BABBDI is named after the fictional post-apocalyptic, dystopian city that the game is based in, where you as the player are on a quest to find a train ticket to get out of town. The game starts with you in what looks like some kind of post WWIII-like apartment complex where your neighbor's wife is sick and needs her last ticket from the information office at the end of the stream to get out of the city to get treatment. This leads you on kind of a wild and crazy quest (with a whole armada of achievements/sidequests) running around town trying to find your own ticket. However, there's a very unexpected turn. The game can be played out in it's most basic quest in about 40 minutes, but offers multiple achievements for other quests such as finding the highest peak in town or talking to everybody. This gives is a really nice, massive bit of replay value, not to mention an incentive for going out there and exploring Babbdi in it's entirety.

Like I've been doing with these Steam games lately, I've been going in cold, and giving them a good explore, on my own, untained by any form of preconcieved notions given by other people's reviews, or even the game's own literature. I do it old school "Atari Style" - like I just found Babbdi in a box of cartridges, plugged it in, and went after it without a single clue.

Babbdi, when coming into it cold, seems like some kind of strange, probably Chinese or Eastern European authored adventure, where you are to escape this dystopian and meloncholy city, for reasons unaddressed. You start off standing in what looks like a burned out shell of an apartment, with a couple inhabitants and an elevator attendant who looks like he used to belong to the Russian space program. One guy offers you his baseball bat, the other one has a sick wife he wants to use his ticket to get to the train to leave Babbdi, and of course...that plays some significance later.

As the game goes along it garners an almost Eastern Bloch meets Minecraft kind of scenario. On one hand, teh whole game is a dark, dreary, post-industrial city where it feels like its' government has given up and wants to keep them captive in their city for unknown reasons. On the other hand, the game has a lot of humorous, absurd elements, mostly in the form of over-powered items you can use to traverse the impressive landscape of Babbdi.

Some of these items include the "Super Mario Baseball Bat" as I call it, the "Mountain Climber's Pick Axe", the 250 Horsepower Jet Engine Turbo Leaf Blower, a sonic weapon Bach Selmer TR300 Trumpet (I was in Marching band and played Trumpet once upon a time), a motorcycle, and what looks like two windmills powered by what sounds like magical hornets that let you literally fly around without restriction!

The towns inhabitants look like animations out of a Mudhoney or Alice in Chains music video....but maybe if they were some lost city 50 miles east of Meepos, and if you hit pause on the VCR...well, except the Hispanic family dancing to overdriven reggae-techno across from a well full of poop water. Actually, the sanitation of this place has gone to heck it seems, no wonder that guy's wife is sick.

Some of them are outright sad, such as the sick wife you meet right off the bat, or the old lady struggling to bring her groceries home. Some are plain weird such as aformentioned bouncing family, the guy planking in the sewer grate (Arthur?), or the lady pulling "Sewer Oil" in what looks like midst of a central city military bunker (Sewer Oil being a reference to a chinese practice of skimming used oil out of deep fat fryers or even oil contaminated sewers to recycle to make into clean oil). Also, there's a couple big faces with no bodies there just for comedic effect - and pidgeons pidgeons everywhere!

There's many "secret objects" to collect ranging from a dead fish, to a can of what looks like chew, to a friggin Glock 19 (yep, a handgun for those not into firearms). I got to hand it to Babbdi....they have one gun in the whole city, with one of the biggest creeps in teh city, but it's not harmed anyone as far as I can tell, seems the Poopbonic Plague has taken most of the city out.

Talking about potty humor....you have a central "Tolt" to go to for bathroom, and a seemingly aptly named resturant called the "Destraunt" to go to. Misspelled all over, even some chinese signs there....which just adds to the mystery. Seems like the designers were going for a place that was all the most destitute elements of places like East Germany post-war, Russia, and North Korea - but if rendered by something like The DeepDream Generator.