Pause menu

The **pause menu** is a menu that appears when the "Pause" action key (`Esc` by default) is pressed from PC ports or tapping the pause symbol () on mobile devices, allowing the player to pause the game until they either continue or quit it.

## Options

### *Baldi's Basics Plus*

The pause menu is displayed by the You Can Think Pad layout with multiple Baldi heads and a green lighting effect. It also shows the seed the player is using for easy bug reporting.

 Options
 Quit

When the player presses the "Quit" text, then it shows another screen to make sure whether they quit the game or not. When mouse over the **YES** or **NO** text, Baldi heads on the background will nod or shake.

### *Baldi's Basics Classic* / *Baldi's Basics Birthday Bash*

The pause menu appears with black text in the Comic Sans MS font, and two stationary Baldi head sprites: The **YES** option has an animated Baldi face nodding his head while smiling, and the **NO** option has an animation of him shaking his head while frowning.

 NO

### *Baldi's Basics Classic Remastered*

The pause menu shows a menu, similar to the start menu, and the player can select Resume, Options, and Quit from there. Whenever hovering a mouse over one of them, it will underline.

 Options
 Quit

### *Baldi's Basics - Field Trip demo: Camping*

The pause menu just shows white non-pixelated text with a punctuation error and a misspelled word ("**PASUED**" instead of "**PAUSED**" and "**IT"S**" instead of "**IT'S**").

Other than pausing the game, the menu lacks other options and will be un-paused when pressing `Esc` again.

### *Baldi's Basics Full Game Early Demo*

The pause menu only shows black text, lacking the "**Quit**" button. The screen becomes slightly darker when paused.

### *Baldi's Basics Kickstarter Exclusive Demo* / *Baldi's Basics - Challenges Demo*

    It is the same as in *Baldi's Basics Plus* prior to V0.3.3, but without the seed display.

## Trivia

### *Baldi's Basics Plus*/*Classic Remastered*

* Both Baldi-head icons have less frames than in *Baldi's Basics Classic* and *Baldi's Basics Birthday Bash* when nodding or shaking.

### *Baldi's Basics Plus*

* Prior to V0.3.3, the "**Quit**" button was located at the middle of the screen.
* Prior to V0.3.5, the You Can Think Pad layout was zoomed in before the pause menu is featured.

### *Baldi's Basics Classic*

* Prior to V1.3, there was no animation sprite of Baldi shaking/nodding his head, and instead, it was just plain text.
* In V1.3 to V1.3.2, Baldi's heads were constantly animated and the player could only press `Y` to quit or `N` to resume the game. Since V1.4, Baldi's heads can be clicked/touched and will only be animated when the mouse cursor is hovered on any of them on PC or holding on them with a finger and sliding it across the screen on mobile versions.

### *Baldi's Basics Classic Remastered*

* In NULL Style, hovering on the "**Yes**" icon will make Null instantly teleport to the player's location and cause a game over. This does not happen in Glitch Style.

### *Baldi's Basics Kickstarter Exclusive Demo*

* Prior to V1.2, the pause menu was the same as in *Full Game Early Demo* except that there was an options button.

## Glitches

### *Baldi's Basics Plus*

* Prior to V0.3.3, if the player paused the game before Baldi started chasing them and then switched to another program, the game would continue to play the school music until it ended.

### *Baldi's Basics Full Game Early Demo*

* When the player displays the pause menu before the elevator opens, the gameplay can still go on as if it was unpaused.

## Gallery

### *Baldi's Basics Plus*/*Classic Remastered*

Baldi on the pause menu with a smile. In *Baldi's Basics Plus*, the head sprites are colored green.Ditto, but nodding his head.Ditto, but shaking his head.
### *Baldi's Basics Plus*

The You Can Think Pad to show the pause menu.The "**OPTIONS**" button for opening the options, prior to V0.3.5.Ditto, but lit.
### *Classic*/*Birthday Bash*

Baldi smiling.Baldi nodding his head, smiling.Baldi frowning.Baldi shaking his head, frowning.