Yooka-Laylee and the Impossible Lair on Steam - User reviews, Price & Information

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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!

Yooka-Laylee and the Impossible Lair is a adventure, indie and platformer game developed by Playtonic Games and published by Team17 Digital Ltd.
Released on October 08th 2019 is available only on Windows in 7 languages: English, French, German, Spanish - Spain, Japanese, Simplified Chinese and Polish.

It has received 1,269 reviews of which 1,042 were positive and 227 were negative resulting in a rating of 7.8 out of 10. 😊

The game is currently priced at 29.99€ on Steam, but you can find it for 0.93€ on Gamivo.

The Steam community has classified Yooka-Laylee and the Impossible Lair into these genres:

Adventure Indie Platformer 2.5D Great Soundtrack Singleplayer Colorful Family Friendly Exploration Funny Comedy Cute Puzzle Side Scroller Difficult 2D Platformer 2D

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System requirements

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Windows

Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
OS *: Windows 7 SP1 64-bit
Processor: Intel Core i3-2125 or AMD A8-6600K
Memory: 6 GB RAM
Graphics: GeForce GTX 650 or Radeon HD 5770
Storage: 6 GB available space

User reviews & Ratings

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April 2025

Yes, this is a good game and you surely will enjoy it if you like platformers like crash bandicoot. But, there are several flaws that are annoying. Sometimes the level design is off and you don't know if you are exploring a secret part of the level or if you are continuing and cannot return once you progress except for restarting the level. Often tonics you unlock are useless and you probably will play the whole game with as few of them as possible due to the quill tradeoff you don't want to suffer. The level transformations are cool and I really like the artstyle, but like the title of this game, even with the full army of beeguards it is impossible to beat the final level, and I don't feel like this game is worth the effort to keep trying again. It was fun right up to the end. unfortunately I will miss the ending.

March 2025

Overall more good than bad, however designing a final boss that takes ~30 minutes to complete that is extremely difficult with with no checkpoints is just poor game design. I understand that it's called the Impossible Lair for a reason, but don't have a sudden extreme difficulty spike at the very end; try to progressively build to that throughout the game. The rest of the game is pretty good and would recommend playing if 2.5D platformers are your jam. 15 hours for a sale price of $3 is worth it - you get 40 levels with a bunch of overworld puzzles to solve as well. Overall the developers did a good job with about 95% of this game and that alone warrants the thumbs up.

March 2025

Pain Points: Very generic level theming, visual design in general that felt like B grade (I just got tired of playing "new" levels), controls *almost* felt great but you retain momentum a bit too much in certain areas (cannon chaining level, parts of the Impossible Lair), the Impossible Lair doesn't scale properly in difficulty so chapter 2 is by far the hardest (easier escape sequence was fine though), Tonic system felt very much tacked on (them being useless in the final level made the strong ones pointless to collect), combat is janky with airborne collisions leading to me taking damage or getting away with a hit for reason I couldn't describe Overall its pretty solid, but its lacking in charm and isn't mechanically tight enough to justify that. I enjoyed the final level, it is disproprtionately hard though. I'm fine with the difficulty, but the game isn't interesting or solid enough for me to try and hone my skill in perfecting the titural Impossible Lair. Worth on sale, I got it for like 3 bucks, but it made me want to try the games this was inspired by, because they look better and might very well play better too. I had heard extremely high praise of this game, I was disappointed to an extent, but after the first bit I warmed up and stuck out until final completion

Nov. 2024

Game's okay.... gameplay is plenty fun..... but variety and engagement factor is pretty low after you grind a bit of chapters, first time variants come up is something really cool... but again it gets stomped below all the rest and how repetitive it gets. To add a sting, difficultly for some very specific things get insanely ramped up (nothing impossible no worries, but enough to make it frustrating). And sadly... there are some specific parts of the game (very few) that are badly designed, to the point that it is clear what you should do but the timing is badly coded so it doesn't really work as intended In any case, it is still fun for a while and an okay buy

Oct. 2024

Yooka-Laylee and the Impossible Lair follows on from its first game in different formats and dimensions where we must once again defeat the fearsome Captain B. At this point we have the option of saving the 48 bees lost in the 20 chapters plus the open world outside them to serve as a shield during this long and arduous battle or going it alone with the determination that despite there being no save points or tonics to save you, you will persist until the end. More challenging than its predecessor, but still nostalgic for the old games like Donkey Kong that have held our hands so much in the past. And yes, Laylee is still as annoying as in the first game (someone should change this character's voice actor...)

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Frequently Asked Questions

Yooka-Laylee and the Impossible Lair is currently priced at 29.99€ on Steam.

Yooka-Laylee and the Impossible Lair is currently not on sale. You can purchase it for 29.99€ on Steam.

Yooka-Laylee and the Impossible Lair received 1,042 positive votes out of a total of 1,269 achieving a rating of 7.84.

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Yooka-Laylee and the Impossible Lair was developed by Playtonic Games and published by Team17 Digital Ltd.

Yooka-Laylee and the Impossible Lair is playable and fully supported on Windows.

Yooka-Laylee and the Impossible Lair is not playable on MacOS.

Yooka-Laylee and the Impossible Lair is not playable on Linux.

Yooka-Laylee and the Impossible Lair is a single-player game.

There are 3 DLCs available for Yooka-Laylee and the Impossible Lair. Explore additional content available for Yooka-Laylee and the Impossible Lair on Steam.

Yooka-Laylee and the Impossible Lair does not support mods via Steam Workshop.

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Yooka-Laylee and the Impossible Lair is enabled for Steam Family Sharing. This means you can share the game with authorized users from your Steam Library, allowing them to play it on their own accounts. For more details on how the feature works, you can read the original Steam Family Sharing announcement or visit the Steam Family Sharing user guide and FAQ page.

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