Games like Baldi's Basics for school horror fans
Evil Nun is the closest game to Baldi's Basics: a school, a teacher who chases you and an exit you have to reach. Granny and Hello Neighbor carry the same chase-and-hide idea into houses.
What Baldi's Basics is
Baldi's Basics in Education and Learning is a 2018 horror parody of 1990s learning games by Basically Games, the studio of Micah McGonigal. You collect seven notebooks in a school. Get a math answer wrong and Baldi chases you with his ruler, faster with every notebook you find.
The free original is now called Baldi's Basics Classic. Baldi's Basics Plus, a bigger version with school layouts that change each run, has been in early access on PC since June 2020.
School and chase horror like Baldi's
- Evil Nun. Keplerians' 2018 escape from a school run by a nun who hunts by sound.
- Granny. DVloper's 2017 house escape with five days to get out.
- Hello Neighbor. Sneak into a house while the neighbor sets traps where you went before.
- Kindergarten. SmashGames' 2017 puzzle adventure about a cute school where things go very wrong. Kindergarten 3 arrived in 2025.
- Piggy. MiniToon's Roblox escape game, where one player can be the monster.
Why weird school games work
School is a place everyone knows, so small changes feel wrong right away: a smiling teacher, a quiet hall, a bell that should not ring.
These games use cheap-looking art on purpose. The scares come from the rules, not the graphics, which is why they spread so well on YouTube.
Roam school stealth games
Free on Roam for iPhone.
- Hush Hour. First-person school stealth horror. Every step makes noise, and she is listening. The closest Roam game to Baldi's.
- Mind Your Peas. Stealth red-light horror at the dinner table. Eat your peas, but not while she is looking.
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Describe the school, the teacher and the rule you must not break. Roam builds it, and you can add a hall monitor or a new floor by asking.
Try: "school horror, the gym teacher chases me if I miss a jump, collect 7 whistles, my friends are the students"Questions people ask
Who made Baldi's Basics?
Basically Games, the studio of Micah McGonigal. The first version came out in 2018.
Is Baldi's Basics free?
The original, now called Baldi's Basics Classic, is free. Baldi's Basics Plus is a paid early access game.
Is Baldi's Basics a learning game?
No. It looks like a 90s math game on purpose, but it is a horror parody.