This game outsmarted a professional engineer... Baba Is You!

[@pmangano]

"are rocks alergic to death?" I love how this game completely devolves our ability to speak coherently

[@beemoh]

"I see walls and I think they're walls but they're not actually walls"

[@deegsupreme3796]

“Do me is skull and do bug is me then drag the skull that came from the me to the me that came from the bug, then do bug is keke.” -vinny vinesauce

[@Random_PersonOfficial]

ok

[@ThisHandleIsVeryCleverYepSure]

@@beemoh the walls are mimics

[@nickfarace9339]

I have officially coined this "Baba Babble" Which sometimes my brain is broken and I accidentally say "baaba bobble"

[@Aliensrock]

So glad to see you playing this incredible game! It may seem hard now, but if you power through, your brain simply levels up

[@Hextor26]

So true! Learning the mechanics and combining all your knowledge to solve harder puzzles everytime is super satisfying. Especially since a lot of them have multiple solutions.

[@circuitgamer7759]

It's going to be interesting seeing another perspective... You both have very different personalities and puzzle solving strategies :)

[@khoda81]

Oh, look whose here! The baba is you guy!

[@alexdacat7052]

…and then it’s still hard, because difficulty curve is a thing.

[@RealCivilEngineerGaming]

I sure hope so, felt like I was back at uni playing this! (But far more rewarding) 😅

[@Krixwell]

I love how dumb it sounds when one tries to describe the actual win condition of each Baba is You level. In many games it would be "You need to get to the finish point." but with Baba it's "A thing that is you must be in the same place as a thing that is win." Which sounds like it's just an overcomplicated and slightly dumb way of saying the first one, but it's a meaningful difference with the mechanics of the game.

[@afsarmstrongfiresafety7460]

It is technically correct... The best kind of correct!

[@DerMarkus1982]

It's clear as a programming language. Hey! "Baba Is You" *is* a programming language! 😯

[@olivergobrrr2935]

@@DerMarkus1982 I mean, people have recreated some games in Baba Is You, so, it isn't quite a huge stretch.

[@torhundal2182]

you is win!

[@dangerousglasses7995]

in baba, GOAL IS YOU ON WIN

[@naunihalsingh3398]

"I have gotta actually be something to win", RCE with life advice out of nowhere. (8:20)

[@JamUsagi]

I love how EVERYONE reacts to level 1 with the exact same words: “Wall is no longer Stop”.

[@CoffeeHype7356]

I reacted by telling myself that I was going to go insane Edit: I was right

[@The_REAL_Starscream]

"wall is stop"? nah more like "wall is stop"

[@meltedcalippo]

My favourite sentiment from this gameplay is "Win is You". I need that kind of positivity in my life.

[@Cr4z3d]

a winner is you

[@ZaCloud-Animations___she-her]

You're Winner!

[@thais1571]

I love how you say "(x thing) is death" when it's written defeat, but the "defeat" just straight up kills you

[@stellasdoesstuff]

Lmao I actually do the same thing. I didn't realize it actually said "defeat", not "death", until I watched someone else playing the game

[@thais1571]

@@stellasdoesstuff lol! The first time I watched someone playing it, I didn't even notice it was "defeat", I just assumed it was death

[@dominickpastore]

Holy crap, I've played several hours of this game before and never realized it said "defeat" and not "death"

[@FoxSlyme]

I hate that mispronounciation

[@Smithers888]

Came to the comments looking for "he keeps reading 'defeat' as 'death'." Looks like he's not the only one. Actually, 'death' sounds more accurate for what it does - which is it kills you or, rather. any particular instance of you; with a legion of yous, the rest keep on trucking. 'Defeat' sounds like it should make you lose the ~~game~~ level.

[@Khaim.m]

I wonder how long it will take him to realize what "defeat" actually does. For those curious: anything which is "you" that touches a thing which is "defeat" disappears, but only that one object. If you've managed to be multiple objects (like when he became all the walls) it's totally fine to lose some of them.

[@stellasdoesstuff]

Yes, but unlike "sink", "defeat" doesn't get rid of the object that is "defeat", so it's not really advantageous to do so

[@Smithers888]

@@stellasdoesstuff Not usually, but it wouldn't be hard to build a level with two "you" things where guiding one to a "win" thing inadvertantly causes the other to destroy some required text and the solution is to get the latter killed so the former can reach a "win" unimpeded.

[@thewhitefalcon8539]

spoiler!!

[@Myndale]

***SPOILER ALERT***: if a "thing" that gets defeated "has" something, then that thing gets dropped. And if that "thing" happens to "has" itself...

[@emanresu2425]

@@stellasdoesstuff spoiler: There is a level where something being YOU and DEFEAT is necessary to win

[@ezequielcorrecher7741]

It please me as a professional programmer to see a professional engineer struggle with basic coding. Keep it up, this is only the beginning and this game will take your brain to places

[@brennanruiz1803]

*cries in “level is” levels*

[@dr.floridamanphd]

“This game will take your brain places.” So will psilocybin.

[@allazharmaulenov2664]

"...but I never said those would he the places you would like to go" (C) Scarecrow, probably

[@BrunoMaricFromZagreb]

"It wasn't even hard,I was just being an idiot" wow,that describes the video really well.

[@redpepper74]

i... don't know if i would say that he struggled with coding. yes, you're putting rules together, but the challenge of the game comes when it's melted together with spacial reasoning challenges.

[@jorceshaman]

I love when developers get extremely creative like this. The cube puzzle was also a beautifully unique game!

[@jlewwis1995]

That solution to the first lake area puzzle he did at 9:40 was galaxy brain, when I did it I did it the "obvious" way, which is to do wall and baba is you and just used the walls to remove the jellyfish 😂

[@stevieinselby]

There are definitely quite a few levels where there are multiple ways to solve them.

[@modothegreat108]

​@@stevieinselby Fun fact: the first level with multiple solutions is level 0, where you can push the rock to reach the flag ("intended" win) or walk out of the apparent game area to mess with the rules in any number of ways!

[@Pablo360able]

BABA IS YOU IS WIN is so funny. It’s like two kids are playing in a playground and one of them says, “nuh-uh, new rule is, uh, I win”

[@sarah_youtube966]

You know matt, you upload a video, in which you play something I've seen other great youtuber (in my humble opinion) play before and with all the others I would be like nah, I've seen/played that, but with your videos... Im just excited to see how you'll play it :D I love the style, I love the games, I couldn't watch the last ones bc I seriously want to plan the game myself first, but all your videos are just so entertaining and happy and make me relax while my life is a bit of a mess at the moment and your videos has always calmed me down and helped me stop panicking ...before I get too emotional, I just want you to know, your videos make my day better, keep up the great job! Greetings from a german fan

[@RealCivilEngineerGaming]

Cheers, very kind of you, sorry about Euro 2020 😅👍

[@MrWhiteVzla]

The title of the video should have been "engineer discovers what it feels like to code." XD

[@Cr4z3d]

lmao

[@rodrigonoffs1369]

But there is no program breaking typo

[@NelielSugiura]

For level six... you, as the wall, touched the flag. So you won that floor. ;p This is amazing; though perhaps more of a game for English majors that like to solve puzzles? Like crossword types. :)

[@DembaiVT]

As an English major who loves puzzles this game remains cruel and pitiless. Lol not that I don't enjoy it.

[@herbert164]

some of the combinations you do really break grammar. For example "Rock and Baba is you".

[@NelielSugiura]

Oh for sure. I think my editor brain would hate stuff like that too much to play it. xD

[@ninjag-o-g3150]

Just the opposite. As an English major and cs minor, this is 100% a game for programmers who like to solve puzzles :P though English has a lot of logic problem solving to it as well

[@ReySilverskin]

@@ninjag-o-g3150 Hey, what a coincidence, I'm a CS major and English minor, and I also happen to love puzzles 😄

[@f4wnz132]

"Let me go touch a rock." Is a sentence I never thought I'd hear.

[@blakdeth]

The one where you won by saying "lava is push" I won by saying "lava is you". The early levels are great cause there's usually a couple solutions

[@Daijaga]

Thats what turned me off of Baba so much was the early levels have all this fun expression of solution in them and the later levels become much more rigid in their solutions. The game is sort of one thing at first thats wild and unexpected and then becomes a charming but difficult standard logic puzzle game in its back half.

[@tuures.5167]

I think the most hilarious solution to that level is to say "lava is Baba" and have an army of Babas just swarm the level xD

[@canikostar99]

Lava is melt is another solutio

[@stevensavoie856]

I did lava is melt. To my surprise the lava was destroyed. Didn't expect lava to get... meltier..

[@modothegreat108]

@@stevensavoie856 So about that one: [melt] and [hot] are mutual enemies in this game, so any object with both properties destroys itself.

[@lisacatarsi1615]

This game is one of my absolute favourites and I love listening to engineers talk about the way they think. This video is the perfect combo xD

[@gustsnts]

This game makes my head hurt. It’s absolutely impressive how my play through went exactly the same way, going for the same pitfalls, challenges, and realizations.

[@itsnotjustme]

Baba is You is incredibly clever about teaching the game mechanics and prepping for the much tougher future puzzles.

[@itsnotjustme]

Baba is You is incredibly clever about teaching the game mechanics and prepping for the much tougher future puzzles.

[@DragonloverWV]

Brain is You and Defeat

[@hungrymusicwolf]

6:21 You became the wall and then the wall touched the flag, that's why you won.

[@NearyDead]

I’m excited to see you playing this game. It’s one of my faves even with how hard it gets.

[@andrewalbrecht4547]

Commenting for traction, this is one of my favorite games ever. I finally completed every level after a paltry 75 hours of gameplay, but the new content has me back on it. You're gonna have fun

[@RealCivilEngineerGaming]

75!?

[@andrewalbrecht4547]

@@RealCivilEngineerGaming Probably not super accurate since I would leave it running to walk the dog (or just enjoy the music), but that's what I have registered on Steam 😬

[@OriginalPiMan]

If you push all the way to the 100% end of the original levels, you will end up on at least a meaningful fraction of that. I put in maybe 10-15 hours before deciding that any further was too hard for me. But I did get one victory, so that's something.

[@AngelWedge]

According to the time thing on my save, it took me 30:16. At least three hours of that was repeating levels because I didn't have the 'meta' flower and I couldn't work out what I'd missed. (turned out to be the one that had been turned into "level")

[@xian2themax]

It took me 105 hours

[@EricBridges]

This game is awesome. The meta-gaming aspect of it just keeps zooming out further and further as you continue. It gets really mindbending once you get to levels 7+.

[@DexPlushy]

Always love seeing how people approach this game! If you do play more of this it might be nice to relax the pace of the editing very very slightly, just so viewers have a bit more room to breathe and think through each of the levels alongside you. Doesn’t have to be much, even just the odd few seconds near the start of each level.

[@philippak7726]

I love the simplicity of how when you get the solution it feels obvious, while also making you feel super smart getting it. Rage inducing complex simplicity!

[@AlwaysLoisLane]

Dude, I've been avoiding watching gameplays of BiY bc I didn't wanna just see someone else play it and spoil the game. The thing is: when you play games, I always feel like I'm playing along so hell yeah!

[@RealCivilEngineerGaming]

Hell yeah!

[@just-a-fnf-fan]

Hell yeah! (It’s chain time mhs)

[@Donu_tLover]

tickle your brain then you’ll forget the solutions

[@ninjamaster9094]

This is such an interesting puzzle game, because while it does have a solid and unbreakable logic behind every action and interaction, you also need to let go of what “makes sense”. It makes sense that you play as the little white rabbit and push rocks and touch the flag to win, but you can’t depend on that logic and need to focus on what rules are in play at the moment, regardless of what objects would normally do. Like it doesn’t matter if it’s Baba or lava or a wall, they don’t have any predetermined properties beyond what rules are on screen, and I think that’s so clever as a puzzle despite its simplicity.

[@DeathnoteBB]

It’s also interesting because it allows players to be in their own way. The answer is right there but a player assumes the answer is impossible, based on preconceived notions. You need to look at the facts on each level separate from past levels

[@friendlyspacedragon7250]

Baba is you is a great game. You need to think inside the box. Then outside the box. Then you need to become the box. Then you need to replicate your box-self into infinite Babas who warp spacetime.

[@pamspray5254]

That was a fun trip on my end. I enjoy watching people puzzle-solve games like this. It can be quite validating. Many who've thought through these puzzles before struggled in the exact same way. But that moment when you finally figure it out feels so good!

[@bell2023]

I feel like he solved a lot of these levels in some very unusual/creative ways, many of which are usually less obvious but are technically simpler.

[@kendyss]

6:25 You won, because you touched the flag while being the wall

[@RealCivilEngineerGaming]

I was confused as to why I didn't die though

[@kendyss]

@@RealCivilEngineerGaming Well, because there is more than one wall, you only lose a level when there is nothing left for you to move with.

[@normalmighty]

@@RealCivilEngineerGaming if something that is you touches something that is defeat, that thing is destroyed. There technically isn't a "lose" state in the levels, just spots where nothing is you. as long as at least 1 thing is still around that is you, there's no problem.

[@KyliaSkydancer]

Please continue this. There's some great levels ahead and i notice people have come up with different solutions for them so I'm curious as tyo which one you'll choose. Submerged ruin took me forever ro get right. right now i'm in the midst of the Mountain levels and I'm pretty stuck.

[@WordUser]

seeing this really good game design in action is amazing, you learned the mechanics exactly like the game wanted you to and you understood the puzzles more and more even though they were becoming more complicated

[@WompodReviews]

Your complete bafflement at Grass Yard had me in stitches

[@pompey333]

I'm so glad when I wake up everyday and theres a real civil engineer video to start my day!

[@thulsadum]

"That's so much harder than engineering" - Made my day. 😀

[@DaxSudo]

Proof that there are different kinds of engineers. I love this game as a software engineer so glad ur playing it and struggling a bit lol.

[@MoarHunter11]

please make more of these videos. I'm in love with this game and i don't know any other youtubers who have made more than 3 episodes of it.

[@Konokomodo]

14:18 “are rocks allergic to death?”

[@jacknanvisker7074]

I love the premise of this game, it’s so creative and allows for creative solutions.

[@holisticreviews]

This game made my brain itch. A physical sensation that made true “uncomfortable is you”.

[@YugoslavForever]

4:11 'Rock is Rock' *"MATH IS MATH!"*

[@privatepumpkin7095]

If you're confused, defeat doesn't mean you lose the level if you touch it, it just means that that part of you is gone. If you have 2 things that are you, you can move one of them into the defeat area to get to the "win" object. Also, you need to be "you" to finish the level. For example, if you have "baba is win", and the word "flag", if you push the word flag and baba to make "flag is win", that won't work because you are no longer baba.

[@chemplay866]

all the time im screaming at the screen with him using the hardest solution possible

[@pengxu9244]

1:46 “I just moved the wall away from the wall”

[@djdaniel4205]

This game feels like a visualized algebraic equation. You have to rearrange sh*t until something is the answer.

[@0000Sierra117]

RCE:Wall is win! RCE, youless: ahhh, c'mon classic baba is you moment, brought a smile to my face, good content

[@fonze5664]

Baba and Paddy both in one video? Instant like!

[@michaelc4159]

Looking forward to seeing more of this mind melting game… One comment though… Ba-Ba is a sheep not a rabbit (Baa-Baa)

[@unintendedmango5825]

Baba is ewe XD

[@synexiasaturnds727yearsago7]

@@unintendedmango5825 ?

[@unintendedmango5825]

@@synexiasaturnds727yearsago7 It's a play on words. A ewe is a female sheep. It's also pronounced the same way as the word "you." So Baba is you/ewe.

[@mathmagician5990]

What an amazing game. So stoked to watch one of my favorite KZbinrs play one of my favorite games.

[@Midrealm_DM]

6:12 - Wall is you > you controlled the walls You moved around and destroyed several sections of wall on the skulls, but since there was still at least one wall (one you) in play, you hadn't lost yet. You then moved the wall onto the flag, and Flag is Win, so you won that level.

[@jinbe-san]

Been watching CTC’s streams of this, and now seeing RCE play this makes me feel like there’s been an awesome crossover

[@SimonSideburns]

I have been watching CTC's streams too. It does look like a really fun game, and very taxing. Shame I haven't seen it on Steam on offer, or I would have picked it up. I'll just wait until it goes on sale now it's in my wishlist.

[@lkirbyl]

So I'm a computer scientist, and at least some people think I'm fairly good at it (good enough to give me a PhD at least). It took me over 50 hours to beat the entirety of Baba is You and I needed hints for some of the levels (never went to get straight-up solutions though). So I am gleefully expecting to see you do more of this, this is gonna be so much fun. :D And I think you'll enjoy it tremendously as well, the stuff it does in the late game is just proper mind blowing. I actually burst out laughing, when you figured out an easy solution to Lake-3 without even considering what exactly "move" does and why it might be there. I feel like that's going to come back to bite you at some point. ;)

[@g.iredronald5]

11:16 mister your dog is giving me the side eye ok

[@ceedee9678]

im so glad you upload daily you get me through hard times :) thank you

[@stevensavoie856]

Oh RCE... 3:35 "I need a BRIDGE!" *bridge fails* *builds longer bridge.*

[@MiroslavDrahos]

wow.I would definitely dive into this game for hours, stretch my brain like an elastic of my sweatpants and then try to shake this way of thinking off in real life again.

[@poldelepel]

RCE: Has a crazy gaming pc. Also RCE: plays baba is you

[@johnnymyers5586]

"Are rocks allergic to death?" -Matt 2021

[@Clownish.mp4]

“This is so much harder then engineering” Wha-

[@GlassOfVitto]

I love that level where wall is not stop and players who dont think hard enough will get tricked

[@Charamei]

7:26 - walls aren't stop, so just push 'win' through the walls and swap it for 'grass is stop'. Now grass is win. Same with the final one you got stuck on - make crabs defeat and the flag win, then remove 'wall is stop' and just walk through the wall to get around the crabs. Looks like a fun game! I might have to get hold of it...

[@caldeira_a]

ayy I was expecting you to play baba but i got somehow surprised lol

[@sancti3731]

@@angelina2634 Нет

[@caldeira_a]

@@angelina2634 bruh scam bot

[@posterive]

Me who have already thought of a solution to the GRASS YARD level while watching you struggle with it: *smart laughter*

[@safe-keeper1042]

It's an ingenious game: Great idea and wonderful puzzles. Love the whole atmosphere, too.

[@lookdawg187]

Haha with Brick Wall level I was thinking just push 'Win' below 'You', You Win 🤣

[@Rsam005]

3:18 Flag is you, Baba is you

[@sidneysun5217]

this game gets so meta in the later levels where you can literally move the whole level, hilarious

[@jekrixlokan4507]

To explain level 6, you are controlling every instance of the wall block, and you only need a single wall block to be with the win tile, in this case the flag. So since at least one of the wall tiles collided with the flag, you win. It doesn't matter what happens to the other wall bits

[@Packbat]

The best thing about watching other people play Baba Is You is being dumbfounded when they solve a problem completely differently to how you did - I just love it

[@FBGYouTube]

Did you build the dispenser? Cause man, I need some health!

[@Operational117]

Ah yes, the semi-programming language game, Baba Is You! My absolute favourite brainteaser puzzle game.

[@cassiaprior453]

I like how he just says "def" instead of reading the whole "defeat".

[@WestleyTaninger]

Best part of watching others play Baba is you: seeing them solve levels in completely different ways than you did.

[@tacocat1492]

My parents let an architect stay at our house and one day he left the back door open and left so our dog got in and slept on all of our beds we had to wash everything

[@WireMosasaur]

I'm glad I'm not the only one who kept reading the "defeat" block as "death" at first lol

[@JaneXemylixa]

6:25 What happened was, the thing that's YOU (a wall cell) became in the same place as the thing that's WIN. Things in this game don't operate as solid objects like an entire wall - if WALL IS YOU, you control every wall cell simultaneously, but independently.

[@NerveClasp]

Baba Is You is one of my favorites! Thanks!))

[@anthaguz]

I definitely want to see more of this, this game is amazing! I love to see ppl struggling

[@alba3429]

Please keep it up there are like 225 levels. All your content is great

[@jpw547]

As someone else who had their brain blow up playing this game I very much enjoy watching you play it

[@chengboli1462]

I am glad you find this game, this is IMHO a truely hidden gem! (it also outmasterd me, a software engineer lol)

[@Runix1]

I love how this game makes me feel like I've tricked and outsmarted iy, when in reality I solve the puzzles as intended

[@bjorn9875]

Please continue this series all the way until the end!

[@pikkozoikum8523]

1:29 Level "What is this?", he: "What is this??"

[@laiaa9178]

everyone: skull is death dev : skull is defeat

[@Nazobypass]

I feel like this game would have been a programming nightmare

[@ConfusedPlushiee]

i have been waiting for you to play this for soooo long!! Baba is you, the game every engineer should have played!

[@liamnehren1054]

I was tearing my hair out with how long that last one took you!

[@whatthewhatthe9117]

The thing about BIY is that the innate structure of puzzles are constructed with the notion that anything can be changed and fundamentally altered on a whim, as a result all things that are available can be intermingled with a bit of foresight like using one IS for two sentences or shifting sentences in a single move. Also note pressing space lets you use a move while stationary called idle. Either way good luck with the 150+ level update cause this is certainly gonna take a while

[@cookiecan10]

It's cool to see you had some different solutions to me

[@Cory_Springer]

Oh this is going to be afun game watching you play! Also, it's nice to see I'm not the only one wgo reads "defeat" as DEATH every time

[@cringejuicedavidson8288]

7:04 BECAUSE YOU'RE NOT BABA ANYMORE ASFJKLASFJLSKAJ

[@greenaum]

6:20 - Wall is you, flag is win. Wall touch flag. Wall is win, you is wall. You is win. Easy!

[@cloislejois]

I love strange, little puzzle games like these, keep up the great vids!

[@Foxboi437]

"are rocks allergic to death"- Real Civil Engineer

[@Nickgowans]

Omg 8:15, just make an +

[@Cringietst]

8:45 u could have also changed the "Grass is stop" for "Grass is win"

[@gshepppp]

BaBa is Engineer gaming

[@TKDWN_YT]

Yesss! My favourite KZbinr playing my favourite game :)