Indie · March 13, 2019

Baba Is You (2019)

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Baba Is You is an award-winning puzzle game where you can change the rules by which you play. In every level, the rules themselves are present as blocks you can interact with; by manipulating them, you can change how the level works and cause surprising, unexpected interactions! With some simple block-pushing you can turn yourself into a rock, turn patches of grass into dangerously hot obstacles, and even change the goal you need to reach to something entirely different. The game has over 200 levels that experiment with the game's mechanics in a multitude of ways, requiring the player to understand and manipulate the rules of the game and figure out devious ways to make the objects in the game world interact. The game was originally created for and won the Nordic Game Jam 2017. Baba Is You also won the Excellence in Design and Best Student Game awards in the Independent Games Festival 2018, and was nominated a finalist in 2 other categories, including the Seumas McNally Grand Prize. The game was made using Multimedia Fusion 2 by Clickteam.

Indie releases from 2019

38 Indie titles launched in 2019 — top 6 by review volume.

Position in Indie

MetricThis titleGenre position
Review volume21.9k Steam reviewsTop 13% in Indie
Positive rating98% positiveGenre average: 87% — this title sits in top 4%
Metacritic87/100Genre average 77 — top 12% of Indie titles
Concurrent peak269 playersTop 19% in Indie by live player count
Engagement hours10 h averageTop 58% for session depth among Indie

Peer Indie titles

Comparable titles in the same genre and review-volume band — ranked by Steam positive percentage.

Community Tag Signals

Tag weights reflect how many Steam users voted each descriptor — larger pills = stronger consensus.

  • Puzzle · 601
  • Indie · 406
  • Difficult · 374
  • Singleplayer · 280
  • Logic · 267
  • Pixel Graphics · 260
  • Cute · 232
  • Programming · 207
  • 2D · 205
  • Sokoban · 199
  • Great Soundtrack · 122
  • Minimalist · 71
  • Casual · 56
  • Level Editor · 55
  • Top-Down · 37

Reception Metrics

Steam community

98%Overwhelmingly Positive · 21.9k reviews

21.5k positive · 438 negative

Metacritic

87/100 critic aggregate

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Metacritic user score

8.3/10

Curator recommendations

19.5k

Peak concurrent players

269

Localization Coverage

Interface / Subtitles (12)

  • English
  • Spanish - Spain
  • Korean
  • Norwegian
  • Polish
  • Thai
  • French
  • Italian
  • Dutch
  • Japanese
  • Portuguese - Portugal
  • Portuguese - Brazil

Features & Capabilities

Community

  • Steam Achievements
  • Steam Cloud
  • Remote Play on Phone
  • Remote Play on Tablet
  • Remote Play on TV

Input & Comfort

  • Partial Controller Support

Other

  • Single-player
  • Family Sharing

Engagement Profile

All-time avg

10h

short (5–15 hours)

Median

4h

Typical completion time

2-week avg

6h

Current engagement

Achievements

18

Steam unlocks available

Release & Availability

Release dateMar 13, 2019
DeveloperHempuli Oy
Base price$10.49 -30%
DLC / Add-ons1 released
PlatformsWindows, macOS, Linux
Estimated owners1M–10M
External linksOfficial site · Metacritic page · Support · [email protected]

Editions & Packages

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