Pipistrello and the Cursed Yoyo

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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!

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Developer:
Pocket Trap
Publisher:
PM Studios
Engine:
Unity
Release date:
28 May 2025
Recent Steam reviews:
Overwhelmingly Positive (118)
All Steam reviews:
Overwhelmingly Positive (1569)

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Description

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!

Recommended system requirements

minimum*

Requirement 1:
Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
OS:
64-bit Windows 10 or newer
Processor:
Intel i5-6500, AMD A10-5800K, or newer
Memory:
4 GB RAM
Graphics:
Integrated graphics / Nvidia GeForce GTX 650 / Radeon HD 7510
Storage:
800 MB available space

recommended*

Requirement 1:
Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system

User reviews

Latenitekerfuffle
Recommended | 31 May 2026
18.8h played

Besides the incredible art, the game starts kinda slow and is a bit confusingly laid out. Also, the premise is unusual, you're a cool Italian bat dude in Brazil (I think?) But once you get comfortable with the way

Helpful: 2
ZTylerDurden
Recommended | 01 Jun 2026
4.2h played

Uniquely-crafted world and gameplay with a killer soundtrack. It appears to have Earthbound influences in a world that feels lived in. It sets out to be a GBA-like experience and knocks it out of the park. Well worth

Helpful: 1
Jean-Michel Trogneux
Recommended | 30 May 2026
25.5h played

fantastic game. I don't know why it is not more famous. It is basically Celeste and A link to the past combined. No fillers, pure gameplay fun

Helpful: 3
Bawb
Recommended | 31 May 2026
21.1h played

Really enjoyed this one. Some of the gameplay mechanics about midway through the game were a bit frustrating, but once everything clicks the movement feels fantastic. Just expect more platforming than combat and you'll

Helpful: 0
Napolean Bronaparte
Recommended | 02 Jun 2026
21.6h played

This game was awesome. Usually with these kinds of games the danger is for mechanics to get stale, overused, etc. But here they kept adding mechanics and what really worked was how they integrated it with eachother. By

Helpful: 1
Alcibiades
Recommended | 03 Jun 2026
21.1h played

Definitely a lot of fun! It's well paced, there's lots of optional areas to explore and though they're gated behind abilities they're often not specifically gated such that there's a few ways you can use the skills you

Helpful: 1