- Publisher: Devolver Digital
- Release Date: Sep 23, 2025
- Also On: PlayStation 5
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Sep 25, 2025Few times have I been so pleasantly surprised as I was while playing Baby Steps. Its first fifteen minutes are a design masterclass, and everything that follows is just as impressive. More of an open-world comedy full of exploration than a frustrating game, this is an experience everyone can enjoy [Recommended]
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Sep 23, 2025It's a structure that can feel punishing, unforgiving, tedious, and enraging in turns. But it's also a structure that leads to moments of the most genuinely satisfying sense of achievement I can remember having in modern gaming...It's about a miles-long journey starting with a single, halting step. It's about putting one foot in front of the other until you can't anymore. It's about climbing the mountain because it's there. It's about falling down 1,000 times and getting up 1,001 times.
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Sep 23, 2025Baby Steps is meant to infuriate you. It’s designed to test your patience with deviously placed setbacks that will eat up an entire session’s worth of progress with no remorse. You’ll laugh. You’ll swear. You’ll probably quit at least once. But if you see it through to the end, you’ll find prizes waiting for you that are more powerful than any cool sword: grace, compassion, and a good place to piss.
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Sep 23, 2025In Baby Steps, you aren’t just traversing treacherous environments, but also getting around with your own ramshackle body. Your legs betray your exhaustion; your head screams as you make another agonizing misstep. It’s a hiking experience that reflects the reality of folks who lose their motor skills when faced with the prospect of climbing up yet another craggy hill.