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Five Nights at Freddy's (FNaF) is an American multimedia horror franchise created and owned by Scott Cawthon. The franchise began with the release of its first video game on August 8, 2014. Three sequels were released up to July 2015, setting a Guinness World Record for "most video game sequels released in a year".
Five Nights at Freddy's 2 has different tools; there are no protective doors, and the player must instead use an empty animatronic head and flashlight to defend themself against the animatronics. The game introduced a music box which must be remotely wound up on a regular basis to prevent an attack from a particular animatronic.
As with all Five Nights at Freddy's games, failing to defend oneself from the animatronics results in a jumpscare, causing a game over. However, in this game, the animatronics do not actively pursue the player; instead, a jumpscare occurs if the assigned tasks are not completed correctly.
Critics debated Five Nights at Freddy's approach to horror. TouchArcade said that Five Nights at Freddy's challenged the player by forcing them to yield to their own paranoia, causing them to lose if they gave in to their fear. [5] Nintendo Life contended that the atmosphere and lack of defensive tools created a compelling feel of dread. [11]
In the first game of the series Five Nights at Freddy's, the animatronics' violent attitude towards humans at night is explained away as faulty programming, which causes them to mistake the protagonist for an endoskeleton without a character suit on—which goes against the establishment's rules. As a result, the animatronics try to "forcefully ...
On June 26, 2018, the third novel in the Five Nights at Freddy's book series, Five Nights at Freddy's: The Fourth Closet, was revealed on Amazon and was slated for release that same day. [ 30 ] On December 26, 2019, the first book in the eleven-book series, Fazbear Frights #1: Into the Pit was released on Amazon in Kindle and paperback formats ...
It is the first official spin-off to the Five Nights at Freddy's series and the fifth game overall. The game was initially released for Windows via Steam on January 21, 2016, and for Android on January 12, 2017, [ a ] but has since been taken down from those two platforms and re-released as freeware on Game Jolt .
Five Nights at Freddy's: Help Wanted [a] is a 2019 virtual reality (VR) survival horror game developed by Steel Wool Studios and Scott Cawthon.It is an anthology of minigames based on the Five Nights at Freddy's franchise; the player must complete tasks without being attacked and killed by homicidal animatronic characters.