Baba Is You
The rare idea of changing the rules of the game from inside the game.
- Studio
- Arvi Teikari
- Year
- 2019
- Played
- 28 hours
- Platform
- PC · Switch
The rules sit on the board as objects and you can push them around to rewrite
them. Break up the BABA IS YOU blocks into WALL IS YOU and you become the
wall.
It is the best account of metaprogramming I have come across in years. The idea that a rule is itself data lands far more clearly here than in any explanation of a language.
Some levels are unfairly hard; there is one that had me stuck for two weeks and the solution still feels like a cheat.