- Playtest #1 Time Trials - Ending Soon! - 22 July 2026
Hey guys! Last chance to join our first alpha playtest for Super Yooka-Laylee Kart!Don't wait on it! Sign up for our first playtest of Super Yooka-Laylee Kart before it ends on the 24th July!Here's what you have to look forward to in the playtest - 🏎️ 7 playable characters 📊 4 racer archetypes 🏁 2 tracks to master 👻 Race against your personal best ghostTo get you started, here's some handy tips & tricks to help you get the best times: Haven't joined the playtest yet?Not to worry, there's still time; head on over to SYLK's playtest page to get access! Make sure to click request access if you want join in on the fun!I've signed up, how do I access the playtest?If you signed up to join our playtest on SYLK's Steam page, make sure to check your email with a notification from Steam with your invite to play.We’ll also be looking closely at your feedback on game feel, handling and the over…
- Playtest #1 Time Trials - Available Now! - 17 July 2026
Exciting news folks! Our first playtest for Super Yooka-Laylee Kart has officially begun!If you signed up to join our playtest on SYLK's Steam page, make sure to check your email with a notification from Steam with your invite to play.For those signed up, here's what you have to look forward to in the demo - 🏎️ 7 playable characters 📊 4 racer archetypes 🏁 2 tracks to master 👻 Race against your personal best ghostTo get you started, here's some handy tips & tricks to help you get the best times:Haven't joined the playtest yet?Not to worry, there's still time, head on over to SYLK's playtest page to get access!https://store.steampowered.com/app/3348210/Super_YookaLaylee_Kart/We’ll also be looking closely at your feedback on game feel, handling and the overall Time Trial experience, so make sure to let us know what you think in our feedback form. The playtest will run for one week, end…
- Out On the Road! - 13 June 2026
Hey everyone! It's been quite the week hasn't it? We announced Super Yooka-Laylee Kart at Summer Games Fest as part of Day of the Dev's, and we've seen the incredible amount of love and support from our community since then. A massive THANK YOU to everyone who has wishlisted and shown support for the game over the last week, you're truly incredible. We have a few updates since the announcement that we'd like to share with y'all,Yooka and Friends Drive to L.A!We announced Super Yooka-Laylee Kart last Friday, but that was only just the beginning! Yooka and friends spent the weekend with the press as part of the play days event for some karting chaos, and suffice to say, people really enjoyed what they played of Super Yooka-Laylee Kart (special thanks to our Playtonic friend, Mark Boam, for manning the booth the entire time). Here's a couple of photos from our booth, and yes, that's two pl…
- It's Finally Time... Meet Super Yooka-Laylee Kart 💚💜 - 6 June 2026
After months of secrets, we're finally able to share what we've been working on...Introducing Super Yooka-Laylee Kart! Today during Summer Game Fest as part of Day of the Devs, we officially revealed Super Yooka-Laylee Kart, our brand-new precision arcade racer built around mastery, rivalry, and revenge-fuelled comebacks.🏁 Wishlist and Follow Now: Super Yooka-Laylee KartThe next adventure for Yooka and Laylee might not be quite what you expected.This time, they're swapping platforms for tracks in a brand-new racing adventure built around mastery, rivalry, and revenge-fuelled comebacks.Built around mastery, rivalry, and revenge-fuelled comebacks, Super Yooka-Laylee Kart brings Yooka, Laylee, and a cast of fan-favourite friends and foes together for a brand-new racing adventure across worlds old and new. Whether you're racing through a dedicated Story Campaign packed with tournaments, ri…
- Our Latest Update!!! - 2 June 2026
We’ve been hard at work behind the scenes since Yooka-Replaylee launched, and now we’re thrilled to drop a massive wave of updates your way! Yooka-Replaylee now runs at a buttery-smooth 60fps on Steam Deck!We’ve introduced even more display options, including FSR2 and DLSS, so you can further fine-tune your setup. We have also improved our shader prewarming providing you much smoother gameplay across a range of devices.On top of that, we’ve rolled out a ton of bug fixes, graphics and performance improvements!Thank you for your incredible support, it means the world to us. We can’t wait for you to jump back in, explore all the improvements, and rediscover everything that makes Yooka-Replaylee special.
- Yooka-Laylee Owner's Discount - Leaving 17th June! - 20 May 2026
Hi folks! just a quick heads-up that we’ll be removing the Yooka-Replaylee owner’s discount from Steam on 17 June. If you own Yooka-Laylee digitally and haven’t jumped into Replaylee yet, there’s still a little time to grab your 30% off before it goes. The owner’s discount on other platforms will be removed a little later, and we’ll share more on that as soon as we can. Sorry to see this offer go, and thank you as always for your support.How do I get the discount?On the Yooka-Replaylee game page, add the ‘Yooka-Laylee Owner Discount’ bundle to your cart, and if you already own Yooka-Laylee, you’ll secure the discount on Yooka-Replaylee.
- Yooka-Replaylee OUT NOW - 9 October 2025
The most exciting "Howdy folks" of all these posts! Yooka-Replaylee is out on Steam, Nintendo Switch 2, PlayStation 5, and Xbox Series! A launch discount of -10% will be available for the next week! And don't forget that we're also Steam Deck Verified!With double the content that's better than ever, brand-new areas, Rextro's Arcade, collectibles, challenges, characters, Tonics and more, Yooka-Replaylee is the closes thing to full-on remake without building the entire game from scratch. "Remasker," our studio director Gavin Price has called it.How do I claim the owner's discount?Owners of the original Yooka-Laylee can claim their -30% owner's discount by purchasing Yooka-Replaylee through the below bundle. Simply add the bundle to your basket and the discount will be applied to your copy of Yooka-Replaylee.Owner's Discount BundleCheck out the brand-new launch trailer with a special voice…
- Yooka-Laylee or Yooka-Replaylee - which is better? Comparing with caddicarus - 4 October 2025
Howdy folks! Can you believe it's only 5 days until the launch of Yooka-Replaylee?! We've been staring at the game for a long time now, so we thought to bring in a fresh pair of eyes to take a look at it for us.So, we rang up Caddicarus and invited him for a visit to the Playtonic offices. Then we superglued him down onto the brown leather sofa next to Studio Director Gavin Price and made him play and talk Yooka-Replaylee with us for over two hours. We've condensed the chat into this 1.5h video on YouTube for you to enjoy on this brisk Saturday on October. So, grab a bevvy and a snack and join us for a comparison video between Yooka-Laylee and Yooka-Replaylee.And this is not all we invited Caddy to do. But more on that next week!Topics covered in the video include:New opening (psst, play the demo!)PlatformicityTighter controls + feelNew cameraNew cosmetics, Tonics and upgradesSmoother p…
- Yooka-Replaylee launches on October 9! - 29 August 2025
Hi folks! You heard that right! The news is finally out there: Yooka-Replaylee is launching on PC, PS5, Xbox Series X|S AND Nintendo Switch 2 on October 9th!More than just a fresh coat of paint, Yooka-Replaylee will deliver the reimagined story of the beloved buddy-duo's first adventure as told from the perspective of our two heroes. Every move, mechanic and moment in the game has been carefully redesigned to elevate what fans loved the first time around, while making the experience more modern, more welcoming, and more joyful for today’s players. Yooka-Replaylee doubles the content of the original game, offering brand-new characters, collectibles, challenges, features and more. Get ready to undertake Rextro's isometric platforming challenges, customise your buddy-duo and gameplay experience with Tonics, and discover the new tactics needed to defeat each boss.Check out the brand-spankin…
- It's here! The demo BEEmiere! - 9 June 2025
Hey folks!You read that right, the Yooka-Replaylee demo is finally here and just in time for the June Steam Next Fest. This 30-min demo focuses on the start of the game and features new gameplay not yet seen on any showfloor demo, as well as brand-new content that never existed in the original Yooka-Laylee!PLEASE NOTE that if you gave the demo a whirl over the weekend, an updated version has gone live today fixing some of the performance and frame rate issues people were experiencing. And further updates, including localisation, will be coming throughout the week!We'd also like to emphasize that the demo has not been optimised for the SteamDeck. This is not to say the full game will not run on the system but the demo at this stage does not. We apologise for any inconvenience. To our friends on other platforms, don't worry! We will have news for you in due course!What's new in the demo?W…
- Yooka-Laylee developers Playtonic announce layoffs: “the landscape is shifting, and with it, so must we" - 30 May 2025
Yooka-Laylee developers Playtonic are laying off staff across their operations, as they wrestle with what they call “a period of profound change in how games are created and financed”. It’s not clear what these "profound changes" are, exactly – soaring budgets? Evergreen service games drinking up all the oxygen ? Falling interest in the genre of mascot platformer Playtonic are best known for? Either way, the outcome is that a bunch of artists, game designers, narrative designers, producers and UI or UX people are now looking for work. Read more
- New Yooka-Replaylee Gameplay! 2025 Release Window! - 17 March 2025
Hey folks! Yooka-Replaylee is shaping up to be a beautiful, joyful love letter to the 3D platforming genre. Don't just take my word for it, watch this video and... well, I narrated it, so take my word for it... So what IS Yooka-Replaylee? Remastered, remade, remixed, this is the definitive version of Yooka-Laylee! With shiny, new 4K graphics and visual effects, a brand-new control scheme, entirely new moves and the ability to swiftly chain moves together, it's a quicker, slicker platforming experience. Yooka-Replaylee builds on our nearing 10 years of growth and experience since making Yooka-Laylee, as well as taking on board a whole bunch of community feedback over the years, it's jam-packed with brand new content that we think platforming fans new and old will love! Each world in Yooka-Replaylee has been expanded by default, no longer requiring players to do that themselves, giving us…
- Rextro Bytes Back in Yooka-Replaylee! - 20 February 2025
Hello folks! At the end of January we shared that Shovel Knight was back for Yooka-Replaylee and now we have an announcement from Amazing Rextro's Software Entertainment! Rextro is back with a brand new look and brand new challenges in Yooka-Replaylee! Take on Rextro's new platforming puzzles across 8 upgraded arcade machines within the worlds of Yooka-Replaylee, with new Megabyte enemies to defeat or outsmart and shiny new levels to beat them in! Reach the end goal and collect medals with Rextro to earn Pagies for Yooka and Laylee to progress through the game! Rextro's Arcade is just one of the MANY areas of Yooka-Replaylee that's been revisited and remade! Stay tuned as we share more over the coming weeks! https://store.steampowered.com/app/2448020/YookaReplaylee/
- Yooka-Replaylee Demo Developer Commentary! - 10 December 2024
Hello fine people, platformer enjoyers and dare I say it... friends? I come with glad tidings and a new video for you! I (Steve, hello!) sat down with Gavin Price, Supreme Glorious Leader Game Director on Yooka-Replaylee for a bit of a chin-wag about the game, the progress we're making and some of the key differences both IN this demo that we shared with media and also some of the changes that have happened SINCE this demo was first shown! Get this in yer eye holes: Some of the topics covered while I fumble around with a controller, trying to listen to my boss... - Coinelius' coins' new colour — Coinelius, the helpful piggy bank and new character edition to Yooka-Replaylee has already undergone a change with his beautiful platinum coins having stolen the golden hues of the Quill because... - Level-specific Quills — Having given up their golden coat to Coinelius' coins, Quills now come i…
- Yooka-Laylee remaster becomes the latest game to be announced for "Nintendo Platforms", leaving everyone and their mum mouthing 'Switch 2!?!' repeatedly - 24 October 2024
Brace yourselves, people who start salivating and jumping up and down whenever something that's potentially about the Nintendo Switch's successor - I'm gonna say it: the Switch 2?!? - surfaces. Yooka-Replaylee, the amusingly-named remaster of Yooka-Laylee , has just been announced to be coming to PS5, Xbox Series X/S, and unspecified "Nintendo platforms". Read more
- Yooka-Replaylee Console Announcement | New Gameplay! - 24 October 2024
Yes! Yes! Yes! Not just the cries of avid Daniel Bryan fans, but also the answer to the question "Will Yooka-Replaylee be coming to consoles?" Yes! Yooka-Replaylee will be playable on PS5, Xbox Series consoles and... Nintendo? (Ooh mysterious. We'll have more on that as soon as poss!) We've got a new trailer, with new gameplay, peeks at new content AND new orchestral music! Go on, have a watch below... And that's not all! As we've already confirmed discounts for Steam owners of Yooka-Laylee, we're also working with platforms to ensure we can offer discounts/upgrade paths to as many folks as possible. We'll hopefully be able to share more details on that soon, and we'll be updating our FAQ with platform specific information as soon as possible! We'll ALSO be running through a gameplay demo and providing some developer commentary in the coming weeks, where we showcase some of the new game…
- Kickstarter Backer Credits | Name Change Update - 27 September 2024
UPDATE: Since posting, we have removed the need to provide the elusive "BackerKit ID" Hey folks! When we announced Yooka-Replaylee, we had more than a handful of people ask us whether backers of the original game would still feature in the credits, and if so, would there be the possibility of changing the name featured in the credits. I am pleased to say that the answer to both of these questions is: Yes! We are, of course, still incredibly appreciative to those of you who helped bring Yooka & Laylee into the world kicking and screaming rolling and sonar...ing? And we’re also aware of the fact that some people have since changed their given names or have perhaps since decided that “xXThaToastGhostXx” isn’t as cool as it was 10 years ago (I disagree, I think that’s a sick name). If we’re remastering the game, it’s only fair you get to remaster your name! With this in mind, we’ve created…
- Yooka-Replaylee Art Q&A! - 8 September 2024
Hello folks! I sat down with Ed, Nikita and Steve to talk all things art on Yooka-Replaylee! We talk about how they're improving the environments, characters and more for the remaster. There's some new sneak peeks at gameplay and some nice new screenshots in this one too! Check out the video below! The video and audio enjoyers amongst you will be pleased to hear that this will be the last of this series filmed in this location! For the next video in the series, we'll be taking proceedings to a much more fancy set-up, thank you for bearing with us on this as we sorted a better location! We'll have news about the next feature video soon! https://store.steampowered.com/app/2448020/YookaReplaylee/
- Yooka-Replaylee | Discount For Original Owners - 8 August 2024
Hey folks, As the Yooka-Replaylee dev team crack on with polishing up all those textures up to 4K and Kev moves all those pesky Quills around, I've been keeping a close eye on your comments and thoughts since we announced the remaster and I come with an update I think at least one person will be happy to hear! We are happy to confirm that there WILL be a discount on Yooka-Replaylee for owners of the original game! We'll go into detail closer to release but for now, start thinking about what you're gonna spend that extra money on! Maybe a celebratory launch kebab (a Steve favourite), some new socks, or perhaps a nice little treat for the pet in your life? For clarity, this currently only applies to Steam right now as we're yet to announce console support but we'll keep you posted once we have console news! Yooka-Replaylee is shaping up to be the best game ever definitive way to play and…
- Announcing Yooka-Replaylee! - 6 June 2024
Calling all 3D platformer fans! A lizard and a bat... we are so back! Hello folks! We are VERY pleased to finally show you one of the many exciting things we've been working on! Introducing Yooka-Replaylee! One of the ways we wanted to celebrate our approaching 10th Birthday is by providing fans with the best way to play the game that started it all! "What a great new pun-derful title" we hear you say, but you want to know details. We've got you: There's a revised control and camera system, tweaks to abilities, remixed and new challenges, new collectibles, a fancy new coat of visual paint, of course, and more we'll be digging in to in the coming months! Yooka-Replaylee is the culmination of almost 10 years of experience since founding Playtonic (Seriously, how has it been nearly 10 years since 2015?!) and we've channelled much of what we've learned while tinkering on other projects, as…
