In-game event2 Sep 2021Yoku's Island Express is bringing a new game mode! Randomize!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…
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 gam…
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…
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 inf…
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.
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... 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…
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…
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 t…
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…
Hi everyone! Since the launch of Yoku’s Island Express, our fantastic community has been very helpful by informing us of any glitches they’ve found or areas where user friendly improvements could be made. So we’re happy to say that we’ve been working hard behind the scenes and have now released an update with a considerable number of improvements. Please see below for a full list of changes and…
Hi everyone, Since the launch of Yoku’s Island Express, we’ve received a small amount of feedback to suggest that some players are unhappy with parts of the Chinese localisation of the game’s script. We’re very sorry about this and are investigating the matter internally at Team17. As a first step to improve the quality we’ve made some changes to the Chinese script and uploaded a new version of…
Yoku’s Island Express is one of the most critically acclaimed indie games of the year, with a Metacritic average of 84, including praise from the likes of GameSpot, PC Gamer and IGN! At the time of writing, our Steam user reviews currently sit at 94% positive too! Plenty of people have fallen in love with Yoku’s Island Express, but we understand that some of you might still be on the fence abou…
Get those flipper fingers ready because Yoku’s Island Express is out today! Lovingly designed by the team at Villa Gorilla, Yoku’s Island Express is beautifully drawn open-world platform game with a twist… The entire world plays like one giant pinball table! Take control of Yoku, a dung beetle on his first day on the job as the postman of Mokumana Island and flip your way around to deliver the…
It is now the month of May! That means Yoku’s Island Express is out THIS MONTH… May 29th to be exact. To celebrate, we’ve released a brand-new story trailer so you can find our just what the heck a dung-beetle postman is doing whizzing around an island made of pinball tables! Check it out… We’ve also just got back from a whistle-stop tour around Europe where we showed Yoku off to several member…
We are very pleased to finally confirm that Yoku’s Island Express has a release date, and it’s not too far away at all! "Pinballvania" is coming to Steam on May 29th 2018! While you wait, why not check out this behind the scenes video from the developers at Villa Gorilla. To learn more about Yoku’s Island Express, you can… Follow or Wishlist on Steam Like on Facebook Follow on Twitter Chat to u…
The new trailer for Yoku’s Island Express is here! You’ve seen how the pinballvania gameplay works and you’ve checked out Yoku’s abilities, now discover some of the characters and side-quests you’ll meet on your journey around Mokumana Island… Yoku’s Island Express will combine pinball and platform game in Q2 2018 on Steam, Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One! Add Yoku’s Island Express…
As Yoku’s Island Express hurtles toward its Q2 2018 release date, we’re very pleased to be able to reveal a host of new abilities that will help Yoku on his mission to deliver the mail around Mokumana Island! Check out the brand new trailer to see these power-ups in action and read on to find out more! Each of the abilities in Yoku’s Island Express will need to be unlocked during your adventure…
It's starting to look a lot like Christmas! There's snow on the ground here in the UK and there's snow in the upper reaches of Mokumana Island, the open world setting of pinball adventure game, Yoku's Island Express. To celebrate the holiday seasons, we've worked with developer Villa Gorilla to create a special seasonal trailer that shows you a little more of the game, coming to Nintendo Switch…
Do you have any burning questions about Yoku's Island Express? We'll be putting them to developer Villa Gorilla soon and delivering the answers to you in a yet-to-be-announced format! Leave your questions here by 24th November 2017, and the more intersting the question, the more likely we are to answer it!
gamescom 2017 is in full swing over in Germany and we're currently there, demoing Yoku's Island Express to enormous crowds of gamers, eager to discover more about open-world pinball-platform adventure. If you're not at gamescom then we're pleased to be able deliver the goods to your door in the form of a brand new trailer, showing off Mokumana Island, the open-world you'll be flipping around in…
Hey there prospective Postmen and Postwomen of Mokumana Island. If this is the first post you see from us, welcome! Make yourselves and home and go say hi over in the Steam Forums. We're just making this post to share the news that Villa Gorilla have found a Publishing Partner in us, Team17! So settle into your chair, check out the trailer and get ready for the pinball adventure of a lifetime w…
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