Baba is You is a creative and adorable little programming puzzle game. Block pushing puzzles quickly evolve into mind-bending, level destroying programming challenges. While it is initially fun to reconfigure obstacles to your liking, the game quickly becomes overly restrictive with its ruleset. This attempt to maintain difficulty stifles player expression and makes solutions a lot more deterministic. If every level had a consistent framework the difficulty could be offset with familiarity, but the only consistency is that there is no consistency - every level requires internalizing a new set of rules. Certainly great fun for a certain type of mind, but it feels like homework to me.

Reviewed on May 18, 2024


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