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Games like Yooka-Replaylee

If Yooka-Replaylee is your kind of game, the closest matches are Heart Chain Kitty, Yooka-Laylee and A Hat in Time — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its atmospheric, cozy and funny. Each pick is ranked by what players of this game also play, shared genres and tags, and review-mined similarity — not a generic popularity list.

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About Yooka-Replaylee: Embark on an epic 3D platforming collectathon adventure with Yooka and Laylee! Yooka-Replaylee is packed with new moves, more story, exciting challenges, hidden secrets, and more than double the collectibles to uncover. Can you help them rescue the world’s biggest treasure?

2025ActionIndieAdventureCasual29.99 USDDeck VerifiedWindowsby Playtonic Games
Yooka-Replaylee — Steam game cover
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Accessible difficulty for all agesAll moves available from the startBanjo kazooie nostalgia and charmAtmosphericCozyFunny

Players who liked Yooka-Replaylee also play

Steam players who put hours into Yooka-Replaylee also tend to own these titles — a signal called collaborative filtering. imho.run cross-references millions of library ownership patterns to surface games whose real audiences overlap, regardless of whether their genre tags match.

  1. Heart Chain Kitty

    WHY THIS

    Top pick for Yooka-Replaylee fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Yooka-Replaylee.

    Help Kittey save his parents in Heart Chain Kitty, a surreal 3D platformer adventure that will blow your mind with fantastic locations, a heartfelt story, and unique abilities – like the screw ray!

    2018ActionIndieAdventure9.99 USDSteam ↗
  2. Yooka-Laylee

    WHY THIS

    Shares a nostalgic mood with Yooka-Replaylee.

    Second-strongest match for Yooka-Replaylee fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Yooka-Replaylee.

    Yooka-Laylee is an all-new open-world platformer from genre veterans Playtonic! Explore huge, beautiful worlds, meet an unforgettable cast of characters and horde a vault-load of collectibles as buddy-duo Yooka and Laylee embark on an epic adventure to thwart corporate creep Capital B!

    2017ActionIndieAdventure19.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  3. A Hat in Time

    WHY THIS

    Shares exploration and a nostalgic mood with Yooka-Replaylee.

    Third-strongest match for Yooka-Replaylee fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Yooka-Replaylee.

    A Hat in Time is a cute-as-heck 3D platformer featuring a little girl who stitches hats for wicked powers! Freely explore giant worlds and recover Time Pieces to travel to new heights!

    2017IndieAdventure29.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  4. Demon Tides

    WHY THIS

    Shares precision platforming, checkpoint based progression, adventure and an atmospheric mood with Yooka-Replaylee.

    Ranked #4 for Yooka-Replaylee fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Yooka-Replaylee.

    Race across open oceans and uncover a kingdom’s dark secrets. Expressively platform your way across dozens of locales, upgrading your gear and modifying your move-set every step of the way!

    2026ActionAdventure24.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  5. Gwen The Hen 64

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #5 for Yooka-Replaylee fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Yooka-Replaylee.

    Gwen the Hen 64 is a tiny 3D platformer collectathon, with precise controls and many different movement options.

    2023ActionIndieAdventure2.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  6. Pru the Pigeon

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #6 for Yooka-Replaylee fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Yooka-Replaylee.

    Pru the Pigeon is a bite-sized 3D platformer with precise and expressive controls. Join Pru on his quest to save his land Asasco. Explore and collect everything in sight!

    2024ActionIndieAdventure2.99 USDSteam ↗
  7. Hot Tin Roof: The Cat That Wore A Fedora

    WHY THIS

    Shares an atmospheric mood with Yooka-Replaylee.

    Ranked #7 for Yooka-Replaylee fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Yooka-Replaylee.

    You’re the Private Investigator on a string of grisly murders, scouring for clues in a 3D side-scrolling world. Grab your fedora and revolver - in Hot Tin Roof you’re on the case! Dive into a noir mystery and become Emma Jones, the only PI partnered to a cat named Franky.

    2015ActionIndieAdventure4.49 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  8. Raccoo Venture

    WHY THIS

    Shares collectathon progression and an atmospheric mood with Yooka-Replaylee.

    Ranked #8 for Yooka-Replaylee fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Yooka-Replaylee.

    A collectathon 3D platform game where you explore the world to find all hidden collectibles, solving secrets, puzzles and find new outfits to customize our cute hero. Special abilities will blow your mind controlling chaos and order. Recover the pieces to defeat the terrible Tattooed Tatus.

    2023ActionAdventure8.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗

Cheaper alternatives

Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Yooka-Replaylee at current Steam store prices.

  1. Terraria

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~67% under Yooka-Replaylee on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Yooka-Replaylee.

    Dig, fight, explore, build! Nothing is impossible in this action-packed adventure game. Four Pack also available!

    2011ActionIndieAdventure9.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  2. Garry's Mod

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~83% under Yooka-Replaylee on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with Yooka-Replaylee.

    Garry's Mod is a physics sandbox. There aren't any predefined aims or goals. We give you the tools and leave you to play.

    2006IndieSimulationCasual4.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  3. Stardew Valley

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~50% under Yooka-Replaylee on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Yooka-Replaylee.

    You've inherited your grandfather's old farm plot in Stardew Valley. Armed with hand-me-down tools and a few coins, you set out to begin your new life. Can you learn to live off the land and turn these overgrown fields into a thriving home?

    2016IndieSimulationRPG14.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  4. Lethal Company

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~67% under Yooka-Replaylee on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Yooka-Replaylee.

    A co-op horror about scavenging at abandoned moons to sell scrap to the Company.

    2023ActionIndieAdventure9.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  5. Left 4 Dead 2

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~67% under Yooka-Replaylee on Steam right now. Shares Action with Yooka-Replaylee.

    Set in the zombie apocalypse, Left 4 Dead 2 is a co-operative action horror FPS takes you and your friends through the cities, swamps and cemeteries of the Deep South, from Savannah to New Orleans across five expansive campaigns.

    2009Action9.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  6. Hollow Knight

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~50% under Yooka-Replaylee on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Yooka-Replaylee.

    Forge your own path in Hollow Knight! An epic action adventure through a vast ruined kingdom of insects and heroes. Explore twisting caverns, battle tainted creatures and befriend bizarre bugs, all in a classic, hand-drawn 2D style.

    2017ActionIndieAdventure14.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  7. People Playground

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~67% under Yooka-Replaylee on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Yooka-Replaylee.

    Shoot, stab, burn, poison, tear, vaporise, or crush ragdolls in a large open space.

    2019ActionIndieSimulation9.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  8. Portal 2

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~67% under Yooka-Replaylee on Steam right now. Shares Action and Adventure with Yooka-Replaylee.

    The "Perpetual Testing Initiative" has been expanded to allow you to design co-op puzzles for you and your friends!

    2011ActionAdventure9.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗

Free alternatives

Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.

  1. Life is Strange - Episode 1

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Adventure with Yooka-Replaylee.

    Episode 1 now FREE! Life is Strange is an award-winning and critically acclaimed episodic adventure game that allows the player to rewind time and affect the past, present and future.

    2015ActionAdventureFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  2. Ultimate Custom Night

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Yooka-Replaylee.

    Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!

    2018ActionIndieFree To PlayFreeSteam ↗
  3. Bongo Cat

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Yooka-Replaylee.

    Bongo cat needs your help. Bongo cat needz more hatz!!! Every time you press a key, Bongo cat will punch your taskbar. Type, click, play, work to collect more points. Which hats will you find?

    2025IndieSimulationMassively MultiplayerFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  4. ENA: Dream BBQ

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Yooka-Replaylee.

    Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.

    2025IndieAdventureFreeDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  5. The Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with Yooka-Replaylee.

    Sonic the Hedgehog...was murdered!? Get to the bottom of the mystery in this brand-new adventure!

    2023IndieSimulationFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  6. Indigo Park: Chapter 1

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Yooka-Replaylee.

    Explore the abandoned childhood wonder of Indigo Park! Guided by Rambley the Raccoon, help restore power to the destroyed amusement park while you run from the reason it shut down.

    2024ActionIndieAdventureFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  7. The Looker

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Yooka-Replaylee.

    You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.

    2022IndieFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  8. Our Life: Beginnings & Always

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with Yooka-Replaylee.

    A twenty-dollar bill, four summers, fifteen years, and a one of a kind life. Create an experience that’s all your own in this near-fully customizable visual novel where you grow from childhood to adulthood with the lonely boy next door.

    2020IndieFree To PlayCasualFreeSteam ↗

More from Playtonic Games

Other recommendable Steam games by Playtonic Games, ranked by review count so the studio's hits land first.

  1. Yooka-Laylee

    WHY THIS

    Shares a nostalgic mood with Yooka-Replaylee.

    Another title from Playtonic Games, the studio behind Yooka-Replaylee. Shares Action and Indie with Yooka-Replaylee.

    Yooka-Laylee is an all-new open-world platformer from genre veterans Playtonic! Explore huge, beautiful worlds, meet an unforgettable cast of characters and horde a vault-load of collectibles as buddy-duo Yooka and Laylee embark on an epic adventure to thwart corporate creep Capital B!

    2017ActionIndieAdventure19.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  2. Yooka-Laylee and the Impossible Lair

    WHY THIS

    Shares an atmospheric mood with Yooka-Replaylee.

    Another title from Playtonic Games, the studio behind Yooka-Replaylee. Shares Indie and Adventure with Yooka-Replaylee.

    Yooka-Laylee and the Impossible Lair is a brand-new 2.5D platformer from some of the key creative talent behind 'Donkey Kong Country'. As the colourful buddy duo you must tackle a series of stunning, 2.5D levels and explore a puzzling 3D Overworld rich with secrets and surprises!

    2019IndieAdventure29.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  3. Super Yooka-Laylee Kart

    WHY THIS

    Another title from Playtonic Games, the studio behind Yooka-Replaylee. Shares Adventure with Yooka-Replaylee.

    The most skilful, expressive and explosive racer built around mastery, rivalry, and revenge-fuelled comebacks. Race through a solo campaign, compete against rivals online, or create your own custom race setups and challenge your friends.

    AdventureRacingSteam ↗

Plays great on Steam Deck

Valve-Verified or Playable picks from the similar pool — ready to go on Deck out of the box.

  1. Yooka-Laylee

    WHY THIS

    Shares a nostalgic mood with Yooka-Replaylee.

    Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Yooka-Replaylee.

    Yooka-Laylee is an all-new open-world platformer from genre veterans Playtonic! Explore huge, beautiful worlds, meet an unforgettable cast of characters and horde a vault-load of collectibles as buddy-duo Yooka and Laylee embark on an epic adventure to thwart corporate creep Capital B!

    2017ActionIndieAdventure19.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  2. A Hat in Time

    WHY THIS

    Shares exploration and a nostalgic mood with Yooka-Replaylee.

    Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Adventure with Yooka-Replaylee.

    A Hat in Time is a cute-as-heck 3D platformer featuring a little girl who stitches hats for wicked powers! Freely explore giant worlds and recover Time Pieces to travel to new heights!

    2017IndieAdventure29.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  3. Demon Tides

    WHY THIS

    Shares precision platforming, checkpoint based progression, adventure and an atmospheric mood with Yooka-Replaylee.

    Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Adventure with Yooka-Replaylee.

    Race across open oceans and uncover a kingdom’s dark secrets. Expressively platform your way across dozens of locales, upgrading your gear and modifying your move-set every step of the way!

    2026ActionAdventure24.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  4. Gwen The Hen 64

    WHY THIS

    Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Yooka-Replaylee.

    Gwen the Hen 64 is a tiny 3D platformer collectathon, with precise controls and many different movement options.

    2023ActionIndieAdventure2.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  5. Hot Tin Roof: The Cat That Wore A Fedora

    WHY THIS

    Shares an atmospheric mood with Yooka-Replaylee.

    Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Yooka-Replaylee.

    You’re the Private Investigator on a string of grisly murders, scouring for clues in a 3D side-scrolling world. Grab your fedora and revolver - in Hot Tin Roof you’re on the case! Dive into a noir mystery and become Emma Jones, the only PI partnered to a cat named Franky.

    2015ActionIndieAdventure4.49 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗

Frequently asked about Yooka-Replaylee

Is Yooka-Replaylee verified for Steam Deck?
Yes — Yooka-Replaylee is Steam Deck Verified, meaning Valve has confirmed it runs well on the Deck with full controller, text legibility, and default configuration support.
How much does Yooka-Replaylee cost?
Yooka-Replaylee is listed on Steam at 29.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
What games are most similar to Yooka-Replaylee?
Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Yooka-Replaylee are Heart Chain Kitty, Yooka-Laylee, A Hat in Time.
Who developed Yooka-Replaylee?
Yooka-Replaylee was developed by Playtonic Games and published by PM Studios, Inc., Playtonic Friends.

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