Nightmare
Balloon Bandit
Floats over your toys holding a Dust Bunny. Pop it and the bunny drops, wherever it is!
- Health
- 260
- Speed
- 0.24 tiles a second
- Closet to bed
- 40s unopposed
- Bite
- None
- Reaching the bed costs
1- First seen
- Level 188
What it does.
- Flies: it passes over every toy without stopping and never bites. Only toys that hit flyers can stop it.
- Carries: a Dust Bunny, dropped 2.2 tiles from the bed or when the carrier is defeated.
How often it comes: weight 0.8 when a night picks its nightmares (a Shadow Crawler is 3). Threat 4 is what it costs of a night's threat budget.
Health by level.
The numbers above are its base values. Every night multiplies the health and the bites of its nightmares by the level's scale.
| Night | Health scale | Health | As a plain elite, in all | Bite / s |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Level 188 | ×6.11 | 1,588 | 2,540 | – |
| Level 190 | ×6.14 | 1,596 | 2,554 | – |
| Level 230 | ×6.57 | 1,708 | 2,734 | – |
| Level 250 | ×6.87 | 1,785 | 2,856 | – |
| Level 310 | ×8.6 | 2,236 | 3,577 | – |
| Level 410 | ×9.65 | 2,510 | 4,016 | – |
| Level 510 | ×10.04 | 2,611 | 4,178 | – |
| Level 590 | ×11.11 | 2,888 | 4,621 | – |
| Level 1,010 | ×11.51 | 2,993 | 4,788 | – |
| Level 2,010 | ×12.26 | 3,188 | 5,101 | – |
| Level 4,910 | ×14.1 | 3,665 | 5,865 | – |
The PC game's story ends at level 240, so the table stops there.
Normal nights; boss nights and Hard Mode scale differently. From level 42 some nightmares are pink elites: a plain elite has ×1.6 health and ×1.25 bites; from level 101 an elite may have a trick instead of the extra health. The whole curve
Beating it.
The game's tip
Balloon Bandits fly: only toys that hit flyers can pop them. Pop them before they pass your toys!
Toys that hit flyers
Bubble Duck
Party Popper
Flashlight
Paper Plane Ace
Snow Globe
Plasma Ball
Desk Fan
Disco Ball
Sky Rocket
Ice Pop
Night Owl
Water BalloonAt home in
Numbers from the game's own data, version 1.0.0 as of November 13, 2026. Toy and nightmare numbers are the base values: every night scales the nightmares to its level (how). You are reading for the phone game (iPhone, iPad, Android): the switch at the top shows the PC game's numbers.You are reading for the PC game, coming to Steam: the switch at the top goes back to the phone game's numbers.