Baba Is You is a block-pushing puzzle game where you can change the rules to find novel solutions. Play involves assessing and rearranging the rules, presented as adjacent blocks that make statements like Lava is Hot, Wall is Stop or Flag is Move. It stands out not only for the unusual progression but for how one level can affect another.
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It's an award-winning puzzle game where the rules themselves are present as blocks that can be moved to change them. By pushing blocks next to each other, or apart, you change how the level works with often unexpected results and interactions. Move the word Baba Is, next to the word Rock, and you become a rock. Separate the words Water Is Sink and you can walk on water. Move the word Wall Is, next to the word Win, and you just have to touch any wall to win.
In this way, you work through the block-pushing challenges with the logic of both pathfinding and linguistic logic. You get to subvert the level’s rules to your advantage. You change how the game works, repurpose things you find in the levels and cause surprising interactions.
The result is a game that takes the already head-scratching concept of block-pushing puzzles in increasingly mind-bending directions that span not only language conundrums but the inter-relatedness of levels.
