Playtonic Games recently advised a Twitter user that they plan to have off-tv play functionality on the Wii U version of their upcoming title Yooka-Laylee.
@skatcat743 Yes, that's the plan!
— Playtonic (@PlaytonicGames) December 3, 2015
Yooka-Laylee is currently still in development, and we have recently seen more information emerge about the title such as new character Rextro SixtyFourus, and additional development details.

Good? Kinda obvious it would though.
Yeah I thought that was pretty much a staple for U games at this point.
Most. But not all. Tropical Freeze didn’t use the gamepad at all if I remember correctly.
It has off TV play, but other than that nothing special no.
Never played it. That doesn’t make a lot of sense though. Why not use the gamepad if it’s available?
I can’t wait for this!!!!
I would expect them to considering the boat load of money they raised.
Cool. I’m curious to see if they add anything else to the gamepad. I hope they do