Yoku's Island Express
Fair · Narrative · 2018
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
WAIT.
Fair today. The Winter Sale opens Dec 17, and it was discounted in 8 of its last 8 seasonal sales; 90% in the Winter Sale 2025.
Today
$19.99Fair
Typical seasonal cut
$3.9980% offBANGER
- Cost per hour▼
- $3.51/hr
- ReviewsS
- 96% of 5,373
- Critics
- 84 players 12 higher
- Genre rank
- Top 9% Narrative
Holding it back: Cost per hour
Why
Watch this gameOne alert at $3.99 or less.
Time and effort
- Main story
- 5.7h
- To 100%
- 11.3h 2.0x the story
- Finish
- 12% reach the ending
- Achievements
- 31
Price and sales
- Sales
- 80 on record
- Typical cut
- 80% off
- Steam low
- $1.99 December 2025
- Sale every
- 39d last October 2026
Players and genre
- Online
- 4 now
- Cheaper than
- 6% of its genre
- Better reviewed
- 98% of its genre
Price and player charts
The drop-off
78% start to 12% finishA normal fall-off for a game this long. Steam global achievements
The value story
The value story
80 discounts in the 9 years on record, a median of 80 percent off across all of them, roughly 6 weeks apart. It becomes a BANGER at $7.04, a level the record has reached 65 times.
Its score sits in the top 9 percent of its genre. It is pricier than 94 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 98 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Wonder Boy: The Dragon's Trap ($3.99, scores 67) beats it on value, while it beats Toki Tori 2+ ($14.99, scores 57).
More about Yoku's Island Express
84 from critics against 96 percent from players, and the player number comes from people who own the game.
Steam's global achievement data puts about 12 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. On a 5.7-hour game, the hours short of it still count in its price per hour. Of the 403 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 2 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written March 2020 to September 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 81 percent of the 270 reviews written there were positive, against 96 percent overall, and those are 8 percent of everything written about it.
It carries Valve's Deck Verified rating and runs 5.7 hours, about as long as a handheld game wants to be.
Buy now or wait
Buy now or wait
Last discount ended 16 days ago.
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
What drives the score
Grades: S best, D weakest
S is the best grade and D the weakest, judged as a buyer. ▲ raises the score, ▼ lowers it, ? is an input we do not have, • is a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work
What players say
It's fun but also very tedious if you want to do side content. Traversal is very slow. Would be way better if you could teleport between save points. There's those beelines but you can jump on them only in specific places so most of the time you can't use them even if you're close. Also some collectibles are hidden behind the explosion mechanic which means you have to get the frog and then go somewhere with it...
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
About the game
Meet Yoku, the pint-sized postman protagonist of Yoku's Island Express! Use a unique blend of pinball mechanics, platforming and open world exploration to unlock the secrets of Mokumana Island, help the locals, awaken ancient deities and much more in this amazing new tropical adventure!
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, Nvidia GeForce GT 630 1GB / AMD Radeon 7770 1GB / Intel HD 530, 3 GB of storage. Windows only.
Cite this score
Yoku's Island Express scores 65/100 on the BANG Score (fair value) as of Nov 8, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/334940/yoku-s-island-expressReviews set the ceiling, and price against real length moves the BANG Score inside it. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Oct 19, price as of Nov 7. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.