Also known as: The Eyeless
Shifts 2–5. It slams the side check-in window and disables your shutter.
| Also called | The Eyeless |
|---|---|
| Where you meet it | Shifts 2–5. It slams the side check-in window and disables your shutter. |
| Damage | Shooing it away without giving it coffee first triggers a −20 sanity jumpscare. |
| How to counter it | Hand it a coffee — drink two sips yourself first and you net +10 sanity overall from the interaction. Alternatively, just let it smash the glass; the process takes about a minute and the damage is purely cosmetic, no sanity cost either way. |
The Head Banger is one of the few threats in the game where the "safe" option (giving it coffee) actually profits you sanity instead of just avoiding a loss. Letting it break the glass is a valid zero-cost alternative if you don't have coffee available — the only actively wrong move is shooing it away empty-handed.
The raw figure is −20 jumpscare for shooing it without coffee. What matters is what that is a fraction of: with no class bought you start a shift on 61 sanity, and reaching zero puts you down — a teammate can revive you with a $1,000 Teddy Bear, but you cannot use one on yourself.
Worth knowing before you spend a shift carrying the wrong thing: a weapon is the answer to only 3 of the 10 threats in this game. The Head Banger is answered by one item:
Sip twice before handing it over and the exchange nets you +10 sanity.
This is the distinction that costs new players a run. These items are not merely useless against the Head Banger — using them makes the outcome worse than doing nothing. Shooing the Head Banger is an automatic −20 sanity jumpscare. Give it coffee (sip twice first for a free +10), or just let it break the glass — the damage is cosmetic.
The nine threats split into three planning problems. The Head Banger is in the group gated by shift number — it will not appear until a specific shift, so early runs are simply free of it — and once you are past its window it stops being a concern.
The others in that bracket are the Mass of Eyes. Grouping them this way is more useful than a flat list, because a threat you can wait out, a threat you set off yourself and a threat that can arrive unannounced each call for a different habit — and only the last one justifies carrying gear all shift.
Every threat in the game, so you can see which ones share a counter with this one and which demand something completely different.
| Threat | Where | What it costs | Counter |
|---|---|---|---|
| 🎭 Mimic | Disguised as a patient — check-in, treatment or recovery | −15 initial, then −6 per 0.5s | 1 gun round or a taser |
| 🚪 Head Banger ← this page | Shifts 2–5, at the side check-in window | −20 sanity jumpscare if shooed without coffee | Hand it a coffee (sip twice first for +10 net) |
| 🛏️ Bed Monster | Under patient beds in Rooms 1–5 and Room 7 | −10 on the grab, then −5 every 2s | Feed it Maple Syrup, an Organ or a Transplant; stay off the red floor |
| 👤 Stalker | Hallway corners, the lobby and the surgery room | −10 sanity on eye contact | Cannot be killed — look at its legs, not its face |
| 🫥 Hiders | Camouflaged as wallpaper, in groups of 1–6 | Steals your held item and stuns you | Fire extinguisher, taser or gun |
| 👻 Ghost | Spawns after a patient dies, roams the whole hospital | −2 sanity per second nearby | Fire extinguisher to force it visible, then taser or gun |
| 👀 Mass of Eyes | Ceilings of patient rooms and the front desk, Shift 2+ | −2 to −5 sanity per 0.5s while you look up | Don't look up — or hand it Eyedrops from the window ledge |
| 📹 Camera Monster | 50% chance on a broken CCTV feed | −20 sanity jumpscare if you zoom in | Switch feeds or close the camera; repair cameras in advance |
| 🧬 Tentacle | Random 'Monster emerging' event after surgery in Room 8 | Kills the patient outright on a mistake or timeout | Scissors → Transplant → Scissors → Transplant, then 3 random steps |
| 🟢 Slimebert | Slime Shift — from around Shift 10 onward | −20 sanity on catch, then −3/s while digested | Fire extinguisher stuns; Cough Syrup blocks; no taser/gun |
Shooing the Head Banger is an automatic −20 sanity jumpscare. Give it coffee (sip twice first for a free +10), or just let it break the glass — the damage is cosmetic.
One class starts you holding the item this threat responds to, which removes the scramble to find one mid-shift:
at level 3 begins each round with the backpack already full of supplies, which is how you have the consumable before you need it.
One to avoid for this specific fight: the Psychologist doubles every sanity effect in both directions. It starts you at 100% rather than 61%, but it also makes this threat cost twice what the numbers above say — a trade that only pays if you are confident you will not be touched.
Shooing it away without giving it coffee first triggers a −20 sanity jumpscare.
Hand it a coffee — drink two sips yourself first and you net +10 sanity overall from the interaction. Alternatively, just let it smash the glass; the process takes about a minute and the damage is purely cosmetic, no sanity cost either way.
Yes — "The Eyeless" (named for its hollow, empty eye sockets) is the same window-slamming creature. "Head Banger" itself is also a community-coined name; the developer never officially named this monster, which is why several nicknames circulate for it.
Shifts 2–5. It slams the side check-in window and disables your shutter.
Coffee. Sip twice before handing it over and the exchange nets you +10 sanity.
Don't. Shooing the Head Banger is an automatic −20 sanity jumpscare. Give it coffee (sip twice first for a free +10), or just let it break the glass — the damage is cosmetic.
Shooing the Head Banger is an automatic −20 sanity jumpscare. Give it coffee (sip twice first for a free +10), or just let it break the glass — the damage is cosmetic.
Verified against community data. Last checked: July 26, 2026.