This Game Sentences Impatient Players To Cutscene Jail And It’s Brilliant

Baby Steps is the latest hilariously difficult game from Bennett Foddy, known for QWOP and Getting Over It. This time, he’s collaborating with Gabe Cuzzillo and Maxi Boch to deliver another uniquely challenging experience.

The game doesn’t just find ludicrous ways to punish you through the frustrating act of putting one foot in front of the other and making progress—it also plays tricks with its cutscenes. Players have discovered that if you dare to skip the cutscenes during your ordeal, you’ll be treated to an unskippable 28-minute cutscene.

Congratulations to Foddy and team for innovating bold new ways for video games to mess with you!

Baby Steps takes the concept of a walking simulator to the extreme, making the simple act of walking wonderfully tricky and maddeningly difficult. But the game doesn’t stop there; it also plays games with its cutscenes. Literally.

Cutscenes taunt you with a mini-game that you must complete if you want to skip them. And if you’re truly tempted to give the game the proverbial middle finger by skipping all these cutscenes through the mini-games, you’ll be confronted at the end with an unskippable 28-minute cutscene. This lengthy scene features two characters lamenting how much work went into the cutscenes, only for you to just skip them all. Wow. I hope you feel bad about yourself.

If you’re not up for making your own way, step by hilariously agonizing step, through Baby Steps—skipping the cutscenes all the while—you can watch the whole thing here.

On a lighter note, the anthropomorphic donkey alone is enough to sell me on this game. Just what I need: more 2025 gems to fill up my already dense backlog.
https://kotaku.com/baby-steps-bennet-foddy-cutscenes-skip-2000633326