Burton-on-Trent, UK – March 17th, 2025 - Yooka and Laylee have never looked this good! Today during The MIX x Kinda Funny Spring Game Showcase, Yooka-Replaylee developer Playtonic debuted a brand new gameplay trailer for the upcoming remastered collectathon platformer, confirming a 2025 launch. The news was paired with a partnership announcement officialising PM Studios as co-publisher. Yooka-Replaylee releases later this year on PC, PS5, Xbox Series X/S, and Nintendo platforms.
Discover a vibrant world featuring equal parts retro-inspired charm and downright fiendish platforming challenges. The new trailer offers a sneak peek at Yooka-Replaylee’s fully built-from-the-ground-up biomes—five unique worlds each with their own challenges and collectibles. Meet an all-new character, Coinelius, and see the game’s 4K optimizations in action with buttery smooth previews of levels that await.
NEW GAMEPLAY TRAILER
“Yooka-Laylee was always our love letter to the golden age of platformers, and Yooka-Replaylee is a love letter to that love letter. PM Studios innately understands this,” said Gavin Price, Playtonic CEO. “They’re a perfect partner for Playtonic Friends as we enter this next stage of our journey with the game.”
“As a fan of collectathons like Yooka-Laylee and Banjo-Kazooie before that, it’s a delight to partner with Playtonic in bringing Yooka-Replayee to platformer fans around the globe,” said Michael Yum, PM Studios CEO. “With our powers combined, Yooka and Laylee will be bigger than ever.”
ABOUT YOOKA-REPLAYLEE
Yooka-Replaylee is the definitive remastered and enhanced version of the 3D indie platforming collectathon darling, Yooka-Laylee, developed by key creative talent behind the Banjo-Kazooie and Donkey Kong Country games. New remixed challenges and old favorites await as you embark to explore the huge, beautiful open worlds as the lovable buddy-duo Yooka and Laylee once more, all while backed by a beautiful orchestral soundtrack. Did we mention there’s an even more expandable map now? A shiny new currency? And tons of customization options? The favorite buddy duo has never moved, looked, or sounded better!
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 customize 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.
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About Playtonic
The studio behind the beloved Yooka-Laylee franchise, Playtonic was founded in 2015 by key creative talent behind some of the world's most acclaimed platforming titles and set out to reignite the joy of colourful, engaging, and whimsical games. From our humble beginnings, we’ve grown into a beacon of indie game development, operating not only as a development studio but also a publishing label.
About Playtonic Friends
The studio that brought you Yooka-Laylee and the Impossible Lair, Playtonic launched their publishing arm, Playtonic Friends to be a helping hand to indie developers around the world. Established in February 2021 Playtonic Friends has helped bring incredible titles such as B.P.M, Demon Turf, Blossom Tales 2 and Lil Gator Game to wider audiences.
About PM Studios
Founded in 2008 and based in Las Vegas, and internationally in Seoul, Korea; PM Studios, Inc. is an independent developer and publisher of interactive entertainment and mobile applications. More information about PM Studios and its products can be found at www.pm-studios.com.