Basically Games have announced Baldi’s Basics Plus is entering early access, an improved version of Baldi’s Basics in Education and Learning.

The news comes via press release, stating the game has now gone into early access for $10, with the price increasing as new features are added. The original game (Baldi’s Basics in Education and Learning) was originally developed by Micah James McGonigal (who would later found Basically Games), and later went to Kickstarter in 2018 (crowd funding $61,375).

Parodying bad 90’s edutainment games, the game at first appears to be a badly made educational game. However, when the player gets a question wrong, the teacher Baldi then begins to pursue the player. As your classmates all have their own ways of hindering you (or helping you under the right conditions), you must escape the school.

The horror survival game’s early demo quickly became a viral sensation thanks to popular YouTubers playing it [1, 2, 3 Editor’s Note: Strong Flashing Lights are in the beginning of the third link]. The game’s deeper lore also helped in this endeavor.

Baldi’s Basics Plus will have random levels, random events, and a field trip mode to win items. The game also boasts an endless mode for high scores, and a challenge mode “which puts players in crazy scenarios that would never be found in the main mode.”

The Itch.io page notes upcoming features include the aforementioned endless and field trip modes, along with secret levels, in-game achievements, more horror elements, save and continue system, an in-game shop, adaptive music, and “Crappy ‘edutainment’ elements, including things like more interactive menus (Where you can click on things!) and other common edutainment game tropes.”

You can find the Early Access trailer below.

You can find the full rundown (via Steam) below.

Baldi’s Basics Plus is like the original game, but PLUS! The same cruddy edutainment horror type parody theme is back, but with hugely expanded gameplay features, including procedurally generated levels, field trip minigames, crazy random events, PLUS more characters, more items, and more chaos!

This game is not what it seems…

Baldi’s Basics Plus is a survival horror roguelite that parodies cheap 90’s edutainment and never takes itself too seriously. You will encounter strange characters, find useful items, go on field trips and more as you explore Baldi’s ever changing super schoolhouse, and as you explore the game itself, you’ll start to realize it is not what it seems…

So, what exactly do you do in this game? You collect notebooks while playing hide and seek with Baldi! Sounds easy right? Wrong. Baldi can hear many of your actions, and he uses those sounds to try and find you. He’s also invited many friends to come and play, who can cause a lot of trouble. Get to know them though and you can use them to your advantage! You’ll also find lots of items scattered around the school. These are the key to success. Use them wisely if you want to have a chance at beating Baldi!

Near infinite replayability

Baldi’s Basics Plus randomizes so many different things, every time you play will be a different experience!

• Procedurally generated levels – The levels change every time you play! Not only will the layout change, but the types of rooms and obstacles, you find will change too!
• Random events – One moment everything is fine, the next the school is flooding, or fills with fog! Random events can begin at any moment, so make sure you’re ready for them!
• Mixing and matching characters – Each time you play, you’ll get to see random combination of characters.

All these variables add up to make each playthrough a unique experience!

Lots of ways to play

Baldi’s Basics Plus features many different modes to test players in different ways!

• Main Mode – Complete a series of randomly generated levels to win! Run out of lives and you’ll have to start over.
• Endless Mode – See how many notebooks you can collect before being caught by Baldi! Compete by playing on pre-made levels, or go crazy and try playing on a randomly generated one.
• Challenge Mode – As you play more of the Main Mode, you’ll unlock challenges! Challenges offer unique scenarios you won’t find in the main game. One might have you sneaking around the school to avoid being seen by the Principal of the Thing, another might have both you and Baldi running at super high speeds!
• Field Trips Mode – Play field trips found in the main game whenever you like! You can try to set high scores, or just practice!

Baldi’s Basics Plus enters early access June 12th for Windows PC, Linux, and Mac (all via Game Jolt, Itch.io, and Steam).

Image: Steam