Sell Fries! [Anomaly] anomalies: the full roster and night survival hub

These rules apply before any specific anomaly counter:

1. Finish every outdoor job before 8:00 PM — collect potatoes, finish deliveries, return across the road.
2. Once inside, stay indoors and avoid opening doors for several in-game seconds after a warning flashes.
3. Keep a Cross or Gun equipped at night for the chase threats. They do not work on The Giant.
4. Reload the Window Fries Shooter before each shift so it can fire when the Window Anomaly appears.
5. Read the on-screen warning text — "RUN INSIDE!", "THE GIANT!", and the Window Anomaly's distorted red text each tell you which counter to use.

Published counts for this game move between six, seven and eight, and the roster above lists all eight so that nothing spawns without an answer here.

• Some guides count six by leaving out the Cat Monster and the crawler.
• Some count seven by treating the Drive-Through Crawler as the Window Anomaly's escalation rather than an entity of its own — which is what it is, mechanically, but it is a separate thing you have to survive.
• Some count eight by listing everything.

The roster and counters here were checked against public guides on 2026-10-21. The Cat Monster is the least consistently documented entry, and one source still calls it unconfirmed, so treat that counter as the one most likely to change.

Four entities have their own pages with the full detail: The Giant, the Shadow Entity, the Potato Eater and the Window Anomaly. The counters for the other four are complete enough to handle in place.

Night begins at 8:00 PM, and most encounters start there. But no guide publishes a fixed day/night schedule for every entry, so read the roster this way:

• Documented as night-only: the Window Anomaly and its Drive-Through Crawler escalation, the Shadow Entity, the Cat Monster and The Giant.
• Not restricted to the night window by any published source: Power Out and the Stuck Robot Helper. Both interrupt the kitchen rather than chasing you outside — Power Out kills the lights and the conveyor, and the Stuck Robot Helper only affects a Robot Helper you have already bought.

That means you can meet those two at any hour. Finish outdoor jobs before 8:00 PM regardless, but do not treat daylight as a guaranteed safe shift.

When more than one anomaly fires at once, work down this order. Each tier already carries the counter, so you do not have to leave this page mid-shift:

The Giant is a massive late-night boss with antlers and glowing purple skin that fires energy beams across the street. The encounter is announced by rumbling, screen static, and the on-screen text "THE GIANT!". Cross, Gun, and other weapons do not affect it, so the only counter is to sprint inside as soon as the warning appears and stay there until the boss passes. For the full counter and the dodge pattern, see the Giant boss page.

The Window Anomaly is a dark figure with bloodshot eyes that appears at the order and service window and displays distorted red, broken text demanding service. It only triggers while the service window is open. The counter is the red EMERGENCY button beside the window, which closes the emergency shutter immediately. The Window Fries Shooter handles the same threat automatically when it is loaded. Ignore it and it escalates into a Drive-Through Crawler. For the full counter, see the Window Anomaly page.

All the same nighttime anomalies still spawn on Hard Mode, but The Giant appears regularly starting on Night 2 of every Hard Mode run instead of being a rare encounter. That skews Hard Mode pressure heavily toward night survival rather than production. For the unlock condition and the priority order for Hard Mode runs, see the Hard Mode page.

The October 2026 Halloween event adds one more reason to clear the shop before dark: Trick or Treating is a night-time Candy run that takes you away from the restaurant while the anomalies are active.