https://www.theguardian.com/games/2023/jan/12/babbdi-review-a-moody-urban-wander-straight-off-a-playstation-1-demo-disc

PC; Lemaitre BrosOppressive lo-fi visuals and brutalist architecture somehow create a game of laidback curiosity and exploration

Babbdi’s secret weapon is a trumpet. Unearthed from a tower above a stagnant dockyard, it’s an unexpected comic flourish in what looks like a lo-fi brutalist horror game. Making music is simple: hold left mouse button until your breath runs out, change pitch with the cursor. If you like, you can try tootling along to an in-game radio. The trumpet won’t help you navigate Babbdi’s vertiginous architecture – best search for the climbing axe, instead – but it’s hard to put down. It transforms this world-weary first-person platformer into a game about testing the acoustics of abandoned spaces: melancholy but joyful.