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"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!

Baldi

Hide-and-Seek menu

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

Hide-and-Seek menu new game

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

New game warning

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:

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.
  • 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.

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