I want you to look me dead in the eyes and tell me you’ve never copied the way an animal moves in your life. Just try to, I’ll know you’re lying. I know you’ve hopped like a frog, flapped your arms like a bird, ran on all fours like a dog. It’s fun! How about a video game where you sort of do the same thing? Well, I’ve got one in my pouch called Mimic Meadows, a puzzle game in which you copy the movement of animals to transform into them.
Out the gate you will feel a similar kind of vibe to Baba Is You, from its low-key pixel art look to the fact that you move about on a grid axis one square at a time. There’s a similar element in terms of the way you need to think about your space. For example, early on you have to copy the movements of a mountain goat. Normally, you in your regular state can only walk on dirt. Upon copying the mountain goat’s movement and completing your transformation, you can move across rocks (though you have to abandon your ability to walk on dirt to do so) and access a cool looking mushroom.
The demo is out now!
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Mimic Meadows is puzzle game about transforming into animals by mimicking their movement. Discover creative ways to wield this power while solving mind-bending puzzles. And attempt to unearth the many secrets of the meadows!
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— sourencho 🍄 Mimic Meadows! (@sourencho.com) May 28, 2026 at 6:41 PM
That’s all simple enough, but the difficulty does continue to ramp up. On another level, you may need to move a particular rock to change how a given animal moves so that you can copy it in the limited space that you have. In other levels, doing so may then essentially fuse two other animals together, allowing you to walk on multiple types of terrain (each animal has its own type) when you copy their amalgamated movements. It’s very neat, and exactly the kind of game that encourages you to try weird things out for the sake of it.
It is perhaps a little awkward to mimic those moves well. You don’t have to be right next to an animal to get their ability, but you do need to be moving in the same direction and at the same time as them, which can feel finicky to line up occasionally. I’m sure with enough puzzles that that’s the sort of thing you can get used to! No release date attached to Mimic Meadows, but you can wishlist it on Steam now.
