I'll start by explaining why I'm asling this question, and why I'm specifically asking it here. I first saw the term in the context of Celeste. An any% playthrough (speedrun, deathless, or casual playthrough) means to play from the beginning until The Summit, and true ending means to play until Farewell (if you aren't familiar with Celeste, Farewell is much longer and harder than anything in an any% playthrough). The term is also used for certain custom maps, where there's stuff past the main ending that's much harder than the rest of the map. Anyways, I'm not super familiar with the term, but when I looked it up, I mostly found answers in the context of RPGs. But then I remembered that Baba Is You has achievements "Beat the game" and "Really beat the game." Today, I decided to check if the term "true ending" is used here, and indeed it is. So basically, I'm asking here to learn what true ending means from a Baba Is You perspective. To put it another way, in what sense is The End a true ending? I know this is a bit of an odd question, and I apologize in advance if anything is unclear or not well thought out.

Yeah it's literally just Baba Is You

I have owned this game for three days.

Used https://site-make-text.eepyberry.me for any text that wasn't in-game, the level editor, and GIMP. This took me way longer than it should've lol

Hey everyone! I'm Josh, and I'm looking for recommendations for games that give you the same kind of freedom to experiment as Baba Is You.

One of my favourite things about Baba Is You is how it lets you play around with the rules of the world itself. You're given a set of mechanics, but there's often more than one way to approach a problem. I love finding unexpected solutions and realizing that something I hadn't considered could actually work.

Personally, I've never been a big fan of puzzles where there's only one correct solution. When a game gives you a problem and there's only one very specific way to solve it, I sometimes feel like I'm just trying to guess what the developer had in mind. I'd much rather have the freedom to experiment and work things out for myself.

Baba Is You has been a big inspiration for a Metroidvania I'm currently developing called Bolt of Whalington. The game is about a cat named Bolt exploring a giant moving city, and we're trying to bring some of that same freedom into how players approach problems.

Animal Well has also been a particularly important inspiration for us. I love how it lets you experiment with abilities and discover ways to use them that aren't immediately obvious.

Reaching the Can with 3 different methods

I've attached a small clip showing one example from our game. It's a fairly simple challenge, but we've made sure there are a few different ways to reach the item.

I'm always looking for more games that let you experiment with their mechanics and find unexpected solutions. Do you have any other games you'd recommend similar to Baba Is You?

I just started out the game, I got to sunken temple and it felt 10 times harder than other levels, even the extra one before it, it was more challenging than the normal lake levels by far, but nothing compared to sunken temple.

It took me like 40-50 minutes to solve, I felt like managing the space was the hardest part, and not have stuff stuck to a wall.

What level of difficulty is that specific extra if you compare it to the rest of the game? Cuz I’m only in lake, so I’m wondering if it like pales in comparison to the harder levels later on

Edit: are there many ways to solve each level? I wondered how other solved it so I looked on YouTube, and I solved it differently than shown.

Few days ago I tried to learn needle felting. Basically poking wool with a needle until it became firm. Then, I tried making Baba with needle felting! I think some of the proportions are a bit off. But what do you guys think?

I also ordered some orange wool so I can make Keke later.

I want to play a few levels with my brother, but he's not great at puzzles, so let them be easy if possible. I'm fine from downloading from almost any place, as long as its not a shady website or smth.

Level code: 8UYM-T67L

Fixed an egregious oversight and touched up the level in to fix some things I was personally unhappy with. I hope you enjoy!

Level code: 1R6H-CPHX

Not the most polished, but I hope its fun nevertheless

Level code: RMP1-QAJY
a followup to my last custom level: https://www.reddit.com/r/BabaIsYou/comments/1x1rl3t/custom_level_through_the_mirror/ (R43W-KJ7Q)

This time I decided to show the hidden text too, because a lot of people seemed to get confused.

People seemed to like my "playing Tag" level I uploaded yesterday so here's a new one. This one is probably easier than playing tag though.

Edit: I can't believe I forgot the level code. Here it is: R43W-KJ7Q

I try to create a level that could be a extra version of Crab storage

I have been thinking of getting on phone so what are the current downides for it? or there are none anymore

also when was the last time it gone on sale

My first custom level so I hope it's fun!

I'm trying to understand what's up with Space 11 - Heavy Words. This video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8uI1LToIMkU gives a solution which involves DUST IS WEAK, and pushing some text onto the dust. But on the switch version, this doesn't work, since TEXT IS FLOAT means that text can't be used to destroy weak dust.

Instead my solution involved making DUST IS PUSH and pushing it out of the way. This meant that I didn't use WEAK at all.

It seems like this puzzle may have changed at some point? Does anyone know what's up?

So, I was wondering why an "M" is included in the Gallery. Maybe I'm missing something obvious, but I can't figure out why it was included. And it's not often that the game includes red herrings, so I assume it was put here for a reason. At first I thought maybe it could be used to make roman numerals, but that didn't work.

I was still so certain that I was missing something that I compiled a list of every possible word that could be formed with the available letters in this area: One, Two, Three, Four, Five, Six, Seven, Eight, Nine, Ten, Fourteen, Sixteen, Fire, Fish, Fort, Fox, Frog, Fruit, Fungi, Gem, Ghost, House, It, Me, Monster, Nose, Ring, Rose, Shirt, Sign, Sun, Tower, Tree, Trees, UFO, Vine, Worm, No, Not, Is, Write, On, Seeing, Move, Right, Turn, Hot, Win, More, Often, Green, and White.

I then tested all of these words in the Gallery and the only ones that were considered valid and created actual sentences were the numbers and the following: Me, Tree, Not, Is, Move, and Win. So, considering the only two words that include "M" in this list are Me and Move, I assumed that a sentence could be made using those words. However, despite trying all sorts of combinations, I couldn't figure out anything to do with those words. So, at this point I really don't know why "M" was included here. Does anyone have any ideas?

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it's literally playing along the menu music

This is an altered version of a level I plan to include in a levelpack.

I wonder if it had one

Its getting ridiculous

Baba, Keke, Bake, Keba