Game Pile: Baba Is You

Baba Is You is a puzzle video game, created by Hempuli, a Finnish independent videogame developer, who released the game in 2017 at first and has not stopped being released since, on every platform as it becomes available. Baba Is You is a delightful puzzle game with a clear aesthetic, and is simply one of the most unreviewable things I’ve ever played.

It’s not that it resists analysis; it’s that it provides its own analysis just by existing.

The nature of the kind of puzzles in Baba Is You is that it’s very possible for the solution to a puzzle and the epiphany that follows to be uniquely enjoyable, and to that end I have avoided presenting any example solutions to anything I know in the game. I think if I ever do make a video about this, it will be mostly me wandering around in the overworld while I yap, because Baba Is You is a game that I feel has a different relationship to spoilers than most games with a more conventional fictional narrative.

Showing you a completed crossword puzzle would, after all, make that crossword puzzle less interesting.

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