Somtum Anomaly Guide: Before you start playing
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OverviewSomtum Anomaly puts you behind the counter of a late-night Thai street food stall, where your job is to serve customers and earn as much money as possible before your shift ends.
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Before you start playing
Warn
Somtum Anomaly is a horror game with deliberate scare moments baked into its design. The game also displays a set of rules at the start — read every word of them, because they are directly connected to how you survive the shift.
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What you are actually trying to do
Summary
Your shift has a clear objective: serve customers and earn as much money as you can before the shift ends. How much you earn matters to how the game progresses. At the same time, the customers you meet are not always straightforward, and how you handle them drives the story toward one of the game's eleven different endings.
- Primary goal earn as much money as possible before your shift ends
- Customer interactions the main way you make money and advance the story
- Endings eleven unique conclusions depending on your choices
- Encounters more than thirty distinct situations spread across playthroughs
- Replay value short shift length makes it easy to run through again with different decisions
Getting the most from multiple runs
Step
With eleven endings and more than thirty encounters, a single playthrough covers only a fraction of what the game has. Each run is short, so starting over costs little time. Deliberately changing how you respond to customers is the way to unlock new story branches and find encounters you missed.
- Chase the endings with eleven to find, treat each new outcome as progress
- Observe each customer carefully the game warns you that they are not always what they seem
Glossary
Glossary- Shift
- The single night of trading that makes up one playthrough — when it ends, so does your run.
- Encounter
- A distinct event or customer situation; the game has more than thirty of them spread across different runs.
- Ending
- One of eleven unique conclusions the game can reach depending on the choices you make during your shift.
- Somtum
- A spicy Thai green papaya salad and the signature dish of the stall you run in this game.
Common questions
FAQWhy does replaying feel worth it?
With eleven unique endings and more than thirty encounters, one run only scratches the surface. Changing how you respond to customers on each run opens up story paths and moments you would not see otherwise.
What happens if I ignore the rules screen?
The rules are directly connected to how you survive the shift — skipping them leaves you unprepared when unusual customers arrive.
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