Playtonic Games | Relive a Classic with Yooka-Replaylee

“An epic adventure awaits, again.”

Yooka-Laylee returns in a big way now that Playtonic Games have revealed their epic remaster in the form of Yooka-Replaylee. Said to take everything the development team has learned in the seven years since Yooka-Laylee was first released in 2017, this all-new version comes with updated visuals and a few other changes.

No release date has been shared yet, but Yooka-Replayee is in development for Steam at this time as no other platforms have been revealed just yet, but we should be able to learn more about the remaster soon since members from the development team will be conducting a Q&A session on YouTube on June 11, 2024.  

For a peak at the reveal trailer and the full press release, we have both available here:

THE BUDDY DUO RETURNS! YOOKA-REPLAYLEE ANNOUNCED FOR PC AND CONSOLE

 

Relive the original classic platformer with a visual overhaul, new controls and camera system, plus new challenges and secrets

 

Thursday, 6 June 2024. Playtonic Games have today announced Yooka-Replaylee at the world premiere reveal in the Guerrilla Collective. Meet the definitive remastered and enhanced version of the 3D indie platforming collectathon darling, Yooka-Laylee (2017), with the same key creative talent behind the Banjo-Kazooie and Donkey Kong Country games at the helm and self-published by Playtonic Friends.

Marking the culmination of almost 10 years of Playtonic Experience along with an exciting new beginning for our favourite buddy-duo, Yooka-Replaylee is the result of the growth of the company, the things we have learned while working on other projects as well as the feedback we have taken on board since the original release.

 

Key Features:

• MORE BEAUTIFUL THAN EVER – With an art and animations overhaul and enhanced performance and resolution, the favourite buddy duo has never looked or moved better.
• NEW AND IMPROVED CHALLENGES – Improvements to existing in-game challenges and many entirely new challenges to discover and undertake!
• NEW COLLECTIBLE CURRENCY – Capital B’s inept minions have dropped their hard-earned coins all over the place. Collect the official currency of the Hivory Towers to spend on video games’ most beloved sentient vending machine.
• NAVIGATING THE WORLD – Now you can get lost in the game, not in the world! A brand-new world map and challenges tracker helps you know where you are and what needs to be done. Hooray!
• VENDI HAS PLENTY TO OFFER – Tonics are back with all new flavours! With the option to equip multiple game-changing enhancements, you can truly customise your playstyle. And as if that wasn’t enough, Vendi has new lines of merchandise for the modern fashionable adventurer.
• REVISED CONTROLS & CAMERA – A new tweaked move set allows you to combine moves more fluidly while the new camera controls makes framing the action a breeze.
• A DREAMY ORCHESTRAL SOUNDTRACK – The original score from famed video game composers Grant Kirkhope (Banjo-Kazooie) and David Wise (Donkey Kong Country) returns but as a beautifully arranged orchestral score. Now seriously, clean out those ears.

Join the team on YouTube on Tuesday 11 June for a sit-down Q&A session between Senior Community Manager, Steve James, and some of the company founders to answer all the burning questions about Yooka-Replaylee and Playtonic. 

Source: Playtonic Games PR