Baba Is You

Baba Is You Baba Is You is a rule-bending adventure puzzle game with hundreds of levels. Explore, move blocks and word tiles, rewrite rules like YOU/WIN/STOP, and use logic plus experiments to finish each challenge.

Baba Is You

Baba Is You is a well-known adventure puzzle game featuring hundreds of stages with different difficulty levels. In each level, you explore the surroundings and move blocks, characters, and even rule text to change how the world behaves—and to meet that stage’s completion requirements. Success depends on careful logical thinking: you’ll need to predict how rule changes affect the terrain, then test bold ideas to find a winning setup. New chapters introduce fresh rules and gameplay twists, while the creators keep expanding the game with additional levels and updates that preserve a smooth difficulty curve.

How Gameplay Works

Every stage is essentially a single-screen puzzle. You’ll see objects, characters, and movable word tiles. You control one or more entities on the board—most commonly a character named Baba (a small white creature).

Word Tiles & Rule Building

The word tiles are made from:

• Nouns that refer to objects on the field (for example: Baba, the goal flag, walls, hazards, and other characters).
• Verbs such as IS and HAS.
• Linking operators like AND and NOT.
• Property tiles that define behavior, such as:
  • YOU (all instances of that noun become player-controlled)

  

  • PUSH and PULL (make objects movable)
  • STOP (turns an object into something you can’t pass through)
  • WIN (designates the goal object)

Creating a Rule: When three or more word tiles line up in a valid sentence—at minimum including one noun, one verb, and one property/object—aligned either horizontally or vertically, that sentence becomes an active rule. The rule stays in effect until you break the arrangement by moving tiles.

Examples of Rule Effects:

• You can change the goal by moving tiles like IS and WIN so they apply to a different noun.
• You can sometimes move through obstacles by removing their STOP trait (so they no longer block movement).



• Some stages place rule sentences in locations you can’t reach, effectively locking that rule for the entire level.

Winning (and Losing)

A level is completed when a tile containing an object that matches an IS YOU rule (an active, controllable subject) overlaps the tile of an object that matches an IS WIN rule (the active goal). You can also win if the same object is both the player and the goal by using a rule like IS WIN on the same noun.

There’s no traditional “fail screen.” Instead, if the game determines you have no remaining IS YOU objects (or if IS YOU isn’t defined at all), you may be stuck and need to undo your approach or restart.

Breaking and Rebuilding Rules: Even without any IS YOU objects, you can sometimes use properties like MOVE or SHIFT to create situations where an IS YOU rule gets disrupted—then restored later, or restored somewhere else.

Transforming Objects

You can also replace one kind of object with another using syntax like:

• <object 1> IS <object 2>
  Example: BABA IS FLAG would swap all Baba instances on the screen into flags.

This kind of transformation can be prevented using a higher-priority override, such as:

• <object 1> IS <object 1>
  Example: BABA IS BABA can override commands like BABA IS <object>, preventing the earlier transformation from happening.

Level Count & Packs

The game includes 481 levels across 3 level packs:

• 231 in “Baba is you” (the base game released before the Baba make level update)
• 88 in “Museum” (a set of unused or scrap stages that were reworked and refined)
• 162 in “New adventures” (brand-new content added in the Baba make level update)

Later in both “Baba is you” and “Museum”, you gain access to the noun LEVEL. From that point, the map screens where you normally choose levels become levels themselves. You’ll transform levels into objects and use rule manipulation directly on the map to advance.

Key Features

Rule Manipulation

The core mechanic of “Baba Is You” is altering level rules. You can push and rearrange blocks to change how objects behave in the world. This rule-focused system adds depth and creativity, ensuring that each puzzle feels distinct and challenging.

Lots of Variety

Stages introduce new ideas and obstacles throughout the game. Whether you’re threading through mazes or outthinking enemies, the puzzles keep evolving. That variety helps prevent the gameplay from becoming repetitive.

Two-Player Co-op

There’s a two-player mode, letting friends work together. Co-op play makes it easier to collaborate on interpretation of the rules and combine approaches to solve tricky stages.

Low Punishment for Mistakes

One of the best parts of Baba Is You is how forgiving it feels. You’re not limited by move counts, there are no score penalties, and you won’t be interrupted by constant “Game Over” screens. After some time, you’ll likely find yourself experimenting freely—because the game rarely punishes you for trying.