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
Per Press Release: Award-winning international games label Team17 and independent developer Villa Gorilla have today released a new tilt-alising trailer for its forthcoming charming pinball platform game Yoku’s Island Express. The trailer showcases some of the abilities that newly appointed postmaster, Yoku the dung beetle, will discover as he flips and bumps around Mokumana island using …
While it doesn't have a date nailed down, it's not long until the scheduled release of Yoku's Island Express during the second quarter of this year. In case you've forgotten about the pure bundle of joy/dung beetle pinball game, publisher T...
New trailer released
If I have one criticism of Sonic Spinball, it's that it never spawned a sequel. At seven-and-a-half years old, the off-beat platformer/pinball hybrid blew my mind and was the first game I remember ditching primary school homework for. I regret nothing. Announced last year (I somehow missed it at the time), and due at some point in the first half of this year, Villa Gorilla's Yoku's Island Express echoes Sonic Spinball while adding a splash self-professed Studio Ghibli influence."Yoku’s Island Express is inspired by the joy of exploration of a young child, having just found the entrance to a secret garden, or unlocked the door to an attic full of wonderful and interesting things to discover," said the brilliantly named developer in 2017. "It takes some of its direction from Studio Ghibli films, where nature is infused with spirit and life, but combined with a strong focus on painterly, hand-made visuals where all the locations are unique and hand-ma
Yoku's Island Express is a pinball-based platformer which stars a cute little dung beetle postman - and if you're not sold by that, well there's some new fo…
In Yoku’s Island Express, newly appointed postmaster Yoku the dung beetle quickly discovers that all is not well on Mokumana island.
