99 Nights in the Forest Class Tier List (2026) — All 36 Classes Ranked

Cyborg (600 Diamonds) is the best class in 99 Nights in the Forest. It is the only class that spawns with both Alien Armour and the Laser Cannon, and at Level 3 its kills refund alien tech energy, so its damage never runs dry. The game's own wiki names it the single most useful class for Hard Mode. Below, all 36 buyable classes are ranked S to C, plus the 7 limited-time event classes and the one class that has been removed from the shop.

The update this list is pinned to

This list reflects the game after the Kids Have Jobs update of August 8, 2026. That is what the necktie tag in the experience title — [👔] 99 Nights in the Forest 🔦 — refers to; Roblox's own event listing for it is titled "Kids have Jobs". It gave every rescued child a Level 5 job: Dino Kid chops wood, Kraken Kid fishes, Squid Kid cooks, Koala Kid digs scrap.

Crucially for a class tier list, Kids Have Jobs did not add, remove or rebalance a single class. The last class added was Alien Scientist, in Alien's Revenge on June 27, 2026. The next patch, Biome Refresher, is scheduled by the devs for August 22, 2026; we will re-check the roster then.

How buying classes actually works

You cannot simply pick any class you want. Classes are bought with Diamonds from the General Store on the left of the lobby, and the shop runs a rotating stock system: every 24 hours a random selection becomes purchasable. Your first reroll each day is free; every one after costs 10 Diamonds. A "best class" is only as useful as the day it appears.

Every class has three levels. Level 1 is what you buy; Levels 2 and 3 unlock through class-specific in-game requirements, and that is where most of the power sits — Cyborg's energy refund, Nightcrawler's Deer suppression and Explorer's see-through-walls perk are all Level 3. Skips cost 250 Robux to Level 2 and 400 Robux to Level 3. Diamonds also buy Talents, a perk lifted from a random class onto a class of your choice for 25–100 Diamonds, rerollable for 25 — though a 5-star talent lands only 0.29% of the time.

Buying every class outright costs 8,605 Diamonds plus 930 each of Candy, Candy Canes and Eggs. Diamonds come from the Cultist Stronghold chest (5), Daily Quests (5 each, 15 for all three), surviving Day 50 and Day 99, chests, badges, Update Parties and redeemable codes.

S Tier — the run-winners

Six classes are genuinely run-defining. Five cost 600 Diamonds — the honest answer to whether the meta is pay-to-progress is largely yes, with one 200-Diamond exception.

Cyborg (600) spawns with Alien Armour and the Laser Cannon. Level 2 makes alien tech hit harder; Level 3 refunds alien energy on kills, which is what turns it from strong into unkillable. The catch: overheating the tech damages you and temporarily drops your armour.

Vampire (600) starts with the Vampire Cloak and Vampire Scythe. Lifesteal builds off any melee weapon and you run faster at night, healing more at Level 3. With food spoilage and no passive regen in Hard Mode, healing on every swing is enormous.

Necromancer (600) collects souls from dead cultists and spends them through the Cultist Staff to raise them — up to 6 summons, hitting harder at Level 2.

Pyromaniac (600) runs a Flamethrower refuelled by fuel canisters and oil barrels and auto-cooks the food it drops — damage and hunger in one kit.

Alien Scientist (600) is the newest class and the most overlooked: Alien Shotgun and Dissolving Ray, +4 sack space at Level 1, and enemies under 10% HP dissolve into essence that boosts energy regen (15% at Level 2, which also drops food).

Fire Bandit (200) is the value pick of the tier: the Infernal Crossbow cooks animal meat on the kill, quietly removing the hunger problem, and its Wildfire potion clears groups.

A, B and C tiers — where the judgement calls are

A tier wins fights but needs a condition met. Gunslinger (600) starts with 60 Revolver Ammo and the Trusty Revolver, upgraded through a Target List tied to specific animals: 100 cultist kills take damage from 16 to 25, 100 wolves take the magazine from 6 to 12, and 8 mammoths unlock a 16% explosive-bullet chance. That is a long run before it peaks, which is why it is not S. Assassin (500), Beastmaster (400) and Big Game Hunter (600) scale hard but start slow; Poison Master, Blacksmith and Nightcrawler at 200 each answer one problem well; Chef (150) and Alien (100) are the cheapest to keep pace.

B tier is where the common corrections live. Brawler (100) gets +40% HP and +30% melee damage but cannot use ranged weapons at all — a hard restriction most lists omit. Explorer (80) sees chests through walls at Level 3 — not enemies. Feaster (150) climbs to 146 max HP solo, 158 with a Chef, but slowly. Support (45), Medic (40), Cook (40), Lumberjack (70), Ranger (70), Berserker, Grenadier and Scavenger (25) round it out; Scavenger stays the best first purchase in the game.

C tier works, but it is the wrong home for your first few hundred Diamonds. Undead (100) is the most misdescribed class in the game: its permanent bonus triggers when you are revived, not when you revive others, so it rewards dying rather than supporting. Snowman, Farmer, Zookeeper, Gambler, Brute, Fisherman, Base Defender and Hunter are all narrow. Camper (10) is a placeholder, though its hunger cut is a real Hard Mode pick.

Full tier table (all 36 classes)

Every buyable class, its verified Diamond cost, and the perk that decides its tier. For how the starter weapons compare, see our 99 Nights in the Forest best weapons ranking.

Event classes & the removed class

Seven further classes sit off the standard Diamond rotation and are deliberately left out of the tiers above: Trick or Treater (30 Candy) and Witch (900 Candy) from Halloween, Santa's Helper (30 Candy Canes) and Gifting Elf (900 Candy Canes) from Christmas, Egg Hunter (30 Eggs) and Bunny (900 Eggs) from Easter, and Engineer at 1,000 Diamonds — the most expensive class in the game, building turrets from gears ground out of scrap. Witch and Gifting Elf rival S tier, but you cannot buy them today, so ranking them would mislead.

One class is retired outright: Decorator (formerly 40 Diamonds) sits in the wiki's Removed Classes table and can no longer be bought — The Forest Wakes Up on June 13, 2026 moved decorator items to the supply crate. Any tier list still ranking Decorator as buyable, including an earlier version of this page, is out of date.

How we ranked these classes

To be straight: we did not play 36 classes through 99-night runs. Every stat, cost, perk and level requirement above was read off the 99 Nights in the Forest Wiki class tables (last edited August 19, 2026) and cross-checked against individual class pages where a number looked odd. We counted the table rows ourselves rather than quoting the wiki's summary line — here the two agreed at 36.

The ordering weighs three things. Verified kit: what a class spawns with and what its Level 2 and 3 perks do, read from the wiki rather than from other tier lists. Independent agreement: Pocket Tactics and Roblox Den separately put Cyborg, Vampire and Necromancer at the top, and the wiki's Hard Mode page names Cyborg first. Diamond efficiency: Fire Bandit sits in S at 200 Diamonds because it solves two problems at once, and Scavenger stays high because 25 Diamonds for permanent carry capacity is the best rate going.

Where sources disagreed we deferred to the wiki's perk text — it is the only one that is dated, versioned and editable against the live game. Anything we could not confirm there was cut rather than guessed, including a "Double Diamonds event" and a "Long Revolver" that earlier versions of this page cited and that exist nowhere in the game's data.

More 99 Nights in the Forest guides

• 99 Nights in the Forest hub — update, stats, every guide.
• Codes — a listed Diamond source.
• Beginner's guide — the survival loop, before Diamonds.
• Best weapons ranked — where the Laser Cannon, Raygun and Katana place.
• Free Robux guide — for the 250/400 Robux level skips.
• vs Dead Rails and vs Forsaken.

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