☕ Run the cafe
Take orders, cook, brew coffee and keep customers fed — the job sim half is real work, and messing it up has consequences beyond bad reviews.
Unofficial guide · for the Roblox game
Anomaly Cafe Roblox Guide — Spot Every Anomaly, Survive Every Shift
Anomaly Cafe is the Roblox co-op horror job sim where you run Emma's Cafe with up to 24 players — cook, serve, keep the place standing — while anomalies slip in among your customersand on your CCTV feeds. Miss one and your shift pays for it. This site documents every verified anomaly tell, the kitchen threats, and the game's fast-moving alpha updates — the developers themselves cite Papa Louie and Animal Hospital as the game's inspirations, and it plays exactly like that mix sounds.
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Written by Morgan Wren · Last updated
This update: facts verified against the game's official Roblox page and community documentation, cross-checked with gameplay footage
11
anomalies documented & verified
24
players per server, co-op
10M+
visits since July 2026
Alpha
public since Aug 7 · updating fast
How a shift works
👁️ Check everything
Anomalies hide among normal customers in person and on the CCTV feeds. The camera prompt is available from Day 1 — cycle it often; three documented anomalies only show on camera.
🧯 Handle the kitchen threats
Named anomalies like Spore Fly and Coffee Monster Buno attack the kitchen itself — each has a specific trigger and a specific counter, documented on the anomalies page.
Those three jobs run at the same time, and that is the whole tension of an Anomaly Cafe Roblox shift: the cafe half punishes you for slowing down, the anomaly half punishes you for not slowing down. Orders queue at the counter while the CCTV wall sits one keypress away, and the kitchen can catch fire — literally — the moment a batch of waffles burns. Most failed shifts trace back to the same mistake: treating it as a cooking game and forgetting to look up.
In person or on CCTV — the two ways an anomaly shows itself
Every one of the 8 documented regular anomalies gives itself away through one of two channels. Most can be caught at the counter: a face that is wrong, eyes that are missing, a smile that does not belong. But 3 of them — Eye Ghost, Camera Looking and the head-banging anomaly — only ever reveal themselves on the CCTV feeds. Serve the whole shift without cycling the cameras and those three walk right past you.
The camera prompt is available from Day 1 (fixed in update v1.3), so there is no excuse to skip it: cycle the feeds between orders, every time. The full roster — each anomaly's tell, its channel, and what to do about it — lives on the anomalies page, along with 4 reported-but-unverified entries we are still checking against footage before we publish them as fact.
🧬 Every documented anomaly & its tell
In-person and CCTV channels, verified against gameplay footage
The kitchen threats are a different game
Alongside the customer-line anomalies, 3 named unique anomalies attack the cafe itself — and they do not respond to staring at them. Spore Fly spawns at random mid-shift and has to be killed on sight with a pan or a talisman. Coffee Monster Buno has a chance to appear when the coffee-making minigame goes badly — sloppy brewing is not just a bad review, it is a spawn condition. Flamme can rise out of burnt pancakes or waffles, which turns ordinary kitchen mistakes into monster triggers.
That link between cooking performance and monster spawns is what makes Anomaly Cafe more than a spot-the-difference game: the better you run the kitchen, the fewer threats you face. Each unique anomaly's exact trigger and counter is documented — and kept current through the alpha patches — on the anomalies page.
Alpha update timeline
- Aug 30, 2026Latest game update shipped (verified via the game's official page) — our pages re-checked after it.
- Aug 25, 2026Game update (per the game's official page).
- Aug 11, 2026Quick improvement pass following the alpha launch.
- Aug 10, 2026Update v1.4 (Alpha) — bug fixes and improvements.
- Aug 7, 2026Public alpha release — the point where the player wave started.
- Aug 6, 2026Update v1.3 — CCTV prompt hotfix (camera now available from Day 1), class abilities locked to their owner, and a cap on late-shift anomaly spawns.
The game updates on a fast alpha rhythm — we re-verify our pages after each update rather than letting facts rot.
What's coming on this site
This guide is young on purpose — we publish only what we've verified, then grow. The first-shift guide, CCTV guide and the character roster (all five playable staff with costs and perks) are live. In progress: per-anomaly detail pages as footage confirms each tell. If the game ships a code system, the codes page flips from “honest zero” to a verified list the same day we can test it.
Game facts verified against the official Roblox page and community documentation. Last checked: August 27, 2026.