- "Main Mode" redirects here. For the main mode in Classic, Birthday Bash, and Classic Remastered, see Story Mode.
Play Hide-and-Seek with Baldi! Can you beat all the levels without losing?—Description
Oh, hi! Let's play hide and seek!

The Hide-and-Seek menu that shows up upon clicking the "Hide-and-Seek" button on the mode selection screen.

Ditto, but when there are no saved games in the save file.

The warning for when a new game is started, while another has been saved.
Hide-and-Seek, also known as Hide & Seek[1], hide and seek* or Main
*, is the general mode in Baldi's Basics Plus, Full Game Early Demo and Kickstarter Exclusive Demo. It takes place as the main story where the player plays "hide-and-seek" with Baldi.
Gameplay
General
The player meets Baldi in front of the elevator. After the player either gets far enough away from Baldi or enters a blue locker, he will count down from 10. After the countdown, he will say "Ready or not, here I come!", then chase the player. The later gameplay is the same as the Spoop Mode from Story Mode, but there are a few differences between Story Mode and Hide-and-Seek:
- The player has to find elevators instead of exits.
- The notebook counter is different depending on the floor. Note that due to errors in level generation, there may be less notebooks than usual.
- After reaching one of the elevators, the school does not turn red and no loud noise plays.
- Each notebook does not have the player answer math problems using the You Can Think Pad.
- In later floors, notebooks are replaced with Math Machines.
Full Game Early Demo
This mode was first introduced in Baldi's Basics Full Game Early Demo. However, some of the mechanics are different:
- The school always has the same layout and only one floor.
- There are total of 8 notebooks to collect.
- There are 4 elevators to reach.
- If there is one elevator left, all characters except for Baldi will disappear, and he will quickly speed up over time.
- The player cannot save their progress in the game since there is only one floor, and the save and quit feature was unimplemented at that time.
Trivia
- In the Baldi's Basics Press Kit prior to July 3, 2023, this mode was named as "Story Mode" or "Main Mode".[2]
- After saving and quitting, when hovering the mouse on the Hide-and-Seek button, the description reads "Continue your game of Hide-and-Seek with Baldi!"
- Prior to V0.4, Baldi did not congratulate the player after collecting all the notebooks on a floor.
- From V0.3 to V0.5.2, the player could save and quit the game between levels from the elevator. Pressing the "Save + Quit" button would lead them back to the title screen.
- Since V0.6, this feature is moved to an empty black room in the Pit Stop.
- Prior to V0.9, there were a few differences:
- When clicking on "Hide-and-Seek", it would not lead to a menu used to adjust the Game Settings or the save file. Instead, it would instantly start a new game or, if one was saved, continue the current game.
- There was no feature to reset a save file's current game, so if the player had started a new game, saved it, and then wanted to start a new game again, they had to either finish their saved game or quit.
References
Modes | ||
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About page • Category | ||
General | Story Mode • Endless Mode | |
Plus exclusives | Hide-and-Seek (Explorer Mode) • Challenges • Field Trips • Tutorial | |
Hidden modes (Classic Remastered exclusives) | Authentic Mode • Chaos Mode • Debug Mode |