Playtonic Games has announced that Yooka-Laylee will soon be treated to its very own tabletop game courtesy of Limited Run Games' Game Decks series.
The "chaotic" game has two to four players jumping into a new adventure with Yooka, Laylee, and a whole host of characters and collectables inspired by the video game series. It features a modular 'build-your-own-board system that can be different each time you play – you can even combine it with other Game Decks releases like the Mutant Mudds set.
Here's what to expect:
- Quills, quills, quills! Use quills to buy Glide, Reptile Roll and Honey Puddle powerups to give yourself an edge over your opponents.
- The Ghost Writers! Have you got what it takes to beat their fiendish challenges and earn a bucket-load of points?
- Characters you love (and hate)! You’ll find Blasto, Kartos, Trowzer and TONS more sprawled across the Game Decks board, brought to life with stunning hand-painted artwork.
Orders are going live on Limited Run Games' website on 29th June, and you'll have a few options to choose from. A Gold Edition will exclusively be part of a new Yooka-Laylee collection, featuring a gold foil-stamped cover and exclusive alternate player pieces, dice and cover card, while a Special Edition, pictured below, will come with an original soundtrack created for this new game, written and produced by Perry Burkum.
Liking the look of this? Think you might get in on the action when it launches next week? Let us know if you'll be keeping an eye out for those orders go live with a comment below.
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Looks neat. Didn't play the first YL, but very much enjoyed The Impossible Lair. I'm always tempted to buy board games like these. If only my wife/ kids would show any interest in playing them...
@Jey887 Impossible Lair is such a drastic improvement on the underwhelming first game that you're really not missing much.
@Rob3008 Yeah, i've heard as much. I love a good 3D collectathon but i'll stick to the 40 thousand Mario games I own on Switch, and A Hat in Time.
Good! Whatever can distance it from that Banjo-Kazooie nonsense.
What is this madness in the comments? Yooka-Laylee was great, a loving homage to Banjo-Kazooie albeit a little unfocused in places. Impossible Lair is a boring, 2D joke.
@Jey887 I preferred Yooka-Laylee to A Hat in Time personally. 8/10 from me. Impossible Lair is a 9 or 10/10 mind you. Both great games in their own right.
Give the original a shot. I nearly didn’t after seeing poor reviews but I was pleasantly surprised by it.
You guys have left out the other big part of the news announcement, that they'll be selling 1000 copies of a limited "Grand Tome" edition of their book, The Kracklestone.
https://twitter.com/PlaytonicGames/status/1407367967415930880
@Jey887 haven’t lived a family life in years. I would be kind of sad if my wife and kids had no interest. I mean no disrespect. Your comment took me back to playing board games as a child. I loved playing with family. Didn’t cost anything. No TVs involved (the 90’s) In retrospect, I got to see different aspects of my family members personalities. Who’s short tempered. Who’s most likely to to be a bit shady. Who’s good at paying attention. Who’s a good strategist. Now that I’m thinking about it, I would be a sad dad, if my family showed no interest in board games. I would probably guilt them into in on Father’s Day! I don’t want to go out and eat! I don’t want a tie, socks, shaving equipment..WHATEVER! I WANT TO PLAY BOARD GAMES! AND I’M NOT BUYING THEM ONLINE! WE’RE GOING TO A STORE! 😂
@Oswinner I agree, I think most reviews were by people who already didn’t like games like Banjo Kazooie. It was far from perfect but I’d give the original a solid 8/10. Impossible Lair might be a 10/10, it was an amazing DKC inspired game!
Scores are quite high from others on here, but Yooka 1 was a decent 3D platformer that may have been better if it wasn’t being built on a tight schedule alongside the studio.
Impossible Lair is a belter. Still indie, but only a slight step down from DKC
I’ll have to keep my eye on that soundtrack CD…
@outsider83 Ha! No disrespect taken. My kids are a bit too young to understand most board games to be fair, so hopefully the time will come. My wife isn't the biggest board game fan but that might change once the kids are more interested. Plenty of good times to come!
@SnobbyLuigi Ah, that's a shame. It's a cracking game. I played it on PC as I've heard middling things about the performance on Switch. How far did you get? It really started to hook me once I got onto the train level. I thought it was such a creative idea and something I have never seen in a 3D platformer before.
@Pavil You had a bump on the head or something? Are you ok? I'm not sure you're ok...
I thought that they were issuing GameCube and Dreamcast ports for a second there. XD
This is some Yooka-Laylee memorabilia I'd gladly own.
I recently played Yooka-Laylee and Banjo-Tooie (N64 version) almost at the same time, and I still prefer the latter. In the former I'm stuck with tje final boss as I couldn't figure out how to beat it. I had to see a YouTube video of someone beating it to get the idea.
Impossible Lair is my jam, though. Makes me wonder how a 2D platformer Banjo-Kazooie would be.
@SnobbyLuigi Fair enough. I agree that the graveyard level is the weakest.
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