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Explore a Brutalist city with climbing axes and a trumpet in this great free indie gameCheck out Babbdi toot suite
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As I scale the sides of apartment blocks with climbing axes and pole-vault through windows, I often feel like I’m breakingBabbdi. I feel I’ve done something particularly clever or busted outside the boundaries of its little brutalist city. I haven’t, but I’m delighted to explore with this feeling. Oh sure, my objective in this splendid free indie game is to find a way out of the terrible city, but I’ll enjoy my final hour here. You might too.
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Babbdi is set in a city of the same name, a tangle of near-derelict concrete apartment blocks and concrete alleyways and concrete canals. It is a bad place to live. But it’s a delightful place to visit and explore. Stepping into the shoes of a resident trying to leave, all you need to do is catch a train. This proves more complicated than expected, albeit because most of my hour-long playthrough was spent exploring, chatting, and mucking about.
You can only hold one item at a time, so I was constantly swapping between them to check out my other options. It is very funny to swap a very powerful item for a trumpet because surely a trumpet is useful for something? Reader dear, I never did find out if it had a practical purpose. But as I walked around, clicking out trumps and looking up and down to alter the pitch as I tried trumping to people or simply entertaining myself with silly noises, I didn’t miss my handheld flying machine at all. Then I found the pole vault, and that brought new fresh new troubles. Inefficient, sure, but great fun.
I like exploring this weird, unpleasant place, not quite sure what’s going on, not quite sure if I’m doing something that’s meant to happen or not. It’s a bitBernband, a bit Off-Peak, a bit freeform explore-o-platformer? And a lot good.
