Lethal Ape vs Forsaken (2026) -- Which Roblox Horror Game Is Better?

By Money Lord — Founder & Editor | Updated: September 9, 2026 · 9 min read

Forsaken is the better pick for most players, and on scale it is not close. As of September 9, 2026 it has taken 5,651,140,191 visits to Lethal Ape's 321,048,667, and it holds a median of 78,458 concurrent players against Lethal Ape's 14,366. If you want a game that fills a lobby instantly at any hour, ships a named event every few weeks, and gives you something to do with friends, that is the one.

Choose Lethal Ape instead if you want to be alone. It is a single-goal escape game: you spawn as an ape in a lab, farm gold, buy from a six-item shop, and try to reach the exit past monsters that kill in one hit. Its entire priced catalogue tops out at 30 Robux, against Forsaken's 599 Robux V.I.P pass. Genuine dread, no lobby politics and almost nothing to buy is a combination Forsaken does not offer at any price.

Every figure below was pulled live from the Roblox API on September 9, 2026, and every row in the table carries its own as-of date.

Lethal Ape vs Forsaken at a glance (September 9, 2026)

Gameplay: a solo lab escape vs a 1v8 hunt

Lethal Ape

You spawn as an ape inside a lab and the only goal is to reach the exit. Monsters patrol it — Gus, Ashy, Sandman and the Lurker are the ones the game's wiki currently documents as in-game — and most end a run in a single hit, so routing matters far more than reflexes.

Gold is the only currency that changes how you play, and it buys a short, fixed list. As of the wiki's September 2, 2026 revision the gold shop stocks exactly six items: the AntiEntityCube at 5 gold and the BigAntiEntityCube at 10 gold, shields that stop monsters attacking you; the GusAnnoyer at 15 gold, a mini radio playing static that Gus hates, so you throw it and walk the other way; the Grenade at 15 gold; the Molotov at 25 gold; and the Radar at 35 gold, which paints monsters as red silhouettes. Our Lethal Ape guide goes deeper on gold routes.

Ignore any guide that still sells you the rest. The three speed drinks — Culio, THE Drink and Fat — and the Clone decoy have all been removed from the shop, most of them in the May 3, 2026 revamp that added the Grenade and Molotov in their place. The FreezeRay and GrappleHook are gone too. The Flashlight also left the shop, but you now start every run with one for free.

Forsaken

Forsaken is a 1-versus-8 round and the server caps at nine: eight Survivors and one Killer. Survivors have exactly one objective type, Generators. Five sit on every public map, one to three players can repair one together, and each repair is a 7x7 wire-matching puzzle in the style of Flow Free. Finishing one cuts time off the round timer and pays 8 EXP — 10 with the V.I.P pass — plus 2 Player Points. It has been the only public objective since the Generator Rework in update 1.2.0.

The Killer's job is the inverse: wipe the lobby before the timer expires. The roster leans hard on Roblox's own mythology, with 1x1x1x1, c00lkidd, John Doe, Shedletsky and Guest 1337 among the characters, and the most recent new Killer named in the changelog in the game's own store description, Azure, arrived on July 17, 2026. The Forsaken hub tracks the roster.

Scale: how big each game really is

Forsaken's concurrent count swings hard, which is exactly why a single snapshot misleads. Across 28 readings between September 1 and September 9, 2026 it ranged from 33,994 to 132,769 players, with a median of 78,458. Lethal Ape is much steadier: across 14 readings taken between 12:15 and 12:28 UTC on September 9, 2026 it stayed between 14,269 and 14,498, median 14,366. Our own sample two days earlier, on September 7, put it at 14,834 across 12 readings, so that band is holding. The two medians are not measured over the same window — Forsaken's covers eight days and Lethal Ape's a single afternoon — but the gap between them is far too large for the window to explain.

The lifetime numbers are less ambiguous. On September 9, 2026 Forsaken had taken 5,651,140,191 visits and 3,177,561 favourites; Lethal Ape had 321,048,667 visits and 250,073 favourites. Lethal Ape is the better-liked of the two — 87.7% of its 77,908 votes are positive against Forsaken's 84.5% — but Forsaken's vote count is roughly 36 times larger, so the two ratios are not measuring the same thing.

One thing that catches people out: Lethal Ape is the older place. It went live on November 10, 2023, though only in an alpha state, and its wiki dates the full release to January 15, 2025. Forsaken's universe was created on July 28, 2024 — and its developers still printed "THIS GAME IS IN ALPHA" in the store description on September 9, 2026. Neither is the fresh-out-of-the-box newcomer it is sometimes described as.

What each game actually costs

Lethal Ape barely asks for money. Its complete on-sale priced catalogue on September 9, 2026 is five items: bloody fur at 30 Robux, a recolorable shirt at 25, a radar at 10, the AntiEntityCube at 5 and the BigAntiEntityCube at 10. Beside them sit six pure donation passes at 3, 5, 10, 20, 35 and 50 Robux that grant nothing at all. The gear that decides runs is bought with gold you find in the lab, not with Robux.

Forsaken's ceiling is twenty times higher. The V.I.P pass costs 599 Robux and grants a permanent 25% EXP boost on every character, a toggleable [VIP] title and exclusive skins for Noob, Elliot, Shedletsky and Slasher. Skin Pack #3, added on August 28, 2026 for the Summer Games event, is 399 Robux; 2x Emotes is 199 and Emote Pack #2 is 175.

Two warnings if you are shopping from an older list. The V.I.P pass is 599 Robux as of September 9, 2026, not the 799 that is still widely quoted, and both the Spec Ops Pack and Emote Pack #1 have gone off sale — the pass API returns no price for either. Neither game has a working code to offset any of it: see our Lethal Ape codes page and Forsaken codes page.

Progression, difficulty and replay value

Lethal Ape has no levels, no unlock track and no meta. Progression is knowledge: which corridor Gus tends to hold, which of the six items solves the next bottleneck, how little gold you can escape on. That makes it click fast, and it makes a 20-minute session feel finished.

Forsaken's progression is a real ladder. You earn EXP every match, unlock Survivors and Killers, and chase per-character mastery — and the V.I.P pass's 25% boost exists specifically to shorten that grind. Learning a new Killer is close to learning a new game each time, which is why most players find Survivor easy to pick up and Killer hard to master.

Replay value splits the same way. Forsaken's opponent is a person, so no two rounds repeat and the roster keeps moving. Lethal Ape's opponents are scripted, so once you escape reliably the challenge becomes self-imposed: faster runs, less gear, less gold. Forsaken wins on raw hours; Lethal Ape wins if you would rather perfect one scenario than climb a ladder.

Update cadence: what each game shipped recently

Forsaken updates on a visible schedule and dates its own patches. Summer Games went live on August 29, 2026, bringing the game's first event currency and its first alternate gamemode, Randomizer; Week 2 opened on September 4, 2026, and the store title currently still begins "[WEEK 2]". Our Forsaken update log tracks each wave, and the Forsaken guide covers what to spend on.

Lethal Ape's cadence is looser and far less documented. Its biggest recent change is the May 3, 2026 revamp, which the wiki calls the start of the game's 8th generation: it added the Molotov and Grenade and removed Gooba, Bloodman, Culio, Fat and The Drink. Note that Gooba, still named as a current monster in a lot of older coverage, is marked permanently removed. The store title on September 9, 2026 was "Lethal Ape (???)" — a bracket tag, not a version number, and not something to read a patch date from. The Lethal Ape hub carries the current state.

Which should YOU play?

• You mostly play with friends: Forsaken. Every round is eight Survivors and a human Killer, and lobbies fill at any hour on a 78,458-player median.
• You play alone with headphones on: Lethal Ape. The whole loop is one person, one lab, no teammates to bail you out.
• You have almost no Robux: Lethal Ape. Its priciest pass is 30 Robux and none of its gear is paywalled, against a 599 Robux V.I.P pass in Forsaken.
• You want something new every few weeks: Forsaken. Azure in July, Summer Games on August 29, Week 2 on September 4 — all dated by the developers themselves.
• You want a game you can finish: Lethal Ape. There is one goal and no ladder, so a clean escape is a real ending.
• You came looking for codes: neither. As of September 9, 2026 Lethal Ape has no active codes and Forsaken has no code system at all.

More Lethal Ape and Forsaken

• Lethal Ape hub — current state of the game, stats and every guide we run.
• Lethal Ape codes — the live active and expired lists, re-checked weekly.
• Lethal Ape guide — gold routes, gear priority and monster behaviour.
• Forsaken hub — roster, current event and stats.
• Forsaken codes — why there is no code system, and what to do instead.
• Forsaken update log — Summer Games and every patch before it.
• Forsaken guide — EXP, Generators and pass value.

About this comparison

Player counts, visits, favourites, vote totals and every game pass price here were pulled live from the Roblox games and game-pass APIs on September 9, 2026. Shop contents and the monster roster come from the Lethal Ape wiki (Shop page, revision of September 2, 2026) and the Forsaken wiki's Objectives page; update dates come from each game's own store description. Developers change these values without notice.

Corrections made on September 9, 2026: this page previously gave Lethal Ape 144 million visits and roughly 98,000 favourites, and listed Clone gear and speed sodas as current shop items. All four were wrong. Elsewhere on this site a figure of 94.5 million visits has appeared for Lethal Ape; that is the wiki's June 2025 number and was never current for 2026.

Official game pages are Lethal Ape and Forsaken.