History VideoGame / BabaIsYou

A spinoff that places the game mechanics into a turn-based strategy format, ''Mobile Suit Baba'', was released on [[https://hempuli.itch.io/mobile-suit-baba Hempuli's itch.io page]] on December 21, 2023.

A spinoff that places the game mechanics into a turn-based strategy format, ''Mobile Suit Baba'', was released on [https://hempuli.itch.io/mobile-suit-baba Hempuli's itch.io page] on December 21, 2023.

** Similiarly, the game will also cut to a special screen if it's overloaded with too many objects or operations, marking the level as "TOO COMPLEX".

* {{Metapuzzle}}: After you unlock the top gate, it turns out that levels themselves can be manipulated and used as objects. Level icons themselves can be transformed to other objects that must be used to complete subworlds themselves.

** If, at any time, the same object is both "You" and "Win", you immediately complete the level. This is required to clear some levels.

** If you push text around such that nothing is "You", the music cuts out, leaving only a DroneOfDread. If you wait a few moments in this state, the game will remind you of the Undo and Restart commands.

* TheLastOfTheseIsNotLikeTheOthers: The overworld has ten worlds and ten large flowers to obtain. However, there are actually twelve flowers total. Where are the last flowers? [[spoiler:One is in the ABC world, accessed from the ??? world as opposed to the main overworld. The other is in the Center world, accessed by beating Meta-15, ''The Box''.]]

* PrimordialChaos: The intro shows many objects floating around, all in an inert state and in disarray. The universe is created when lotus flowers form Text, which gives order to the floating objects and bestows upon them unique properties. The largest lotus forms the You keyword, which also organizes any of the objects that weren't handled by the other words.
** [[spoiler:The secret true goal of the game is to ''return'' everything to the primordial chaos of the intro.]]

* PressXToDie: Assembling any "Text is [Noun]" rule will turn all the text into something else if said text is not being protected--without its {{Cosmic Keystone}}s, the level will be completely inert. Similarly, some levels allow you to assemble rules like "All is Empty" or "Level is Weak" which destroy every object in the level instantly. [[spoiler:One of the game's endings occurs when you assemble the rule "All is Done".]]

** One of the subworlds in the "New Adventures" level pack is called "Babarcade", which allows players to play special levels based on other games, such as the ''Rush Hour'' puzzle game, ''{{VideoGame/Snake}}'', ''VideoGame/SpaceInvaders'', ''VideoGame/SuperMarioBros'', and a pair of first-person dungeon crawler levels named after ''VideoGame/DarkestDungeon''.

** Forming the rule "Level is Win" also instantly wins.

* ExtremeOmnivore: With use of the Eat verb, any object can eat any other object, from normal food like fruit to walls.

* BenevolentArchitecture: The layout of the immovable objects in a level is often an important clue to the intended solution -- for example, a convenient gap in the wall that allows you to break a rule, or an outcropping of blocks that allows you to orient multiple "You"s into the right formation.

** Exaggerated by [[spoiler:Meta-10, "Just No"]], which gives you ''nine'' "Not"s for the sole purpose of building a rule across an uncrossable line of deadly skulls. Make sure the "Not"-bridge has the right parity!

* ArtifactOfDoom: [[spoiler:The "Done" keyword found in ''The End'', the major level of the Center overworld. If anything is "Done", it is irrevocably erased from the game world. And the goal of the level is to make "All is Done"...]]

* CoolPeopleRebelAgainstAuthority: A humorous alternate version of BABA called [[https://babaiswiki.fandom.com/wiki/BADBAD BADBAD]] turns the little creature into a stereotypical, roller-skating teen rebel with piercings and a PokeThePoodle idea of "rebellion" (he's "allowed to say [[GoshDangItToHeck darn]] three times a day").

** Yhe section from the editor trailer showcasing the directional FALL text references the Outer Wall area in ''Videogame/CaveStory'', where weapon experience drops fall leftwards rather than to the ground.

** Additionally, the section from the editor trailer showcasing the directional FALL text references the Outer Wall area in [[Videogame/{{CaveStory}} Cave Story]], where weapon experience drops fall leftwards rather than to the ground.

* EstablishingSeriesMoment: The first few levels basically force you to abandon rigid thinking with rule editing -- The first things you'll get taught is that you're not always Baba, and Flag is not always win.

* NeverSayDie: In the prototype there was a keyword, "Kill", that destroyed player objects. In the full game, that got changed to "Defeat". [[spoiler:In the endgame, there is also "Done".]]