CITY LIMITS

Explore a bleak, brutalist city in BABBDI

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NEED TO KNOW 

WHAT IS IT? A first-person exploration game set in a brutalist dystopian city

EXPECT TO PAY Free

DEVELOPER Sirius Lemaitre, Léonard Lemaitre

PUBLISHER Lemaitre Bros

REVIEWED ON Intel Core i7-10750H, 16GB RAM, GeForce RTX 2060

MULTIPLAYER No

LINK bit.ly/Babbdi

I’m up for any game set in a brutalist cityscape, so it’s almost a shame that the goal of Babbdi is to escape one. Babbdi is a city of looming tower blocks, endless concrete, and not a lot of grass, and I thoroughly enjoyed scouring its oppressive nooks and crannies, as I searched for the train ticket that would take me out of there—loathe as I was to leave it.

At its core,