2026-09-19 · analog
Baba Is You: The Board Game — In a Game Where Everything Is Rewritable, One Word Got Nailed Down
A two-player board game of Baba Is You launched on Kickstarter on 15 September 2026. The original was already a game about shoving word blocks around a floor, so moving it to cardboard needs almost no translation: the pushing and the grid movement both survive. But the moment it becomes a duel, the most radical word in the original stops being rewritable. That word is YOU. This is a look at what it means to drive one nail into a game that advertises itself as fully rewritable — written for people who design digital puzzles.
