99 Nights in the Forest Wiki

What 99 Nights in the Forest is

99 Nights in the Forest is a Roblox survival game from the group Grandma's Favourite Games, first published on March 4, 2025. You are dropped into a forest with a campfire to look after and a target in the name itself: stay alive until day 99. Other players can join the same server, and the badge list includes a team badge for finishing with five people, so the game is built to be played in a group as well as alone.

The official description sums up the three jobs that matter: keep the fire alive, find the four missing children, and avoid the deer that hunts at night. Everything else in the game, from chopping wood to cooking and upgrading tools, feeds into those three.

At the time of writing the game shows about 119,000 players online right now, more than 30 billion total visits and over 10 million favorites, with roughly 5.5 million up-votes against 0.58 million down-votes. It was last updated on October 31, 2026, the same stretch as the Halloween event.

How a run looks in the footage

Two YouTube videos are the basis for this page: Roodolf's long guide and Big Ben's list of 30 tips. Between them they cover a run from day 1 to day 99, so we can describe the shape of a game from what is on screen rather than from guesswork.

On day 1 the footage shows an open green clearing. The player carries a sack and an axe, and small flowers lie on the grass; a counter over the character shows how much the sack holds. Big Ben's tips list flowers, logs, the bunny and the sack as his first five, in that order, so early resource gathering is clearly where new players start.

Early on the crafting menu is already in use. On screen you can see a recipe grid split into groups headed Needs Crafting Bench 2 and Needs Crafting Bench 3, with each item showing what it costs in wood or scrap. The selected recipe, a bunny trap, comes with a short description, its price and a green Craft button. Stronger items are locked behind a higher bench, which is why the video that shows the bench upgrading is worth watching early.

By day 6 in the footage there is a tent, a flag and a lit campfire, and a green bar above the character reads level 4 with progress out of 100. By day 25 a Craft Item prompt appears beside a workbench and a message confirms that a blueprint was purchased. By day 36 the camp has beds, a bigger fire, a crafting bench and a locations board, all under thick fog. Roodolf's own run ends with a green message on screen: reached day 99 in 98 minutes 56 seconds.

Screen, stats and numbers

The interface is fairly sparse. A day counter sits at the top centre, a hunger bar in orange is at the left, a compass and a clock are at the right, and a hotbar along the bottom holds your tools and weapons, such as the sack, axe, flashlight and revolver seen in the footage. Some frames also show a diamond balance in the corner, which is the currency used for the class menu.

The class menu in Roodolf's video lists classes such as Scavenger, Medic, Cook, Ranger, Lumberjack and Assassin, each with a star rating and a diamond price. In the footage the Scavenger shows 25, the Medic and Cook 40, and the Ranger and Lumberjack 70. The Cook entry lists Seasoning as a starter tool, a level 2 bonus that makes crockpot cooking 20 percent faster, and a level 3 bonus of a 25 percent chance to make hearty stew. The video chapters give the class section its own slot, from 12:30 to 14:30, after the main guide.

Time matters too. One badge asks you to reach day 99 in under 90 minutes, and the day-99 message above shows the run time, so speed is something the game tracks and rewards.

What the community focuses on

The two videos show what players ask about most. Roodolf's title promises help with surviving longer, picking a better class and feeling more confident. Big Ben's description targets searches such as how to get 100 days, how to get 500 days, and what changed in the snow update.

His tip list is a good map of the topics players care about: flowers, logs, bunnies, multiplayer play, coal, bear traps, roles, healing, farm setup, beds, lightning and lightning rods, two secret badges, compasses, ammo, gear, fast shooting, hammers, fall damage, snow caves, ice spikes, diamonds, spear tactics, batteries and rain. Several of these show up in the footage, for example a heavy-rain forest scene under the Lightning tip and a stone chest room under the Diamonds tip.

Badges are a large part of the long-term game. At the time of writing the badge list has 10 for surviving days, from day 10 up to day 100, plus longer ones for 250 and 500 days, 15 Halloween badges from the 2026 event, and many goal badges. The most awarded is Firemaking I, which asks you to upgrade the fire to level 3, held by about 15.8 percent of players. Many harder ones sit near zero, such as Dream Team, which needs five players to finish in under 90 minutes with nobody dying.

Developer, updates and events

The game comes from Grandma's Favourite Games. Its Roblox page shows a last update of October 31, 2026. Around that date the Halloween event added a rebuilt hedge maze and a set of Halloween badges. Because the event badges can only be earned while the event runs, the game changes noticeably from one season to the next.

Big Ben's video description mentions the snow update, and two of his tips are about snow caves and ice spikes, so the game has clearly been updated in stages since launch.

Where to go next on this site

This page is the overview. For specifics, the site already has separate pages for the game's classes and a best-classes ranking, a full badges list with how-to tips, and the hedge maze and Omnipotence guides from the Halloween event. There is also a codes page, checked daily, that lists active and expired codes and how to redeem them: open the Gems button, choose Codes and paste the code.

Creature pages cover the threats in the forest in detail, so we keep them off this page. The site also has pages on the movie, the plush toy, the game icon, and the question of whether the game is a true story. If you only want to start a run, begin with the codes page, then pick a class, then watch the two source videos for the early days.