Select Kickstarter backers are now able to go hands-on with Yooka-Laylee for the first time. Playtonic announced today that they have released demo codes for those who reached Toybox-eligible backing tiers and play on a PC, Mac, or Linux system. Console owners will unfortunately have to wait until the game launches next year to play the Banjo-Kazooie spiritual successor.
Playtonic has promised that Yooka-Laylee's Toybox demo is not like a traditional free trial that gamers might find for other titles. Instead, the Toybox is a "self-contained, spoiler-free sandbox" of various bits and pieces from the game that allows players to get gameplay experience whilst avoiding early spoilers for the story. In the demo, players control Yooka and Laylee as they run about a simulated world and collect quills that ultimately become a page. When the final page is collected, the main Toybox NPC will give players a hint about a secret in the final game.
Anyone who didn't reach the Toybox donation tier or who isn't playing on one of the aforementioned platforms will have to wait a little while longer to try Yooka-Laylee out for themselves, for now anyway. Playtonic's first game will release on PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Nintendo Wii U, PC, Linux, and Mac platforms in the first quarter of 2017.
I don't count Ratchet and Clank, that's pretty much a third person shooter.