We've finally had some more details on Devolver Digital's upcoming PS5 console exclusive, Baby Steps.

This quirky game is literally a walking simulator, in which you control a 35-year-old slacker named Nate who's transported to a strange realm where he has to learn to walk again. Announced back in 2023, it's currently scheduled to arrive later this year.

A round of hands-on previews have recently cropped up online, and some scant new details have us even more excited for this oddball experience.

If it wasn't clear before, you control Nate's legs and feet directly, lifting his left and right legs with the respective trigger buttons and moving them into position as you lift off the trigger, using the left stick to shift Nate's weight. It's purposely awkward in a similar vein to Getting Over It with Bennett Foddy — who happens to be working on this game.

Baby Steps is an open world experience. After getting your bearings in a cave-based tutorial, you venture out into the world, where your objective is to reach and climb a mountain in the distance. It seems that players are free to explore the environment to their heart's content while they make the journey.

It seems the world will feature countless potential pathways for you to tackle, as well as points of interest to discover, characters to meet, and collectibles to find.

There's no map, fast travel, or checkpoints in Baby Steps — how and where you explore is down to you, with no right or wrong paths. It sounds like you can't die either, despite the countless times Nate will take a fall.

The PS Blog brings up the game's impressive-sounding DualSense implementation, using haptic feedback to convey the surfaces Nate is walking on.

The game will be peppered with interactions and cutscenes with a handful of NPCs, featuring what sounds like improvised, nonsensical conversations. It also features a procedural soundscape which will change depending on your actions.

We're eager to check this out for ourselves when it stumbles onto PS5 in 2025, but what do you think of Baby Steps? Take a stroll in the comments section below.

[source blog.playstation.com, via ign.com, engadget.com]