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As Pippit, a yo-yo-wielding bat, explore a city, solve traversal puzzles, and fight rival crime bosses.
Released 28 May 2025
Chain Yo-Yo Tricks
Solve Room Puzzles
Explore Hidden City Rooms
Are you ready for the first Yoyovania?! In this 2D top-down adventure you'll explore a sprawling urban landscape, reinterpreting your surroundings through your mastery of yoyo tricks. Navigate the city's many districts, fight rival crime bosses, and regain the influence of the Pipistrello family!
Developed by Pocket Trap · Published by PM Studios, Inc.
Pippit, a self-proclaimed yo-yo master from the influential Pipistrello family, is caught up in a struggle with rival crime entrepreneurs. The adventure unfolds across a city divided into four districts, where he takes on their businesses and lairs.
Use the yo-yo to fight enemies, move across tricky terrain, interact with objects, and solve puzzles. New tricks expand how Pippit can navigate rooms and the city, opening routes to fresh challenges and secrets.
Progress by collecting items, finding upgrades, and equipping badges that modify your abilities. Passive upgrades come through contracts: you receive their benefits immediately, while some coins go toward repayment and temporary penalties remain until the debt is cleared.
Reviewers often praise how the yo-yo’s movement and combat tricks feed into clever puzzles and room design, as well as how new abilities make city exploration and secret-hunting rewarding. The pixel-art presentation, humor, and upgrade-contract system also appeal to many. Some reviewers find the debt penalties frustrating, and opinions are mixed on boss fights and later platforming challenges.
Explore a vast urban landscape in this exciting 2D top-down platforming adventure!
Pipistrello and the Cursed Yoyo combines combat, platforming action, puzzle-solving, and exploration — all enveloped in a delightful character-driven story about corporate shenanigans! Face off against the rival crime entrepreneurs and their underlings using the weapon you know best: your prized yoyo! With Yoko Shimomura contributing as guest composer, you're in for a truly authentic nostalgia blast!
Pay close attention to your surroundings to discover new ways to traverse the terrain! With each newly-learned yoyo trick, you'll come to reinterpret the cityscape, and by chaining these maneuvers together, you'll be able to dexterously reach places you could never have imagined! Many challenges have multiple solutions — so come up with your own novel routes in this mouth-watering adventure!
Explore the city's 4 districts with over 1000 screens' worth of challenges and secrets!
Infiltrate the businesses of the 4 crime bosses! Navigate their labyrinthine buildings, take on foes, and solve action puzzles!
Master over 10 yoyo tricks and Special Moves to create your own yoyo-parkour routes and pulverize your enemies in combat!
Collect over 40 equippable Badges that alter the way you play!
Unlock over 20 passive Upgrades through a shady loan shark!
Find over 80 other collectibles throughout town, from life upgrades to precious treasures!
Pippit, the self-declared yoyo master, has never meshed well with the rest of his family: the powerful and influential Pipistrellos, headed by his auntie, Madame Pipistrello. The family's had a firm grip on their city for over a decade, owing to the monopoly on electricity that they hold.
It just so happens that, when Pippit finally drops by for his annual visit to the Pipistrello Manor, he gets caught up in the rival companies' nefarious plot to dethrone the Madame and take the source of energy generation for themselves! After the attack, Pippit and the Madame find themselves having to cooperate in a completely new arrangement......
Your journey takes place across a huge, bustling city run by rival crime entrepreneurs. From shopping districts to industrial complexes, to a geek culture convention and a sports-addicted neighborhood, you'll track down these dastardly crime bosses that have challenged your own family's dominion over the city!
It never hurts to be on the lookout for secret nooks and crannies! Carefully explore the city's districts with the aid of your map, and carve your own path towards the bosses' places of business! Venture into their dangerous lairs, crack puzzles, and be prepared for epic showdowns!
| Platforms | Windows |
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| Achievements | 32 |
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| Controller support | PlayStation, Xbox |
| Controller required | No |
| Demo | View demo on Steam |
| DLC / extras | 1 listed on Steam |
| Metacritic | 87/100 View on Metacritic |
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