Girl Mode24 Dec 2025

Episode 153 - Finding Our Way Home in Wanderstop and Baby Steps

It’s the annual Girl Mode Game Exchange, the episode where we force each other to play one of our favorite games of the year, under penalty of death. This year, we chose Wanderstop and Baby Steps, two games about the struggle to find self-worth that take two very different paths to get there. Only one is obsessed with making you look at donkey dicks, for instance. This year, we were both pretty surprised by our reactions to our games and we didn’t even get furious with each other once, which I think is a first for one of these episodes!

!Spoilers for all of Wanderstop and Baby Steps!

Timestamps:

(00:10) The Great Girl Mode Game Exchange, aka, what we’re doing this week

(03:00) Wanderstop

(1:06:00) Excerpt from “The Everything” by C418 on the Wanderstop OST

(1:06:30) Baby Steps

(2:19:30) What else have Willa and Robin been up to this week? (feat. a very fucked up situation at Critical Reflex, letting Zoe cut your hair, Pluribus)

Mentioned this week:

Robin’s Wanderstop review

Nicole Carpenter’s Wanderstop review

Gio Colantonio’s Baby Steps review

Walter Chaw on Avatar (I can’t remember if our mention of this made the final cut but it’s too late to go back and check and it’s really good either way)

I worked at the creepiest publisher in indie games (CRITICAL REFLEX)

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