Pipistrello and the Cursed Yoyo

Pipistrello and the Cursed Yoyo

Released May 2025

Are you ready for the first Yoyovania?! In this 2D top-down adventure you'll explore a sprawling urban landscape, reinterpreting your surroundings through your mastery of yoyo tricks. Navigate the city's many districts, fight rival crime bosses, and regain the influence of the Pipistrello family!

97% positive · 2,194 reviews
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Evaluation

Pipistrello and the Cursed Yoyo launched on May 28, 2025 as a complete, self-contained 2D action-adventure game. The store description presents the full feature set — four city districts, four crime boss dungeons, over 10 yoyo tricks, 40+ badges, and 20+ upgrades — with no indication that any content is withheld for future release. The only DLC is the official soundtrack, which shipped on launch day. Following release, Pocket Trap delivered a solid series of quality-of-life patches: v1.3 and v1.4 arrived within the first week addressing settings and gameplay improvements, v1.5 fixed a control bug, and the headline v2.0 update on August 18, 2025 added high refresh-rate monitor support (up to 120Hz+), an oracle feature to help players find remaining collectibles, and a new final boss checkpoint — meaningful improvements to the existing experience rather than new content. The most recent developer communication is from May 28, 2026 — the game's one-year anniversary — which was a celebratory sale post thanking the community for the overwhelmingly positive reception. No future content, expansions, DLC, or roadmap has been announced at any point, and the developer has not indicated that development is ongoing beyond the initial post-launch polish phase. The game reads as a finished product that the developer has supported responsibly through its first year.
Evidence
Game officially launched on May 28, 2025 across PC and consoles as a complete product.
news post · May 28, 2025 source content shipped
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Only DLC listed is the official soundtrack, released on launch day. No game content DLC or season pass exists.
dlc listing · May 28, 2025 source content shipped
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Content

1 of 1 released · no outstanding content

Media

Details

Developer
Publisher
PM Studios, Inc.
Achievements
32
Platform
Windows
Controller
full support
Steam Deck
Verified
Players
Single-player

About this game

Explore a vast urban landscape in this exciting 2D top-down platforming adventure!

Pipistrello and the Cursed Yoyo combines combat, platforming action, puzzle-solving, and exploration — all enveloped in a delightful character-driven story about corporate shenanigans! Face off against the rival crime entrepreneurs and their underlings using the weapon you know best: your prized yoyo! With Yoko Shimomura contributing as guest composer, you're in for a truly authentic nostalgia blast!

Pay close attention to your surroundings to discover new ways to traverse the terrain! With each newly-learned yoyo trick, you'll come to reinterpret the cityscape, and by chaining these maneuvers together, you'll be able to dexterously reach places you could never have imagined! Many challenges have multiple solutions — so come up with your own novel routes in this mouth-watering adventure!

Features

  • Explore the city's 4 districts with over 1000 screens' worth of challenges and secrets!

  • Infiltrate the businesses of the 4 crime bosses! Navigate their labyrinthine buildings, take on foes, and solve action puzzles!

  • Master over 10 yoyo tricks and Special Moves to create your own yoyo-parkour routes and pulverize your enemies in combat!

  • Collect over 40 equippable Badges that alter the way you play!

  • Unlock over 20 passive Upgrades through a shady loan shark!

  • Find over 80 other collectibles throughout town, from life upgrades to precious treasures!

Corporate shenanigans abound!

Pippit, the self-declared yoyo master, has never meshed well with the rest of his family: the powerful and influential Pipistrellos, headed by his auntie, Madame Pipistrello. The family's had a firm grip on their city for over a decade, owing to the monopoly on electricity that they hold.

It just so happens that, when Pippit finally drops by for his annual visit to the Pipistrello Manor, he gets caught up in the rival companies' nefarious plot to dethrone the Madame and take the source of energy generation for themselves! After the attack, Pippit and the Madame find themselves having to cooperate in a completely new arrangement......

The Big City

Your journey takes place across a huge, bustling city run by rival crime entrepreneurs. From shopping districts to industrial complexes, to a geek culture convention and a sports-addicted neighborhood, you'll track down these dastardly crime bosses that have challenged your own family's dominion over the city!

Get ready for the first Yoyovania!

It never hurts to be on the lookout for secret nooks and crannies! Carefully explore the city's districts with the aid of your map, and carve your own path towards the bosses' places of business! Venture into their dangerous lairs, crack puzzles, and be prepared for epic showdowns!

Last evaluated Jun 17, 2026
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