YIIK: A Postmodern RPG
YIIK is a colourful 3D Japanese-Style RPG set in the 1990s and based around a mystery in a small town. Recent college graduate Alex Eggleston gathers weirdos from the internet to investigate the mystery around…
YIIK: A Postmodern RPG is an adventure developed by Ackk Studios, released 17 January 2019 on Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows). The main story takes about 33.2 hrs to finish.
What YIIK: A Postmodern RPG is
YIIK: A Postmodern RPG is an adventure game developed by Ackk Studios and released in 2019. It was published by Ysbryd Games. It is available on Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows). It runs on Unity.
The premise, in the publisher's words
YIIK is a colourful 3D Japanese-Style RPG set in the 1990s and based around a mystery in a small town. Recent college graduate Alex Eggleston gathers weirdos from the internet to investigate the mystery around Sammy Pak, a mysterious woman who goes missing in a supernatural event. The player can control the characters in turn based battles where normal everyday objects are used as weapons. The combat consists of turn based moves with timing based actions which can increase the damage of an attack. There are six dungeons to explore which include battles, puzzles which have to be solved, and traps that have to be avoided. There are approximately twenty five hours of gameplay.
How it plays
It is played from a third person perspective. Its themes are fantasy and mystery. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.
How it was received
YIIK: A Postmodern RPG holds a critic score of 63 out of 100. That places it above 22% of the 7,525 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2019 averaged 69, so it scored 6 points below the year average.
How long it takes, and what that costs
The main story runs about 33.2 hrs.
What it launched against
YIIK: A Postmodern RPG launched on 17 January 2019, within three weeks of Kingdom Hearts III, Resident Evil 2, Slay the Spire and Apex Legends. All of them reviewed better. It arrived 6 years into the PlayStation 4's life, so it was built for hardware developers already knew well.
Released around the same time: Kingdom Hearts III, Resident Evil 2, Slay the Spire, Apex Legends.
Official trailer
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