Also known as: Black Bunny
Hallway corners, the lobby, and the surgery room — usually once per run. Flickering lights and a distinct sound cue announce its presence before you see it.
| Also called | Black Bunny |
|---|---|
| Where you meet it | Hallway corners, the lobby, and the surgery room — usually once per run. Flickering lights and a distinct sound cue announce its presence before you see it. |
| Damage | −10 sanity if you make eye contact with it. |
| How to counter it | There's no kill method for the Stalker. Walk around corners slowly and look at its legs instead of its face — you can watch it safely through the office window at no sanity cost at all. |
The Stalker is the one threat in the roster you're never meant to fight — the entire mechanic is about denying it eye contact, not damaging it. The origin of the Stalker is one of the game's unresolved lore threads: the note found in Ratthew's Room 5 safe ("the shadow now sees everything") is widely read by the community as describing exactly this creature, though that connection isn't officially confirmed.
The raw figure is −10 per eye contact. 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.
Nothing in your inventory resolves the Stalker — it is one of the threats you handle by behaving differently rather than by carrying the right item. That is the norm rather than the exception here: a weapon answers only 3 of the 10 threats in the game.
The nine threats split into three planning problems. The Stalker is in the group that can arrive at any point — it has no shift gate and no trigger you control, so the only defence is being equipped before it happens.
The others in that bracket are the Mimic, the Bed Monster and the Hiders. 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 | 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 ← this page | 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 |
No class hands you a shortcut here — nothing in the shop grants the thing this threat responds to, so the answer is the same whether you are on the free Intern or the most expensive class in the game. Spend elsewhere and handle this one with positioning.
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.
−10 sanity if you make eye contact with it.
There's no kill method for the Stalker. Walk around corners slowly and look at its legs instead of its face — you can watch it safely through the office window at no sanity cost at all.
Yes — the tall black creature players call the "Black Bunny" on TikTok and YouTube is the Stalker. The community wiki describes it as "presumably a bunny or possibly a rat," which is exactly how the nickname started.
Hallway corners, the lobby, and the surgery room — usually once per run. Flickering lights and a distinct sound cue announce its presence before you see it.
No — no item resolves it. There's no kill method for the Stalker. Walk around corners slowly and look at its legs instead of its face — you can watch it safely through the office window at no sanity cost at all.
Verified against community data. Last checked: July 26, 2026.