Baba Is You
Worth it · Short indie · 2019
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
BUY IT.
Worth it at $14.99, a BANGER if it drops to $11.60.
- Length
- 7.5h
- Value
- $2.00/hr
- Reviews
- 98% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 1 GB of memory, ATI Radeon X1300/NVIDIA GeForce 6600 GT/Intel HD 3000 or better, 205 MB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
Baba Is You is a puzzle game where the rules you have to follow are present as blocks you can interact with. By manipulating them, you can change how the game works, repurpose things you find in the levels and cause surprising interactions!
What drives the score
How to read this
Every input gets a grade, S to D, read from the buyer's side. The score is multiplicative, so an input only counts as raising when it sits near the top of its own scale. Anything with real room left is holding the score back, because that room is the gap to 100. ▲ marks a lift, ▼ a drag or a dock, ? an input we do not have, • a fact this genre's score does not use. The exact weights stay secret.
The value story
June 2019 is where it bottomed out, at $10.49. 24 discounts in the 8 years on record. They run about 30 percent off, roughly 14 weeks apart. Today it is at full price. The last sale was about 17 weeks ago, and on this game's rhythm the next one tends to arrive within 14 weeks. Past sales have already crossed the $11.60 BANGER line 19 times.
On value it sits in the top 1 percent of its genre. It is pricier than 96 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 99 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Zup! S ($1.99, scores 96) beats it on value, while it beats Zup! 6 ($1.99, scores 75).
Critics scored it 87. Players sit 11 points higher at 98 percent, which usually means a game that plays better than it reviews.
Steam's global achievement data says about 8 percent of players ever finish it. On a 7.5-hour game, that is a lot of paid-for hours most people never see. 8 of the 644 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written March 2020 to September 2026. That is fewer refunded reviewers than 8 in 10 paid games this site has sampled to the same depth, and among the 748 games in its genre sampled this deeply, 524 have a larger share. Inside the two-hour refund window, 96 percent of the 2,266 reviews written there were positive, against 98 percent overall, and those are 11 percent of everything written about it.
The main story runs 7.5 hours. Doing everything runs 46, 6.2 times as long.
Valve rates it Steam Deck Verified, and at 7.5 hours it is short enough to finish on one.
The drop-off
53% start to 8% finishMost players never reach the end. On a 7.5-hour game, that's a lot you pay for and may never use. Steam global achievements
Players
269 players at peak in the last day.
The chart appears once this game has been counted more than once.Player counts via SteamSpy.
What players say
Had this in my backlog for ages and finally got it done. A deceptively simple puzzle game, which pans out to be one of the more (if not the most) complex I've played. Stellar game!
Baba is win. With just a small number of basic rules, this games manage to create such a big variation of distinct puzzles.
Some pretty clever and mind bending puzzles in this game. I would rank it among the top 5 puzzle games of all time.
Player reviews from Steam: the most helpful all-time, plus the newest that clear the same quality bar, with the hours each player had put in when they wrote it. The mix of Recommended and Not recommended follows the game's Steam ratio. Rotates daily. Opinions are theirs.
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Baba Is You scores 80/100 on the BANG Score (worth it). The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/736260/baba-is-youThe BANG Score is one number for value, 0 to 100: price against how it reviews and how long it was built to be. It answers the money question and stops there; whether the game is for you is still your call.
Reviews set the ceiling and price moves you inside it, so a cheap game that reviews badly cannot climb. Ratings from few reviewers are shrunk toward the middle, so 100 percent from nine people does not outrank 96 percent from ninety thousand. Length comes from HowLongToBeat where it can be matched, measured against a per-genre floor so a five-hour narrative game is judged against other narrative games rather than against a sixty-hour RPG. Where no verified length exists the score says so and carries a dock, because the biggest input is then a guess. The full method, including where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 14, price as of Sep 24.
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