Baby Steps is funny, but it's also a depressing, confrontational horror game about thwarted modern masculinity

Nate lies on his face on the rocks.

SHAUN PRESCOTT, AUSTRALIAN EDITOR

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Last week: After the pain of Silksong, played through a quiet, easygoing metroidvania called Adventure of Samsara.

When I started Baby Steps earlier this week I thought it would end up being the funniest game ever made. Every time the bulbous antihero fell over I would laugh. I would cackle as the onesie-ed, erstwhile binge watcher slid haplessly down muddy slopes in the least dignified way possible. Sometimes I would just stand still and rotate the analog stick so that he'd do that weird whooshing wormy dance that looks so pathetic. It's fun to make Nate do dumb things and laugh at him. And get a load of his stupid walk. What an absolute loser!