Baba Is You

GAME
IS
UNIQUE
AND
FUN


HAS






PUZZLE
GET
HARD

Do you want to stare at a screen, touching nothing, brow furrowed, for hour after hour? This is the game for you. It's like dark souls, except the boss is some stupid little collection of stupid words that are stupid. And mean. And lame. I don't need words anyway!

10/10 highly recommended.

I thought I was good at puzzle games.
And then BaBa came around and crushed my soul into tiny little bits.
In its unassuming form with its cutesy exterior it lulled me into a false sense of security.
And you just know that as you are sitting there stumped for hours trying to crack a seemingly simple puzzle and the kindergarden aesthetic and toddler speak chip away at both your confidence and your remaining braincells, somewhere out there, a game developer is smugly smiling to themself knowing fully well what they have inflicted upon their fellow men.

Incredible puzzle game that makes you feel like the smartest person in the world until it gets hard, and you realise you're actually the dumbest.
10/10 would recommend to anyone smarter then me.

Me, after finishing each of the first few worlds: surely this can't get any worse than this (clueless)
The puzzles in Baba are really hard. But they're also super creative and enjoyable. The set of rules may seem simple, but the puzzles really explore them in depth, and come up with lots of mind bending scenarios and interactions.
It's especially cool how Baba takes some mechanics that might be considered a bug in other games, and fully embraces them, creating unique challenging puzzles and even sections of the world around them.

BABA Is YOU

GAME is GOOD
is
not
FOR ME


Baba is You is a great puzzle game that taught me that I don't really like puzzle games. I'm not sure I'd say I really enjoyed the game as a whole, but I am fully aware that that is not the game's fault. The game is an incredible example of how simple mechanics can come together in brain-breaking ways - it's like the ULTRAKILL of Puzzle Games (or maybe ULTRAKILL is the Baba is You of shooters) in the way that a few building blocks create a complex web of interactions that powers the gameplay.

PROS:
+ Challenging puzzle gameplay is elegant and well-executed
+ Game's aesthetics are simple yet charming
+ Lots of puzzles - no shortage of content
+ Non-linear level structure helps reduce sticking points

CONS:
- Not anything, really.

The game is incredibly good at what it wants to be as a puzzle game, but if you don't like puzzle games it's not going to give you anything else to work with. I don't really like the feeling of getting stuck, especially since I really prefer to focus on playing one game at a time (so getting stuck can feel like a blocker) but for those who do like the satisfaction of overcoming really tricky puzzles this game is great.

Even though it didn't grab me in the same ways that a lot of my favorite games did, I will still probably return to the game to knock out some of the later levels anyways. Very good at what it wants to do, just make sure you actually want a puzzle game before you buy.

I would call this the Dark Souls of all puzzle games.
Only recommended if you are REALLY into problem solving.

I love the idea and the concept of the game.
You have to think outside the box, but that box is often just inside another box.

The game is hard, but also fun.
Failures might lead to new ideas how to solve a puzzle. And sometimes there are hillarious ways to fail.
Completing a level though, that's very satisfying.