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.

Babbdi was one of the ones I was initially the least interested in because it didn't feel like it was trying to immerse you so much as it was kind of trying to creep you out while giving little to no explaination. When I first fired on the game, I'm introduced to my room mate who tells me to take his baseball bat. Also, was kind of thinking...is this some cro-magnon kewpie doll nightmare? All the buildings are made of stone and there's no doors or furnishings. I didn't quite get it.

I wandered next door and there's my neighbor whose wife is very sick and only able to say "..." - he says he has a ticket out of Babbdi...okay, so this is the town I guess...but needs it to leave. My question is, why the heck ISN'T he leaving?

Then I talk to some guy who looks like he's from a Russian space program of some kind telling me about the guy next door...uh yeah sherlock, I know his wife is sick and he needs to leave. Why aren't you helping?

I decide to explore the floor a little more and find an object and it says "you found a secret object" - okay, so this is what I know, we need a ticket to get out of town, I'm guessing some kind of plague is going around? And there's secret objects. What is this, a dystopian Eastern European treasure hunting game?

As my exploration continued the absurdity got pretty amusing. Next thing I found was a flashlight, okay. Hopefully we don't have any Five Nights at Freddy's 4 moments to deal with in this game. So now I'm running around in sewer lakes that look like dookie water with a flashlight while some people from Spain are having a rave nearby with what has got to be the worst put together Heathkit Radio I've ever seen.

The real item that unlocks the world for you, is the Pick Axe. Seriously, you use a Pick Axe to scale the sides of buildings, which is very much needed, because a lot of areas of the game are inaccessible otherwise. It's also needed for one of the games 9 or so achievements - including climbing to the "highest peak" which really isn't because the highest peak is host to a radio tower...and you can climb THAT with the pick axe too (that must be some pick axe). However, up there, I'm not sure WHAT the next thign that enables you to fly is supposed to be. Was this that "Flyer" that SAGA was singing about on their 1984 album "The Flyer"? To me it just looks like two kid's toy Windmills screwed together perpendicular, and sounds like a nest full of bees while you're flying around. My wife got so annoyed I had to mute the game as I discovered I could reach some serious heights and find out why you can only leave Babbdi by train - the whole place is cased in by some kind of Aquaduct, concrete wall...guess they really do have someone trying to keep em' in. Where's the Kaiser or Czar or El Presidente I need to slap, LOL. I have a feeling whoever decided on this one-way transit is probably not in the city - and for good reason, the claymation inhabitants would want to hang his arse on that Radio tower for eternity!

Anyway, had a good time there, and have unlocked all of the achievements, though STEAM was f***ing me tender in MacOS so I switched over to Linux to re-obtain the achievements MacOS refused to grant for some reason.