Keep the Door Locked Roach King Visitor

What the Roach King is

The Roach King is a confirmed Keep the Door Locked visitor anomaly. If you have pizza in your room, a giant cockroach arrives at your door and asks if he can have some. The game tells you pizzas cost around $150.

• If you say yes, the Roach King enters, eats five slices of pizza, and leaves. You lose the slices but the encounter ends safely.
• If you say no, his brood of normal cockroaches swarms the room and the encounter becomes much worse.

This is one of the rare visitor anomalies where the right answer is yes.

How to respond

1. Have pizza in your room.
2. Notice the giant roach at the door.
3. Choose the option that allows him in.
4. Watch him eat five slices.
5. The encounter ends safely.

Common mistakes

• Saying no to save pizza. The swarm is much worse than five slices.
• Refusing because the giant roach feels like a clear anomaly. The Roach King is an exception — let him in.
• Trying to fight the Roach King. There is no combat. Saying yes is the entire solution.

Why the Roach King matters

The Roach King is the game’s way of teaching that some visitors are not threatening at all. Refusing every visitor because you fear anomalies leads to problems like the bathroom monster. The Roach King rewards a balanced door policy: refuse anomalies, admit safe visitors, and accept the rare friendly anomaly that costs only five slices of pizza.

Pizza management

Pizza is an in-game resource. The game tells you it costs around $150 per pizza. Keep at least one pizza in the room if you want a clean Roach King resolution; otherwise the encounter escalates.

• Buy pizza from the in-game shop or earn it through play.
• The Roach King event triggers only when pizza is in the room.
• Five slices is roughly a third of a pizza; that is the expected cost of a clean Roach King encounter.

Related anomalies

• Bathroom monster: defence is having a safe visitor sleeping in the room.
• The Cake is Not a Lie: another rare positive door event that refills sanity.
• Pizza rat: a separate visitor lead tied to the Rat Buster badge.

The threat ranking treats the Roach King as a balanced-cost visitor because saying yes costs slices but saying no costs much more.

Sample encounter

A knock is followed by a giant cockroach standing on two legs, asking politely for pizza. You remember the rule: if you have pizza and you say yes, he eats five slices and leaves. If you say no, his smaller brood swarms the room. You have pizza, so you say yes. The roach king shuffles in, devours five slices in a few seconds, and walks out. The pizza loss is a small price to keep the room clean.

Combine with other signals

The roach king sits next to the cake trolley and the pizza man as a positive door event. It also overlaps with the bathroom monster habit: both reward a calm, observant response rather than a panic refusal. Practicing one positive event makes the others easier to spot.

Build the habit

Train a simple positive-event checklist: is the visitor humanoid, asking for something, and visibly weird but non-hostile? If yes, consider the positive event pattern. The roach king, the cake, the cat, and the pizza man all share a quiet, almost comedic tone. Build the recognition so a heavy night does not erase the calm habit.

The hidden cost of saying no

Saying no to the roach king without pizza in the room is rare because he usually only knocks when you have food. The common mistake is the reverse: the player has pizza, panics at the sight of a giant cockroach, and refuses. The roach king’s small brood then swarms the room, and the sanity damage plus the visual disturbance is worse than losing five pizza slices. The math always favors saying yes when you have pizza and the visitor looks like a giant friendly cockroach rather than an aggressive entity.

A small note on the visual cue

The roach king stands upright, makes polite hand gestures, and asks for pizza before any other action. Compare that with a hostile anomaly: the doppelganger has a slumped copy, the headbanger is already banging, the knife killer is already holding a knife. The roach king’s behavior is closer to a delivery person than a threat, and the recognition habit is to trust the calm politeness for a few seconds before locking the door. Most of the time, the politeness is real.