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Guide a scientist through a hostile biomechanical world, using object swaps, physics, and precision platforming to escape.
Released 16 Apr 2025
Swap Places With Objects
Slow Time Mid-Jump
Flip Gravity Routes
A scientist uses a unique teleportation instrument to escape an ancient biomechanical world filled with imaginative technology, deadly traps, and hidden secrets.
Developed by Psychoflow Studio, Mureena Oy · Published by Kepler Interactive
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A scientist must find a way out of an ancient biomechanical world filled with strange technology, dangerous traps, and mysterious surroundings.
Move through 2D platforming stages with jumps, rolls, and fast dashes. A teleportation device lets you swap places with objects and other targets, turning the environment into tools for crossing gaps, avoiding hazards, and solving spatial puzzles.
As you progress, new mechanics such as slowing time and manipulating gravity add ways to approach obstacles. The game also offers timed online races against other players’ ghosts, leaderboards, and scientist customization.
Players often praise the striking biomechanical art and atmosphere, along with the responsive movement, physics, and inventive abilities that shape the platforming puzzles. Some also enjoy the challenge and online speedrunning. Common reservations include increasingly punishing or repetitive later sections, unpredictable physics or hard-to-read hazards, and a story many find slight or unclear.
Central to Bionic Bay is an innovative swap mechanic and a realistic physics system. When combined, these offer a new way of interacting with the environment – from shifting gravity to interchanging positions with objects and adversaries, and to move, defend, or attack. But be careful not to burn, break, freeze, explode, or vaporize in the process.
Plunge into an ancient, biomechanical world teeming with imaginative devices, mysterious technology, and peculiar inhabitants. Get lost in the vast sci-fi landscapes in gritty high-density pixel art style and suspenseful sound design that makes each biome distinct. Attempt to uncover the secrets of the ancient world.
Fluid movement and reactive physics make for high adrenaline and action-packed moments in each uniquely designed level. Creatively navigate around the many curious hazards by precisely executing the right combination of swaps and maneuvers. And perhaps… have a go at completing each level as fast as you can.
Test your mastery in timed races against other players’ ghosts and leave them in the dust to claim the top spot on the leaderboards. Stay stylish while trying and recognizable on the boards using the in-game feature that lets you create your very own scientist. And through it all, remember not to rest on your laurels, as the Online Mode updates with new events regularly.
Mureena
Finnish solo developer Juhana Myllys is responsible for art and design. Previous projects as an artist and a designer includes indie hits Badland and Badland 2.
Psychoflow Studio
Taiwanese indie game studio is formed by industry newcomers. This two man company is formed by programmers who are handling the technical side of Bionic Bay.
| Platforms | Windows |
|---|---|
| Achievements | 32 |
| Age ratings |
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| Controller support | PlayStation, Xbox |
| Controller required | No |
| DLC / extras | 3 listed on Steam |
| Metacritic | 87/100 View on Metacritic |
| Website | Official website |
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