| Aspect | Risk Level | |--------|-------------| | Legal | High (piracy) | | Malware | High (especially from unknown repackers) | | Stability | Medium (repacked files may crash) | | Ethical | Low (indie game – small dev deserves support) |

Mystman12 is a solo indie developer. The $5 price tag is incredibly low for the amount of content and polish in the remaster. By pirating a REPACK, you are directly taking money from a single creator who put years of work into a game that originally started as a free passion project.

The original 2018 version of Baldi's Basics is still available for free on Itch.io. It lacks the remastered features and field trips, but it contains the core horror gameplay loop that made the game famous. No malware, no cracks, no cost.