Baby Steps Is the Exact Median Between Uncharted and QWOP on PS5

Grapple points!

by Stephen Tailby Thu 14th Sep 2023

Publisher Devolver Digital is bringing us the unabashedly strange Baby Steps on PS5, and we're here for it. Announced back in June, this game comes from the mind behind QWOP and viral hit Getting Over It, this time delivering the purposely clumsy gameplay with a narrative.

You play as a 30-something slacker called Nate who finds himself in a surreal realm in which he literally has to learn to walk again. Details on gameplay are sparse but, as you can see in the above video, it looks like you'll be controlling each of his legs separately as you attempt to overcome increasingly treacherous obstacles.

It looks mad, and we can't wait. Unfortunately it's almost a year away, releasing in Summer 2024, so we've got a while to go yet. What do you think of Baby Steps? Tell us in the comments section below.

Stephen has been part of the Push Square team for over six years, bringing boundless enthusiasm and a deep knowledge of video games to his role as Assistant Editor. Having grown up playing every PlayStation console to date, he's developed an eclectic taste, with particular passion for indie games, arcade racers, and puzzlers. He's also our go-to guy for Sonic-related matters, much to his delight/chagrin.

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somnambulance
Thu 14th Sep 2023

Looked better than Spider-Man 2

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Kogorn733
Thu 14th Sep 2023

I'm sorry, maybe I just don't understand the game. But I cannot see the appeal and think that Sony couldn't have picked a worse game to open this State of Play.

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PegasusActual93
Thu 14th Sep 2023

@Kogorn733
It's one of those "play with your friends or stream on Twitch'' type of games where you can laugh and have fun just embracing the madness on screen. Think Octodad, Goat Simulator, I Am Bread, etc.
Not for everyone but it has it's audience.

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GymratAmarillo
Thu 14th Sep 2023

I have seen games like bum simulator, altf4 and only up break the internet because they are dumb. The kind of game people buy because their fav streamer plays it, the kind of game people make speedruns of. This kind of games never come to console in their primer and this one will. I think is genius from them it was about time.

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GymratAmarillo
Thu 14th Sep 2023

@Kogorn733 if you like you can read my answer above. That's the appeal of these kind of game

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RicebinBernacky
Thu 14th Sep 2023

It's one of those games that I find amusing for a few minutes and then inevitably regret my purchase.

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nessisonett
Fri 15th Sep 2023

Just thinking this is dumb because of the way it controls is a mistake. This is not Goat Simulator, this is not attempting to sell based on instant social media reactions. Bennet Foddy is an icon, his games are incredibly well crafted realisations of specific gameplay ideas. Getting Over It ruminates on the pointlessness of all media around a hard-as-nails ascent up a mountain of trash, I’d absolutely bet this game has a similar message about how the journey is more important than the destination.

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Perturbator
Fri 15th Sep 2023

I think this looks awesome! Highly original, funny (I never get tired of stupid slapstick comedy) and looks quite challenging too.

@somnambulance is probably joking but I'd rather play this than Spider-Man 2.

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SuntannedDuck2
Fri 15th Sep 2023

Like OctoDad or Death Stranding. Makes sense. A fair idea. Like the Steam tactical shooter with the fluent animations I'm excited to see Indies push ideas then formuliac animations we see in AAA.

There is a reason Destruction Allstars failed (what casuals care about vehicles in an arena, casuals or streamer audiences don't care about some destruction derby, a cage match or whatever, only long time fans of vehicular combat games/vehicle arena based games care or even know what that is, let alone say how wrestling makes compelling entertainment for certain audiences, but with a ruined skin all over a genre/theming no one they are marketing it to cares about.

From Lucid you'd think they know better if some old Bizarre Creation staff are there still, did they learn nothing from Blur, it might have a cult following but for certain reasons, not casuals eating it up which they didn't besides the decline of certain directions or IP value of arcade racers lifestyle/aesthetic and such people care about so much in Need For Speed then other games in the gener doing their thing.

Probably why OnRush failed, I like it but as a MotorStorm with different mode types you can 'easily think of it as' yeah..... and the personality was odd for it so that too besides whatever other issues it failed for of multiplayer, short career mode, MTX or what not I don't know).

I don't want to buy many of them if at all (depends what they offer, how awkward it could be to play) but I appreciate the ideas.

I don't care for realism but for a cool direction of mechanics/level design and game design or humour in the dialogue by all means keep it up Indie devs big and small.

I'm not interested in it for the Twitch side of it, just the mechanics. Most online meme worthy games make me go. Why should I care. There is a reason I don't care for this or F Zero 99 (I care for F Zero though) the formats make sense. I have no interest in them. If F Zero has to be revived by a battle royale for a new audience to take interest in the IP so be it.

Better than the fate of WipEout Rush.

But the way the world works there is a reason I go retro for my ideas or the modern games willing to do cool things that most people don't care about so I'll support them instead.