News: The Scary Baboon's Fight Back Update Lets Players Hit Monsters
Media-first gaming company ENVER has released the Fight Back Update for Scary Baboon, delivering one of the community’s most requested features: the ability to fight back against monsters. This marks the biggest update yet for the popular multiplayer VR horror game, following the successful Dreamcore Update that propelled Scary Baboon to the third most popular title on the Meta Quest store and broke its all-time concurrent player record. Scary Baboon is a fast-paced social horror sandbox where players are failed experiments—different baboons—trapped in a dark, ever-changing laboratory. They must run, hide, explore, and survive against terrifying monsters like Meatmen, mutations, and other failed subjects. The game blends jump scares, monster chases, player-led chaos, customization, and shared comedic moments, turning each session into unique stories of panic and escape.
With millions of downloads and a strong 4.6-star rating from over 59,000 reviews on Meta Quest, Scary Baboon thrives on fan theories and wild social interactions. YouTube sees millions of monthly views from its memorable monsters, maps, and experiments. The Fight Back Update allows players to stop running, turn around, and defend themselves for the first time. New mechanics let players knock monsters back, cause trouble, and engage actively, but balance remains key—hitting too much enrages the monsters, making them return even harder. This preserves the core horror-comedy tension without making players suddenly safe or wiping out threats. The update fits ENVER’s accelerated live service strategy of themed content drops every three weeks, each built around simple, shareable community ideas.
“Scary Baboon works because we have one of the strongest communities in the world pushing us forward,” said Kyle Joyce, CEO of ENVER. “Players have wanted to fight back against the monsters for a long time, and this update finally lets them do it. But we’re not ruining what makes the game work: you might be able to hit the monsters, annoy them, push them around a little, but they’re not going anywhere. Take it far, they come back even harder. That is the fun of it.” The Fight Back Update is now available on Meta Quest, continuing to expand Scary Baboon’s world, items, cosmetics, monsters, and survival systems through community-driven development.