- Players can hatch pets from eggs, equip them, pet them, show off their collection, and trade up for rarer pets
- The update follows ENVER’s successful VidCon appearance and continues Scary Baboon’s rapid cadence of major live updates
Press Release, 13th July, 2026 – Fresh from a packed first VidCon, Scary Baboon is giving its community something new to collect, show off and obsess over: pets. The Pet Update introduces a major new collectible companion system to one of Meta Quest’s most popular social horror games, adding a whole host of new characters players can hatch, equip, pet, trade up and display inside the game.
The update adds a wide variety of new pet characters, giving players their own lil babs to hatch, collect, equip, show off, and trade up for rarer companions. Pets can follow players around, react with emotions, bounce around inside a player’s pet pen, and become part of how players express themselves inside Scary Baboon’s chaotic social horror world.
The Pet Update is one of Scary Baboon’s biggest character-focused updates so far. Players can now buy an egg, throw it down, watch it hatch, meet their new pet, equip pets from their inventory, and track their growing collection through the pet index. They can also trade up for rarer pets, giving the update a new collection loop for players who want to hatch them all.
While the pets are primarily cosmetic for now, the system is designed as the beginning of a larger feature rollout. More behaviours, interactions, and ways to use pets are planned for future updates.
The update also adds a new kind of social showcase inside the game. Players can fill up their pet pen, watch their pets bouncing around, compare collections with friends, and show off their rarest hatches to the wider community.
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, community theories, and a constant feedback loop between players and the ENVER team.
That community is now one of the largest in VR. Scary Baboon’s official Discord has grown to more than 200,000 members, with players sharing clips, reactions, theories, monster sightings, update requests, and ideas for where the game should go next.
The Pet Update follows a run of major Scary Baboon updates that have helped push the game up the Meta Quest charts and deepen its community-led momentum. Dreamcore sent players into a strange, surreal dream-world environment. Fight Back gave players the chance to fight back against monsters for the first time. Toxic revamped fan-favourite maps with flooding sewers, a haunted hospital, and new quality-of-life improvements.
Together, those updates have signalled ENVER’s continued live update cadence for Scary Baboon, with regular themed drops built around ideas the community can immediately understand, play with, clip, and share.
The Pet Update follows a hugely successful VidCon debut for Scary Baboon, where ENVER’s stand became a magnet for players, creators and families throughout the event. What began as a booth quickly turned into a meeting point for the game’s community, with fans queuing up to meet the team, connect with KJ1, share feedback, take photos and celebrate the VR world they had helped build online. The Pet Update gives that community something new to collect, compare, trade, show off and talk about together.
“VidCon showed us that the Scary Baboon community is not just big, it’s very real. Players, creators and families all showed up. The Pet Update gives that community something new to collect, compare, trade, show off and argue about together,” said Will Creighton, Game Director at ENVER.
Scary Baboon 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, failed experiments, and now pets into a constant stream of content.
The Pet Update is available in Scary Baboon on Meta Quest now.
About Scary Baboon
Scary Baboon is a fast-paced multiplayer VR horror game where players become failed experiments trapped inside a dark, ever-changing laboratory. Every player is a different baboon, trying to run, hide, explore, and survive against monsters, including Meatmen, mutations, and other failed subjects roaming the halls. Built around jump scares, social chaos, player reactions, customisation, and shared moments, Scary Baboon turns each run into a new story of panic, discovery, and escape. Available on Meta Quest, the game has grown into one of ENVER’s most visible VR titles, powered by community demand, creator-led discovery, a Discord community of more than 220,000 members, and regular live updates that expand its world, items, cosmetics, monsters, and survival systems.
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About ENVER
ENVER is a media-first gaming company behind some of the most culturally visible titles in VR. Its breakout hits include MotoX, Meta Quest’s leading VR racing game, and Scary Baboon, a social horror phenomenon with millions of downloads and one of the largest VR-native communities in the world. ENVER is currently developing FIFA Heroes, while continuing to build games as internet playgrounds designed to fuel creators, clips, and culture far beyond the headset.
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