Destination

2025-03-28

Baby Steps preview: Serious gameplay in a silly walking sim

Baby Steps is a video game about hiking. This is, of course, a ridiculous concept.


Before we get to the game’s protagonist, an adult toddler in a thin onesie, or its unserious side characters and nonsensical narrative, we have to acknowledge the absurdity at its very core. Leisurely walking around in nature is perhaps the most organic, least technological activity a person can engage in, and the desire to digitize this experience, recreating it for consumption from the butt-shaped cushions of your couch, is silly. It’s such a patently Game Developer™ impulse that, actually, I find it adorable. Much like the rest of Baby Steps.


Baby Steps is a walking simulator from a trio of veteran game dev [...]

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