Shadow Crawler

The most common nightmare. Slow, hungry, and very persistent.

Threat 1

Health: 190
Speed: 0.21 tiles a second
Closet to bed: 46s unopposed
Bite: 100 damage a second
Reaching the bed costs: 1
First seen: Level 1

Shadow Crawler. Three Shadow Crawlers against two Lv 25 Dart Soldiers and a Pillow Wall.

What it does.

Nothing special: it walks down its lane and chews whatever toy is in its way.

How often it comes: weight 3 when a night picks its nightmares (a Shadow Crawler is 3). Threat 1 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 1	×1	190	–	100
Level 10	×1.12	213	–	107
Level 30	×1.99	378	–	159
Level 50	×3.13	595	952	228
Level 70	×3.2	608	972	232
Level 90	×3.62	688	1,100	257
Level 110	×3.88	737	1,179	273
Level 150	×5.4	1,027	1,643	364
Level 190	×6.14	1,167	1,867	408
Level 230	×6.57	1,249	1,998	434
Level 250	×6.87	1,305	2,087	452
Level 310	×8.6	1,634	2,614	556
Level 410	×9.65	1,834	2,935	619
Level 510	×10.04	1,908	3,053	643
Level 590	×11.11	2,110	3,377	706
Level 1,010	×11.51	2,187	3,499	731
Level 2,010	×12.26	2,330	3,728	779
Level 4,910	×14.1	2,679	4,286	892

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

Shadow Crawlers chew on toys. Keep them away from the bed!

At home in

The Bedroom

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.