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…
Yoku's Island Express is an adventure developed by Villa Gorilla, released 29 May 2018 on Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, Xbox One and PC (Microsoft Windows). The main story takes about 5.5 hrs to finish.
What Yoku's Island Express is
Yoku's Island Express is an adventure game developed by Villa Gorilla and released in 2018. It was published by Team17. It is available on Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, Xbox One and PC (Microsoft Windows). It runs on Custom Engine.
The premise, in the publisher's words
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.
How it plays
It is played from a side view perspective. Its themes are action, fantasy and open world. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. There are 31 achievements to unlock.
How it was received
Yoku's Island Express holds a critic score of 85 out of 100. That places it above 82% of the 7,527 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2018 averaged 69, so it scored 16 points above the year average. Player ratings track closely with critics at 84, across 121 votes.
How long it takes, and what that costs
The main story runs about 5.5 hrs. Completing everything takes closer to 8.6 hrs, roughly 1.6 times the length of the critical path.
What you need to run it
The minimum specification calls for Intel i3-2100 @ 3GHz / AMD A8-5500 @ 3.2GHz, 4 GB RAM and Nvidia GeForce GT 630 1GB / AMD Radeon 7770 1GB / Intel HD 530. 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 3GB.
What it launched against
Yoku's Island Express launched on 29 May 2018, within three weeks of Detroit: Become Human, Detroit: Become Human, Dark Souls: Remastered and Vampyr. It reviewed better than all of them. It arrived 5 years into the PlayStation 4's life, so it was built for hardware developers already knew well.
Released around the same time: Detroit: Become Human, Detroit: Become Human, Dark Souls: Remastered, Vampyr.
Cheats and codes
We have not confirmed any working cheat codes for Yoku's Island Express yet. Rather than reprint a list we have not tested, this section stays empty until one is verified.
Official trailer
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