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Baba Is You
Developer Hempuli Oy
Baba Is You is a puzzle video game created by Arvi Teikari (known professionally as Hempuli), a Finnish independent developer. The game centers around the manipulation of rules—represented in the play area by movable tiles with words written on them—in order to allow the player character, usually the titular Baba, to reach a specified goal. Originating as a short demo built for the 2017 Nordic Game Jam, the game was… From Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)
384 reactions from 4 sources (Steam reviews, Bluesky, Mastodon, Lemmy) · newest Nov 5, 2026 · last updated Nov 5, 2026 · How this works
Audience score
96
LovedLoved
262 positive · 10 negative
95% range 93–98%
| Source | + | − | = |
|---|---|---|---|
| Steam reviews | 262 | 10 | 0 |
| Bluesky * | 18 | 4 | 68 |
| Mastodon * | 12 | 1 | 8 |
| Lemmy * | 1 | 0 | 0 |
* shown, not counted in the score (label accuracy below our 85% bar or not yet audited).
Steam's own rating
Overwhelmingly Positive
14,746 of 15,110 reviews positive (all languages, per Valve)
What players are saying
96% recommend · 224 yes, 10 no
Counted from the reviewers’ own thumbs up/down on the 234 English Steam reviews we collected, not by the AI. Valve’s all-language rating: Overwhelmingly Positive (24,116 of 24,681 positive).
Players describe Baba Is You as a brutally difficult puzzle game that makes them feel dumb. [1][2][3] Many praise its clever, rule-based mechanics and the euphoria of solving puzzles. [4][3][5] Some warn it becomes tedious or frustrating in later levels. [6][7][8]
Liked
Representative posts
- [1]
BRAIN IS MELT HAIR IS PULL AND FALL TIME IS SINK PAIN IS NOT END This game has an incredible number of ways to make you feel like the dumbest person alive.
- [4]
Have you ever played a game that claims to “force players to think outside of the box” but that really just means “the mechanics and clues are so vague and nonsensical that the only real way to solve the puzzles is to throw random BS at them until something sticks”? Let’s just say Baba Is You has none of that BS, the rules are super clear and simple, the mechanics left no room for ambiguity, you don’t even have to …
- [3]
I went in expecting a chill little puzzle game with a cute bunny and got my brain folded in half instead. The genius of it is how clean the rules are: nothing is vague or trial-and-error, you push words around to rewrite what 'wins' or what 'you' even are, yet the solutions still feel impossible until they suddenly click. I lost hours to single levels, felt like an absolute idiot the whole time, and kept coming back …
- [2]
Never in my life, has a video game made me feel so small and unimportant. if you want to hate yourself by playing this game... go for it! its a very fun puzzle game but dear lord I hate it with EVERY fiber of my being. highly recommended 10/10
- [5]
This is literally the best puzzle game ever. I bought this game 3 times over the course of 7 years and replayed it each and every time to completion, it's that much fun. With an in-game level builder and open modding tools allowing for custom levelpacks and maps, content is nearly endless. HOWEVER, this game is HARD and you will get stumped for minutes or hours on end. It's simple yet unbelievably compact and …
Summarised from 34 of the 328 public posts collected about this game; every point cites the posts behind it ([n] opens the post) and the split is counted from the posts’ own ratings. Updated Oct 11, 2026. How summaries are made
RottenBot@rottenbot · automated account
Players who liked Baba Is You talk about unique and creative puzzle design; those who didn't talk about extremely difficult and can be frustrating. Which matters more to you?
Critics, per Wikipedia
Baba Is You won first place at the 2017 Nordic Game Jam. It was nominated for the Seumas McNally Grand Prize and won awards for "Best Student Game" and "Excellence In Design" at the 2018 IGF Awards. It was also nominated for "Best Indie Game" at the 2019 Golden Joystick Awards, for "Indie Game of the Year" at the Titanium Awards, and for "Best Independent Game" at The Game Awards 2019. In addition, it was nominated for "Gameplay Design, New IP" at the NAVGTR Awards, for "Game Design" and "Original Property" at the 16th British Academy Games Awards, and for "Best Indie Game" at the Famitsu Dengeki Game Awards 2019. Baba Is You won the award for "Outstanding Achievement in Game Design" during…
From the “Reception” section of Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. Critic context only — not part of the audience score.
Reactions
60 of 384 · most liked firstFox has been added into the game, and with this we're about ready to upload the new build for betatesting! #babaisyou
neutral · AI labelView post →🎉Excited to announce I've adapted Party House from UFO 50 into a physical card game! 🎉 Teaser trailer: www.youtube.com/watch?v=EHNF... Kickstarter prelaunch page (shared w/ a Baba is You game!): www.kickstarter.com/projects/bit... Brought to you by @bitewinggames.bsky.social More details soon! 🥳
neutral · AI labelView post →Baba Is You: A puzzle game where you change the rules. Also award-winning! Now 30% off on the #ItchWinterSale! hempuli.itch.io/baba
neutral · AI labelView post →I know I'm just howling into the void on this, but it is MADDENING when a game has thousands upon thousands of user-made levels and it's almost all just hosted in a single almost unsearchable Discord channel. Baba Is You, I love you and your community, but finding levels shouldn't be a puzzle.
positive · AI labelView post →Baba Is You is 30% off on all platforms! (Nintendo Switch discount might appear with a slight delay) #babaisyou
neutral · AI labelView post →🎉 Party House: The Deckbuilding Game is available for preorder now! 🚶♀️Follow the link below to learn more and back the Kickstarter. www.kickstarter.com/projects/bit... ✨ While you're there, you also have the option to preorder a board game adaptation of fantastic videogame Baba is You!
neutral · AI labelView post →Yay, the campaign for the boardgame is now live: www.kickstarter.com/projects/bit... #babaisyou
neutral · AI labelView post →Hard at work on development for Party House: the Deckbuilding game & getting very excited about all the fun new characters I'm adding! Our joint Kickstarter campaign with the Baba is You Board Game has less than 3 days left. Go check it out now & back 1 or both games!
neutral · AI labelView post →Baba Is You magnets are back in stock! Pick them up now in our official collection: www.fangamer.com/collections/...
neutral · AI labelView post →Previous videos have touched on games like Jusant, Neon White, Watch Dogs Legion, and Baba is You. The game doesn't even have to be good... just doing something that makes it different!
neutral · AI labelView post →I always find it funny to table the most tonally inconsistent stuff at game night. (THE GUERRILLA GENERATION and BABA IS YOU)
neutral · AI labelView post →Our official Baba Is You collection is stocked with physical games, blankets, plushes, apparel, and more (including a set of refrigerator magnets). Browse it all here: www.fangamer.com/collections/...
neutral · AI labelView post →Can anyone suggest a light game for mac? I recently enjoyed Strange Horticulture and Rise of the Golden Idol, but I found Baba Is You was a touch too thinky after a long day of work
neutral · AI labelView post →BRAIN IS MELT HAIR IS PULL AND FALL TIME IS SINK PAIN IS NOT END This game has an incredible number of ways to make you feel like the dumbest person alive.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →its like the dark souls of puzzle games if you're a completionist, some puzzles you'll spend hours on, and some you'll spend 5 minutes. you'll think about baba during ur sleep, you'll think about baba when ur playing other games. then when you finally solve baba, u get rewarded with euporia and dopamine for 30 seconds then do it all over again on the next stage. baba sold me fent
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Baba Is You, more like, this game is impossible
negative · AI labelView post →Genuinely the most sick and twisted game I have ever played. An evil, evil game that only wishes to torture and humiliate you. I still wake up shivering thinking about the solutions to some of those puzzles. You never feel smart for beating a level. Only pain. Only dread that there is still more to come. And only after you are broken down to your lowest does Baba permit you to continue. "Baba" is the devil. Baba is the most evil, vile creature I've ever seen. A devil wearing the skin of…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Fangamer has released an official deck of Baba-themed cards! EU: https://fanga.me/r/baba-collection-eu Worldwide: https://fanga.me/r/baba-collection #babaisyou
neutral · AI labelView post →oh nooo i turned our cats into a fun puzzle game #art #babaisyou
neutral · AI labelView post →Never in my life, has a video game made me feel so small and unimportant. if you want to hate yourself by playing this game... go for it! its a very fun puzzle game but dear lord I hate it with EVERY fiber of my being. highly recommended 10/10
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →- This is a from-the-ground-up rebuild of the game but a 1:1 faithful reproduction of the original - Includes all new Steam achievements - Also adds two new challenge modes created by Bit Kid and Baba Is You creator Hempuli
neutral · AI labelView post →Can you guys believe that out of a four game rando, the game that gave me the most issue... wasn't Majora's Maskw wasn't Risk of Rain 2 and wasn't Baba is You ...BUT POWERWASH SIMULATOR. So this entire rando is getting a rematch next Saturday. :)
neutral · AI labelView post →Made a lil puzzle game in my uni's game jam You're a "bug" hacking into a system, solving puzzles around their code, even altering and breaking it to eat up their files A mix of Baba Is You and any simple programming essentially #pixelart #gamedev #gamejam
neutral · AI labelView post →You will like our game if you like: -Baba is You -A Little to the Left -Chicory: A Colorful Tale @panpipestudio.bsky.social
neutral · AI labelView post →Baba Is You is a great game, and is very rules-light. It starts with four rules: - baba is you - you can move in 4 directions - you can push things - flag is win And the rest of the game is manipulating “rule constructs” to solve puzzles, it’s fantastic.
positive · AI labelView post →Making a video game where you trick the player into programming is both clever and evil. That's what Final Fantasy XII and Baba Is You are, but Baba Is You goes harder and gaslights your vocabulary and sense of reality. FFXII just makes you question who the heroes really are. #blutoid
positive · AI labelView post →Baba is You seems like the only "full brain" puzzle game that forces you to have your verbal and spatial bits saturate your corpus callosum. I'm curious if there are any others.
positive · AI labelView post →I have this game on switch and steam. I'm telling you, this game is immediately a hit at parties among people who are not by any means gamers. It's simple but deeply fascinating and intuitive. It's just coding. You cannot understate the joy of hearing a room full of drunk people shouting "LAVA IS BABA!!!" "NO FLAG NOT BABA CUZ BABA IS BABA!!!" "JELLY IS WIN!!"
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →From the looks of it I thought it was a cozy game. I was wrong. I was extremely wrong. It starts out as a fun puzzle game, and gets more complicated as you go. You will (most of the time) play as Baba, pushing Words or Objects around to create rulesets for the current map, to either complete or make yourself a win condition. If you wanna play the main map and do some cozy puzzling, not caring if you complete it, go for it. But be warned: If you want to go all the way and 100% this game, you…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Have you ever played a game that claims to “force players to think outside of the box” but that really just means “the mechanics and clues are so vague and nonsensical that the only real way to solve the puzzles is to throw random BS at them until something sticks”? Let’s just say Baba Is You has none of that BS, the rules are super clear and simple, the mechanics left no room for ambiguity, you don’t even have to remember anything from previous levels because everything can be figured out on…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I am giving this game to my first born child the moment they know how to read and turning them into a supersoldier.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →If a game is described as "_____" for sickos, usually I'm on board. Balatro? Poker for sickos. 24 Killers? Life sim for sickos. Baba is You? Puzzle game for sickos with sicko minds.
positive · AI labelView post →My game is obviously inspired by: 🧩 Baba is You 🧠 Into the Breach ✨ Monument Valley Wishlist now on Steam! 👀 #indiedev | #gamedev | #screenshotsaturday | #gamemaker
neutral · AI labelView post →It's quite a few years old now, but I finally 100%ed Baba Is You! Every time I thought I was getting to the end of the game, the rabbit hole went even deeper. What a wild game.
positive · AI labelView post →I love playing retro games with the Neo Geo controller. The clicky stick feels so good, and the big buttons are so satisfying to press. And I finally got to play Baba Is You. This game might be the best thing since The Adventures of Lolo.
positive · AI labelView post →One of the best puzzle games ever, Baba Is You gets a final big update https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/01/one-of-the-best-puzzle-games-ever-baba-is-you-gets-a-final-big-update/ #BabaIsYou #PuzzleGames #IndieGames #PCGaming #Linux #SteamDeck
neutral · AI labelView post →BABA IS LAUNCH! 🚀 Let’s get this party started! 🥳 Baba Is You: The Board Game and Party House: The Deckbuilding Game are NOW LIVE on Kickstarter! Don’t miss these delightfully unique tabletop experiences adapted from critically acclaimed video games! www.kickstarter.com/projects/bit...
neutral · AI labelView post →October starts on Thursday, so I've got my costume on and I'm ready to start a month of horror! Finishing Mystic Quest tonight, then starting Portrait of Ruin and NecroVisioN this week, and continuing the most terrifying game of all on Sunday: Baba Is You! See you then! www.twitch.tv/eltrioch
neutral · AI labelView post →Squishtober26 (day 7) Baba is you (and flat) (For those who don't get it baba is you and baba is flat there for you are also flat because you is baba and baba is you.) #Squishtober26 #Game #BabaIsYou #Flattening
neutral · AI labelView post →We're hosting an AMA about the boardgame: www.reddit.com/r/BabaIsYou/...
neutral · AI labelView post →You will like my indie game if you enjoyed: - Fez - Baba Is You - Animal Well - Patrick's Parabox #puzzlegame #indiegame #gamedev
neutral · AI labelView post →Today we have two big AMAs happening on Reddit RIGHT NOW. Come ask Peter C. Hayward and @hempuli.bsky.social about their mind-bending creation — Baba Is You: The Board Game here: www.reddit.com/r/BabaIsYou/...
neutral · AI labelView post →A very hard game with VERY creative and challenging puzzles that make the gears in my head go brrrrrrrr. Sometimes idk what I'm doing but seeing "CONGRATULATIONS" on my screen makes me happy. Good game, recommend
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This costs only about 12 Euros. thats what it claims. But it really costs 3 math tutors and 40 hours on youtube
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →anyway Baba is You is a go to homework I assign and so every year I replay the first hour of that game because I forget a lot of the solutions lol
positive · AI labelView post →I went in expecting a chill little puzzle game with a cute bunny and got my brain folded in half instead. The genius of it is how clean the rules are: nothing is vague or trial-and-error, you push words around to rewrite what 'wins' or what 'you' even are, yet the solutions still feel impossible until they suddenly click. I lost hours to single levels, felt like an absolute idiot the whole time, and kept coming back because that one 'oh my god' moment is worth every bit of the suffering. If you…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →there is no such thing as a difficulty curve in this game, it is a difficulty wall. do not play if you want a cozy experience. this game will have you ripping out your hair.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Starts fun, grows tedious and annoying, becomes fun again and you think you get it, then throws trash mechanics in because "gotta have it be as hard as possible" right? Another case of a dev sacrificing fun for the sake of arbitrary difficulty to pad out game time. Call me dumb, I am really dumb, but my god I was having fun and then around area 6 it just becomes an absolute chore. The kind of stuff you'd have to be paid to or just have no respect for your own time to do. I see people brag about…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Puzzles are either extremely straightforward or outright unsolvable
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Baba likes good puzzles. This game is good. This game is puzzle. This game is good puzzle. Baba likes this game.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →this game is an excellent exercise in humility. never before have i ever been faced with such a understanding of how limited my foresight is, for often times, the solution will lay right before you, more times than you care to admit.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Tried Baba is You for the first time today. Ingenious game, but some of the meta rules are just opaque enough for me to get frustrated.
neutral · AI labelView post →If you think you're smart and want to be humbled, play this game New torture idea: lock someone in a room and don't give them the key until they 100% complete Baba is You
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Streaming... Baba Is You dev?? www.twitch.tv/hempuli
neutral · AI labelView post →I've been enjoying and clearing puzzle games for years now and I guess it was just a matter of time till I'd found my natural nemesis. Baba Is You is a brilliant game and if you like playing with logic while also trying to think outside the box... this is it, you've found your heaven. As for me I'll... just... be content with the super normal ending of the game and move on.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →We're lucky the psychopath genius that made this beautiful monstrosity isn't the president of any countries because we'd have absolutely no chance against them. It'd be over for us all before it even started.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Fantastic puzzle game. The game doesn't give you too many options per level, generally, so you are able to work out the solutions if you have patience and consider your options. There are times when it requires you to think of things it has never shown you, but in those levels it limits your options to the point where you can usually figure out what you have to do, you just have to fiddle around until you can do it. Puzzles can be really tough, but all are solvable without a guide. If…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Peak, especially with easy modding/level pack support. Just play it.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Baba from hit indie puzzle game Baba Is You undoing his opponent's flawless hit in the game of baseball they're playing:
neutral · AI labelView post →This is literally the best puzzle game ever. I bought this game 3 times over the course of 7 years and replayed it each and every time to completion, it's that much fun. With an in-game level builder and open modding tools allowing for custom levelpacks and maps, content is nearly endless. HOWEVER, this game is HARD and you will get stumped for minutes or hours on end. It's simple yet unbelievably compact and complicated, and god does it hurt to think about for more than 3 seconds if you…
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