The Hollow: Roblox's 2026 Halloween Survival Event Explained — Dates, Monsters and Rewards
Roblox's 2026 Halloween event, The Hollow, opened October 22 with a nine-monster crossover lineup pulled from games like DOORS, Piggy and 99 Nights in the Forest. Here's the official schedule, access details, full monster list and rewards, straight from Roblox's own Newsroom post.
Roblox's Halloween calendar is anchored this year by The Hollow, a platform-wide survival event that pulls monsters out of nine of the site's biggest horror and adventure experiences and drops them into a single shared hub. Roblox confirmed the full details — dates, access tiers, the nine-monster lineup and the rewards on offer — in an official Newsroom post on October 21, 2026, a day before the event opened. Here's everything that's actually confirmed, straight from Roblox.
1. What Is The Hollow?
The Hollow is Roblox's 2026 Halloween event, built as a continuous survival game set in a shared hub that Roblox describes as becoming "more unsettling" the longer the event runs. Rather than confining the horror theme to one experience, Roblox pulled one monster from each of nine different games into the Hollow hub, so players who have never touched the source game still get to face its creature. It's the same shared-event structure the platform used for the Roblox 20th-anniversary Hunt earlier this year, just reskinned for Halloween with a survival-horror hook instead of a collectible hunt.
The nine source games keep their own identities throughout — each monster is clearly branded as belonging to its original experience rather than being reskinned into a generic Hollow enemy — so the event doubles as a showcase for the breadth of Roblox's horror and survival catalog, pulling in everything from long-running favorites to titles that only broke out this year.
2. Key Dates and Times
Roblox's Newsroom post lays out a fairly specific schedule:
- Event opens: October 22, 2026, at 2:00 p.m. PT, when the Hollow hub becomes accessible.
- Early access: active Roblox Plus subscribers could enter the hub at 12:00 p.m. PT on October 22, two hours ahead of the general opening.
- Daily monsters: a different monster from the lineup below is added to the hub each day, across nine days.
- Live finale: begins the morning of October 31.
- Reward window closes: players can keep collecting event rewards until 12:00 p.m. PST on November 2, after which the Hollow's quest rewards stop being obtainable.
If you've seen other outlets citing a different end date for the event itself, treat that cautiously — Roblox's own post is specific about the November 2 reward cutoff, and that's the number worth planning around.
3. Who Can Join
The Hollow is open to anyone with a Roblox account, no separate download or pass required beyond having Roblox installed. Roblox's post notes the event is intended for players aged 9 and older in most regions, though exact age gating and content visibility can vary by region under the platform's existing content maturity settings. Roblox Plus subscribers get the early-access window described above, plus the cosmetic perks covered in Section 6.
4. How the Survival Gameplay Works
Once inside, the Hollow plays as an ongoing survival experience rather than nine separate mini-games stitched together. Roblox describes the loop as: each day, players enter a new maze-like section of the hub, search it for clues, and try to evade whichever monster has entered the hub that day. Completing the day's quests earns exclusive UGC (user-generated content) items and rewards that Roblox says are designed to help players survive the following night — implying some amount of gear or buff progression carries forward as the week goes on. Roblox's post doesn't name a specific in-event currency, so treat any currency name you see elsewhere as unconfirmed until Roblox names one directly.
5. All 9 Monsters and Their Source Games
This is the official lineup, with one monster entering the Hollow hub per day across the nine-day rollout:
| Monster | Source Game |
|---|---|
| The Deer | 99 Nights in the Forest |
| Seek | DOORS |
| Twisted Dandy | Dandy's World |
| Piggy | Piggy |
| The Inspector | Scary Shawarma Kiosk |
| Mimic | Animal Hospital |
| Biter | Demonology |
| Hiachi | The Mimic |
| The Overseer | Warden |
It's a genuinely broad cross-section of Roblox's current horror catalog — from breakout 2026 hits like 99 Nights in the Forest and Dandy's World to the platform's long-running horror staple, Piggy. If you've been keeping up with this fall's new Roblox game launches, several of the smaller titles on this list will be new names worth checking out on their own after the event ends.
6. Daily Creator Livestreams
Alongside the in-game content, Roblox lined up daily livestreams from creator "champions" broadcasting from inside the Hollow hub itself. The named creators in Roblox's announcement are LimaMosca, KreekCraft, Bundun and SirDapper. Roblox didn't publish a fixed daily schedule for which creator streams on which day, so check each creator's own channel for stream times if you want to watch live.
7. Marketplace Items and Roblox Plus Perks
Roblox is running a limited-time Marketplace tie-in alongside the event. Confirmed items include a cosmetic called the Hollow Horseman, along with a wider set of exclusive avatar items and new seasonal makeup looks tied to the Hollow theme. These are described as limited-time, so they're expected to leave the Marketplace once the event wraps.
Roblox Plus subscribers get extra perks on top of early access: an exclusive profile frame and background, an in-hub "item launcher" that lets Plus members gift items to other players during the event, and continued access to the Hollow's event theme even after the live finale ends. If you're weighing whether a subscription is worth it, it's worth reading up on the recent changes to how Roblox Plus private servers work before you commit, since the subscription's feature set has shifted more than once this year.
8. Halloween Content Elsewhere on Roblox
The Hollow is the platform-wide centerpiece, but Roblox's post also rounds up Halloween content running inside individual experiences this month:
- Family Zone: a "Duck Duck Halloween" crossover where parents and kids hunt for costumed ducks together while the experience works in online-safety messaging aimed at families.
- Adopt Me!: the returning Hauntlet minigame, back with new rewards and pets for the season.
- Welcome to Bloxburg: a Halloween event built around minigames including Pumpkin Panic and Ghost Hunt.
- Roblox Mini Pack: a physical retail product sold at Target for $20, containing 40 physical coins that are each redeemable for 50 Robux.
None of this content requires joining the Hollow hub directly, so if horror survival isn't your thing, there's a lower-stakes Halloween option inside games you may already play.
9. Quick Tips Recap
- Roblox Plus subscribers should log in at 12:00 p.m. PT on opening day for the two-hour early-access window, rather than waiting for the 2:00 p.m. PT general opening.
- Check back on the Hollow hub daily if you want to see every monster — the lineup is added one per day over nine days, not all at once.
- Finish quests as early as possible; rewards stop being obtainable at noon PST on November 2, which is after the October 31 live finale, not the same day.
- Don't trust a specific in-event currency name, participating-game list, or end date you see on a fan site if it conflicts with the official Newsroom post — third-party coverage of this event has been inconsistent on several of those details.
- If you want the broader context for how Roblox has been running shared seasonal events in 2026, the platform's features announced at RDC 2026 are a useful companion read.
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