Mode

There are various **modes** that the player can choose to play. There are currently total of 5 game modes in *Baldi's Basics Plus* and 2 in *Baldi's Basics Classic* and *Baldi's Basics Birthday Bash*. However, there is no option to choose the game modes in demos, except for the *Kickstarter Exclusive Demo*.

While *Baldi's Basics Classic Remastered* also has 2 modes at the beginning, there are 5 more hidden modes that are accessible by entering the respective codes in the You Can Think Pad or progressing the game.

## List

### General

#### Story Mode

*Main article: Story Mode*
**Story Mode** is the main mode in *Baldi's Basics Classic*, *Baldi's Basics Birthday Bash* and *Baldi's Basics Classic Remastered*. The object is to collect 7 notebooks and then escape the school by reaching all four exits.

#### Endless Mode

*Main article: Endless Mode*
**Endless Mode** is the secondary mode in the *Baldi's Basics* series. The goal is to collect as many notebooks as possible before Baldi catches the player.

### *Baldi's Basics Plus* exclusive

#### Hide-and-Seek

*Main article: Hide-and-Seek*
**Hide-and-Seek** is the main mode in *Baldi's Basics Plus*. The object is to complete all floors before running out of lives.

Completing the Hide-and-Seek mode for the first time will allow to put a custom seed before playing Hide-and-Seek/Explorer Mode.

#### Explorer Mode

*Main article: Explorer Mode*
**Explorer Mode** is same as Hide-and-Seek, but Baldi will disappear after the countdown, making the player freely explore the Super Schoolhouse.

#### Challenge Mode

*Main article: Challenge Mode*
**Challenge Mode** shows the list of challenges to play.

#### Field Trips

*Main article: Field Trips (mode)*
**Field Trips** mode shows available field trips to play endlessly, set high scores or just practice.

### Hidden modes

These modes are only available in *Baldi's Basics Classic Remastered*.

* Authentic Mode
* Chaos Mode
* Debug Mode
* NULL Style
* Glitch Style (unlocked after completing NULL Style)

## Trivia

### *Baldi's Basics Plus*

* mystman12 considered adding a mode that will allow the player to set custom parameters.
	+ There will be also a mode which serves infinite floors, however, it is unknown what this mode should be called.

### *Baldi's Basics Classic*

* Prior to V1.3, there was no game mode selection, but only Story Mode is available.
* Since V1.4, the Endless Mode button and the BACK button have switched positions.
* On the mobile version, "**Wear headphones for the best experience!**" text is added in the middle.

### *Baldi's Basics Classic Remastered*

* In the `Subtitles_En.json` file, there is an unused description. It reads:

### Demos

* In *Baldi's Basics Full Game Early Demo*, Hide-and-Seek was first introduced and is the only mode available.
* In *Baldi's Basics Kickstarter Exclusive Demo*, only Hide-and-Seek and Explorer Mode are available.
	+ Additionally, the names in the mode selection screen are different. Hide-and-Seek is named as "Main Mode" and Explorer Mode is named as "Free Run Mode."
* In *Baldi's Basics - Challenges Demo*, only Challenges mode is available.

## References

1. ↑ "*This is one of those things that I think would be really cool, but would also require a lot of extra dev time that I can't really justify adding right now. I do plan on adding a sort of custom mode though, which would allow you to set certain parameters, just not build levels.*" - mystman12. August 8, 2020. Twitter
2. ↑ Q: "*i thought there were gonna be infinite floors lol*" / A: "*I have considered adding a mode like that!*" -
*Baldi's Basics Plus* Steam Community Hub