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The Fight Back Update lets players fight back against the monsters for the first time
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The update delivers one of the most requested features in Scary Baboon’s community
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The launch follows the Dreamcore Update, which helped push Scary Baboon to the third most popular game on the Meta Quest store
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.
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.
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. https://www.enver.com/