Pipistrello and the Cursed Yoyo is an adventure developed by Pocket Trap, released 28 May 2025 on Nintendo Switch 2, PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S and Nintendo Switch.
What Pipistrello and the Cursed Yoyo is
Pipistrello and the Cursed Yoyo is an adventure game developed by Pocket Trap and released in 2025. It was published by PM Studios. It is available on Nintendo Switch 2, PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S, Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4 and PC (Microsoft Windows). It runs on Unity.
The premise, in the publisher's words
Pippit, a budding 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 decades, owing to the electricity monopoly that they've built. 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......
How it plays
It is played from a bird view / isometric perspective. Its themes are action. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. There are 32 achievements to unlock.
How it was received
Pipistrello and the Cursed Yoyo holds a critic score of 92 out of 100. That places it above 97% of the 7,527 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2025 averaged 78, so it scored 14 points above the year average.
What you need to run it
The minimum specification calls for Intel i5-6500, AMD A10-5800K, or newer, 4 GB RAM and Integrated graphics / Nvidia GeForce GTX 650 / Radeon HD 7510. At 4GB of RAM, it will run on essentially any working PC — that is below what a budget laptop ships with today. Install size is roughly 1GB.
What it launched against
Pipistrello and the Cursed Yoyo launched on 28 May 2025, within three weeks of Doom: The Dark Ages, Dune: Awakening, The Alters and Elden Ring Nightreign. It reviewed better than all of them. It arrived 5 years into the PlayStation 5's life, so it was built for hardware developers already knew well.
Released around the same time: Doom: The Dark Ages, Dune: Awakening, The Alters, Elden Ring Nightreign.
Cheats and codes
We have not confirmed any working cheat codes for Pipistrello and the Cursed Yoyo yet. Rather than reprint a list we have not tested, this section stays empty until one is verified.
Official trailer
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