BABA IS YOU
A block-pushing puzzle game where the rules are physical objects you are allowed to rearrange.
Puzzle · 2019 · 20 h
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Each room is a sentence: BABA IS YOU, WALL IS STOP, FLAG IS WIN. Push the words around and the sentence changes, so a wall can become walkable, a flag can become an enemy, and the win condition can be reassigned to yourself. Every level is a small logic problem with a physical interface.
One gigabyte, two hundred levels, and a design so clean it has been copied a dozen times since. It is also genuinely hard in the back half, in the way that a good crossword is hard — the answer is always obvious once you see it.
“The most elegant rules engine ever sold for fifteen dollars.”Room note
What you actually do
- Rules exist as pushable word blocks.
- Two hundred levels across a difficulty ramp.
- Win conditions can be reassigned mid-level.
- 1 GB; offline, no account, level editor included.
The short version of the spec
| OS | Windows 7 |
|---|---|
| CPU | Dual core 2.0 GHz |
| RAM | 2 GB |
| GPU | Integrated |
| Storage | 2 GB |
| OS | Windows 10 64-bit |
|---|---|
| CPU | Intel i3-3220 |
| RAM | 4 GB |
| GPU | Integrated |
| Storage | 2 GB |