Games like Yooka-Laylee
If Yooka-Laylee is your kind of game, the closest matches are A Hat in Time, Fill The Void and Shovel Knight: Treasure Trove — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its charming retro aesthetic, dynamic world expansion and nostalgia inducing gameplay. 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.
Get personalized picks →Yooka-Laylee is a 3D collectathon platformer released in 2017 by Playtonic Games, available for $19.99 USD. Players control the buddy duo Yooka and Laylee as they navigate expansive open worlds, gathering collectibles and uncovering secrets through platforming puzzles and world-expansion mechanics. Boss battles provide strategic challenges throughout the adventure. Reviewers describe the aesthetic as charming and retro, with players highlighting the quirky characters and dialogue alongside a rich soundtrack. Players also note the dynamic world expansion and nostalgia-inducing gameplay that harkens back to classic platformers. The game runs verified on Steam Deck, offers a long single-player experience with normal difficulty, and holds a 75% positive rating from nearly 2,000 Steam reviews.
About Yooka-Laylee: 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!
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A Hat in Time
WHY THIS
Shares a nostalgic mood with Yooka-Laylee.
Top pick for Yooka-Laylee fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Yooka-Laylee.
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!
Fill The Void
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Yooka-Laylee fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with Yooka-Laylee.
Suck up the world. Consume & collect everything. Grow in size and power.
Shovel Knight: Treasure Trove
WHY THIS
Shares a retro mood with Yooka-Laylee.
Third-strongest match for Yooka-Laylee fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Yooka-Laylee.
Shovel Knight: Treasure Trove is the complete Shovel Knight collection, containing all 5 games in the epic saga! Dig, blast, slash, and bash your way through a fantastical, 8-bit inspired world of pixel-perfect platforming, memorable characters, and world-class action-adventure gameplay.
The Adventure Pals
WHY THIS
Shares a whimsical mood with Yooka-Laylee.
Ranked #4 for Yooka-Laylee fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Yooka-Laylee.
The Adventure Pals is an epic adventure platformer fueled by imagination, friendship, and the dark side of hot dogs. Your dad has been dadnapped and you, your pet rock, and a tongue-helicoptering giraffe must fight your way through levels filled with platforming, bizarre enemies, and big bosses to save the world!
Mischief
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for Yooka-Laylee fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Yooka-Laylee.
Mischief is a delightful and imaginative action/adventure video game where you step into the paws of a courageous rat, navigating through a captivating world within the nooks and crannies of a typical home and a bustling backyard solo or with up to four local players!
Castle on the Coast
WHY THIS
Shares a whimsical mood with Yooka-Laylee.
Ranked #6 for Yooka-Laylee fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Yooka-Laylee.
A hand-drawn, retro 3D collectathon. Parkour through a magic castle as George the Giraffe! String together sweet moves to explore crystal caverns, stone laden halls, and trippy alternate dimensions.
Sonic Mania
WHY THIS
Shares a retro mood with Yooka-Laylee.
Ranked #7 for Yooka-Laylee fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Yooka-Laylee.
Sonic Mania is an all-new adventure with Sonic, Tails, and Knuckles full of unique bosses, rolling 2D landscapes, and fun classic gameplay.
Unbox: Newbie's Adventure
WHY THIS
Shares a retro mood with Yooka-Laylee.
Ranked #8 for Yooka-Laylee fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Yooka-Laylee.
Unbox: Newbie's Adventure is a 90s style 3D platformer about the ultimate postal service, self-delivering cardboard boxes! Unbox: Newbie's Adventure has giant worlds full of challenges, collectibles and boxy boss battles!
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Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart
WHY THIS
Shares a whimsical mood with Yooka-Laylee.
Reviewers of Yooka-Laylee cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Adventure with Yooka-Laylee.
Blast your way through an interdimensional adventure with Ratchet and Clank – now on PC! Help them take on an evil emperor from another reality as you jump between action-packed worlds and beyond at hyper-speed!
Shovel Knight: Shovel of Hope
WHY THIS
Shares a retro mood with Yooka-Laylee.
Reviewers of Yooka-Laylee cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Indie with Yooka-Laylee.
Shovel Knight is a sweeping classic action-adventure game with awesome gameplay, memorable characters, and an 8-bit retro aesthetic. If you love games with perfect platforming, beautiful art, infectious music, lovable bosses, humor and levity, and real heart… Shovel Knight is for you!
Yooka-Replaylee
WHY THIS
Shares a nostalgic mood with Yooka-Laylee.
Reviewers of Yooka-Laylee cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Indie with Yooka-Laylee.
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?
Clive 'N' Wrench
WHY THIS
Shares a nostalgic mood with Yooka-Laylee.
Reviewers of Yooka-Laylee cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Adventure with Yooka-Laylee.
Hop, spin, and time-travel your way through 11 vibrant worlds in this lovingly crafted 3D platformer. Join Clive the rabbit and Wrench the monkey on his back as they chase an evil genius across history to save the future. And yes, it all unfolds from the chilly cockpit of a 1950s refrigerator.
Hell Pie
WHY THIS
Shares a whimsical mood with Yooka-Laylee.
Reviewers of Yooka-Laylee cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Adventure with Yooka-Laylee.
Hell Pie is an obscene 3D platformer that takes bad taste to the next level! Hell Pie sees you grab the horns of Nate, the ‘Demon of Bad Taste’. He is given the honorable task of gathering the disgusting ingredients for Satan’s infamous birthday pie!
Duck Hunting
WHY THIS
Reviewers of Yooka-Laylee cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie with Yooka-Laylee.
Welcome to the realistic world of duck hunting. Shoot ducks , gaining experience!
Master Blaster
WHY THIS
Reviewers of Yooka-Laylee cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Indie with Yooka-Laylee.
Grab your controller, charge your blasters and prepare for the physics shooter of the Universe! Take on diverse gameplay challenges, manage and upgrade your resources and abilities while you unfold the mysteries of the Cosmos. Defeat LORD CHAOSBRINGER and earn your title as the MASTER BLASTER!
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Yooka-Laylee at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~75% under Yooka-Laylee on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Yooka-Laylee.
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.
Lethal Company
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Yooka-Laylee on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Yooka-Laylee.
A co-op horror about scavenging at abandoned moons to sell scrap to the Company.
Left 4 Dead 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Yooka-Laylee on Steam right now. Shares Action with Yooka-Laylee.
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.
People Playground
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Yooka-Laylee on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Yooka-Laylee.
Shoot, stab, burn, poison, tear, vaporise, or crush ragdolls in a large open space.
Fallout: New Vegas
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Yooka-Laylee on Steam right now. Shares Action with Yooka-Laylee.
Welcome to Vegas. New Vegas. Enjoy your stay!
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Doki Doki Literature Club!
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Yooka-Laylee.
The Literature Club is full of cute girls! Will you write the way into their heart? This game is not suitable for children or those who are easily disturbed.
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-Laylee.
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.
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-Laylee.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
Bongo Cat
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Yooka-Laylee.
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?
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-Laylee.
Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.
The Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Yooka-Laylee.
Sonic the Hedgehog...was murdered!? Get to the bottom of the mystery in this brand-new adventure!
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-Laylee.
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.
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More from Playtonic Games
Other recommendable Steam games by Playtonic Games, ranked by review count so the studio's hits land first.
Yooka-Replaylee
WHY THIS
Shares a nostalgic mood with Yooka-Laylee.
Another title from Playtonic Games, the studio behind Yooka-Laylee. Shares Action and Indie with Yooka-Laylee.
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?
Yooka-Laylee and the Impossible Lair
WHY THIS
Shares a retro mood with Yooka-Laylee.
Another title from Playtonic Games, the studio behind Yooka-Laylee. Shares Indie and Adventure with Yooka-Laylee.
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!
Super Yooka-Laylee Kart
WHY THIS
Another title from Playtonic Games, the studio behind Yooka-Laylee. Shares Adventure with Yooka-Laylee.
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.
Plays great on Steam Deck
Valve-Verified or Playable picks from the similar pool — ready to go on Deck out of the box.
A Hat in Time
WHY THIS
Shares a nostalgic mood with Yooka-Laylee.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Adventure with Yooka-Laylee.
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!
Shovel Knight: Treasure Trove
WHY THIS
Shares a retro mood with Yooka-Laylee.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Yooka-Laylee.
Shovel Knight: Treasure Trove is the complete Shovel Knight collection, containing all 5 games in the epic saga! Dig, blast, slash, and bash your way through a fantastical, 8-bit inspired world of pixel-perfect platforming, memorable characters, and world-class action-adventure gameplay.
The Adventure Pals
WHY THIS
Shares a whimsical mood with Yooka-Laylee.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Yooka-Laylee.
The Adventure Pals is an epic adventure platformer fueled by imagination, friendship, and the dark side of hot dogs. Your dad has been dadnapped and you, your pet rock, and a tongue-helicoptering giraffe must fight your way through levels filled with platforming, bizarre enemies, and big bosses to save the world!
Castle on the Coast
WHY THIS
Shares a whimsical mood with Yooka-Laylee.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Yooka-Laylee.
A hand-drawn, retro 3D collectathon. Parkour through a magic castle as George the Giraffe! String together sweet moves to explore crystal caverns, stone laden halls, and trippy alternate dimensions.
Sonic Mania
WHY THIS
Shares a retro mood with Yooka-Laylee.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Adventure with Yooka-Laylee.
Sonic Mania is an all-new adventure with Sonic, Tails, and Knuckles full of unique bosses, rolling 2D landscapes, and fun classic gameplay.
Frequently asked about Yooka-Laylee
- Is Yooka-Laylee verified for Steam Deck?
- Yes — Yooka-Laylee 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-Laylee cost?
- Yooka-Laylee is listed on Steam at 19.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- Does Yooka-Laylee have multiplayer or co-op?
- Yes — Yooka-Laylee supports multi-player play according to its Steam store listing (Multi-player, Shared/Split Screen PvP, Shared/Split Screen Co-op).
- What games are most similar to Yooka-Laylee?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Yooka-Laylee are A Hat in Time, Fill The Void, Shovel Knight: Treasure Trove.
- Who developed Yooka-Laylee?
- Yooka-Laylee was developed by Playtonic Games and published by Playtonic Friends.
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