Bionic Bay Reviews

Bionic Bay is ranked in the 98th percentile of games scored on OpenCritic.
May 8, 2025

I'm very happy that games like Bionic Bay exist as it offers a super-fun 2D platforming formula that'll constantly surprise you. 👨‍🔬

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10 / 10.0
Apr 16, 2025

Bionic Bay is a truly special platformer that is wildly creative and endlessly smart. Each new section of gameplay is a mini-puzzle that utilizes the game's movement and powers extraordinarily intuitively, leading to continuous rewarding solutions that encourage players to think outside the box and bend the world's mechanics to their will.

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9 / 10.0
Apr 17, 2025

Bionic Bay delivers merciless lessons in dexterity and timing, continually pushing you towards greater achievements in platforming perfection. It Impresses with the ingenuity of it challenges and its refusal to recycle ideas makes every level its own unique conundrum.

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85 / 100
Apr 17, 2025

Bionic Bay is a captivating platformer that pays homage to the forefathers of the genre while confidently carving its own path. Its stunning art direction immediately sets it apart, lending the game a fresh and distinctive identity in an otherwise crowded space.

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Apr 23, 2025

In the end, the only relevant log in the game is the one that recognizes its own worthlessness, a system of recording that “only values information deemed beneficial to the mission,” with no regard for emotions. Why? Because when Bionic Bay stops trying to explain the science at its center and lets its environments speak for themselves, in everything from the monochromic backgrounds to the starkly foregrounded contraptions, you may just be filled with awe.

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90 / 100
Apr 16, 2025

The best thing I can say about a game of this nature is that it accomplishes what it sets out to do. It creates puzzles to be solved, gives players the tools to succeed, and then makes you feel like a dextrous genius when you execute successfully. Couple that fantastic visual design and a solid soundtrack and you have something special fans will come back to time and again. Don’t sleep on this wild ride.

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10 / 10.0
Mar 7, 2025

Bionic Bay from developer Psychoflow Studio is an outstanding atmospheric platformer that will keep players locked-in with its simplistic mechanics and complicated gameplay mixed within an intriguing story.

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8 / 10.0
Apr 17, 2025

Bionic Bay is one of those surprise indie gems that happens to excel in not just its art style, but gameplay as well. As a mix of physics-based puzzles and precision platforming, Bionic Bay has a dynamic platforming identity that is easy to love.

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8 / 10.0
Apr 16, 2025

Bionic Bay combines floaty platform mechanics and wild abilities to make fast, frantic, and intelligent puzzles and an experience that is thoroughly intoxicating.

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Checkpoint Gaming
Wil Bain
Top Critic
7 / 10.0
Apr 15, 2025

Bionic Bay is an enticing adventure with responsive controls that encourage players to zip energetically through these gorgeously obliterated environments. A fast and exciting gameplay experience remains rewarding throughout its campaign. Yet the reality-bending powers and smartest level design feel too sparsely used and lack depth. Players will likely enjoy the speedy platforming of Bionic Bay, but may wish the game fully realised the potential of its solid building blocks.

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KeenGamer
Theo F.W.K. Cookson
Top Critic
8 / 10.0
Apr 19, 2025

Bionic Bay is inspired by old puzzle platformers with it's art style and level design but brings a modern touch with innovative physic mechanics and more active movement. They've essentially merged Mario-type movement with Limbo-stle level design. No point in Bionic Bay is dull but it still somehow drags on a little too long.

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10 / 10.0
Apr 16, 2025

A pixel-perfect platforming adventure that fires on every hazardous industrial cylinder from start to finish. You'll struggle to put it down, as you madly hump your way up one ladder before flinging yourself to the next.

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10 / 10.0
Apr 16, 2025

Bionic Bay is amazing. It's a game filled with passion and beauty in its brutal and unrelenting world, and has plenty to do after you've beaten its short campaign for the most determined of players.

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7 / 10.0
May 5, 2025

Bionic Bay is an often impressive, often frustrating experience. It nails the look and feel of grade-A games like Limbo and Inside, but fails to hold up once you start to scrutinize its puzzle-platformer label. There’s a worthwhile game to enjoy here—one with responsive controls, satisfying action, and a visual polish that puts other games to shame. Unfortunately, the puzzles are lackluster, with too many ideas that come and go with little development or follow-through. If you come into Bionic Bay expecting the next Portal, you’ll be sorely disappointed. Come in expecting a solid platformer with occasional frustrations, however, and you’ll fare far better.

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10 / 10.0
Apr 23, 2025

Bionic Bay is easily one of the best games I’ve played this year. It’s a fantastic platforming experience with a super unique visual style that’s constantly throwing new puzzles and ideas at you throughout the campaign.

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9.5 / 10.0
Apr 24, 2025

From its first impressions, Bionic Bay already brought the promise of a high-level challenge and the final delivery confirmed its competence. Each jump, death and explosion has a fundamental learning that takes us to the end of the journey and it makes up for every minute spent in its completion.

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10 / 10.0
Apr 16, 2025

Bionic Bay is my new favorite in a genre I rarely enjoy, captivating me with its setting, unique mechanics, and fun physics system. With a competitive speedrunning mode alongside its 12-hour campaign, you’re sure to find something to enjoy in this standout title.

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Apr 22, 2025

If you’re into physics puzzles, tight platforming, or just want something that feels a bit different, Bionic Bay is worth checking out. It’s the kind of game that rewards quick thinking and rewards even more when you slow down and try something new.

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9.4 / 10.0
Apr 21, 2025

Bionic Bay is that kind of game that comes along occasionally to remind us all why we love gaming so much.

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9.7 / 10.0
Apr 21, 2025

For a moment, it felt like we were playing Inside 2. We hadn’t experienced anything quite like Inside—until Bionic Bay came along. It has firmly made its mark as one of the most enjoyable indie action-puzzle games, thanks to its creative ideas and captivating visual direction. It’s proof that developers don’t need massive budgets to craft beautiful and engaging experiences.

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