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Yoku's Island Express

Villa Gorilla

Yoku's Island Express

Yoku’s Island Express is an open world/metroidvania-style pinball adventure, Seamlessly blending platform navigation with pinball mechanics across a large open world. Yoku the dung beetle sets foot on the beach of Mokumana Island, ready to take on the duties as the new postman. But the ancient island God is trapped in a restless sleep and the islanders are plagued by quakes and storms brought forth by its nightmares. Yoku's Island Express is a unique and quirky adventure with handcrafted visuals, where you'll soar through the air, vacuum explosive snails, fight a Screetch, feed starving lemurs, discover the mystery of the Fruit Altar, wake an old god, and hopefully help tiny Yoku rebuild the island post-office.

Released
29 May 2018
Developer
Villa Gorilla
Publisher
Team17
Engine
Custom Engine
Perspective
Side view
Age rating
PEGI 7 · ESRB E10+
Controller
Full controller support
Metacritic
84/100
Steam recommendations
3,165
Platforms
PlayStation 4 · PC (Microsoft Windows) · Xbox One · Nintendo Switch
Genres
Platform · Puzzle · Pinball · Adventure · Indie · Arcade
Estimated owners
200,000–500,000 (est.)
84
Player rating
85
Critic rating
118
Ratings counted
95.8%
Steam reviews
31
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The story

Yoku's Island Express follows Yoku, a carefree dung beetle who arrives on Mokumana Island to take up duties as the new postmaster. But the island god is trapped in a nightmare-induced slumber, causing storms and tremors that threaten the land. As Yoku rolls through an open world packed with pinball-inspired traversal, he must awaken the ancient god, help eccentric islanders, vacuum explosive snails, feed starving lemurs, and restore the dilapidated post office. Beneath the whimsical visuals and light-hearted tone lies a metroidvania-style adventure that reveals island secrets and unlocks powerful abilities on a journey of tiny heroism.

Yoku's Island Express

How long to beat

Main + extras
5.5 h
Completionist
8.6 h

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Reviews and languages

95.8% of 5,259 Steam reviews are positive. Valve labels that “Overwhelmingly Positive”.

13 languages in the interface, 0 of them with full voice acting. English is supported.

Yoku's Island Express

Platform releases

Nintendo Switch
29 May 2018
PC (Microsoft Windows)
29 May 2018
PlayStation 4
29 May 2018
Xbox One
29 May 2018

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