniversary, which also coincides with Toy Story 5 hitting theatres later this month. The film isn't getting its own game, but between a remaster of the best Toy Story game ever made and a collection spanning the franchise's entire gaming history, this is a better outcome than another rushed movie tie-in would have been. October 15 is the date for both.