Practice outside-the-box thinking with "Baba Is You"

This is Baba

 

I'm not sure if Baba is a rabbit or a dog or anything we know of at all.

But in the game "Baba Is You", on most levels Baba is YOU!

 

Which means that you can control Baba with your keyboard or game controller.

Make the rules

Baba Is You is a game with lots of levels. On a level, there can be different things, but Baba, a flag, walls and rocks are common. There also are texts. Texts can be pushed. When texts are combined into a meaning, that meaning, if valid, become a rule.

Like when the texts "ROCK",  "IS" and  "PUSH" is formed into the meaning ROCK IS PUSH.
Which means that Baba, or whatever you control for the moment, can push all rocks on the level.

Or WALL IS STOP
Which means that you cannot move past a wall or push anything on it.

FLAG IS WIN means that when you reach a flag, then you've finished the level.

How to play

Here's the first level, it's simple as can be.

The more levels you pass, the more different things and texts you will see. Quite often I've had to think really hard before solving a level (and since I didn't want to spend too much time in the game I've often peeked at parts of solutions on youtube).

You play the game by pushing things around and pushing texts around to alter the rules of the level, until you can reach something that IS WIN.

I think you should try this game of you like logic and bending rules to your favor. There's no stress and a bit similar to coding. And I can promise you that some levels require skills in outside-the-box thinking!

Just finished Fran Bow, a game from Killmonday Games in Hedemora

After reading in the local paper that there is a computer game studio, Killmonday Games, in Hedemora now, (probably the very first, with a released game anyway), I felt that I had to try the game they'd produced. I found their game Fran Bow on Steam, it is a point and click adventure game with a really dark, bloody and insane feeling to it. I think you understand by looking at the trailer.

Luckily I like point and click games, so now, after a total of 10 hours of playing according to Steam I've finished it.

I liked the varied puzzles and that you only got a handful of items in the inventory and that the different places visited were pretty restricted. During the last year I've been replaying the first episodes of Monkey Island with my daughter and many times got rather frustrated over how many things Guybrush carries around and how many places he can go to. It leads to too much trial and error and that's avoided in Fran Bow!

I also liked that you could double click when walking to the next scene, which instantly takes you there.
What I disliked though, was the sluggish conversations, which also could be sped up some by well-timed double clicks though, but led to lots of clicking during conversations and it was hard to get the timing right and you still have to wait a while before the next text showed up.

I've got the impression that the game has a big fan base. I didn't become a fan, but found it playable and wish Killmonday Games good luck with their upcoming games!