New games: Baba is You launches March 13, so here’s a new trailer

Baba is You has been making the games festival rounds for a couple years now, and it’s been quietly building a following based on its literal take on ‘changing the rules of the game.’ It’s literally a game where you push tiles with rules printed on them in order to change how the game’s elements work, and now it has a release date: March 13. It’s an interesting deconstruction of games. Baba is You takes concepts that we’re instinctively familiar with - like how you can push rocks, or the fact that you’re represented by a persistent entity on screen - and then lets you play with them the way a programmer might have to just to get them to work at all. It’s also an interesting exploration of logic and its relationship with linguistics. What does language push us into assuming about a situation, and how can we change those assumptions? Well, in Baba is You, you do it by literally rearranging the rules on the screen in front of you and watching the results.