Baldi's Basics in Education and Learning
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The original cover art depicting the game's title screen, and the main character, Baldi | |
| Developer | Micah McGonigal |
| Publisher | Micah McGonigal |
| Engine | Unity |
| Platforms | Windows, macOS, Linux, Android, iOS |
| Release | March 31, 2018
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| Mode | Single-player |
Baldi's Basics in Education and Learning is a 2018 puzzle video game developed and published by Micah McGonigal. Disguised as an educational game, it parodies 1990s educational games by deconstructing their elements into metafictional horror. It's set in a schoolhouse, where the objective is to locate and collect notebooks, escape the school to take them to the player's friend who lost them, and avoid being caught by Baldi. It features many game modes that change gameplay subtly or drastically.
Inspired by Sonic's Schoolhouse (1996), Baldi's Basics was developed for the Meta Game Jam in 2018 and released on Itch.io. It was received positively by journalists for its gameplay, presentation and satire of the educational video game genre, but it was criticized for the lack of a save system and its difficulty. It was proved to be highly successful and expanded upon in the form of successors such as Baldi's Basics Plus in 2020 and Baldi's Basics Classic Remastered in 2022.