Baba Is You is an indie developed by hempuli, released 13 March 2019 on Nintendo Switch, Android, iOS and Linux. The main story takes about 21 hrs to finish.
What Baba Is You is
Baba Is You is an indie game developed by hempuli and released in 2019. It is available on Nintendo Switch, Android, iOS, Linux, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows). It runs on Multimedia Fusion.
The premise, in the publisher's words
Baba Is You is a puzzle video game created by Arvi Teikari, a Finnish independent developer. The game centers around the manipulation of rules—represented in the play area by movable tiles with words written on them—in order to allow the player character, usually the titular Baba, to reach a specified goal. Originating as a short demo built for the 2017 Nordic Game Jam, the game was expanded and released on 13 March 2019 for PC and Nintendo Switch. Mobile versions were released in June 2021. A free update titled "Baba Make Level" was released on November 17, 2021, featuring 250 new and previously unused levels and a level editor with online sharing. Baba Is You received generally favorable…
How it plays
It is played from a bird view / isometric perspective. Its themes are action and fantasy. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. There are 18 achievements to unlock.
How it was received
Baba Is You holds a critic score of 80 out of 100. That places it above 65% of the 5,098 rated indie games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2019 averaged 69, so it scored 11 points above the year average. Player ratings track closely with critics at 80, across 199 votes.
How long it takes, and what that costs
The main story runs about 21 hrs. Completing everything takes closer to 40 hrs, roughly 1.9 times the length of the critical path.
What you need to run it
The minimum specification calls for 2.0 GHz+, 32-bit, 1 GB RAM and ATI Radeon X1300/NVIDIA GeForce 6600 GT/Intel HD 3000 or better. At 1GB of RAM, it will run on essentially any working PC — that is below what a budget laptop ships with today. Both tiers are compared side by side on the requirements page, and you can check your own parts against them without installing anything.
What it launched against
Baba Is You launched on 13 March 2019, within three weeks of Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice, Devil May Cry 5, Anthem and Tom Clancy's The Division 2. It reviewed better than 1 of the 4. It arrived 2 years into the Nintendo Switch's life, so it was built for hardware developers already knew well.
Released around the same time: Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice, Devil May Cry 5, Anthem, Tom Clancy's The Division 2.
Cheats and codes
We have not confirmed any working cheat codes for Baba Is You yet. Rather than reprint a list we have not tested, this section stays empty until one is verified.
Official trailer
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