Home Alone (Anomaly)
Home Alone (Anomaly) Events Schedule: Update 5 Recap and What’s Next
Home Alone (Anomaly) is a Roblox horror game built on one tense premise: you are alone in a house as a string of late-night visitors knock at your door, and not all of them are who they claim to be. You watch the cameras, listen to what each caller says, and decide who to let in and who to turn away — all while trying to earn enough to make it to morning. It has grown into one of the platform’s busier titles, drawing about about 6,900 players right now and more than about 130,000,000 visits over its lifetime.
As of August 24, no new event is on the calendar. The most recent drop, Update 5, brought a pair of fresh visitors and a batch of quality-of-life changes over a weekend in mid-August 2026. It capped a run of near-weekly updates — Update 4 the week before, and a heavily anticipated new-characters release at the start of the month. This page rounds up what just shipped and what the developer’s recent pace suggests is coming; the exact past windows are in the schedule below.
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UPDATE 5
New Visitors & More
Aug 19, 1:00 PM – Aug 21, 2:00 PM ET
Update 5 adds two new visitor types (Nun and Faceless Man), camera improvements, UI updates, leaderboard badges, and a gamepass boost.
UPDATE 4
New Visitor & More
Aug 12, 1:00 PM – Aug 13, 1:00 PM ET
Introduces a new fourth ending and visitor alongside increased nightly encounters and guest voice actor lines.
New characters
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Aug 7, 8:00 PM – Aug 10, 9:23 PM ET
New characters arrive in Home Alone (Anomaly).
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Update 5: two new visitors
Update 5 ran from Thursday, August 19 to Friday, August 21, 2026, and it is the current version of the game. It added two characters to the roster of nightly callers — a Nun and a Faceless Man — alongside a camera system that now zooms and pans, a visitor index for tracking who you have encountered, and refreshed end and heads-up displays. The developer also added badges, new chat and overhead name tags for players on the leaderboards, and a boost to the Fast Night gamepass, then rounded it out with bug fixes.
The window opened at 1:00 PM ET (12:00 PM CT, 11:00 AM MT, 10:00 AM PT, 6:00 PM UK) on August 19 and closed at 2:00 PM ET on August 21. It pulled interest in the thousands, with about 6,400 players marked as going — in line with the game’s other numbered updates.
Update 4: a new visitor and a fourth ending
A week earlier, Update 4 landed as a shorter, one-day event on Thursday, August 12, 2026, running from 1:00 PM ET (10:00 AM PT, 6:00 PM UK) that day to the same time on August 13. It introduced another visitor, fixed and switched on a fourth ending, and increased how many callers turn up over the course of a night. The standout extra was a set of new voice lines recorded with a guest YouTube gamer, alongside the usual bug fixes. It drew about 4,100 players marking themselves as interested.
The new-characters update
Before the numbered updates, a new-characters release ran from Thursday, August 6 to Monday, August 10, 2026, opening at 2:00 PM ET (11:00 AM PT, 7:00 PM UK). The developer kept its contents under wraps ahead of time — teasing it only with a “don’t open right away” line — but it drew by far the biggest response of any recent event, with about 35,000 players marking themselves as going, well above the turnout for the updates that followed.
What’s next
The developer has been shipping updates at a brisk clip — roughly one a week through August 2026, each open anywhere from a single day to a long weekend, and most starting in the early-to-mid afternoon Eastern time. No follow-up to Update 5 has been announced yet, but that recent rhythm suggests the next one may not be far off. We update this page as new events are announced.
Frequently asked questions
When is the next Home Alone (Anomaly) update?
No new event is on the calendar right now. The most recent was Update 5, which ran August 19–21, 2026. The developer has been releasing updates about once a week, so another may be announced soon; any new date will appear in the schedule above.
What was in Update 5 in Home Alone (Anomaly)?
Update 5, released August 19, 2026, added two new visitors — a Nun and a Faceless Man — plus zoom-and-pan cameras, a visitor index, updated end and heads-up displays, badges, new leaderboard name tags, and a boosted Fast Night gamepass, along with bug fixes.
What time do Home Alone (Anomaly) updates start?
Recent updates have started in the early-to-mid afternoon Eastern time. Update 5 opened at 1:00 PM ET (12:00 PM CT, 11:00 AM MT, 10:00 AM PT, 6:00 PM UK), while the earlier new-characters update began an hour later at 2:00 PM ET. Exact start and end times for each are in the schedule above.
How many players does Home Alone (Anomaly) have?
It draws around about 6,900 players at any given time and has passed about 130,000,000 visits overall, with more than about 460,000 favorites — putting it among the more popular horror experiences on Roblox.