Baldi's Basics Plus
BANGER · Roguelike · 2020 · Early Access
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
BUY IT.
A BANGER at $9.99.
- Length
- 1.5h
- Value
- $6.66/hr
- Reviews
- 98% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, AMD Radeon HD 8330 or equivalent, 604 MB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
Baldi's Basics® Plus is an active stealth roguelike that parodies cheap '90s edutainment with a subtle horror twist! Play Hide & Seek with Baldi as he chases you through procedurally generated levels while using your surroundings, items, and game knowledge to shift chaos in your favor.
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The value story
February 2024 is where it bottomed out, at $5.99. It has been discounted 9 times in the 6 years tracked here, typically at 25 percent off, with about 25 weeks between sales. Today it is at full price. The last sale was about 23 weeks ago, and on this game's rhythm the next one tends to arrive within 25 weeks.
Value puts it in the top 5 percent of the games it competes with. It is better reviewed than 99 percent of its genre. Among the games that feel like it, Streets of Rogue ($19.99, scores 90) beats it on value, while it beats Eldritch ($14.99, scores 67).
Of the 538 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 13 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written June 2020 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 96 percent of the 1,623 reviews written there were positive, against 98 percent overall, and those are 15 percent of everything written about it.
HowLongToBeat players log 1.5 hours as a typical playtime, and completionists log 7, 4.3 times as much.
At 1.5 hours it is a handheld-sized game, and Valve rates it Deck Verified.
Players
91 players at peak in the last day.
The chart appears once this game has been counted more than once.Player counts via SteamSpy.
What players say
fun game with loads of replayability but i keep getting distracted by the attractive bald man who chases you
♥♥♥♥ the principal ♥♥♥♥ baldi ♥♥♥♥ playtime ♥♥♥♥ doctor reflex ♥♥♥♥ ms pomp ♥♥♥♥ first prize ♥♥♥♥ arts and crafters ♥♥♥♥ cloudy copted and ♥♥♥♥ beans 10/10 game
THIS IS ONE OF THE BEST RUNS FOR YOUR MONEY YOU WILL EVER SEE Personally not only my favorite boredom buster. But one of my FAVORITE games when it comes to creativity and uniqueness. It is INSANE how much fun I've had playing this game! The Randomly Generated EVERYTHING, items, events, whole FLOORS in itself. It fixes the slightly boring repetitive gameplay style of BBCR. I just love the character designs and how...
Player reviews from Steam: the most helpful all-time, plus the newest that clear the same quality bar, with the hours each player had put in when they wrote it. The mix of Recommended and Not recommended follows the game's Steam ratio. Rotates daily. Opinions are theirs.
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Baldi's Basics Plus scores 86/100 on the BANG Score (a BANGER). The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1275890/baldi-s-basics-plusThe BANG Score is one number for value, 0 to 100: price against how it reviews and how long it was built to be. It answers the money question and stops there; whether the game is for you is still your call.
Reviews set the ceiling and price moves you inside it, so a cheap game that reviews badly cannot climb. Ratings from few reviewers are shrunk toward the middle, so 100 percent from nine people does not outrank 96 percent from ninety thousand. Length comes from HowLongToBeat where it can be matched, measured against a per-genre floor so a five-hour narrative game is judged against other narrative games rather than against a sixty-hour RPG. Where no verified length exists the score says so and carries a dock, because the biggest input is then a guess. The full method, including where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Aug 2, price as of Sep 24.
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