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2025 PCPlayStationXboxNintendo Switch 19.50 €

A top-down Metroidvania in which you explore a sprawling city as Pipistrello, using yoyo tricks to solve puzzles, traverse the environment and fight rival crime lords. The yoyo serves as both weapon and traversal tool.

What defines Pipistrello and the Cursed Yoyo:

  • Lots to discover
  • Puzzles and brain teasers
  • Distinctive, stylised art style
  • Timing and reflexes matter (parrying, dodging)

The closest matches for Pipistrello and the Cursed Yoyo are Big Hops, Wuppo and Crypt Custodian. Each of these 10 games shares something of what makes Pipistrello and the Cursed Yoyo special – the reasons are listed right on each game.

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Big Hops

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2026 PCPlayStationNintendo Switch 19.50 €

  • Lots to discover
  • Distinctive, stylised art style
  • Focus on a single character

A colorful 3D platformer where you play as a frog, using parkour moves and your tongue to explore large worlds. Its highlight is the playful, emergent interactions with gadgets and veggies.

Wuppo

Puzzles and brain teasers

A quirky hand-drawn Metroidvania adventure in which a little Wum explores a bizarre world in search of a new home, solving puzzles and fighting enemies. Its offbeat humor and distinctive look define the experience.

Minishoot' Adventures

Timing and reflexes matter (parrying, dodging)

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Supraland

Puzzles and brain teasers

A first-person metroidvania built around clever puzzles and exploration. Secrets and new abilities are tucked everywhere, constantly opening new paths, all delivered with a tongue-in-cheek sense of humor.

Roundabout

Puzzles and brain teasers

You pilot a limousine that never stops spinning through an open town, solving puzzles and taking on missions. The campy 70s B-movie story with live-action cutscenes delivers quirky humor.

SteamWorld Dig 2

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Immortals Fenyx Rising

Puzzles and brain teasers

A bright, Zelda-inspired open-world adventure through Greek myth, mixing snappy dodge-and-parry combat with plenty of puzzle vaults. Zeus and Prometheus narrate the journey with constant comedic banter.

Another Crab's Treasure

Timing and reflexes matter (parrying, dodging)

As Kril the hermit crab you fight through a polluted underwater world in soulslike fashion, wearing trash as shell armor that each grants different abilities. Quirky humor and an environmental message meet a more approachable but still demanding combat system built on parrying and dodging.

Minit

Puzzles and brain teasers

In Minit your character dies every 60 seconds and restarts, turning each run into a tiny puzzle. You uncover shortcuts and secrets in a charming black-and-white pixel world while trying to break your curse.

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