Oh man you reminded me of some random bluescreen or some random hang I've got when playing single player games where you can only save in a predetermined places Kind of a nightmare if you ask me
What's funniest is that at a first glance this game looks like it was made in Unreal, which is an engine known for crashing every 10 minutes (i'd know, I use this thing almost daily) Granted, this game is made in Unity, which is not much better. Unity tends to crash more on the developer's side though.
@@FlooferLand idk where you get these statistics from, im playing games on both engines pretty often but i dont recall the last time i ever experienced a game crash, maybe recent AAA games have that tendency to crash but id rather just avoid buying them until they get a hundred patches in 2 years
there's so much potential in a spooky but calming/horror game about urban exploration, this and the long drive so far are the only ones I could find so far
there's infested buildings, abandoned freighters in space, and straight up creepy planets on No Man's Sky so there's that. Obviously, not all planets are that creepy. You can make your home base on a marshy one, build an exocraft to drive across the surface, and explore to hell and back.
46:47 Spanish speaker here, I thought it was cool to translate what the npc said, so here it is: "Gamba and the little one from my home are on vacation here at Babbdi" "I don't know when I'll be able to return to my home, but for the moment I like Babbdi" "Is very special (Babbdi)" "Are you crazy" "I like this music" "My father passed away..." "José Padilla... " (The name of His father)
The sewer oil thing is actually a real practice thats common in china. They call it gutter oil. People are payed to skim oil from grease traps, gutters and even from pots of broth that people just ate from so that it can be taken to a facility that makes the oil look clear and its then resold
Spoiler (i guess): When you're at a train station, the trains usually get announced "Destination A ➡ Destination B" When you manage to get on the train at the end of BABBDI the announcement goes "BABBDI ➡ BABBDI" You *cannot* leave 😳
I just thought it is announced in multiple languages. In my country they usually announce it in both Finnish and Swedish. In rare cases also in English. For example: Rautatientori - Järnvägstorget - Central Railway Station Helsinki - Helsingfors
Honestly i love how subversive this game is. Its not horror, its comforting. Unpolished and unsettling, yes. But not horror. Falling won't kill you. You can go anywhere you want. There's no urgency. You can take your time. Everything is okay.
exploring the entire map (and I mean everything) and getting all achievments took me 2.5 hours, it feels like such a short map and yet its so much bigger than big maps
30:41 you sneezing in real life right when you walked into the flies ingame was so perfect also, fun fact: the hole at 36:26 is called a bellmouth spillway, they exist in real life
Between the surreal atmosphere and the creaking, Banjo Kazooie-esque grunting NPCs make as they speak, this game reminds me of another freeware exploration game, Juice Galaxy, that I think would be a great fit for the channel.
this game is great, after like the first half hour of playing the environment felt super heavy. Like i had a feeling that i needed to escape before something bad happened or something😂 it was super oppressing and depressing, great stuff.
This game is so good, I want more but also I feel like it’s a perfect length, it feels AI generated but not the modern idea of that, but the old school 2018-2021 ai art generators, where you’d put something funny in and get something uncanny and funny back instead of a scarily convincing image
played Peripeteia and this game for the fist time, the same night... the moment i realized, in both games, the real size of the map, and the freedom of exploration... it blew my mind... im still recovering from that...
the man speaking spanish at 46:50 translates to this: "gamba and the little one from my house are on vacation here in babbdi" "I don't know when I will be able to return home but for the moment I like babbdi" "it's very special" "you're crazy? (or) are you crazy?" "I like music" "my father died..." (last one is just a name obv)
you should try Lets Find Larry, its made by the same person who made Night of the Consumers. its about 30 minutes long. its like where's waldo if waldo resented the fact you were following him. the music is fun, too
Such a bizarre game. Yet I'm compelled to watch and keep watching. 👍🏼😀 Don't know why, but I'm reminded of a movie called Brazil with Jonathan Price and Robert De Niro from about '86 or '87. Weird.
What we think of the Eastern bloc, looking back after 50 years anyway. Same concept as thinking back to the US 1950s is a lot different than how it felt to live there at the time.
@@domenik8339 Eh, it did kinda feel like it back then. The dystopian part wasn't that bad but there definitely were taboo topics. And the whimsical? Both a mix of absurds resulting from working around rigid bureaucracy and various spontaneous acts of randomness as means to baffle powers-that-be and make life more colorful. Like, serious 'underground' would paint anti-communist slogans at night, police would come and paint them over leaving big white rectangles on buildings at random, then Orange Initiative would step in and paint orange gnomes on these rectangles.
Oh shit somebody suggested this one to me but I haven't gotten around to playing it, sweet! :D Now we need some Connor Sherlock games lol. EDIT: "Get in loser, we're escapin' Babbdi" is one of my favorite quotes now
Having you mention Fallout is awesome. I love exploring the map of FO4 just for the creepy buy comfy feeling. If you downloaded a mod to remove all NPCs and enemies it would be a truly haunting experience exploring
You might check out Eldritch Reanimated; it's a voxel-based roguelike that desperately wants to be a Lovecraftian stealth game, and gives me a lot of the same vibes as this game.
Honestly it feels like a weird obscure take on establishments like china or the soviet union. Abstract representation. The chinese symbols. The music....in such a depressed place. An broad exaggeration. And well. The sewer oil.
46:52 What I managed to translate is: "Gamba and the little girl from my house are on vacation here but babbled." 47:02 "I don't know when I'll be able to return home but for the moment I like Babbdi." 47:03 "It's very special." 47:05 "You're crazy?" 47:07 "I like music." 47:09 "My father died." 47:11 "Jose Padillas..."
For some reason this game reminds me of another game im a big fan of called Northern Journey. You should give it a look, its a longer game so not one you could finish in a single video but it might still be nice to see what you think of the first bit of it. Or maybe even a series if we're lucky
this place reminds me of Crucible in the Shivering Isles. definitely kept thinking of that guy who really REALLY wants you to kill him, because i always chose to push him off the ledge. i think one of the Dark Seducers makes a remarkk about how they need to put up a guardrail or something, or maybe i'm insane.
I read Spanish ok but didn't have time to get it all. Dancing Dude was saying that they were on vacation in Babbdi but weren't sure when they could get back home, that it's very special, and at one point he asked if you were crazy (estas loco?)
I've never watched one of your videos before. It's actually kind of painful, as it's reminiscent of the way I spoke through middle and high school, before vernacular was crushed into it. Forcefully. You shied away from a couple of the more protracted-looking puzzles (assuming you recognized them, fun point of the game), but I appreciated the commentary and thoughtful look at this eastern bloc... dystopia? There's something that loves this brutalist architecture - in its own ironic way - underlying all of this, and celebrates it, and that is beautiful. Fairly sure you undermined the concept by going for the achievements so single-mindedly... but that's part of it, too, and I have no idea how much exploration you undertook off-camera. (edit) sorry, screw this site and its "copyright" kowtowing. Google is single-handedly sinking the concept of fair use. Current supreme court and general climate... I guess that's small potatoes.
this is the kind of game a person stuck in purgatory, that somehow got access to a PC with a game engine, would make for himself, to kill some time out of their eternity
I'm curious if the title is _supposed_ to say something sensical. Given the quirks of the menu text, we could assume that there's at least 1 extra letter in BABBDI somewhere (probably an extra B), and that the i at the end is supposed to be somewhere else in the word. Babid? Baibd? Bidab? I dunno.
It may not be a game you want to play, but i recommend playing the TF2 Horror Game known as "Capture The Intelligence". I wont talk about it cause spoilers for if you DO play it.
"Why would the game save if you can't die" Mister Librarian clearly living the best life having never experienced a crash in their life.
or like, a pwoer outage
or have to go do something or go somewhere in the middle of a session
Oh man you reminded me of some random bluescreen or some random hang I've got when playing single player games where you can only save in a predetermined places
Kind of a nightmare if you ask me
What's funniest is that at a first glance this game looks like it was made in Unreal, which is an engine known for crashing every 10 minutes (i'd know, I use this thing almost daily)
Granted, this game is made in Unity, which is not much better. Unity tends to crash more on the developer's side though.
@@FlooferLand idk where you get these statistics from, im playing games on both engines pretty often but i dont recall the last time i ever experienced a game crash, maybe recent AAA games have that tendency to crash but id rather just avoid buying them until they get a hundred patches in 2 years
For those who don't know this is free on steam right now
Grabbed it as soon as I read this, thanks for notifying!
FOR FREE?
@@acrj-alfasaus4825 yup
this is free in general. it's not on sale or anything.
Thank you!
7:25 'maybe we could use the elevator like some kind of elevator' is one of the best quotes!
did not even question it the first time, what....
ah yes, the room here is made out of room
there's so much potential in a spooky but calming/horror game about urban exploration, this and the long drive so far are the only ones I could find so far
Librarian's gmod map exploration playlist has SO many fantastic explorations that are exactly 'spooky but calming/horror game about urban exploration'
there's infested buildings, abandoned freighters in space, and straight up creepy planets on No Man's Sky so there's that. Obviously, not all planets are that creepy. You can make your home base on a marshy one, build an exocraft to drive across the surface, and explore to hell and back.
Infra
Voices of the Void
is a good one, but very slow burn
46:47 Spanish speaker here, I thought it was cool to translate what the npc said, so here it is:
"Gamba and the little one from my home are on vacation here at Babbdi"
"I don't know when I'll be able to return to my home, but for the moment I like Babbdi"
"Is very special (Babbdi)"
"Are you crazy"
"I like this music"
"My father passed away..."
"José Padilla... " (The name of His father)
thank you, it's not much but it's honest work, as they say
The developers of BABBDI are currently working on a shooter game, I'm hyped.
I believe “I’m laying flat” is a reference to a movement in China. It’s basically quiet quitting
The sewer oil thing is actually a real practice thats common in china. They call it gutter oil. People are payed to skim oil from grease traps, gutters and even from pots of broth that people just ate from so that it can be taken to a facility that makes the oil look clear and its then resold
Christ on a bike
Was looking for a comment explaining this. Thanks.
Gross.
Spoiler (i guess):
When you're at a train station, the trains usually get announced "Destination A ➡ Destination B"
When you manage to get on the train at the end of BABBDI the announcement goes "BABBDI ➡ BABBDI"
You *cannot* leave 😳
I just thought it is announced in multiple languages. In my country they usually announce it in both Finnish and Swedish. In rare cases also in English.
For example: Rautatientori - Järnvägstorget - Central Railway Station
Helsinki - Helsingfors
But not being able to leave is a better interpretation. It fits the game aesthetic better.
Hotel California
i've been waiting for you to play this for so long, brutalist architecture is so depressing yet so melancholic
Honestly i love how subversive this game is.
Its not horror, its comforting.
Unpolished and unsettling, yes. But not horror.
Falling won't kill you.
You can go anywhere you want.
There's no urgency. You can take your time.
Everything is okay.
exploring the entire map (and I mean everything) and getting all achievments took me 2.5 hours, it feels like such a short map and yet its so much bigger than big maps
Honestly BABBDI was my GOTY for 2022. I love it!
30:41 you sneezing in real life right when you walked into the flies ingame was so perfect
also, fun fact: the hole at 36:26 is called a bellmouth spillway, they exist in real life
Bellmouth spillway? Yeah they used to call me that back in school
lovely voice, sounds like an actual librarian
I know right I love his voice it's soo soothing
@@muzummilkhan7713 I agree. :D
that conspicuous hole in the reservoir is actually a plug hole. not very common but pretty normal, they act like a drain so the water doesnt overflow
This game is my favorite brand of weird.
In this video, Chris demonstrates proper urbex techniques.
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Hell yeah! This game is so friggin weird and unsettling and I love it.
Between the surreal atmosphere and the creaking, Banjo Kazooie-esque grunting NPCs make as they speak, this game reminds me of another freeware exploration game, Juice Galaxy, that I think would be a great fit for the channel.
this game is great, after like the first half hour of playing the environment felt super heavy. Like i had a feeling that i needed to escape before something bad happened or something😂 it was super oppressing and depressing, great stuff.
Girls Last Tour season 2 looks great!
I played this game a while back, and it was so fun and satisfying to get all the achievements and items- it's great to see you trying this game too!
the text is a really great example of how your brain just some words when you read like a form of autocorrect
Oh I've wanted to see a game like this because urban exploration is fascinating to me! Also, love your videos Librarian!
“Maybe we can use the elevator like some sort of elevator” The Librarian 2023.
This game is so good, I want more but also I feel like it’s a perfect length, it feels AI generated but not the modern idea of that, but the old school 2018-2021 ai art generators, where you’d put something funny in and get something uncanny and funny back instead of a scarily convincing image
The Librarian exploring some weird city map with gray buildings - that's my kind of youtube content!
played Peripeteia and this game for the fist time, the same night... the moment i realized, in both games, the real size of the map, and the freedom of exploration...
it blew my mind... im still recovering from that...
The first area reminds me a lot of The Maze Runner with the pale dull concrete occasionally broken with green & rust brown. Amazing video Librarian!
the man speaking spanish at 46:50 translates to this:
"gamba and the little one from my house are on vacation here in babbdi"
"I don't know when I will be able to return home but for the moment I like babbdi"
"it's very special"
"you're crazy? (or) are you crazy?"
"I like music"
"my father died..."
(last one is just a name obv)
Whoa, this looks amazing. gotta need some snacks, drinks and a cozy night for this one
you should try Lets Find Larry, its made by the same person who made Night of the Consumers. its about 30 minutes long. its like where's waldo if waldo resented the fact you were following him. the music is fun, too
You just feel the oppression of it, not a horror on sight, its like seeing a tragic downfall.
Ah hell ya I love babbdi
hello person who i only know for the people playground iceberg
woah i never figured you would play this, i was obsessed with it back in late july
you never miss with the banger videos
Such a bizarre game. Yet I'm compelled to watch and keep watching. 👍🏼😀
Don't know why, but I'm reminded of a movie called Brazil with Jonathan Price and Robert De Niro from about '86 or '87. Weird.
"Dystopian but whimsical", what a perfect description of the Eastern Bloc.
What we think of the Eastern bloc, looking back after 50 years anyway. Same concept as thinking back to the US 1950s is a lot different than how it felt to live there at the time.
@@domenik8339 Eh, it did kinda feel like it back then. The dystopian part wasn't that bad but there definitely were taboo topics. And the whimsical? Both a mix of absurds resulting from working around rigid bureaucracy and various spontaneous acts of randomness as means to baffle powers-that-be and make life more colorful. Like, serious 'underground' would paint anti-communist slogans at night, police would come and paint them over leaving big white rectangles on buildings at random, then Orange Initiative would step in and paint orange gnomes on these rectangles.
@@sharpfangI think you're confusing art with reality. The orange initiative is not a real thing.
@@domenik8339 Sorry, I confused the name: Orange Alternative, not Initiative. It was totally a real thing, check the Wikipedia article.
welcome to the beautiful city of milton keynes
your voice makes everything sound so mysterious, like it!
Oh shit somebody suggested this one to me but I haven't gotten around to playing it, sweet! :D
Now we need some Connor Sherlock games lol.
EDIT: "Get in loser, we're escapin' Babbdi" is one of my favorite quotes now
You might like Bernband if you like urban exploration. It's a LOT shorter, but it's genuinely cool.
This
Ty for the reccomendation.
Having you mention Fallout is awesome. I love exploring the map of FO4 just for the creepy buy comfy feeling. If you downloaded a mod to remove all NPCs and enemies it would be a truly haunting experience exploring
Fallout 3 is even better for exploration, but it is a more intensely dark game than 4.
This game is so cool, i love the the brutalist architecture and it reminds me of the half life 2 beta citadel , which is epic
You might check out Eldritch Reanimated; it's a voxel-based roguelike that desperately wants to be a Lovecraftian stealth game, and gives me a lot of the same vibes as this game.
babdi is so underrated, i'm glad you played it :)
,, Well maybe we can use the elevator as some kind of a elevator''
-The librarian
ah yes, the room here is made out of room
"get in loser, we're escaping Babbdi" 😂😂 LMAO !
Funny that you are playing this, this was uploaded right after i started playing like 2 hours ago
Getting ready for school, so excited to watch this whole thing when I get home
Update: Loved it
17:58 the cut is perfect i laught out loud
Honestly it feels like a weird obscure take on establishments like china or the soviet union. Abstract representation. The chinese symbols. The music....in such a depressed place. An broad exaggeration. And well. The sewer oil.
OMG I was expecting this video since BABBDI came out lol ❤
Never thought you'd play this game!
46:52 What I managed to translate is: "Gamba and the little girl from my house are on vacation here but babbled."
47:02 "I don't know when I'll be able to return home but for the moment I like Babbdi."
47:03 "It's very special."
47:05 "You're crazy?"
47:07 "I like music."
47:09 "My father died."
47:11 "Jose Padillas..."
we are never leaving babbdi
The best open world game of the decade
I usually like more polished graphics, but this was still pretty fun. Thanks!
i tried playing this myself a while ago but I'm a total coward - so I'm excited that youre playing for us :D
Loved this game so much
44:16 is that... is that Macron ? babbdi takes place in france confirmed ?
Yeah, i recognized him too. Not many more people noticed, i guess no one knows or cares about him outside of france.
im even surprised he progressed this fast as 20 minutes first when i struggle from dizziness for a month trying to solve this damn game T______T
RIP flying machine. Tossed aside like a used can, left to sink in the rust mud of a brutalist dream scape.
For some reason this game reminds me of another game im a big fan of called Northern Journey. You should give it a look, its a longer game so not one you could finish in a single video but it might still be nice to see what you think of the first bit of it. Or maybe even a series if we're lucky
Oh wow this has tales from off peak city vibes in the beginning
48:03 Shows what is known in China as: "Spit Oil" or Gutter-Oil 🤢
OMGGGG i love this game!!!!!! i nearly 100%'ed it in one session bc it was My Jam to a ludicrous degree
OH MY GOD HE PLAYED IT HE PLAYED BABDI
I LOVE THIS GAME BASED LIBRARIAN
thanks for playing this
this game is such a gem
Amazing. Thank you, Librarian.
this place reminds me of Crucible in the Shivering Isles. definitely kept thinking of that guy who really REALLY wants you to kill him, because i always chose to push him off the ledge.
i think one of the Dark Seducers makes a remarkk about how they need to put up a guardrail or something, or maybe i'm insane.
such a cool video about this game from you.
I also played the game and I thought it was really good.
I really enjoyed your video.
Love this game
I read Spanish ok but didn't have time to get it all. Dancing Dude was saying that they were on vacation in Babbdi but weren't sure when they could get back home, that it's very special, and at one point he asked if you were crazy (estas loco?)
You just forgot that Cream could just blast in a straight line towards the real head in there and boom, gone, doesn’t exist anymore
I've never watched one of your videos before. It's actually kind of painful, as it's reminiscent of the way I spoke through middle and high school, before vernacular was crushed into it. Forcefully. You shied away from a couple of the more protracted-looking puzzles (assuming you recognized them, fun point of the game), but I appreciated the commentary and thoughtful look at this eastern bloc... dystopia? There's something that loves this brutalist architecture - in its own ironic way - underlying all of this, and celebrates it, and that is beautiful. Fairly sure you undermined the concept by going for the achievements so single-mindedly... but that's part of it, too, and I have no idea how much exploration you undertook off-camera.
(edit) sorry, screw this site and its "copyright" kowtowing. Google is single-handedly sinking the concept of fair use. Current supreme court and general climate... I guess that's small potatoes.
Nice you played it.
ive been waiting for this day for so long.
love u dude
this is the kind of game a person stuck in purgatory, that somehow got access to a PC with a game engine, would make for himself, to kill some time out of their eternity
Yessss. I had requested this so long ago
watched charborg play it, i would love to see charborg and the librarian do a collab but they’re completely different content creators.
Absolte feverdream of a collab that would be, I love it so much.
Goofiest duo
@@i.hate.swedish.ISRAELUBERALLES ☠️
I'm curious if the title is _supposed_ to say something sensical. Given the quirks of the menu text, we could assume that there's at least 1 extra letter in BABBDI somewhere (probably an extra B), and that the i at the end is supposed to be somewhere else in the word. Babid? Baibd? Bidab? I dunno.
40:30 more games need a function like that, honestly.
Not a minute in and I’m already getting liminal space and backrooms vibes. And I was correct like a Soviet style post nuclear-war bunker style city
*"HAI! :3"*
Librarian has finally plays babbdi games
1:04:25 Roadside Picnic is quite the read. I highly recommend it to anyone.
you should play Albino Lulaby, it is very creepy, but also weirdly comfy.
If you enjoyed this game, I think you might like Sludge Life too!
The "laying flat and gutteroil" characters refere to stuff happening in China/ Asia
You got any source for that happening outside of China? AFAIK it's only China, not anywhere else.
I feel like a From the Fog antagonist would work really well here.
Playing with a leaf blower? That's the most childish thing I've ever heard of!
It may not be a game you want to play, but i recommend playing the TF2 Horror Game known as "Capture The Intelligence". I wont talk about it cause spoilers for if you DO play it.
As one pointed out, this game is "Worryingly useless". Not the game itself but rather its content. It just doesnt feel like player belongs in there :)
Huh. I remember playing this once.
yessssssss I love this game
Oh my god he played it