- Introducing Silver Pines - 3 February 2026
Hey everyone! Long time no speak! 👋We wanted to take a moment to shine a spotlight on Silver Pines, an upcoming survival horror metroidvania being developed by Mattias Snygg and Linus Larsson, two of the co-founders of Villa Gorilla and lead developers who worked on Yoku's Island Express!Silver Pines is obviously a big departure from the colourful and cute world of Yoku's Island Express, but we thought you might like to see what some of the team are up to now at their new studio, Wych Elm!Watch the first trailer for Silver Pines:Private investigator Red Walker finds himself in Silver Pines, a place half-abandoned, half-forgotten, in the middle of nowhere on a job to track down Eddie Velvet. A musician who has vanished. As the case begins to reveal a dark past, Walker soon slips into a strange and nightmarish descent beyond his control.Wishlist now on Steam:
- Xbox Games with Gold May: Yoku’s Island Express, Viva Pinata Party Animals, more - 29 April 2022
Coming in May to the Xbox Games with Gold lineup are four titles for Xbox Series X/S and Xbox One users. As usual, the games are available to Xbox Live Gold members and Xbox Games Pass Ultimate subscribers. First up is Yoku’s Island Express , which will be available May 1-31. In it, you play as Yoku, a parcel delivery person who lives and works in Mokumana, a tropical paradise. But first, he will travel the island helping others and try to waken an ancient deity "trapped in a restless sleep." The game will have you exploring the open world, testing your pinball skills, and earning power-ups to help the locals. Read more
- Delightful pinball platformer Yoku's Island Express is free on Epic - 3 September 2021
If you've not yet experienced the joys of launching yourself around tethered to your own filth (in a game, anyway), please do check out the latest game being given away free on the Epic Games Store: Yoku's Island Express . It's a charming metroidvania-ish pinball platformer where you take control of a wee dung beetle postman who propels himself around the pretty island by batting his ball of filth with flippers conveniently stuck around. Delightful. Read more
- Yoku's Island Express is bringing a new game mode! Randomize! - 2 September 2021
Hey everyone! Yoku's Island Express has just launched a new game mode: Randomize! This mode will allow players to explore the world of Yoku’s Island Express, but this time the order of all the unlocks are randomized. Please note that NPC dialog is unchanged and might refer to items you’ve not received. Finishing the main game first is strongly recommended! To stay up to date on Yoku, follow our socials! Follow Yokus Island Express on Twitter Like Yokus Island Express on Facebook Follow Team17 on Twitter Like Team17 on Facebook
- Epic's next free game is a pinball metroidvania - 26 August 2021
It's Thursday, and you know what that means - another round of free PC games from the Epic Games Store. This week, you can grab the cooking automation simulator, Automachef , and you get a bonus surprise giveaway in the form of Saints Row: The Third Remastered . As ever, Epic has revealed next week's freebie, too. You'll be able to grab the pinball themed metroidvania, Yoku's Island Express. You'll be able to grab Yoku's Island Express from the usual Epic Games Store promotion page on Thursday, September 2 at 8am PDT / 11am EDT / 4pm BST. It'll be there for one full week, at which point it'll be replaced by another freebie. As always, you'll 'purchase' the game at a price of zero dollars, and it'll remain in your library just like any game you might pay money for. "Coupled with its unique pinball platforming play style," the store page explains, "Yoku's Island Express offers non-linear…
- Team17 Steam Publisher Sale - 80% Off! - 28 May 2020
Flip and bump our pint-sized protagonist around the stunning hand-painted Mokumana Island for less! Yoku’s Island Express is 80% off right here on Steam as part of the Team17 Steam Publisher Sale! https://store.steampowered.com/app/334940/Yokus_Island_Express/ Check out what else is on offer in the Team17 Publisher Sale!
- Have You Played Yoku's Island Express? - 4 May 2020
Have You Played? is an endless stream of game retrospectives. One a day, every day, perhaps for all time. After disappearing from the face of the earth for a few years, metroidvanias are everywhere. If you boot up Steam now and check New Releases, I’ve no doubt you’ll see two or three games that promise a pixelated creature jumping around on a 2D plane, unlocking doors and paths for ten or so hours. (more…)
- Two new Team17 games to be announced next week! - 31 May 2019
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- Yoku receives FOUR Develop:Star Awards nominations! - 17 May 2019
https://cdn.steampulse.org/steam/asset?u=https%3A%2F%2Fsteamcdn-a.akamaihd.net%2Fsteamcommunity%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fclans%2F27885141%2F4c2052af207c3ad2d58ebd51c7c78444f7454fb6.jpg Hi everyone Yoku and its development team have just received a massive FOUR award nominations at this year's Develop:Star Awards! Yoku's Island Express has been nominated for: Best Visual Art Best Game Design Best Original IP Developer Villa Gorilla received a nomination too, for: Best Micro Studio We're incredibly excited and proud of Villa Gorilla for having created such a special game and an experience we won't soon forget. Please help us in crossing fingers and toes for Yoku and Villa Gorilla when the award show takes place on July 10th! You can learn more about Develop: Star Awards here Yet to try Yoku's Island Express? If you're just browsing this page and are wondering what all the fuss is about, we highly encourage you to check out the free demo right here on…
- Yoku’s Island Express wins a BAFTA Games Award! - 5 April 2019
https://cdn.steampulse.org/steam/asset?u=https%3A%2F%2Fsteamcdn-a.akamaihd.net%2Fsteamcommunity%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fclans%2F27885141%2F19fac6607c1f1a2228509febb6dbde11ead39cee.jpg Wow! Yoku’s Island Express – the pinball metroidvania about a dung beetle postman – has gone and won itself a BAFTA for Best Debut Game! On Thursday 4th April 2019, the prestigious BAFTA Games Awards were held in London, England and Team17 was in attendance to congratulate our talented peers and celebrate nominations for both Yoku’s Island Express and Overcooked! 2. Just to be nominated for a BAFTA award is a huge honour, but to win one is simply incredible. We’re sure it’s a moment that the Yoku creators at Villa Gorilla will remember for the rest of their lives. This small development team poured their hearts and souls into Yoku’s Island Express to make it not just an original and innovative new game but also one that players all over the world could feel a special…
- Yoku's Island Express nominated for two BAFTA Awards! - 20 March 2019
https://cdn.steampulse.org/steam/asset?u=https%3A%2F%2Fsteamcdn-a.akamaihd.net%2Fsteamcommunity%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fclans%2F27885141%2Fdcecea5f1c471dfd4769bbf6fb249b431d5a22c6.gif Hi all The love continues for everyone's favourite dung beetle postal worker, as Yoku's Island Express has been nominated for TWO awards at this year's BAFTA Games Awards! Nominated for both the Best Family Game and Best Debut Game categories, the team at Villa Gorilla couldn't be happier or prouder of what they've achieved! You can read more about all the BAFTA Games Awards here including information on how to watch the awards ceremony live on April 4th. We're crossing all fingers and toes for Yoku to receive some more awards to proudly display in his post office. We hope you will too! If you've yet to experience Yoku's unique pinball adventure, remember that you can try the free demo available across all platforms. We know you'll have a ball!
- Best PC games of 2018 - 2 January 2019
The doors have been opened, the games inside have been devoured, and now it’s time to recycle the cardboard. Below you’ll find all of our picks for the best PC games of 2018, gathered together in a single post for easy reading. (more…)
- Yoku has his tux on! - 23 November 2018
https://cdn.steampulse.org/steam/asset?u=https%3A%2F%2Fsteamcdn-a.akamaihd.net%2Fsteamcommunity%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fclans%2F27885141%2Fab69c965b93c58fb50dae918e3e5cca0360f7cb6.png Yoku is so excited for The Game Awards, he's even bought himself a nice new top hat and tails! (Just don't ask where his trousers are) Check out this fun video of Yoku preparing for the awards and don't forget to vote here. You can even vote once every 24 hours to increase the chances of winning. https://youtu.be/fK0RaUZwi8g
- Watch the Yoku's Island Express sing-along video! - 19 November 2018
https://cdn.steampulse.org/steam/asset?u=https%3A%2F%2Fsteamcdn-a.akamaihd.net%2Fsteamcommunity%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fclans%2F27885141%2F5aa51971d247ff744599ae33172b786beb4ce464.jpg Hey pinballers! If you love the music of Yoku's Island Express then you might like this... A new YouTube video by Yoku composer Jesse Harlin, in which a few familiar Yoku fans from around the net, gathered to sing the main theme song, "Yoku Taidua". Give it a watch here... https://youtu.be/nXoFrujc1dc Please don't forget that Yoku's Island Express is nominated for Best Debut Indie Game at The Game Awards! If you'd like to show your support, it's possible to vote once per day to boost the power of your vote and help spread the word about pinballvania! Vote for Yoku here: https://thegameawards.com/awards/
- Vote for Yoku at The Game Awards! - 14 November 2018
https://cdn.steampulse.org/steam/asset?u=https%3A%2F%2Fsteamcdn-a.akamaihd.net%2Fsteamcommunity%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fclans%2F27885141%2Fe78552ed1ebcc1db64ba6f8674eb2b0859e48f69.png Hey everyone Today we're extremely excited to share that Yoku's Island Express has been nominated for Best Debut Indie Game at this year's The Game Awards! With this nomination, Yoku's Island Express and the development team at Villa Gorilla need your help. If you love Yoku as much as we do and think it deserves to win this highly competitive category, head on over to The Game Awards' website and cast your vote! >> VOTE HERE
- Great user reviews! - 12 October 2018
https://cdn.steampulse.org/steam/asset?u=https%3A%2F%2Fsteamcdn-a.akamaihd.net%2Fsteamcommunity%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fclans%2F27885141%2F908926c40eb3c09045f3dd051c9e196707676d6f.jpg Hey pinballers! Ever since Yoku's Island Express launched in May we've had a wealth of critical acclaim from journlists and YouTubers but we just wanted to take a moment to thank you the players for being so vocal and positive about Yoku too. Blending pinball with Metroidvania is a pretty unusual idea and we were never really sure if it would gain an audience or not. But it really has. You're talking to us every day on Twitter to say how much you all love the game and there are some great reviews here on Steam. To be at a 95% overall rating is so so incredible and humbling. Thank you! If you haven't yet written a review for Yoku then we'd love it if you could add your thoughts here and help spread the word about "pinballvania". We kinow there must be more people out t…
- Windows 7 fixes + demo reminder - 26 September 2018
Hey everyone! We hope you're enjoying the critically acclaimed pinballvania goodness of Yoku's Island Express! If you haven't yet, don't forget there's a free demo you can try right here on Steam to see what all the fuss is about. We also have a small update today for Windows 7 users that fixes a couple of bugs that affected playback of the intro cutscene and in-game music. Enjoy playing Yoku's Island Express and be sure to let us know what you think of the game!
- Wot I Think: Yoku s Island Express - 27 August 2018
Developer: Villa Gorilla Publisher: Team17 Release: Out now On: Windows From: Steam For: 16, $20, 20 There’s an easy grace available to you in Yoku’s Island Express . Steer the main character onto any of the pinball flippers embedded in the floors and walls and you can punt him into the air as predictably as a jump in any other platformer. Use those paddles to aim Yoku into one of the other pinball-inspired mechanisms, however, and the game takes hold, shooping Yoku and the ball through tunnels at high speed, or smoothly rolling it down paths littered with objects that spin and shimmer. This grace is something I’ve never experienced when playing an actual pinball table, and it made my time with Yoku a delight. (more…)
- Team17 - 100th Game Celebration - 21 August 2018
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- Team17 Steam Publisher Sale! - 15 August 2018
https://cdn.steampulse.org/steam/asset?u=https%3A%2F%2Fsteamcdn-a.akamaihd.net%2Fsteamcommunity%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fclans%2F32941731%2F2f82b5ccb8f14a68367e95df92ebf3179214e993.png It’s been a busy week here at Team17 Towers! Overcooked! 2 launched last Tuesday, Sword Legacy: Omen was released this Monday, Forged Battalion has just come out of Early Access and now… We’ve decided to put almost everything we have on Steam on sale! There’s even an extra game in there that we didn’t publish. How ace is that? In total, you’ll find 75 items on sale from August 14th – 17th 2018 with discounts of up to 90% across the likes of Worms, Overcooked, The Escapists, Alien Breed, Yooka-Laylee and early access title My Time At Portia! In amongst these sales you’ll also find launch discounts for Sword Legacy: Omen and Forged Battalion as well as 10% off pre-orders on PLANET ALPHA Deluxe Edition! Check out the full list of discounts below and make sure to check ou…
