Baldi’s Basics Plus

Learning has never been this nerve-racking. Baldi’s Basics Plus is a stealth roguelike horror game from Basically Games, where every run drops you into a newly generated school full of notebooks to collect, rules to break and a math teacher who follows every sound you make. Press Play above to start the game online in your browser, without download or installation.

On the surface it looks like cheap 90s educational software. Underneath, it is a tense game of hide and seek: you collect notebooks, solve classroom activities, dodge a whole cast of strange characters and reach the elevator before the teacher reaches you. This page explains how the game works, how it differs from the original game and what to expect from each mode.

What Is Baldi’s Basics Plus?

Baldi’s Basics Plus (often shortened to BB+) is the expanded successor to the cult indie hit Baldi’s Basics in Education and Learning. The original was a short game with one school and seven notebooks. Plus keeps the teacher, the ruler slaps and the school rules, but turns the idea into a full roguelike: every level is generated from a seed, so the layout of classrooms, hallways and exits changes from run to run, and you can’t win by memorizing the map.

A run in the main mode takes you through five levels in a row. Between them you rest in the Pitstop, spend points in Johnny’s Store and prepare for what comes next. The first three levels are always the school. Levels 4 and 5 leave it behind for one of three special level types with their own rules. Along the way you earn YTPs (You Thought Points), collect stickers that upgrade your run and can even go on a camping field trip.

The game is still in Early Access and keeps changing with every update. That is why our guides always say which version they were checked against. If something in the game doesn’t match what you read, check which version you are playing first; our version history lists what changed and when.

Baldi’s Basics vs Baldi’s Basics Plus

Baldi’s Basics started as a game made for the Meta Game Jam in 2018 and was released on itch.io. Its success led to Plus, which entered Early Access in June 2020. The original was later re-released as Classic Remastered. If you are looking for the classic experience, you can play the original 2018 game or Classic Remastered on our site. Here is how the two compare:

The core is the same in both: Baldi hunts you by sound and sight, every door you open is noise, and the Principal of the Thing enforces the school rules. Playtime, It’s a Bully, Gotta Sweep, 1st Prize and Arts and Crafters return from the original, joined by six characters that only exist in Plus.

How to Play Baldi’s Basics Plus

Every level follows the same basic loop. The layout is new, but the goal never changes: collect the notebooks you need and get out before you are caught.

Baldi gets faster with every notebook, and the last one brings him to full speed for the level. That makes the walk to the exit the most dangerous part of every level, so try to collect your final notebook close to an elevator.

Default controls

Running drains your stamina and is against the school rules in the halls, so look around before every sprint. New to the game? Our beginner guide walks you through your first levels step by step.

A Full Run of Hide & Seek

Hide & Seek is the main mode and the heart of the game. Each level asks for more notebooks than the last, has its own time limit and adds new rooms, structures and dangers.

When the time runs out, the school closes: the lights go off, the teacher keeps getting faster and the Principal starts punishing you just for being in the halls. It is the clearest signal to leave as soon as your notebooks are collected.

The special level types

Levels 4 and 5 use two different types, and the same type never appears twice in one run. A chalkboard in the Pitstop shows which one is next, so you can prepare.

• Maintenance is about stealth and power. Classrooms need power from levers before you can solve them, and raising too many levers blows the fuse and plunges the level into darkness.
• Factory is about changing pathways. Lockdown doors, rotating hallways and conveyor belts change the routes between rooms, and a crane room splits the level in two.
• Laboratory is about teleportation. The level is split into four sections connected by teleporters, with faculty-only doors and a wormhole room in the center.

The Pitstop

Between levels the elevator takes you to the Pitstop, a small rest area with Johnny’s Store, a storage locker that keeps up to three items between levels and a Save & Quit spot. Before level 3 there is also a bus: bring the Bus Pass from the locked room on level 2 and you can go on a camping field trip, where winning a minigame lets you pick up to three items for the rest of the run. For a level-by-level plan, read how to beat Hide & Seek.

Game Modes and Play Styles

Hide & Seek is only one way to play. The game has several modes, each with its own goal:

Before a Hide & Seek run you also choose a play style. It decides how your lives work, shown in the game as green power tubes:

When you are caught, you lose a power tube, your inventory and storage locker go back to how they were at the start of the level, and you replay it from the Pitstop. Start with Normal: one bad level won’t end your run.

Characters in the School

Baldi is the only one who can end your attempt on a level, but thirteen characters roam the halls, and most of them cost you time, items or stamina at the worst possible moment.

Beans, Chalkles, Cloudy Copter, Dr. Reflex, Mrs. Pomp and The Test are new in Plus and don’t appear in the original game. Not every encounter is bad news, either: Gotta Sweep can carry the teacher away from you, Beans’ gum slows him as much as it slows you, and It’s a Bully blocks his line of sight by standing between you. Start with the main threat in our Baldi guide, then meet everyone else in the Characters section.

Classroom Activities

Most notebooks are guarded by one of three activities. Each classroom has a sign outside that shows which activity is inside and a chalkboard that explains how to solve it.

• Math Machine shows a math problem. The answers float around the room on number balloons: pick the right one and submit it.
• Balloon Buster shows a number. Pop balloons until exactly that many are left, then pull the pulley to submit.
• Match Machine hides objects behind balloons. Reveal matching pairs, and be careful with balloons you have already seen.

Solving an activity gives you the notebook and a stamina boost, and Baldi pauses to praise you. Failing makes him faster and tells him where you are. Never guess: a careful solve takes a few seconds, while a failed one makes the rest of the level harder.

Items, YTPs and Stickers

You carry up to five items, and choosing what to keep is one of the most important decisions in a run. Every item solves a specific problem:

• BSODA sprays a jet that pushes the teacher and most other characters away.
• Safety Scissors cut Playtime’s jump rope, 1st Prize’s wires and Beans’ gum.
• Grappling Hook and Portal Poster get you across the level fast or through a wall.
• An Apple for Baldi makes him stop to eat it instead of catching you.
• Zesty Bar refills your stamina before a long chase.

Items lie around the level, come out of vending machines for a Quarter and are sold in Johnny’s Store for YTPs. You earn YTPs from pickups, bonus questions, returning lost items to students and arriving on time at Mrs. Pomp’s class. In the store you can also buy a map of the next level and sticker packs. Stickers go on the back of your You Can Think Pad, up to four at once, and give bonuses such as an extra inventory slot or more YTPs. See which items deserve a slot in our best items ranking.

Random Events

Just when a level feels under control, the school bell rings and Baldi announces an event on the TV screen in your HUD. Some events help you, like the Party that pulls characters to the Principal’s office or the Mystery Room with a valuable item inside. Others make every hallway more dangerous: Fog limits vision, a Flood slows everyone down, Broken Ruler silences the ruler slaps, and Balder Dash sends rolling balders through the school. Gravity Chaos, Test Procedure and Student Shuffle complete the list. Which events can appear depends on the seed, but their order and timing change on every attempt.

Tips for Your First Runs

Play Baldi’s Basics Plus Online

You can play Baldi’s Basics Plus unblocked right on this page: press Play above, and the game starts in your browser with nothing to install. The full game is available on Steam for Windows, macOS and SteamOS + Linux, where it updates automatically with every new version.

The game is still in Early Access, and development continues towards version 1.0. According to the game’s Steam page, the features still planned include secret levels, achievements, more horror elements, adaptive music and story elements, with gameplay staying the priority. Follow the changes in our version history, and browse all our guides when you are ready to go deeper.

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More Baldi Games

Want something different after a run? Try other games from our collection:

• Baldi’s Basics Classic Remastered – the official remaster of the original one-school game.
• Baldi’s Basics Plus 0.9 – an earlier Early Access build of the game.
• BALD_0S – a glitchy, darker take on the school horror formula.
• Baldi’s Basics Plus Null Style – the Plus formula with an unsettling twist.