- The Toxic Update revamps two fan-favorite Scary Baboon maps, Sewers and Hospital, in response to demand from the game’s huge community
- The fan-favourite maps have been reworked with new mechanics, including timed flooding, a new sewer monster, and a haunted Hospital system
- The update also adds quality-of-life improvements across settings, UX, accessibility, and friend-making, making Scary Baboon easier to play the way players want
Press Release –18th June, 2026 – ENVER today releases the Toxic Update for Scary Baboon, continuing its commitment to giving the game’s huge community more of what it has been asking for: bigger updates, refreshed fan-favorite maps, and new mechanics.
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 Toxic Update revamps two of Scary Baboon’s most popular maps, Sewers and Hospital, and reworks both with new mechanics designed to make familiar places feel even more dangerous.
In Sewers, the map now floods every five minutes for one minute at a time. What was already one of Scary Baboon’s most tense environments now becomes a timed survival event, forcing players to hustle before the water takes over. The map also introduces a new sewer monster, adding another threat to one of the game’s most requested locations.
The Hospital map has also been revamped with a new haunting mechanic. When players die inside the Hospital, their ghost can linger for a few minutes, turning the space into a temporary haunting ground. That ghost can kill other players, or even come back to punish the player who left it behind.
The Toxic Update also introduces a new biohazard-themed bundle, giving players a fresh set of cosmetics tied to the update’s contaminated, toxic atmosphere.
Alongside the returning maps and new horror mechanics, ENVER has added a wider set of quality-of-life improvements across Scary Baboon. These include a revamped settings menu, clearer UX, easier friend-making tools, and accessibility improvements designed to make the game easier to customise around how each player wants to play.
The Toxic Update follows two of Scary Baboon’s most successful updates so far. Dreamcore sent players into a strange, surreal dream-world environment and helped push Scary Baboon to the top of the Meta Quest charts. The Fight Back Update then delivered one of the community’s most requested features by letting players fight back against monsters for the first time, helping drive another major spike in player activity and creator attention.
Together, Dreamcore, Fight Back, and Toxic signal ENVER’s continued live update cadence for Scary Baboon. The studio has moved the game into a sharper rhythm, with themed updates built around simple, high-impact ideas the community can immediately understand, play with, and share.
“This update is our version of a love letter to the community, a love letter which includes a flooding sewer, monsters, and a hospital haunted by ghosts,” said Will Creighton, Game Director at ENVER.
The community focus will continue beyond the headset later this month, as ENVER attends VidCon from 25th to 27th June with some of Scary Baboon’s most popular creators, including KJ1, Erik1515, and Parku.
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, and failed experiments into a constant stream of content.
The Toxic Update is available in Scary Baboon from 18th June, 2026, 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.
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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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