Baby Steps Forces 28-Minute Scene on Skippers

Baby Steps, the literal walking simulator from developers Gabe Cuzzillo, Maxi Boch, and Bennett Foddy, is delightfully silly, absurdist, and often wonderfully bizarre. However, one of its goofiest secrets remains hidden from most players: a 28-minute-long cutscene that only unlocks if you successfully skip all or most of the game's other narrative scenes.

And “successfully” is the key word here. Skipping a cutscene in Baby Steps isn't a simple button press. Each attempt forces you into a strange little minigame with the Skip button itself, which seems to actively resist being used. You can fail these skips, and if you don't skip enough scenes, you'll miss out on the ridiculous, lengthy reward—or punishment—awaiting dedicated skip-button abusers.

This special scene plays when Nate visits Moose at the cabin toward the game's conclusion. If the player has skipped everything up to this point but lets this final cutscene play, Nate breaks the fourth wall. He explains to Moose that all the previous scenes were skipped and that he’s not really in the mood to perform the finale. The two then sit outside and chat, with their voice actors, Cuzzillo and Foddy, casually discussing everything from broccoli sandwiches to their characters’ inability to raise one eyebrow at a time, and the difficulties of recording audio near a busy flight path. They attempt to take a nap, find it awkward, and get sidetracked by conversations about mold, the narrative utility of bathroom breaks, and localization challenges. They repeatedly mock the player's relentless skipping and their own feelings about it, growing increasingly frustrated when the player refuses to skip this particular scene, forcing them to continue recording dialogue.

The cutscene continues for roughly 28 minutes of meandering, inane chatter before the pair finally decide it's time to roll the credits, spurred on by a cat meowing at them to hurry up. It’s a masterpiece of the mundane.

For players who'd rather not skip every scene to see it, the entire sequence is available on YouTube. Whether you view this lengthy easter egg as a punishment or a reward for your (or someone else’s) button-mashing impatience is entirely up to you.

We awarded Baby Steps a 9/10, calling it "an infuriating ordeal of intentionally awkward physics that’s brutal, unbelievably stupid, and downright awesome."