
Of all the upcoming games to get excited about in 2025 - and, as we're showing you with Big in 2025, there are a lot - this is one of the best placed to raise a smile or fifty. Perhaps the best placed. A soulslike is designed for you to fail repeatedly so that you can learn; Baby Steps is designed for you to fail repeatedly so that you can laugh. Learn too, sure, but mostly laugh.
"One day in 2019, Gabe made the bold claim that he could make a game that controlled like QWOP but was a skillful, controllable action game with the player being in charge of the physics rather than the other way around," says Bennett Foddy. "I told him it would be too hard. He had a gameplay prototype two hours later, and that was that. But I was totally right, it is too hard."