Baba Is You
Most puzzle games teach you the rules. With Baba Is You, you are the rules. You play as a little sheep and push word blocks around an arena in order to change the actual rules of the game, clearing a path to the level’s end point. For instance, “rock is stop” means you can’t move past a rock, but if you rearrange the blocks so it reads “rock is you,” then you become the rock (not that The Rock, alas). Like the best puzzlers, it starts you off with invisible training wheels—making you feel like a genius with every cracked solution—but quickly ramps up to bracing difficulty, throwing stumper after stumper. By the time you’re done banging your head against a solution, you’ll have already taxied to arrivals.
