Bionic Bay

Bionic Bay is amazing. It’s a game filled with passion and beauty in its brutal and unrelenting world, and has plenty to do after you’ve beaten its short campaign for the most determined of players.

Bionic Bay is a truly special platformer that is wildly creative and endlessly smart.

Bionic Bay is one of the best platformers I have played in a long time, and quite possibly one of the best I have ever played.

A fast-moving and savagely difficult 2D platformer that draws equal inspiration from Limbo and Soulsborne games, with its own restless sense of invention that never falls short.

Bionic Bay is a superb and challenging physics platform game with a beautiful visual design, and clever puzzles within.

The best thing I can say about a game of this nature is that it accomplishes what it sets out to do. It creates puzzles to be solved, gives players the tools to succeed, and then makes you feel like a dextrous genius when you execute successfully.

Bionic Bay combines floaty platform mechanics and wild abilities to make fast, frantic, and intelligent puzzles and an experience that is thoroughly intoxicating.

Whenever I see an indie title pop up from out of nowhere, just to receive unanimous praise from all other outlets in the business, my interest is immediately piqued. It’s not because I automatically assume that, sure, the game I had never heard of before is indeed a hit, but because I really want to find out if the latest indie darling is, indeed, worth the hype. Will it be like Celeste, or will i...

Bionic Bay is a captivating platformer that pays homage to the forefathers of the genre while confidently carving its own path. Its stunning art direction immediately sets it apart, lending the game a fresh and distinctive identity in an otherwise crowded space. Adding in the thoughtful mechanics and meticulous level design, Bionic Bay stands out as a truly special platformer and an essential purc...

Bionic Bay is one of those surprise indie gems that happens to excel in not just its art style, but gameplay as well. As a mix of physics-based puzzles and precision platforming, Bionic Bay has a dynamic platforming identity that is easy to love.

Bionic Bay is filled with an incredible sense of momentum. You're constantly challenged to experiment to keep moving forward. There's much to enjoy between the campaign and speedrunning mode, which never overstays its welcome. It's pretty clear the developers made a game they wanted to play, and their passion doesn't go unnoticed.

As I ventured through Bionic Bay, I kept feeling this warm sense of nostalgia, like returning to an older era of indie gaming. Several factors contribute to this. The developer’s previous work, Badland, was a source of endless competitive joy for my friends and me when it was first released. I can see a lot of Badland’s art style and gameplay in Bionic Bay, as well as the DNA of several iconic pla...