Bionic Bay News

cool little puzzle platformer released last week: Bionic Bay, where you're a little pixel scientist who, exiled to some strange biomechanical world, uses their teleportation tool to escape its strange pitfalls, tech, and traps...
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Speed running scientists and challenge hunters, rejoice. After years of crafting, your invitation to Bionic Bay is now available on Steam.

It began with a chance meeting on Reddit, and now the Bionic Bay story continues with you, our trusted Research Participants. In Bionic Bay you’ll master the art of teleportation, control the very fabric of time itself, manipulate gravity and navigate a path filled with dangers.



Our team will provide you with the tools you’ll need to traverse this intricately crafted pixel art world. But don’t let the stunning visuals fool you, this is no slow-moving narrative crawl. The best way to navigate Bionic Bay is with fast movements, precise controls, exceptional timing, puzzle solving intuition and just maybe a little bit of luck.

What you’ve seen in the Bionic Bay demo is just the beginning. Bionic Bay v1.0 includes 23 painstakingly created levels, with an increasing challenge to simply stay alive through your journey. Importantly, however, the path can be as helpful as it is dangerous, and Research Participants will need to judge the way ahead accordingly.

In addition to the main game, we’ve also developed the Bionic Bay Online mode, with a dedicated build for speed runners and those hungry for a challenge. In this demanding arena, you’ll have the opportunity to customise your own scientist, and claim your place on our transient and global leaderboards.



Bionic Bay’s data-ghost racing reflects age-old racing titles, and provides a consistently refreshing challenge for those looking for a little more. While each course lasts for a limited time, placing on here will deliver points against your profile on our global leaderboard. Perform well, and claim speedrunning glory, mastering all of the tools that Bionic Bay offers!

Bionic Bay is available NOW It’s time to take science into your own hands. Good luck, Research Participants!

For some reason, I’ve been thinking a lot about classic platformers lately — and what made them good. When it comes to the lifespan of this hobby, they’re pretty important. Many people can trace their earliest forays into gaming to a pivotal platformer. Whether it’s Super Mario, Banjo-Kazooie or even Bubsy, it usually comes down to the movement. The best platformers always—through some combination of sound, visuals and sheer feeling—make the basic act of navigating their world fun. That said, Bionic Bay has some really fun movement.

“Bionic Bay has some really fun movement.”

It’s not your typical movement, though. Sure, Bionic Bay gets the essentials out of the way early. The first level functions as an expanded tutorial on how the game handles momentum and air dashes—so much so that the powerful “roll, jump, air dash” combo becomes second nature. Players are quickly thrust into complex platforming and puzzle challenges that demand some real outside-the-box thinking.... Read more

It’s time for science! Research Participants who have been keeping up with the Future Games Show may have seen that we have released a new trailer and a new demo. You can head over to Steam to try out our updated research sample, which now includes the new Bionic Bay Online mode!

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Since we last invited Research Participants to experience Bionic Bay, the team have been working on new tweaks, polishes and adding in a number of deathtraps clever puzzles. While the new Bionic Bay Online mode is undoubtedly the star of the show, Research Participants will find a lot more to be getting along with.

In Bionic Bay Online, research Participants will race through an area prepped with a significant number of hazards and obstacles. You’ll need to use all of the tools at your disposal to set the best time you can, including swap mechanics, gravity shift and the ChronoLag™ time dilation features.



We’re inviting Research Participants into the new Bionic Bay demo right now, so head over to Steam and jump in for yourself. Set a time in the Bionic Bay Online Leaderboards, challenge your friends and compete against your fellow research participants. You can also head to the official Bionic Bay Discord to help, hints and hectic friends to race against.