Pikuniku

PlatformPuzzleAdventureIndie

Steam

Released

Jan 24, 2019

2,839 days ago

Platforms

PC
Switch
Xbox One
Mac
Linux
+3

Ratings

Popularity

#144of 3,301

By IGDB popularity

Release dates

North America dates

Apr 7, 2026209 days ago
- Android
Apr 1, 2026215 days ago
- iOS
Feb 9, 20212,092 days ago
- Stadia
Mar 12, 20202,426 days ago
- Xbox One
Jan 24, 20192,839 days ago
- PC
- Switch
- Mac
- Linux

About

Pikuniku is a puzzle and adventure game set in a colorful world. The player controls Piku, a small red creature, guiding him through levels and solving puzzles that mostly involve kicking and pushing objects onto switches to open the way forward. Piku can lasso his legs to swing from hooks and zip lines, curl into a ball to roll, ride minecarts, and travel through pipes to reach new areas. Along the way the player meets villagers to talk with and can spend coins earned in levels on items such as hats. A local co-op mode lets a second player control a similar orange creature named Niku across a set of cooperative levels.

Trailers

Screenshots

How long to beat

HowLongToBeat ↗ · 788 players

Main story: 3 h
Main + extras: 4 h
Completionist: 6.5 h

Reviews

Critic scores from OpenCritic ↗

OpenCritic76/10067% recommend · Strong57 critic reviews Steam96%Overwhelmingly Positive · 10,511 reviews

Critics (IGDB)75/1005 reviews

IGDB players72/100152 ratings

Game info

Released: 2019 · see every game from that year
Modes: Single player · Multiplayer · Co-operative
Perspective: Side view
Engine: Unity
Multiplayer: PCLocal up to 2Couch co-op 2Couch co-op
SwitchLocal up to 2Couch co-op 2Couch co-op

Studios

Age ratings

ESRBEMild Fantasy Violence, Mild Language
PEGI3No content descriptors
CEROANo content descriptors
USK6No content descriptors
GRACALLViolence
CLASS INDLLinguagem Imprópria (Inappropriate Language)
ACBGNo content descriptors

Languages

12 languages

Chinese (Simplified), Chinese (Traditional), English, French, German, Italian and 6 more

Language	Audio	Subtitles
Chinese (Simplified)简体中文	–
Chinese (Traditional)繁體中文	–
EnglishEnglish (US)	–
FrenchFrançais	–
GermanDeutsch	–
ItalianItaliano	–
Japanese日本語	–
Korean한국어	–
Portuguese (Brazil)Português (Brasil)	–
Portuguese (Portugal)Português (Portugal)	–	–
RussianРусский	–
Spanish (Spain)Español (España)	–

Themes & tags

Story & names

In a colorful island world, a cheerful figure named Mr. Sunshine appears in a commercial offering the local creatures free money in exchange for the junk his giant robots collect. Around the same time, a small red creature named Piku is woken by a ghost in a cave and told to leave. Emerging into the world, Piku finds that a legend has painted him as an evil beast, and the frightened villagers cage him until he agrees to repair the bridge he accidentally broke. As Piku earns the villagers' trust and explores further, he discovers that Mr. Sunshine's machines are quietly stripping the island of its essential resources, and he is drawn toward a small band of rebels determined to stop them.

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