Yono and the Celestial Elephants
Yono and the Celestial Elephant is a grand adventure, featuring carefully designed puzzles, treasure hunts, a sprinkling combat and a world full of people. Play as a young elephant tasked to save a world he’s…
Yono and the Celestial Elephants is an adventure developed by Neckbolt, released 12 October 2017 on Nintendo Switch and PC (Microsoft Windows). The main story takes about 25 hrs to finish.
What Yono and the Celestial Elephants is
Yono and the Celestial Elephants is an adventure game developed by Neckbolt and released in 2017. It was published by Plug In Digital. It is available on Nintendo Switch and PC (Microsoft Windows). It runs on Unity.
The premise, in the publisher's words
Elephants are a mighty protectors of the world, born from the stars once per millennium. This is the age of Elephant Yono. But Yono is still so very young and in a kingdom inhabited by feudal Humans, undead Bonewights and robotic Mekani, it's not easy to keep one's trunk out of trouble.
How it plays
It is played from a bird view / isometric perspective. Its themes are action, fantasy and kids. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.
How it was received
Yono and the Celestial Elephants holds a critic score of 69 out of 100. That places it above 32% of the 7,530 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2017 averaged 71, so it scored 2 points below the year average.
How long it takes, and what that costs
The main story runs about 25 hrs. Completing everything takes closer to 40 hrs, roughly 1.6 times the length of the critical path.
What you need to run it
The minimum specification calls for 2.4 GHz, 2 GB RAM and 1 GB. At 2GB of RAM, it will run on essentially any working PC — that is below what a budget laptop ships with today.
What it launched against
Yono and the Celestial Elephants launched on 12 October 2017, within three weeks of Call of Duty: WWII, Super Mario Odyssey, Cuphead and Assassin's Creed Origins. All of them reviewed better. It was a Nintendo Switch launch-window title.
Released around the same time: Call of Duty: WWII, Super Mario Odyssey, Cuphead, Assassin's Creed Origins.
Official trailer
Sourced from the publisher’s YouTube channel.
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