Yooka-Laylee and the Impossible Lair news & patch notes

Exciting news folks! Our first playtest for Super Yooka-Laylee Kart has officially begun!

If you signed up to join our playtest on SYLK's Steam page, make sure to check your email with a notification from Steam with your invite to play.

For those signed up, here's what you have to look forward to in the demo -

🏎️ 7 playable characters 

📊 4 racer archetypes 

🏁 2 tracks to master 

👻 Race against your personal best ghost

To get you started, here's some handy tips & tricks to help you get the best times:

Haven't joined the playtest yet?

Not to worry, there's still time, head on over to SYLK's playtest page to get access!

https://store.steampowered.com/app/3348210/Super_YookaLaylee_Kart/

We’ll also be looking closely at your feedback on game feel, handling and the overall Time Trial experience, so make sure to let us know what you think in our feedback form.  

The playtest will run for one week, ending Friday, 24 July. 

Follow us for even more pro tips! 

Across our socials throughout the playtest, we’ll be sharing regular tips and tricks to help you master the tracks, improve your times and climb the leaderboards. 

Feel free to share with us your best lap times and records too! We'd love to see how fast you guys are completing 

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Hey everyone! It's been quite the week hasn't it? We announced Super Yooka-Laylee Kart at Summer Games Fest as part of Day of the Dev's, and we've seen the incredible amount of love and support from our community since then. A massive THANK YOU to everyone who has wishlisted and shown support for the game over the last week, you're truly incredible. We have a few updates since the announcement that we'd like to share with y'all,

Yooka and Friends Drive to L.A!

Laylee Spreads the Word!

• We gave AntDude early access to the game, and he had some nice things to say on it!

• Polygon gave their early impressions, even giving positive comparisons to a moustachioed plumber that loves to race as well.

• Kotaku had very nice things to say, and felt our game was AWESOME!!!

• IGN said we'd come out like a bat out of shell.

• Gamespot said we recall the glory days of racing.

The Road Ahead!

Make sure to follow us on our socials too for the latest news as well; we can't wait to share what else we have planned for the game!

Thanks again for all your support so far, and we'll see you again down the road!

After months of secrets, we're finally able to share what we've been working on...

Introducing Super Yooka-Laylee Kart!

Today during Summer Game Fest as part of Day of the Devs, we officially revealed Super Yooka-Laylee Kart, our brand-new precision arcade racer built around mastery, rivalry, and revenge-fuelled comebacks.

🏁 Wishlist and Follow Now: Super Yooka-Laylee Kart

The next adventure for Yooka and Laylee might not be quite what you expected.

This time, they're swapping platforms for tracks in a brand-new racing adventure built around mastery, rivalry, and revenge-fuelled comebacks.

Built around mastery, rivalry, and revenge-fuelled comebacks, Super Yooka-Laylee Kart brings Yooka, Laylee, and a cast of fan-favourite friends and foes together for a brand-new racing adventure across worlds old and new.

Whether you're racing through a dedicated Story Campaign packed with tournaments, rival races and challenges, competing online, challenging friends in up to 8-player split-screen, or creating your own races, rules and rivalries, we're building a kart racer designed for players who love improving, experimenting, and settling scores.

Inspired by everything we've always loved about arcade racing, Super Yooka-Laylee Kart combines colourful worlds, memorable characters, rewarding mastery, and plenty of reasons to keep coming back for one more race.

We've also got plans for a series of multiplayer beta tests in the future, so be sure to wishlist the game and keep an eye on our channels if you'd like to help shape the road ahead.

To everyone who has supported Yooka and Laylee over the years, from our Kickstarter backers through to our newest players, thank you.

Your support has allowed us to keep creating new adventures, and we can't wait to finally get Super Yooka-Laylee Kart into your hands.

See you on the starting grid.

The Playtonic Team

🏁 Wishlist and Follow Now: Super Yooka-Laylee Kart

We’ve been hard at work behind the scenes since Yooka-Replaylee launched, and now we’re thrilled to drop a massive wave of updates your way!

Yooka-Replaylee now runs at a buttery-smooth 60fps on Steam Deck!

We’ve introduced even more display options, including FSR2 and DLSS, so you can further fine-tune your setup.

We have also improved our shader prewarming providing you much smoother gameplay across a range of devices.

On top of that, we’ve rolled out a ton of bug fixes, graphics and performance improvements!

Thank you for your incredible support, it means the world to us. We can’t wait for you to jump back in, explore all the improvements, and rediscover everything that makes Yooka-Replaylee special.

Hi folks! just a quick heads-up that we’ll be removing the Yooka-Replaylee owner’s discount from Steam on 17 June.

If you own Yooka-Laylee digitally and haven’t jumped into Replaylee yet, there’s still a little time to grab your 30% off before it goes. The owner’s discount on other platforms will be removed a little later, and we’ll share more on that as soon as we can. Sorry to see this offer go, and thank you as always for your support.

How do I get the discount?

On the Yooka-Replaylee game page, add the ‘Yooka-Laylee Owner Discount’ bundle to your cart, and if you already own Yooka-Laylee, you’ll secure the discount on Yooka-Replaylee.

The most exciting "Howdy folks" of all these posts! Yooka-Replaylee is out on Steam, Nintendo Switch 2, PlayStation 5, and Xbox Series! A launch discount of -10% will be available for the next week! And don't forget that we're also Steam Deck Verified!

With double the content that's better than ever, brand-new areas, Rextro's Arcade, collectibles, challenges, characters, Tonics and more, Yooka-Replaylee is the closes thing to full-on remake without building the entire game from scratch. "Remasker," our studio director Gavin Price has called it.

How do I claim the owner's discount?

Owners of the original Yooka-Laylee can claim their -30% owner's discount by purchasing Yooka-Replaylee through the below bundle. Simply add the bundle to your basket and the discount will be applied to your copy of Yooka-Replaylee.

Owner's Discount Bundle

Check out the brand-new launch trailer with a special voice guest

The Orchestral Soundtrack

If you want to enjoy the beautifully arranged orchestral soundtrack outside of your time in Yooka-Replaylee, you can grab the OST and take the music with you anywhere you go.

Please note that if you're an original backer of Yooka-Laylee, you'll be receiving a copy of the OST for free through BackerKit!

So what IS Yooka-Replaylee?

Quills!

Pagies!

Q.U.I.D.S!

​Check out what else is on offer in the Team17 Publisher Sale!

Yooka-Laylee and The Impossible Lair

Yooka-Laylee

• An assortment of vibrant and exciting 2D levels.
• A terrain-transforming "Pagie Challenge".
• A State Change!
• Tonics to sample. Give Yooka a massive head.
• The Impossible Lair itself!
• Saved State! Progress from the demo carries over when the game is purchased.

• Base game
• Trowzer’s Top Tonic Pack (four extra Tonics to use in game!)
• Original soundtrack
• Digital graphic novel

Yooka-Laylee and the Impossible Lair will be available on Steam today at 6PM BST / 10AM PT / 1PM ET

Team17 x PlayTonic Games Livestream

Team17 x PlayTonic Games Livestream