Game over

Game over!

—Baldi

Game over happens in the Baldi's Basics series when Baldi catches the player in the Schoolhouse or when the player runs out of power tubes in the Super Schoolhouse.

Description

When the player gets caught by Baldi, the game will take them back to the elevator, making them try the floor they are currently in again. Along with that, they will lose a tube that represents a power tube. If no tubes are left, the game brings the player back to the main menu screen.

Field trips

The player will fail the minigame when the campfire completely goes out in Campfire Frenzy or when the player gets three strikes in Pick-Quick-Nic.

Endless Mode

The player only has one power tube, but instead of leading to the main menu screen, the game will display a screen for the results.

Challenges

The player only has one power tube and they will be sent to the main menu screen when caught by Baldi.

Baldi's Basics Classic

Rare jumpscare — A cropped "99" jump-scare, with a reddish hue and zoomed in.

There are a total of 6 images for the game over screen, unlike in Baldi's Basics Plus, which has no specific game over screen. A random image will display when Baldi catches the player before sending them back to the menu screen; a blue fidget spinner, a glasses case, pink scissors, a telescope, and a music box.

There is a 1 in 99 (1.01%) chance that a small, orange rectangle with the number "99" half-cropped away to look like a pair of eyeballs will appear after Baldi catches the player. After a couple of seconds, a jump-scare will occur with the half cropped away 99 box now in a reddish hue appearing close to the screen along with loud distorted noises (called "ohno.wav" in the asset files). The game crashes five seconds after the jump-scare.

All of the objects seen in the game over screens are not dithered, unlike most of the others in the rest of the game, except for the cropped "99" box.

Baldi's Basics Birthday Bash

Red 3 — A red fidget spinner jump-scare.

The game over screen is the same as Baldi's Basics Classic.

However, unlike Baldi's Basics Classic, the cropped "99" box will not appear in this game. However, other game over screens will rarely have a red-colored jump-scare before causing the game to crash like when the cropped "99" box appears in Baldi's Basics Classic. The jump-scare also has a different audio.

Baldi's Basics Classic Remastered

Unlike in Baldi's Basics Classic and Birthday Bash, the images for game over screen will not appear after the player is caught by Baldi, and the player will simply get sent back to the menu. In place of this however, there is a rare chance that the game will load a fake error screen with a startling noise saying:

Oh no!

A critical error has
occured!

The game will now close.

After a few seconds, the game closes automatically.

Note: The following content may have spoilers for the deep lore.

However, after Null in NULL Style is defeated, when this error screen appears, instead of closing the game, it will stay up for a few seconds until suddenly, the game begins to corrupt. A loud noise will play while Baldi says "Welcome to Baldi's Basics in Education and Learning! That's me!" in a random speed. The error text is glitched out. The crash background will distort with random colors and/or zoom out to the point it looks like static.

After some time, the background will turn dark and start to flicker, the text will disappear, and random snippets of midi instruments and audio clips will play in random speeds and pitches, and sometimes stutter. Then, a photograph of Null by a lake is seen afterwards, accompanied by a loud noise and tone. After 15 seconds, the photo will then change with Null's face and arms appearing in front of the screen screaming as he disintegrates. After that, the photo will slowly disappear piece by piece, and the game will close. It is noticeable that after the image completely disappears, a heavily darkened PlaceFace is hiding in the background, making it difficult to see. After that, the game finally crashes. This all only happens once.

In this game, Null/the red Baldloon in NULL/Glitch Style can cause a game over, but they will do a "jump-scare sequence" and close the game, forcing the player to start the game from opening a program again if they want another shot at this style. The sequence will also happen when the player moves their cursor over the 'Yes' option in the quit menu after collecting at least one notebook or, alternatively, if the player hovers the mouse over the question mark that appears after enabling Debug Mode on the pause menu. However, these extra jump-scare conditions are exclusive to NULL Style and thus will not occur in Glitch Style.

Baldi's Basics - Field Trip demo: Camping

There is also no power tube system, but instead, the game will bring the player to the Kickstarter information screen.

Baldi's Basics Full Game Early Demo / Baldi's Basics - Challenges Demo

There is no power tube system, and they will immediately go back to the title screen.

Trivia

General

It is never confirmed if Baldi kills or simply hurts the player during the game over sequence, leaving the fate of the latter unknown.
- In the Kickstarter promotion video, it is simply stated that "If he touches you, it's game over!".
- It can be intuited through the Broken ruler event that Baldi does something to the player with the ruler when he catches them, possibly hit them, because without the ruler, Baldi cannot catch the player.
- According to the cut Tutorial tape recorder "If he reaches you that's the end.. of.. everything"