Professor Layton is a puzzle adventure video game series and transmedia franchise developed by Level-5. The property consists primarily of seven main video games, a mobile spin-off, an animated theatrical film, and an anime television series, while additionally incorporating an array of secondary titles and media including a crossover game with Capcom's Ace Attorney series, by which the Layton series was strongly influenced. Layton series games had shipped over 17 million units by June 2018, making it the company's best-selling game franchise at the time.