‘Level too Hard, Baba is Done, Better Look Out’: 13 Baba Is You Memes for the Intellectual Gamers

Olivia Arocena • Writer and Editor

Oct 29, 2026 11:00 AM EDT

Baba Is You: Like Solving Equations (Except It's Not Boring!)

I've been playing Baba Is You. For those who don't know it, it's a puzzle game that feels a little like solving equations, except they are made of words.

It seems really simple at first, but as you level up, you will likely find yourself stuck thinking really hard about how to solve the challenge.

The premise is simple: you control a little character named Baba that looks like a mouse or a capybara, and the rules of the game are written right there on the screen, like blocks of text that go: BABA IS YOU, WALL IS STOP, FLAG IS WIN. Those aren't only instructions about how the game works; they are buttons you can actually interact with.

If you move the words around and you form new phrases, you actually change what the rules of the game are.

For example, if the wall is closer to you, and you change the command from WALL IS STOP to WALL IS WIN, pushing the words around with Baba, and then you touch the flag using Baba again, you will win.

I know it sounds very simple, but it turns very complicated very fast.

The relationships between words and equivalences, and rules, are what remind me of equations. Language becomes both the problem and the way to solve it. Just like when you have an equation and you move numbers around and suddenly you clear x. Numbers were presented as a problem, and through some operations they became the solution.

I'm not sure I'm explaining my theory right, but that's how I feel about the game. Contrary to what people might think, it's very relaxing. Even though you're thinking most of the time, it's a different kind of thinking, and it gets you so concentrated that you forget your real-life problems completely.

Don't get me wrong, please; it doesn't feel like math homework. Please try it before making any assumptions. There is something so satisfying about solving a problem without looking at solutions and playing around with logic without feeling like we're back at school. At least that's the kind of game I love.

Baba Is You reminds me of Monkey Island, in the sense that you spend a lot of time looking for new combinations of stuff to get new results. It's not about doing it fast or dexterity; it's about logic and creativity.

Does anyone else in here like these kinds of games as well? I would describe them as games that stimulate your creative thinking and require you to constantly evolve your way of thinking about problems.

Anyway, I have to keep playing because even though I loved it, I haven't reached a super high level or anything. That's my new goal in life lol.

So, for those who already know and love Baba Is You, here is a compilation of memes to remember it fondly and to try to tempt you into going back to play it.