Yooka-Laylee and the Impossible Lair
Skip · Narrative · 2019
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
SKIP IT.
It scores 45, under the fair line, at $29.99.
- Length
- 12.9h
- Value
- $2.32/hr
- Reviews
- 81% positive
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Minimum on the Steam store: 6 GB of memory, GeForce GTX 650 or Radeon HD 5770, 6 GB of storage. Windows only.
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!
What drives the score
How to read this
Grades run S to D, read from the buyer's side. ▲ marks a lift, ▼ a drag or a dock, ? an input we do not have, • a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work
The value story
The lowest price on record is $2.99, set in November 2023. 68 discounts in the 7 years on record. They run about 80 percent off, roughly 5 weeks apart.
Value puts it in the top 27 percent of the games it competes with. It is pricier than 97 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 70 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Airscape - The Fall of Gravity ($4.99, scores 63) beats it on value, while it beats Yooka-Laylee ($19.99, scores 40).
Steam's global achievement data puts about 6 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. On a 12.9-hour game, the hours short of it still count in its price per hour. 3 of the 426 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written March 2020 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 61 percent of the 114 reviews written there were positive, against 81 percent overall, and those are 13 percent of everything written about it.
Valve rates it Steam Deck Verified, and at 12.9 hours it is short enough to finish on one.
The drop-off
59% start to 6% finishSteam counts fewer than one in ten of its players at the ending achievement. On a 12.9-hour game, that's a lot you pay for and may never use. Steam global achievements
Players
6 players online when we last checked, on Sep 26, 09:49 UTC.
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
The poor man's donkey kong country returns. Jk, in all seriousness this is a great game. If you love DKC then you'll love this.
It's got the Yooka. It's got the Laylee. Dude, there is a beet-red snake named Trowzer in the game. I thought to myself, "Why Trowzer?" The only thing that I could think of was that it was a reference to Bowser from Super Mario Bros. But that seemed like a stretch. It just didn't make sense. But then I realized the filthy, disgusting truth. TROWZER SNAKE. They named him trouser snake. In the game with the bright...
Tedious game to play if you're a completionist as it doesn't respect the player's time whatsoever: One of the greatest sins you can commit when designing long, intricate levels is locking the player out of previous sections or collectibles upon reaching certain checkpoints--forcing them to play the entire level again from the start instead of letting them explore and see what they may have missed. In the DKC games...
Steam reviews, mixed to match its Steam ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
Cite this score
Yooka-Laylee and the Impossible Lair scores 45/100 on the BANG Score (a skip) as of Oct 2, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/846870/yooka-laylee-and-the-impossible-lairReviews 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 Sep 27, price as of Oct 1.
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