Bionic Bay
Released: 4/17/2025
Score Breakdown
88.2
Critic Average
14 reviews
87
Steam User Score
618 reviews
N/A
Metacritic User Score
Disparity Breakdown
88 vs 87
Average of both sources
Review Disparities
Each point represents a critic review. Hover for details. Positive = critic higher than users. Negative = critic lower.
5/23/2025
Launch Window“Bionic Bay is the perfect game to keep between bigger more involved titles but also has an interesting narrative for those who want it, perfectly balancing fun and challenge with a very approachable pick-up-and-play style.”
85
85/100
5/12/2025
Launch Window“Bionic Bay succeeds at being about as pure a platformer as players could ask for. With plenty of challenge, but a wise decision to not make that challenge punishing, this is the sort of game that helps players get better at platformers while having a great time as well. While its atmosphere may not offer the transcendent experience that could have taken Bionic Bay to the next level, any fan of the genre should have a great time with it.”
80
80/100
5/8/2025
Launch Window“I'm very happy that games like Bionic Bay exist as it offers a super-fun 2D platforming formula that'll constantly surprise you. 👨🔬”
80
80/100
4/25/2025
Launch Window“You already know if that’s the vibe that lands for you; if it is, this mysterious journey should be on your list.”
85
85/100
4/23/2025
Launch Window“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.”
80
80/100
4/17/2025
Launch Window“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.”
100
100/100
4/17/2025
Launch Window“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.”
80
80/100
4/17/2025
Launch Window“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.”
90
90/100
4/17/2025
Launch Window“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.”
85
85/100
4/16/2025
Early Review“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.”
100
100/100
4/16/2025
Early Review“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.”
90
90/100
4/16/2025
Early Review“Bionic Bay combines floaty platform mechanics and wild abilities to make fast, frantic, and intelligent puzzles and an experience that is thoroughly intoxicating.”
80
80/100
4/16/2025
Early Review“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.”
100
100/100
4/16/2025
Early Review“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.”
100
100/100
