Bionic Bay Reviews

Bionic Bay is the perfect game to keep between bigger more involved titles but also has an interesting narrative for those who want it, perfectly balancing fun and challenge with a very approachable pick-up-and-play style.

Drawing on some of the best traditions of precision platformers and physics-based puzzle games, Bionic Bay is a surprising and novel release managing the rare feat of consistent and rewarding gameplay from beginning to end. Stack in a speedrunner’s dream of an online mode, and there’s a lot packed in. While the purposefully enigmatic world-building and overpowering industrial theming didn’t land for me, the slick traversal and clever puzzle design make the game an easy recommendation, s...

Bionic Bay is worth a shot, whether you’re in the mood for an atmospheric experience or want to stretch your platforming skills with some physics tools. Bionic Bay is the surprise gem that satisfies both cravings beautifully.

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

Bionic Bay brings nothing but top quality in both gameplay and aesthetic. With experience making physics engine tools, Psychoflow pull off some of the best physics based puzzle-platforming out there. With inspiration from old school games like Another World and the Oddworld games, Bionic Bay is a true love letter.

Bionic Bay, from Psychoflow Studio and Mureena Oy, resembles something of a cross between Limbo and Oddworld: Abe’s Oddysee. Let me explain. You must traverse huge levels, using acrobatic skills to overcome spinning blades, deadly drops, and weighty obstacles. At least, you’ll try to. You’ll die a lot playing Bionic Bay, it’s a game that is very happy to let you die, die, and die again. Thankfully, you aren’t entirely reliant on your character’s impressive acrobatics, instead, you...

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.

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 it be, negatively, like What Remains of Edith Finch? Bionic Bay is the most recent belle of the ...

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 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 purchase for fans of the genre.

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 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 pixel-perfect platforming adventure that fires on every hazardous industrial cylinder from start to finish. You’ll struggle to put it down, as you madly hump your way up one ladder before flinging yourself to the next.

Despite an overly lean narrative and an overlong middle section, Bionic Bay’s particular blend of fluid platforming, physics-focused puzzles, and gorgeously surreal aesthetic results in a highly engaging experience. More than that, it’s tight pacing and interest in surprising the player keeps things feeling fresh throughout. If you’re on the lookout for a new puzzle-platformer, it’s well worth your time to run and jump your way through it.

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.

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 platformers. Mureena founder Juhana Myllys attributes several genre-defining titles as inspirat...

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

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

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.