SCARY BABOON PLAYERS CAN FINALLY FIGHT BACK IN THE GAME’S BIGGEST UPDATE YET

ENVER today announces the biggest Scary Baboon update yet, giving players the one thing its community has been asking for louder than almost anything else: the chance to fight back.

Scary Baboon has become one of Meta Quest’s most talked-about social horror games. A chaotic multiplayer VR horror sandbox set inside a failed lab experiment, the game has grown through jump scares, monster chases, creator clips, and wild community theories.

That mix of horror, comedy, and player-led chaos has turned Scary Baboon into one of ENVER’s most visible VR titles. The game has passed millions of downloads, holds a 4.6-star rating across more than 59,000 ratings on Meta Quest, and attracts millions of monthly views across YouTube, where creators and fan channels have helped turn its monsters, maps, and failed experiments into a constant stream of clips.

The same momentum is visible inside the Scary Baboon community. The official Discord has now grown to more than 220,000 members, with players sharing theories, reactions, clips, update requests, monster sightings, and ideas for where the game should go next.

One request kept coming back: let us fight back. With The Fight Back Update, players finally can.

For the first time, Scary Baboon players can stop running, turn around, and hit back against the monsters stalking the lab. But this is still Scary Baboon. Players are not suddenly safe, and the monsters are not there to be wiped out. The update gives players new ways to defend themselves, knock monsters back, and cause trouble, but pushing too far comes with consequences. Hit them too much, and the monsters become enraged.

The launch follows the success of Scary Baboon’s recent Dreamcore Update, which sent players into a strange, trippy dream-world environment and quickly became one of the game’s strongest content drops. The Dreamcore Update helped push Scary Baboon to the third most popular game on the Meta Quest store and contributed to the game breaking its all-time concurrent player record.

The Fight Back Update is the next step in ENVER’s faster live update strategy for Scary Baboon. After a period where players were hungry for new content, the studio has moved the game into a sharper rhythm, with themed updates arriving every three weeks, each built around a simple idea the community can instantly understand, play with, and share.

“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 features in Scary Baboon, now available on Meta Quest.