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Game2018
Yoku's Island Express
Developer Villa Gorilla
Yoku's Island Express is a platform pinball adventure game developed by Swedish studio Villa Gorilla and published by Team17. The studio's debut project, the game was released in May 2018 for Windows, Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, and Xbox One. A version was released for Amazon Luna in October 2020. In Yoku's Island Express, players control Yoku, a dung beetle, who becomes a postmaster as he arrives at a fictional… From Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)
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60 of 72 · most liked firstThere aren't a whole lot of other games like Pinball Spire, but one game that often comes up is Yoku's Island Express: a vibrant, charming, #pinball adventure with a huge world to explore. Now, you can grab both games together in a Steam bundle! ⭐ store.steampowered.com/bundle/84293... #indiegames
unlabelledView post →possibly the best game criticism I've seen this month. Yoku's Island Express is Catholic. Cathedral is Protestant. Carrion is Judaic
unlabelledView post →A crossover with the title character from the charming pinball game 'Yoku's Island Express'. Be the ball. #NSMisc #PlaytonicGames
unlabelledView post →My 4 favourite Metroidvania games: Metroid Dread Ori and the Will of the Wisps Castlevania: Aria of Sorrow Yoku's Island Express
unlabelledView post →Silksong is going to be the Expedition 33 for Metroidvania games (lots of new ppl trying the game that are new to the genre). If that's your case and you end up loving Silksong, try these: 1. Metroid Dread. 2. Yoku's Island Express. 3. Axiom Verge. 4. SteamWorld Dig 2. 5. Ori.
unlabelledView post →Heya! I swept up Yoku's Island Express in short order, really a delightful game just as I've always heard. Started a new game of FFVII with my son watching. Started a new game of Uncharted 4 - I was pretty close to beating it NINE YEARS AGO (dear god). I'll get there this time. Take care, y'all.
unlabelledView post →#VideoGameBacklog "Yoku's Island Express" (PC, 2018) is an adorable mix of platforming, exploration, and pinball! This is a gem from Villa Gorilla and you should play it for the art, music, design, characters...and pinball. Roll your ball to victory, little Dung Beetle! #indiegames
unlabelledView post →I beat Yoku's Island Express last night, then mopped up enough post-game to get the true ending. Super fun throughout! There's one task left that may be a bit tedious as I need to revisit most tables, but I'm still enjoying my time with it so no biggie. #blutoid
unlabelledView post →Indie game checkpoint! You are now obligated to share one of your favorite indie games! I picked Yoku's Island Express! I love how much creativity this game has between the art style, Metroidvania/Pinball gameplay, the music and the characters. Would really love to come back to this game again!
unlabelledView post →🔴 Live on Twitch! Come hang out and chat about #indiegames with us. ^^ ✨ Featured Game ✨ Yoku's Island Express (dev Villa Gorilla) twitch.tv/callmekixie
unlabelledView post →🔴 Live on Twitch! Come hang out and chat about #indiegames with us. ^^ ✨ Featured Game ✨ Yoku's Island Express (dev Villa Gorilla) twitch.tv/callmekixie
unlabelledView post →Appleseed's Indie Game Of The Day! Day 308) Yoku's Island Express by VillaGorilla A platformer esque game where you're a bug delivering mail... But it's also pinball? For real though this game is crazy fun just to try and traverse and use your pinball skills to gather fruit and solve puzzles.
unlabelledView post →🔴 Live on Twitch! Come hang out and chat about #indiegames with us. ^^ ✨ Featured Game ✨ Yoku's Island Express (dev Villa Gorilla) twitch.tv/callmekixie
unlabelledView post →2. Yoku's Island Express (PC, 2018) A genius concept with decent execution. Yoku's adventure is a joy when you're flippering through the pinball-like mazes. But it's a slog when you're backtracking and traversing the world. Especially as a Metroidvania. A fun game to beat in a weekend!
unlabelledView post →(I played Yoku's Island Express, a search-action game that uses pinball style controls as its main movement and combat method)
unlabelledView post →🔴 Live on Twitch! Come hang out and chat about #indiegames with us. ^^ ✨ Featured Game ✨ Going for 💯 Yoku's Island Express (dev Villa Girilla) twitch.tv/callmekixie
unlabelledView post →🔴 Live on Twitch! Come hang out and chat about #indiegames with us. ^^ ✨ Featured Game ✨ Yoku's Island Express (dev Villa Gorilla) twitch.tv/callmekixie
unlabelledView post →Yoku's Island Express is a cute little platformer adventure/pinball game that helps teach reaction time (it did for me, let alone children!)
unlabelledView post →🔴 Live on Twitch! Come hang out and chat about #indiegames with us. ^^ ✨ Featured Game ✨ Yoku's Island Express (dev Villa Gorilla) twitch.tv/callmekixie
unlabelledView post →- I started Yoku's Island Express and that seems like a good time! Gonna be my chill game for a bit, I think. Also finally started Black Myth Wukong which has been pretty cool. Already found an enemy that's kicking my ass lol. I think it's optional but I'll keep trying - gotta git gud somehow. -
unlabelledView post →A game I like for each letter of my username! T - TF2 (both of em) Y - Yoku's Island Express M - Mirror's Edge B - Balatro E - Enter the Gungeon R - Return of the Obra Dinn
unlabelledView post →Just rolled credits on Yoku's Island Express. What a delightful snack of a game!
unlabelledView post →So a platformer like Castlevania 1 and also a pinball game like Metroid Prime Pinball. Got it. Does that make Yoku's Island Express the only true metroidvania?
unlabelledView post →Continuing on with my current streak or replaying games I haven't played in a long time, I've been replaying Yoku's Island Express and what a fucking delight that game is!
unlabelledView post →Not sure if it's on game pass but Yoku's Island Express is a great pick up and put down game. I played it twice over! It's a cross between pin-ball game and platformer.
unlabelledView post →Indie game visibility thread 🚨 Yoku's Island Express Pinball metroidvania! Play as a dung beetle! Roll your ball through the world!
unlabelledView post →Also that makes 18 more games on my PC gaming shortlist before I feel like my backlog is no longer cursed. Might jump into Yoku's Island Express, it's kinda a sleeper pick that I keep ignoring for no good reason (I think I've played a little bit of every other game on this list).
unlabelledView post →Thank you for visiting today's stream. It was super fun to hang out with you all today. 💕 Thank you also to @berrybluemar.bsky.social & @Minepatcher for the raids. ^^ ✨ Featured Game ✨ Yoku's Island Express (dev Villa Gorilla) twitch.tv/callmekixie
unlabelledView post →• The Outer Worlds: Spacer's Choice Edition • Turbo Overkill • Untitled Goose Game • Where Is Billy • World of Tanks: Heat • Yerba Buena • Yoku's Island Express via: TrueAchievements www.trueachievements.com/news/xbox-ga...
unlabelledView post →Ooo, I'll have to look into this! Thank you for sharing! Have you checked out Yoku's Island Express? That's my favourite Metroidvania game and it's delightful!
unlabelledView post →As of today, Yoku's Island Express (2018) is the 179th best game of all time according to me, directly below Torchlight 2 and directly above Legend of Zelda: Oracle of Seasons. It is part of Tier 10. There are 25 tiers and 582 games in the list #PixelRankings
unlabelledView post →store.steampowered.com/app/334940/Y... YOKU'S ISLAND EXPRESS this game was so unique! it's a metroidvania with no combat and a bunch of the traversal was through pinball mechanics where your character turns into a ball. it's something special (and the music's super cute!)
unlabelledView post →I think in recent years the main ways to play video game pinball are via Pinball Arcade (for re-creations of real tables) and Pinball FX (for more fanciful originals). But there are some neat indie releases out there too, like Demon's Tilt, or the chill metroidvania Yoku's Island Express.
unlabelledView post →Yoku's Island Express. Part puzzle, part metroidvania, part pinball game.
unlabelledView post →Playing with myself: 2 game self-multiworld Yoku's Island Express at twitch.tv/marcmagus
unlabelledView post →I knew this would be good when I saw Jens pop up in a preview of the game as the Design Director. He made Yoku's Island Express! Of course it's going to be great!
unlabelledView post →Listening to "Raising Steam" and playing "Yoku's Island Express" at Steam. The best game after the Zelda's...and it's got a 'random mode,' added by the devs at Villa Gorilla (at the urging of some speed runners at Discord.) It's added 100's of hours of play for me. Geeking out on a Saturday Night🤓
unlabelledView post →I think there was a Metroid Pinball on the original DS. I know Stern has pinball games on the Switch. Yoku's Island Express is a Metroidvania pinball game that is a lot of fun.
unlabelledView post →I play(ed) in that fashion: - Yoku's Island Express (2D platformer) - Crumble (3D platformer) - Disc Room (2D bullet hell type game) - Sludge Life (short open world chill game) - Mini Metro - Minecraft (yes, really. Requires setup, specific mods and playing on creative/peaceful settings if muted)
unlabelledView post →Also it is kind of the odd one out, but Yoku's Island Express was so much fun. It's a pinball Metroidvania with a dung beetle as the protagonist. I don't think there's another game even remotely like it
unlabelledView post →Looking for a game for a friend who's had a rough week. She liked Yoku's Island Express and Webbed, so I think the ideal genre is "chill cute platformer where you're a lil' guy". Any thoughts?
unlabelledView post →Thank you for visiting the stream.💕Thank you also to @/d_jatomica, @/ariBoops_, @scholarlyfrog.bsky.social, & @nothybun.bsky.social for the raids. ^^ We rolled SECOND credits on Yoku's Island Express and hatched the mystery egg! 👀 What an amazing game!! store.steampowered.com/app/334940/Y...
unlabelledView post →Thank you for visiting the stream.💕Thank you also to @/d_jatomica & @kausaintlu.bsky.social for the raids. ^^ We rolled credits on Yoku's Island Express! Thank you dev Villa Gorilla for making such a wonderful game.🥰 store.steampowered.com/app/334940/Y...
unlabelledView post →Okay so decided to play Yoku's Island Express as it's one of the shorter games on my list of backlog games to beat. Got an hour in and... it's good but... strangely grind-ey? I guess that kinda adds up for a pinball game, but then I realised I don't really like pinball??
unlabelledView post →Yoku's Island Express for the Nintendo Switch One part pinball, one part adventure, one part puzzle, Yoku is a unique brand of game that we had never seen before and probably will never see again. I was definitely the target audience for this one.
unlabelledView post →Yoku's Island Express (2018) - I wish I had the patience and skill for pinball/physics based games that would leave me with more nice things to say than "very charming" and "I like the bug you play as." Alas. 3/5.
unlabelledView post →I know how you feel! I had a similar experience with Pinball Spire getting compared to Yoku's Island Express and Sonic Spinball, neither of which is entirely accurate, and I was worried people would go into my game with unrealistic expectations. I think most players are generous though! 🙂
unlabelledView post →As of today, Torchlight 2 (2012) is the 178th best game of all time according to me, directly below Grim Dawn and directly above Yoku's Island Express. It is part of Tier 10. There are 25 tiers and 586 games in the list #PixelRankings
unlabelledView post →I don't think I've seriously knuckled down with a videogame since Yoku's Island Express. I have a lot of positive memories about that game, which is probably partly because it provided some respite at a time when I was dealing with the whirlpool of a badly off-kilter and destructive friendship
unlabelledView post →19) Yoku's Island Express by Villa Gorilla A Metroidvania meets pinball game? It's so interesting to me.
unlabelledView post →I wrote about Yoku's Island Express. Okay, that is a lie. I wrote a paragraph and bullet points about the game, but mostly complained about how people don't want to pay taxes. Pay taxes gladly, dang it!
unlabelledView post →Sadly due to my eyesight Yoku's Island Express is really difficult and I decided to refund it. It is what is it. I appreciate the uniqueness off the game. I just can't play it. Great idea. Cute game. I'm just too blind. Hah
unlabelledView post →Yoku's Island Express, of course. Allthough I think there's one "fight" against the antagonist of the game or something at the very end of it.
unlabelledView post →Some things I would like to see are the following; • new Wace Race • next SteamWorld game • Mina The Hollower shadow drop • more about The Adventures of Elliot: The Millennium Tales • Yoku's Island Express sequel • Acid Nerve's next game • release date for MIXTAPE
unlabelledView post →neither brutal nor a puzzle game, but Yoku's Island Express is such a creative platformer that i have to include it. you are a tiny beetle with a ball, and instead of jumping around, you use pinball flippers to navigate the huge map. Cute and a lot of fun. store.steampowered.com/app/334940/Y...
unlabelledView post →Not enough people know Yoku's Island Express, such an adorable little game.
unlabelledView post →#365DaysOfMusic Day 150 Yoku's Island Express - Lost In The Frost Pines Yesterday marks 7 years since this incredible game came out. I yearn constantly for a sequel to 'Yoku's Island Express', spiritually or otherwise. www.youtube.com/watch?v=RtY4...
unlabelledView post →(games played this year, continued) #21. Yoku's Island Express. An open world 2-d pinball game, which is not a combination you hear very often. I've got a lot of fondness for this game and its extremely cute aesthetics.
unlabelledView post →Thank you for visiting the stream.💕Thank you also to @VintageBlanc & @minepatcher for the raids. ^^ We made good progress in Yoku's Island Express. It's getting really interesting. You can get the game 90% OFF on Steam right now! 👀 store.steampowered.com/app/334940/Y...
unlabelledView post →Yoku's Island Express is such a neat game. I love the mix of pinball and metroidvania. It feels so well put together and is really satisfying to play. I can't wait to play more next week. store.steampowered.com/app/334940/Y...
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