Pipistrello and the Cursed Yoyo
Pocket Trap · 2025 · Top-Down, Action-Adventure, Exploration, Retro, Pixel Graphics
PC
Overwhelmingly Positive98% · 1,84287Metacritic
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About Pipistrello and the Cursed Yoyo
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!
Features
- 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!
Corporate shenanigans abound!
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......The Big City
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!Get ready for the first Yoyovania!
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!What Steam players say
Recent verbatim reviews from Steam — separate from playze.io community reviews below.
Excellent game, enjoyed it the whole way through.3 found this helpful
This game wasn't very challenging but it kept me hooked, had a good story, and overall was a very enjoyable game. Perfect if your looking for a fun and chill puzzle game1 found this helpful
Very charming game. Easy to pick up and enjoy.1 found this helpful
I really wanted to like this game, it sounded really cool from the reviews and the description, but it fell a bit short for me. A lot of people comparing this game to Mina the Hallower, but where that game had very thoughtful, challenging and intricate design this game had bland and uninspired gameplay, coupled with relatively amateurish pixel art and a way too busy overworld design. Maybe if I'd stuck with it a bit longer it would have opened up some more interesting gameplay options and challenging bosses, but the yoyo combat felt samey and boring for quite a while. I probably could've lived with all of that and stuck with it if the character designs and story grabbed me at all, but unfortunately they really didn't. I wouldn't recommend slugging through the early stages of this one, there are too many other more engaging games and stories out there to experience in your spare time instead,
Pipistrello nails the feel of classic SNES and GBA games, it's true, but the special sauce of it is in the yoyo abilities you collect that allow you to fully explore its secrets. The game does a fantastic job teaching the player the basics of each move, and stringing (no pun intended) them all together to grab a previously out-of-reach upgrade feels great. Just solidly fun from beginning to end. Really enjoyed my time with it.
Giving this game a positive review so more people can find out about it. It is a hidden gem with very little information available online, so if you get stuck, you're kind of screwed. That's not the game's fault, although there are some particularly frustrating sections, especially near the end, Loved the upgrade system, movement system is great, and bosses were all fair (hardest took me 3 tries). The metroidvania aspect is less about your upgrades unlocking new biomes, rather just new puzzles. The game is fairly linear, but with a ton of side content and overworld puzzles. 7.5/10
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