The Hollow: Everything to Know About Roblox's 2026 Halloween Event
The Hollow is Roblox's platform-wide Halloween survival event, running October 22 through November 2, 2026, with a new monster from a different Roblox horror game joining the shared event hub each day. Here are the key dates, the full nine-monster lineup, and how to earn rewards before the November 2 deadline.
Roblox's biggest Halloween celebration of the year is live. The Hollow is a platform-wide survival event that pulls monsters out of nine of the site's most popular horror experiences and drops them into one shared hub, with a new threat arriving every single day through Halloween week. If you've logged into Roblox recently and seen a blood-red maze replacing the usual home screen art, this is what it's about — and here's exactly how it works, when it ends, and what you can still earn before it's gone.
1. What Is The Hollow?
The Hollow is Roblox's officially produced Halloween event for 2026, run directly by Roblox rather than by a single game studio. Instead of confining the celebration to one experience, Roblox built a shared event hub and invited nine of its most popular horror games to contribute a signature monster each. According to Roblox's own announcement, the hub plays out as a continuous survival game: each day brings a new maze to the event hub, where players search for clues while trying to evade whichever monster has shown up that night. The event is designed to escalate — Roblox describes it becoming progressively "more unsettling" as the days go on, with a fresh monster joining the mix daily and new quests to go with it.
It's worth noting this is a separate event from The Hunt: Roblox 20, the platform's 20th-anniversary scavenger hunt that ran earlier this fall — that was a birthday celebration, while The Hollow is squarely a seasonal horror event timed to Halloween.
2. Key Dates: When The Hollow Starts and Ends
Roblox has published a specific timeline for the event, and it's worth bookmarking since the window to earn rewards is shorter than the event itself:
- Event period: October 22 through November 2, 2026.
- Hub opens: 2 p.m. PT on October 22 for everyone.
- Roblox Plus early access: Plus subscribers could enter the hub at noon PT on October 22, two hours before general access opened.
- Live finale: Begins the morning of October 31 — Halloween itself.
- Reward collection deadline: Noon PST on November 2. Once that window closes, unredeemed Tickets and quest rewards are expected to go away with the event.
In other words, the hub and its monster rotation effectively wrap up with the October 31 finale, but Roblox is giving players a couple of extra days afterward just to cash in anything they've already earned. If you're reading this close to the deadline, prioritize spending your Tickets before claiming anything new.
3. Eligibility and How to Join
The Hollow is available to anyone with a Roblox account, including Roblox Select members, though Roblox notes the experience is generally aimed at players ages 9 and older and that access can vary by region. There's no separate download or install — the event hub is accessed the same way as any other Roblox experience, through the event's listing on the platform. From there, the loop is straightforward: explore that day's maze, search out clues, avoid getting caught by the resident monster, and complete the day's quests to bank rewards that carry over to help you survive the next night.
4. The Nine Monsters — One New Arrival Each Day
The central hook of The Hollow is that each participating monster comes from an existing Roblox horror game, and Roblox is rolling them out one per day rather than all at once. According to the official rundown, the lineup is:
- The Deer — from 99 Nights in the Forest
- Seek — from DOORS
- Twisted Dandy — from Dandy's World
- Piggy — from Piggy
- The Inspector — from Scary Shawarma Kiosk
- Mimic — from Animal Hospital
- Biter — from Demonology
- Hiachi — from The Mimic
- The Overseer — from Warden
Two names on that list are easy to mix up: the monster simply called Mimic comes from Animal Hospital, while the separate monster Hiachi is the one pulled from the game actually titled The Mimic. We independently checked the crossover tie-in by looking at DOORS's own in-game listing, which now describes itself as being part of "THE HOLLOW Event" — confirmation straight from the source game itself that the crossover is real and currently active, not a rumor.
Each of the nine source games also hosts its own Hollow-themed content and quests outside the central hub, so if you're a fan of one specific game on that list, it's worth checking that experience directly in addition to the shared hub.
5. Creator Champions Streaming From Inside the Hub
Roblox is pairing the daily monster drops with live content from known creators. The official announcement names four "creator champions" — LimaMosca, KreekCraft, Bundun, and SirDapper — who stream from inside The Hollow each day during the event. If you want a preview of a given night's maze and monster before jumping in yourself, their streams are the most direct way to scout ahead.
6. Rewards: Tickets, UGC and the Hollow Horseman
Progress in The Hollow is built around two currencies: Relics and Tickets. Players earn Tickets by completing daily survival objectives inside the event hub and by finishing event-themed quests across the nine individual participating games, then spend those Tickets on limited-time UGC (user-generated content) avatar items. Roblox's announcement specifically calls out a wave of limited-time Halloween Marketplace items tied to the event, including a bundle called the Hollow Horseman, "dozens" of other exclusive avatar pieces, and a set of new seasonal makeup looks for avatars.
We checked the Hollow Horseman bundle directly on Roblox's own Marketplace to confirm it's real and official: it's published by the Roblox account itself (not a third-party creator), priced at 31,000 Robux, and was added to the catalog on October 15, 2026 — just ahead of the event's launch. That official listing lines up with what Roblox's announcement describes, and it's a good example of the kind of exclusive gear that disappears once the event's reward window closes on November 2.
7. Roblox Plus Perks During the Event
Beyond the two-hour early access window, Roblox is giving its Plus subscription tier a few extra bonuses tied to The Hollow. According to Roblox, Plus subscribers get an exclusive profile frame and background for the duration of the event, an item launcher that lets them gift items to other players while the event is running, and — notably — the ability to keep the event's visual theme applied to their profile even after the finale wraps up. None of this is required to participate in The Hollow itself, but it's worth knowing if you're already a Plus subscriber and want to make the most of the perks tied to the same Roblox Plus subscription that reshaped private servers earlier this year.
8. More Halloween Content Elsewhere on Roblox
The Hollow is the headline event, but Roblox's announcement also rounds up Halloween content running in parallel across other popular experiences:
- Family Zone with Duck Duck: A Halloween-themed crossover where parents and kids search for costumed ducks together while the experience works in online-safety messaging.
- Adopt Me!: Brings back its Hauntlet minigame with new rewards and pets for the season.
- Welcome to Bloxburg: Runs its own Halloween event featuring minigames like Pumpkin Panic and Ghost Hunt, with both personal and group rewards.
- Roblox Mini Pack: A physical product sold at Target for $20, containing 40 physical coins that can each be redeemed for 50 Robux.
This Halloween push comes on the heels of a busy fall for the platform — several of the new titles Roblox highlighted in its fall games preview are exactly the kind of experiences that could headline a crossover event like this one in future years, and it follows the broader platform changes Roblox unveiled at this year's Roblox Developer Conference.
9. Quick Tips Recap
- The hub is open now and runs through the live finale on the morning of October 31 — don't wait until the last day to start if you want to catch every monster.
- You have until noon PST on November 2 to spend your Tickets and claim anything you've earned before rewards disappear.
- A new monster joins daily, pulled from one of nine existing Roblox horror games — check which source game is live that day if you want a specific one.
- Don't confuse Mimic (from Animal Hospital) with Hiachi (from The Mimic) when tracking which monster is which.
- Roblox Plus subscribers keep their event-themed profile cosmetics even after The Hollow ends, on top of the early-access window they already used.
The Hollow is one of the more ambitious crossover pushes Roblox has run on its own platform, coming only weeks after the 20th-anniversary Hunt event wrapped up. For more on what's new across the platform, browse our full Roblox and game walkthrough archive.