Baldi's Basics Plus
BANGER · Roguelike · 2020 · Early Access
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
BUY IT.
A BANGER at $9.99.
- Cost per hour
- $6.66/hr
- ReviewsS
- 98% of 11,912
- Genre rank
- Top 2% Roguelike
Watch this gameOne alert when it goes on sale.
Time and effort
- Typical playtime
- 1.5h
- To 100%
- 6.5h 4.3x the story
Price and sales
- Sales
- 9 on record
- Typical cut
- 25% off
- Steam low
- $5.99 February 2024
- Sale every
- 172d last April 2026
Players and genre
- Online
- 76 now
- Recent reviews
- 96% 30 days
- Cheaper than
- 51% of its genre
- Better reviewed
- 99% of its genre
Price and player charts
The value story
The value story
It has been discounted 9 times in the 6 years tracked here. The median cut across all of them is 25 percent, about 25 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended about 29 weeks ago.
Its score puts it in the top 2 percent of the games it competes with. It is better reviewed than 99 percent of its genre. Among the games closest to it, Golden Light ($19.99, scores 58) and Eldritch ($14.99, scores 67) both come in lower.
More about Baldi's Basics Plus
Of the 548 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 15 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written June 2020 to November 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 96 percent of the 1,639 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.
Buy now or wait
Buy now or wait
Discounted in 1 of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last discount ended 201 days ago.
- Next sale
- Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
What drives the score
Grades: S best, D weakest
S is the best grade and D the weakest, judged as a buyer. ▲ raises the score, ▼ lowers it, ? is an input we do not have, • is a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work
What players say
Oh, my ears. the principal gave me detention for sprinting through the halls but the school was flooding and i was escaping a whirlpool. someone needs to shut this school down. the math teacher chased me around the school trying to spank me. the janitor made me really uncomfortable because of my past trauma with my uncle.
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
I've bought this game when it was put up on steam iirc and honestly, I have never been able to get into it. A friend of mine is a fan of it and I've seen him play it, beat it and have fun and there are bunch of people on youtube dedicating their entire channels around Baldi's Basics so there is something here to enjoy that I'm just not seeing. Personally, I find the game to be deeply uninteresting and way too overly...
After about 19 hours, i have finally beaten this game's main mode, hide and seek (version 0.14.5 for anyone seeing this in the future) This game is very difficult, but mechanically complex and strategically rich. You will constantly have to make split second decisions, choosing what items to pick up/leave behind, choosing when to use those items, choosing how to deal with characters, etc. The items are the real core...
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
About the game
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.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, AMD Radeon HD 8330 or equivalent, 604 MB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic), achievement curve (Steam global achievements).
Cite this score
Baldi's Basics Plus scores 86/100 on the BANG Score (a BANGER) as of Nov 8, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1275890/baldi-s-basics-plusReviews set the ceiling, and the size of the player base moves the BANG Score inside it. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Oct 31, price as of Nov 7. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.