If you’re a failson living in your parents’ basement, this game might hit too close to home

A walking simulator titled “Baby Steps” is set to launch on PlayStation and Steam this month. While it might sound dull, users can walk in the shoes, or feet, of one of the world’s most curious creations, the rich white man.

There’s an old saying that “men rule the world,” but when the media turns against its most loyal soldiers, we know the narrative is shifting.

The game, “Baby Steps,” is set to release on September 23rd, 2025, and lets users go on a journey as a lumbering white loser who has recently discovered the power of movement.

After being transported into a scenic world from what seems to be his parents' basement, the protagonist, a 35-year-old unemployed man called Nate, is plunged into a cold pond in his onesie, and is forced to do something a wealthy man should never do: walk.

The description of “Baby Steps” paints the protagonist as a failson, which is a slang term for a lazy man from a wealthy family, who discovered “a power he never knew he had…putting one foot in front of the other.”

Players can hike through “unforgettable scenery” while interacting with characters and meeting “local fauna in a rib-tickling, physics-driven adventure game.”

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Users can play the first chapter of the game on Steam, where “one slip isn’t a setback, just a new path forward.”

However, the game is also being released on PlayStation, where players will “fall for Nate” and help him find “meaning in a wasted life.”

The trailer shows Nate lumbering across a range of terrains, stumbling and falling as he tries to find his ground.

The reactions to “Baby Steps” were overwhelmingly positive when the trailer was released on YouTube two years ago.

“Finally, I feel represented in a game,” one YouTube account wrote, while others commented on the excellence of the voice acting and soundtrack.

The game is brought to life by the creators of popular titles like “Ape Out,” which has been described as a “frenetic jazz” game that allows people to escape into a world of rhythmic violence.

The developers Gabe Cuzzillo, Maxi Boch, and Bennett Foddy, who made “Baby Steps” a reality, have teased that they’ve been working on the game for the last five years.

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The developers spoke to GameRant about the creation of the game, how they improvised dialogue to really capture the game’s humour and flesh out their protagonist.

Foddy told GameRant that Nate isn’t your typical video game character, as he is “resisting the traditional masculine empowerment fantasy” in traditional action-adventure games.

Instead of this game being a dig at white men with extreme inherited wealth, Foddy told GameRant that Nate is a character who is living “in the world of default action heroes” and, despite material support, is failing to live up to expectations imposed upon him.

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