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Pipistrello and the Cursed Yoyo

PC (Microsoft Windows), PlayStation 4, Xbox Series X|S, Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 5 • 2025

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Quick resume

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!

Global score

98/100

Genres

Action, Adventure, Indie, Platform, Puzzle

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    Pros

    • Tight and satisfying controls
    • Engaging puzzles and platforming
    • Charming pixel art and music
    • Deep progression and customization
    • Large explorable world with secrets

    Cons

    • Some finicky platforming and difficulty spikes
    • Story can be predictable or lightweight
    • Visual clutter can make reading environment hard
    • Upgrade system's temporary debuffs can frustrate
    • Combat can have enemy spam moments

    Motivations

    • Autonomy

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    • Competence

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      "The game offers challenging combat, platforming, and puzzles with skill-based progression and satisfying mastery."

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      "The game offers challenging puzzles, platforming, and combat that require skill and mastery of mechanics, with clear feedback and progression."

    • Competition

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      "Focus is on personal mastery and puzzle solving rather than competing against others; no mention of multiplayer or leaderboards."

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    • Continuation

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      "Players report long playtimes, 100% completion, and multiple game modes encouraging habitual and extended play."

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    • Cooperation

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      "Single-player experience focused on individual exploration and puzzle solving with no multiplayer or cooperative elements."

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    • Creativity

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      "Players engage in puzzle solving, exploration, and some customization of abilities, encouraging creative problem solving."

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      "Players customize builds with badges, experiment with yoyo moves, and solve puzzles in multiple ways, showing creative engagement."

    • Domination

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      "No evidence of exerting control or superiority over others; gameplay is solo and cooperative social dominance is absent."

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    • Escapism

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      "Players use the game as a deep, engaging distraction from real life, enjoying its immersive mechanics and nostalgic appeal."

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    • Expectation

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      "Players engage voluntarily out of intrinsic interest and enjoyment, with no indication of obligation or external pressure."

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    • Experimenting

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      "The game encourages trying new forms and abilities to overcome challenges and discover secrets, supporting exploration and experimentation."

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    • Exploration

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      "Strong emphasis on discovering hidden areas, secret collectibles, and lore through exploration."

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      "Strong emphasis on discovering secrets, exploring a large city map, and uncovering hidden puzzles and collectibles."

    • Expression

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      "Players customize characters via skill trees and equipment, expressing preferred playstyles."

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    • Fantasy

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      "Set in a fictional, imaginative world with anthropomorphic characters and storybook style."

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    • Fellowship

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      "No social or community features; experience is solitary and focused on individual play."

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    • Growth

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      "Players learn new mechanics, gain abilities, and develop problem-solving skills throughout the game."

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    • Health

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      "Typical sedentary video game play with no physical activity or health-related features."

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    • Idle

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      "Requires focused attention on puzzles and platforming; not suitable for passive or background play."

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    • Intimacy

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      "No evidence of forming close relationships or emotional social interactions within the game."

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    • Leadership

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      "No leadership or group management roles; purely single-player experience."

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    • Progression

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      "Strong progression systems with leveling, item collection, upgrades, and unlockables."

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    • Relaxation

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      "Generally a relaxed and humorous experience with some light tension from platforming and combat challenges."

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    • Sensation

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      "Appealing pixel art, sound effects, and music provide sensory enjoyment."

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    • Status

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      "No social recognition or status systems; focus is on personal achievement."

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    • Story

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      "Engaging narrative with characters and plot, though lighter and more humorous than deep or complex."

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    • Strategy

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    • Thrill

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    • Value

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    • Violence

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    • Survival

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    Analysis

    A very typical example of its motivational profile. Motivations that often define this kind of title include Fellowship, Cooperation, Leadership, Violence. Here, the score leans higher than usual among comparable games on Exploration, Expression. It leans lower than usual among comparable games on Intimacy.

    How to use the graph
    Similar games map

    Each dot is a game. They are arranged from the same motivation profile as in the “Motivations” section below. Closer dots usually mean more similar reasons to play (exploration, competition, relaxation, etc.)—not that one game is “better” than another.

    • Larger dot with a light outline: the game you are viewing.
    • Colour: groups of games with comparable motivation patterns (statistical clusters).
    • Hover a dot to see the game name; click to open its page.
    • Scroll or double-click the chart to zoom out and see more games.

    Why don’t the axes read like a score? This view uses t-SNE: it only keeps who is close to whom. The scales are not “good to bad” or hours played—they separate groups on the map. Read distance between dots, not the axis numbers.

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    Last update: 30/04/2026