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The Shadow King

The darkest nightmare of all. He shrugs off half of all damage in the dark and snuffs out every light near him.

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Health: 3,400
Speed: 0.075 tiles a second
Closet to bed: 128s unopposed
Bite: 200 damage a second
Reaching the bed costs: all
First seen: Level 240

The Shadow King. It uses its power at 2 seconds and again at 7, against a small defense: low-level shooters, Pillow Walls and a Block Tower.

What it does.

Shadowy: while it stands on a tile no light reaches, it takes half damage from everything. On a lit tile it takes it all.
Smasher: it doesn't chew a toy in its way. It winds up for 3s and destroys it outright, whatever its toughness. It can't be swallowed.
Summons: 1 × Shade every 15s.
Lights out: every 16s it snuffs out every light within 2.6 tiles for 7s. Beams keep burning but light nothing.

Wide awake.

On its boss nights after the first trip through the house (from level 260)On its story night and on Hard, it wakes up for real when its health bar is down to half: it stops for 1.2 seconds, roars, and from then on uses a stronger version of its power.

The Shadow King. Brought to half health, it stops, wakes up and roars, then uses the stronger power.

"Longer lights-out!"

At half health the Shadow King is wide awake: his lights-out reaches further and lasts longer, and Shades come more often!

Power	Asleep	Wide awake
Summons every	15s	12s
Lights out every	16s	12s
Lights out radius	2.6	3.2
Lights stay out	7s	9s
Health on the nights it can wake	×1	×0.85

On the nights it can wake up it has less health to begin with (the last row), tuned so those boss nights are as hard as before.

Its boss nights.

The Shadow King waits at the end of every chapter set in The Nightmare Realm: first at level 240, then every 240 levels. Its health grows with the level.The Shadow King waits at the end of The Nightmare Realm, at level 240 of the story, and again on Hard Mode.

Night	Room	Health (with armor and shield)	Of its base health	Wakes up	Gems (first win)	Coins (first win)
Level 240	The Nightmare Realm	37,897	×11.15	–	32	1,150
Level 240, Hard	The Nightmare Realm	75,794	×22.29	–	16	1,150
Level 480	The Nightmare Realm	58,537	×17.22	Yes	50	2,111
Level 720	The Nightmare Realm	66,474	×19.55	Yes	50	3,023
Level 960	The Nightmare Realm	70,305	×20.68	Yes	50	3,905
Level 1,200	The Nightmare Realm	74,271	×21.84	Yes	50	4,764
Level 1,440	The Nightmare Realm	77,617	×22.83	Yes	50	5,607
Level 4,800	The Nightmare Realm	101,930	×29.98	Yes	50	16,492

Night	Room	Health (with armor and shield)	Of its base health	Wakes up	Coins (first win)	Boss bonus, in coins
Level 240	The Nightmare Realm	32,213	×9.47	Yes	1,150	2,944
Level 240, Hard	The Nightmare Realm	64,425	×18.95	Yes	1,150	1,472 or more

On PC a battle's coins are doubled on top of this. The boss bonus is what the phone game pays in gems, paid in coins at your progress's rate: a Hard win's is worth more the further your story has got.

On Hard a boss has twice its health on the same level's normal night (in the PC game a little less where only the Hard night wakes it up), on top of a harder night.

Beating it.

The game's tip

The Shadow King puts out lights! Spread your lights out, and bring Night Owls and Flashlights.

Light it up

Big blasts

Party Popper

Toy Train

Water Balloon

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.