Nick is a freelance writer from Chicago, IL, with a BA in Creative Writing from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. His lifelong belief in the artistic power of video games led him to ...

From the player’s side, Baby Steps feels like a finely honed experience. It’s a walking simulator that follows Nate, a manchild in a gray onesie, as he attempts to scale a mountain and symbolically ...

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 ...

Baby Steps. I haven’t stopped thinking about the “literal walking simulator,” as the devs describe the project, since it was first revealed by publisher Devolver Digital last June. All we’ve seen of ...

Then, as if out of nowhere, he is placed in a strange new world where he discovers an extraordinary power: he can walk. Not in the casual, natural way every human does without thinking, but in a ...