This game is about escaping after being born into a miserable place. 100-foot seawalls on all sides, a concrete cacophany of buildings practically stacked on top of each other. Everyone who could leave already has, leaving just a couple hundred people still here for one reason or another. Some make meaning in life, some wait for something amazing and some just dope the days away in a gutter. Mixed in with some criminal activity and COVID anxiety and you should have what chocks up to a damn depressing game. Nevertheless, as a temporary visitor, I relished in exploring this concrete playground, testing each way I could traverse my way higher and into new places. At it's core, it's Eastern European urb ex, two aspects I love and that will guide your enjoyment. The fog and overcast with little beams of sunlight piercing through, the ambient RE Safe Room-esque music, the fact the city is practically abandoned... amidst having one of the most fun-to-say titles ever. I fell in love with the world of Babbdi. It's not without it's flaws, being able to hold two items at once would be especially helpful and the flying machine you'll likely discover around the midgame completely ruins any complexity and labyrinthine aspects the city seems to hold early on. Not to mention using some of the tools near the ground triples their volume rather than just their reverb, making it occasionally hard to listen to. Nevertheless, Babbdi is the kind of place in my head I escape to in the same way it is the place so many try and run from. I would kill for a second game in this style, maybe with a map a few times larger and a cast with more to say and more stories to tell. As it is, the game is free and took me 100 minutes to platinum, so you have no reason not to try it out.

This game is about escaping after being born into a miserable place. 100-foot seawalls on all sides, a concrete cacophany of buildings practically stacked on top of each other. Everyone who could leave already has, leaving just a couple hundred people still here for one reason or another. Some make meaning in life, some wait for something amazing and some just dope the days away in a gutter. Mixed in with some criminal activity and COVID anxiety and you should have what chocks up to a damn depressing game. Nevertheless, as a temporary visitor, I relished in exploring this concrete playground, testing each way I could traverse my way higher and into new places. At it's core, it's Eastern European urb ex, two aspects I love and that will guide your enjoyment. The fog and overcast with little beams of sunlight piercing through, the ambient RE Safe Room-esque music, the fact the city is practically abandoned... amidst having one of the most fun-to-say titles ever. I fell in love with the world of Babbdi. It's not without it's flaws, being able to hold two items at once would be especially helpful and the flying machine you'll likely discover around the midgame completely ruins any complexity and labyrinthine aspects the city seems to hold early on. Not to mention using some of the tools near the ground triples their volume rather than just their reverb, making it occasionally hard to listen to. Nevertheless, Babbdi is the kind of place in my head I escape to in the same way it is the place so many try and run from. I would kill for a second game in this style, maybe with a map a few times larger and a cast with more to say and more stories to tell. As it is, the game is free and took me 100 minutes to platinum, so you have no reason not to try it out.