Roblox's The Hollow Halloween Event: Dates, Monsters and Rewards Explained

Roblox's biggest Halloween event of the year, The Hollow, opened on October 22, 2026, turning the platform into a nine-night survival event built around monsters pulled from some of its most popular horror games. Here is exactly what Roblox has confirmed about when it runs, how it works, which games are involved, and what you can actually earn.

1. What Is The Hollow?

The Hollow is Roblox's platform-wide Halloween survival event for 2026. According to Roblox's own newsroom announcement, it is built around horror and asks players to navigate mazes, search for clues, and evade monsters inside a shared hub that Roblox describes as growing "more unsettling" as the event progresses. It is open to anyone with a Roblox account, though Roblox states the event is intended for players aged 9 and older in most regions, with exact access varying by region.

The event follows the same hub-and-quest structure Roblox used for The Hunt, the platform's 20th-anniversary celebration earlier in 2026: a central area connects out to quests inside other Roblox experiences, and progress in those experiences feeds back into rewards in the hub.

2. When Does The Hollow Start and End?

Per Roblox's official event listing, The Hollow opens at 2 p.m. PT on October 22, 2026, with the event itself beginning at 3 p.m. PT the same day. Roblox's newsroom post adds the following schedule:

• The event runs for nine days, with a new monster entering the hub each day.
• A live, in-game finale begins the morning of October 31.
• Players can keep collecting rewards until noon PST on November 2, after which the event closes.

That gives players roughly two weeks in total to work through the hub's quests before rewards stop being obtainable, even though the "nine nights" narrative concludes with the October 31 finale.

3. How The Hollow Works

Instead of a single map, The Hollow is structured as a hub that changes daily. Roblox says players may find themselves waking up in a different part of the hub each night and warns that "other games may be connected to The Hollow" — meaning quests inside the hub route players out into full Roblox experiences and back again. Completing a quest, whether inside the hub itself or inside one of the connected games, earns exclusive UGC items and rewards that Roblox frames as helping players "survive another night."

The scale of the crossover is the real headline here: rather than building one new horror map from scratch, Roblox pulled characters from nine existing, independently popular experiences into a single shared hub, then wrapped the whole thing in a daily-escalation structure with a live finale. That makes The Hollow as much a cross-promotion push for those nine games as it is a standalone event.

A notable production touch: Roblox is running daily creator livestreams from inside The Hollow throughout the event, with creators LimaMosca, KreekCraft, Bundun, and SirDapper named as the rotating "champions" streaming each day's developments.

4. The Nine Monsters and Their Source Games

Roblox's announcement confirms nine monsters enter the hub over the course of the event, each pulled from an existing Roblox horror experience:

• The Deer — from 99 Nights in the Forest, a wilderness survival experience.
• Seek — from DOORS, one of Roblox's best-known horror titles, built around escaping a hallway of hostile rooms.
• Twisted Dandy — from Dandy's World, a co-op survival game built around evading a rotating cast of monsters.
• Piggy — from Piggy, a long-running horror-escape franchise on the platform.
• The Inspector — from Scary Shawarma Kiosk.
• Mimic — from Animal Hospital.
• Biter — from Demonology.
• Hiachi — from The Mimic, not to be confused with the Animal Hospital monster of the same name.
• The Overseer — from Warden.

Because the monster introduced into the hub changes daily, the quest(s) tied to that monster's home game are generally the most relevant ones to chase on that particular day — checking in regularly beats trying to clear everything in one sitting. Pulling from nine separate, already-established communities also means The Hollow's reach extends well beyond players who only visit Roblox's own hub experiences.

5. Quests, Rewards and the Marketplace

Earning items

Rewards for completing quests come in the form of limited-time avatar items and other exclusive UGC, tied directly to surviving each stage of the event. Roblox has also stocked its Marketplace with a separate run of limited-time Halloween avatar items for the season, including a piece called the Hollow Horseman, alongside "dozens" of other exclusive items and a set of seasonal makeup looks for avatars.

Roblox Mini Pack

Outside the app, Roblox is also selling a physical Roblox Mini Pack at Target for $20. Roblox's own description says the pack includes 40 coins, with each coin redeemable for 50 Robux — a real-world tie-in timed to the Halloween event rather than an in-game reward.

6. Roblox Plus Early Access and Perks

Subscribers to Roblox Plus get a head start and some cosmetic extras during the event. Roblox's announcement lists the following Plus-exclusive benefits:

• Early hub access starting at noon PT, two hours before the general 2 p.m. PT opening.
• An exclusive profile frame and background tied to the event.
• An item launcher that lets Plus subscribers gift items to other players.
• Plus subscribers keep the event's visual theme on their profile even after the finale ends.

Roblox Plus has been in the news for other reasons recently too — see our explainer on the recent changes to Roblox Plus private servers if you're deciding whether a subscription is worth it this month.

7. Family-Friendly Halloween Content Across Roblox

The Hollow is aimed at an older, horror-tolerant audience, so Roblox paired it with seasonal content built for younger players and families:

• Duck Duck Halloween — a crossover event inside Family Zone where parents and kids search for costumed ducks together while the experience teaches online-safety concepts along the way.
• Adopt Me! — returns with a Halloween minigame called Hauntlet, plus new seasonal rewards and pets.
• Welcome to Bloxburg — runs its own Halloween event with minigames including Pumpkin Panic and Ghost Hunt.

None of this content requires entering The Hollow itself, making it a reasonable alternative for players (or parents) who want Halloween-themed Roblox content without the horror framing.

8. Quick Tips for Surviving The Hollow

• Check in daily. A new monster enters the hub every day of the nine-day run, and its tied quest is generally easiest to tackle while it's current.
• Don't wait until the last minute. Rewards stop being obtainable at noon PST on November 2, even though the "nine nights" story wraps up with the October 31 finale.
• Roblox Plus subscribers can get in two hours early each day via the noon PT early-access window, which is useful if a day's quest is time-limited.
• Watch the creator livestreams from LimaMosca, KreekCraft, Bundun, and SirDapper if you want a preview of what a given day's hub changes actually look like before logging in yourself.
• Treat the connected-game quests as a checklist. Nine monsters map to nine separate Roblox experiences, so working through DOORS, Piggy, Dandy's World, 99 Nights in the Forest, and the rest one at a time is more reliable than trying to clear the whole event in a single session.

9. Official Resources

• The Hollow — official event page on Roblox
• Roblox Newsroom: "The Hollow: New Platform-Wide Survival Event for Halloween"
• Roblox — official site

For more on what else Roblox has shipped recently, see our rundown of this year's Roblox Innovation Awards winners and the fall games preview roundup, or browse the full walkthroughs and guides archive for more Roblox coverage.