Pipistrello Cursed Yoyo: What Real Players Actually Think

I was telling everyone to play this last year and constantly mentioned it was one of my favorites. Still never met anyone who's actually played other than on here.

I absolutely adore both of Pocket Trap's previous games (Ninjin: Clash of Carrots and Dodgeball Academia) so I'm super excited to dig into this one. I also love that people are making truly quality indie 2D-Zelda-Likes.

I really love it. The GBA zelda style is awesome. I hope it sells well, because it deserves a sequel or, at least, a DLC.

It's a crazy good game. I knew about it but wasn't super excited for it… but Jesus. It's like shovel knight quality but for Zelda-likes

It's a great game, but some of the later dungeons can be a bit too long and repetitive. The moveset is really innovative, and I liked the tone of the story and the setting. I would like to see more zeldalikes without the mandatory fantasy world.

I tried the demo a few weeks ago on a whim, and I was like WHAT IS THIS GAME AND WHY HAVE I NOT HEARD OF IT? I was very excited for the release this week, it's a very fun game.

Bought it this morning, and now I'm 4 hours or so in. It's pretty damned good. So damn well polished with all the mechanics so well thought out. Great game so far

Great game. Unique abilities, amazing movement mechanics, always kept it fresh. Really enjoyed it.

i hear so many good things about this game but i feel like its a complete assault on the eyes and no one ever seems to comment on that. I grew up with the NES too, so i have no problem with a retro style...maybe its just a me thing.

Among the best games this year.

Was keeping my eye on this and the great reviews just tempted me to snag this right away. Im loving the GBA nostalgia these days.

I really liked this one. One of the best things about Pippistrello was that it had a ton of bonus secrets to find. Every couple of screens there is a rose container or a badge holder fragment or bonus cash. There is always something extra around the corner to grab.

I feel like it gets really repetitive in the back half. My other concern is (correct me if im wrong) that there is only four upgrades that open up areas in the entire game.

I'm playing on switch and absolutely in love. Hadn't heard of this prior to yesterday but I'm hooked.

WOW. I just finished the demo and bought the full version. I did not hit a single thing in that demo that I did not love. Everything was total quality. Everything.

Ironically, it's my current game before Silksong drops! It's pretty good! Cute aesthetic, goofy story, and clever mechanics.

I'm playing through it right now and I'm constantly amazed at just how fun it is. I usually struggle when games are too long so imagine my surprise when I realized I was playing Pipistrello for 12 hours already. Level design is great, gameplay is smooth and the collectathon mechanics are addictive to the point I'm naturally 100%-ing it.

Yeah I second this recommendation. Great little game, although i would call it more of a zelda-like as some people feel MVs have to be sidescrollers. But i recommend it nonetheless to those people. Between this and Mina the Hollower, the gba look and feel is back big this year.

It is the best top down Zelda like I've ever played, and as someone who's been playing the Zelda series since the NES I think it's better than any of the actual 2D Zelda games besides Link's Awakening and Link to the Past.

I'm a "purist" so I don't consider a game a metroidvania if its not a sidescroller, but Pipistrello is Indeed an amazing Game. It's one of My favorites of 2025 and all of You should play it.

Such a fun title, and its so accessible too, hardly frustrating moments. you will 100% it for sure because it's that addictive to explore the world and finally unlock that chest you've been eyeing on for your whole playthrough.

If not for Silksong, this would be my GOTY, what a wonderful game

I enjoyed most aspects of the game but I hated the "penalty for upgrades" system. Most of the game I played handicapped just to unlock (sometimes incremental) upgrades. The fact that it took so much coin and multiple debuffs to unlock a single upgrade (and you can only do one at a time) really killed a lot of the fun for me. Cool idea, horrible execution. It should've just cost money.

It was good. Biggest plus is how unapologetically mechanics oriented the level design is. Every screen has some way to use your abilities, and there are tons of collectibles that can be gotten in fun and interesting ways. I also really liked how the game is not afraid of the player breaking it in late game with the cheater batches.

Tied with Silksong for best game of 2025 for me.

it was so-so not a bad game at all. i wouldn't say it was mind blowing. the only dungeon i really enjoyed was the subway station. i thought the combat was frustrating and i felt they could of did more with it.

One of the Best game i did play in a decade! A masterpiece. If you like capcom Zelda's, you will love every second of it

Loved it. The abilities were unique as fuck too. The artstyle was great and not-your-typical-metroidvania-dark-fantasy. For me, it makes my top 5 of the year.

This game has one of my favorite gaming elements: variation. There are so many fun mini games, secrets, upgrades, NPC's, puzzles, side activities… each screen has a new possibility. Amazing game so far, maybe my fav of 2025.

I have played a couple hours and find it dull and kind of annoying.

I 100% it too a couple months ago. Fantastic fun! Easy to recommend.

Glad to find a fellow enjoyer! Feel like this one went under everyone's radar. I'm sitting at around 75% just sort of messing around before actually finishing the game. I was not prepared for how massive this game's world would be.

It's really half Zelda half Celeste. For me the most challenging sections were the platforming (most optional and fun). The platforming does have a strong puzzle component though, meaning once you understand what to do, the movement isn't insane, just precise.

Good game. The game mechanics felt really worn out to me personally in the late game dungeons, but still an impressive Zelda-like.

It was my GOTY until I played Spindle. Both are incredible. Hard to pick between the two.

This was one of the only demos in the February Next Fest that caught my attention. Despite this sort of game being a dime a dozen these days, it managed to stand out in the genre because it was really fucking polished. It has that one-of-a-kind balance that the Zelda games of being having simple but still engaging puzzle design. The GBA artstyle also looks really clean & vividly on Deck.

Been playing on my Steam Deck & it's been a brilliant experience! I've had the game at the top of my wishlist since its reveal so I've had my eyes on it for a long while and it's absolutely been worth the wait. It absolutely feels like playing a niche & severely underrated GBA gem.

I'm pretty disappointed with it myself. It's polished and it has its charms, but when people say it's like Zelda they're wrong. It's almost more like super meat boy with Zelda trappings. It looks like Zelda but it plays nothing like it. Here almost every screen is a challenge of some kind, you're rarely just wandering the areas and going on adventures finding secrets.

I was enjoying it but some of the traversal bits you gotta do are really annoying.

Love it. Its full of wonderful puzzles and really satisfying challenges, and absolutely lovely accessibility and difficulty stuff. Really well made and they wanted everyone that wanted a chance to play it to be able to.

I am about to finish this game and past the first two dungeons became extremely addictive. The room and dungeon designs are impeccable and the sheer size and density of challenges in the overworld and sewers is astonishing. What a fabulous (not so) little game!

Just a heads-up, this game has full Dualsense support on PC. I was shocked that there is Adaptive Trigger in this kind of indie game.

i love this game because it's so satisfying to go through areas and beat up enemies with all your yoyo tricks at your disposal, some of the puzzles were so mind-boggling that i had to look up a guide for them, and i really found myself getting attached to the characters and the silly little world they lived in to the point of drawing fanart and making up headcanons for them.

Late to this thread just to echo that this game is incredible. Perfect difficulty level, surprisingly funny (I find nearly all indie games attempt at humour really cringe), good toolkit of mechanics and great puzzle design.

It's amazing. Some games I rush through the first time, doing side-quests occasionally, but I've realized two bosses into this one that I want to start the whole thing over, and really take my time exploring. Crazy levels of personality, fun movement upgrades, good writing, and a Warioland-esque grungy pixel art style. A real gem.

Excellent game, but I was pretty worn out on literally every single room being a sort of puzzle by the end of it. They just begin to feel like a button memorization slog as opposed to fun.

Just checking in to say that this game is really underrated! It might not be as difficult as some other beloved metroidvanias but it has a fair amount of challenge. If you like puzzle-platforming gameplay this is a really good purchase. I had a lot of fun with my first playthrough and will definitely try NG+.

Just finished it, absolutely fantastic game! Would recommend to fans of Zelda or search action games.

I started playing this last night and suddenly 4 hours disappeared. I'm having an absolute blast with it.