Allie<p>January 9, 2024 - Day 374 - NewPlay Review<br>Total NewPlays: 410</p><p>Game: Baba Is You</p><p>Platform: Steam<br>Released: Mar 14, 2019<br>Installed: Dec 14, 2023<br>Unplayed: 26d<br>Playtime: 26m</p><p>Rating: 5 - Excellent</p><p>Baba Is You is a top-down pixel-art puzzle game. It's like Sokoban on acid.</p><p>Each puzzle has a goal. The rules for each puzzle are in each puzzle, as blocks you can move.</p><p>For example, there are three blocks "Baba", "Is", and "You".</p><p>When these three blocks are lined up, they're active as a statement. You can move one of the blocks, which will break the statement, but also fail the level.</p><p>The same level might have "Walls", "Are", and "Stop". However, if you move the "Stop" block, it will break the statement, and now you can pass through walls.</p><p>Each level also has a win statement, which is usually (but not always) "Flag Is Win". Your goal is to reach the flag.</p><p>Wonder what would happen if you pushed the "Wall" block into the place of "Flag".</p><p>Now you have an active rule of "Wall Is Win", and... now you just have to walk over a wall piece, and you win the level.</p><p>I really needed a simple game to try and knock over tonight, and this hooked me (and my 11yo, who solved one of the puzzles for me, and now wants the game himself!).</p><p>Baba Is You is a wonderful example of a pixel-art game whose gameplay overcomes my resistance to pixel-art, and so it's:</p><p>5: Excellent</p><p><a href="https://aus.social/tags/BabaIsYou" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BabaIsYou</span></a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/TopDown" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TopDown</span></a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/PixelArt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PixelArt</span></a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/Puzzle" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Puzzle</span></a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/Gaming" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Gaming</span></a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/ProjectONG" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ProjectONG</span></a></p>