With Blumhouse’s new 5 Nights at Freddy’s movie releasing this 12 months on October 27, there’s no higher time than now to play via the 5 Nights at Freddy’s video games. Created by Scott Cawthon, the primary sport launched again in 2014 and has since garnered an unbelievable fan base and adopted up its horror hit with all kinds of video games; from mainline installments to loads of spinoffs.
For these excited about taking up the evening shift in opposition to these killer animatronics, we’ve detailed the way to play every of the mainline FNAF video games in each chronological and launch date order under.
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How Many 5 Nights at Freddy’s Video games Are There?
In the case of the principle FNAF video games, there are 9 in whole, which we’ve lined under. So far as spin-offs and extra challenge-based video games go, although, there are 4 extra FNAF video games that fall on this class. These are 5 Nights at Freddy’s World, Freddy in Area 2, Safety Breach: Fury’s Rage, and Final Customized Night time.
5 Nights at Freddy’s Video games in Chronological Order
For these seeking to play via the 5 Nights at Freddy’s video games in chronological order to get the complete story, we’ve carried out our greatest to rearrange them in story order. If in case you have totally different theories about this franchise’s order, although, share them within the feedback!
1. 5 Nights at Freddy’s 4 (2015)
Obtainable on: Android/IOS, Nintendo Swap, PC, PlayStation 4, Xbox One
When working via the timeline of 5 Nights at Freddy’s, the sport to begin out with is definitely 5 Nights at Freddy’s 4, because it takes place in 1983. That is assumed due to an easter egg throughout one of many post-Night time minigames that may be seen by interacting with a TV in the lounge. After hitting it sufficient instances, it’ll ultimately deliver up a nonetheless for a industrial for a present referred to as Fredbear and Associates, which seems to have aired in 1983, provided that’s the date beneath the title.
In comparison with its predecessors, although, FNAF 4 has a special setting. This time, you play as a younger youngster of their bed room slightly than as a safety guard in an workplace. All through the evening, you’ll must run out of your bed room doorways to your closet (and even verify behind you in your mattress) for quite a lot of terrifying enemies, however primarily nightmare variations of the unique animatronics: Freddy, Bonnie, Chica, and Cunning. Hear out for them and maintain your flashlight near scare them away.
2. 5 Nights at Freddy’s 2 (2014)
Obtainable on: Android/IOS, Nintendo Swap, PC, PlayStation 4, Xbox One
5 Nights at Freddy’s 2 is subsequent in a chronological playthrough and brings gamers to the newly-opened Freddy Fazbear’s Pizza to work the evening shifts as a safety guard. FNAF 2 additionally introduces new animatronics within the combine alongside up to date variations of its classics. These new additions are The Puppet and Balloon Boy, so that you’ll have extra to be careful for on the cameras.
This time round, you’re additionally given a Freddy Fazbear head to put on in case the animatronics occur to succeed in your workplace. With it on, a lot of the animatronics could have a more durable time recognizing you and go away, which’ll purchase you some extra time earlier than the first light. You even have a music field that it is advisable to maintain wound as much as maintain The Puppet away. This animatronic gained’t be fooled by your sneaky little pretend Freddy head, so ensure that to maintain the music field going.
We’ve positioned this sport as second in line for a chronological playthrough, because it’s set in 1987. This may be assumed from the paycheck you obtain on the finish of Night time 5, which is dated for that 12 months.
3. 5 Nights at Freddy’s: Sister Location (2016)
Obtainable on: Android/IOS, Nintendo Swap, PC, PlayStation 4, Xbox One
In a departure from the earlier sport, and as its title might level to, 5 Nights at Freddy’s: Sister Location takes place at a special spot referred to as Circus Child’s Leisure and Rental, which options its personal animatronics as nicely. This time round, you play as a technician working evening shifts with a sequence of duties to finish alongside surviving the animatronics.
5 Nights at Freddy’s: Sister Location is definitely a bit trickier to put on the timeline, and plenty of followers nonetheless debate when it could possibly be set. The explanation we’ve chosen this slot is due to a line HandUnit says firstly of the sport: “Because of the large success, and much more so, the unlucky closing of Freddy Fazbear’s Pizza, it was clear that the stage was set, no pun supposed, for one more contender in youngsters’s leisure.” This line could possibly be referencing when Freddy Fazbear’s Pizza closed down in ‘87 following FNAF 2, which can also be introduced up by Telephone Man in FNAF 1 throughout Night time 1. So, for now, having Sister Location between the 2 looks like match. Tell us your theories within the feedback under, although!
4. 5 Nights at Freddy’s (2014)
Obtainable on: Android/IOS, Nintendo Swap, PC, PlayStation 4, Xbox One
The one which began all of it. 5 Nights at Freddy’s was the primary sport that had gamers taking up the safety guard mantle to maintain watch of Freddy Fazbear’s Pizza for 5 evening shifts. Primarily, it is advisable to regulate the animatronics there: Chica, Bonnie, Cunning, and naturally, Freddy Fazbear. Their conduct has turn into a bit unpredictable these days, they usually wish to roam round freely at evening… simply ensure that they don’t roam into your workplace.
Alongside the cameras that should be checked, gamers can even shut the safety doorways close to them if the animatronics get too shut in the course of the evening. Remember, although, you solely have restricted quantities of energy to make use of. As soon as it’s gone, goodbye doorways and lights!
5 Nights at Freddy’s takes place a couple of years later than the beforehand talked about video games, probably someday within the early ‘90s. This may be assumed from Telephone Man’s dialogue throughout Night time 1 the place he says that the animatronics used to have the ability to stroll round in the course of the day, “however then there was the chunk of ‘87.” This helps place it after FNAF 2 and earlier than FNAF3, which we’ll get to subsequent.
5 Nights at Freddy’s 3 (2015)
Obtainable on: Android/IOS, Nintendo Swap, PC, PlayStation 4, Xbox One
In keeping with 5 Nights at Freddy’s 3’s Steam description, this sport is ready “Thirty years after Freddy Fazbear’s Pizza closed its doorways,” which might put it after the occasions of FNAF 1, provided that’s when Freddy Fazbear’s Pizza closed for good, and, if we’re going with the early ‘90s, would set it someday across the 2020s. It brings gamers right into a model new location as nicely… Fazbear’s Fright: The Horror Attraction. Sure, this new attraction is predicated on the terrifying occasions that occurred in Freddy Fazbear’s Pizza, they usually even have previous animatronics from it to actually maintain you in your toes!
As soon as once more, you step into the footwear of a safety guard protecting watch of the attraction and its “nice new relics” which were picked up. Like earlier than, you’ll have safety cameras to observe, however this time you even have a upkeep panel to reboot methods that go offline and shut off vents to forestall these creepy animatronics from crawling towards your workplace area.
Freddy Fazbear’s Pizzeria Simulator (2017)
Obtainable on: Android/IOS, Nintendo Swap, PC, PlayStation 4, Xbox One
If you happen to’re feeling uninterested in working safety or upkeep, why not make the leap into working your personal pizza place? In Freddy Fazbear’s Pizzeria Simulator, you get to do exactly that. However don’t fear, this sport isn’t with out its frights. You’ll nonetheless must maintain the animatronics away from you when in your workplace, and there’s a lot to observe whenever you’re in there as nicely.
Not solely do you’ve gotten a pc close to you to maintain tabs on all the things and full your duties, however you’ll want to look at the vents on either side of you for something that could possibly be crawling via. Nevertheless, each your laptop and the vents make fairly a little bit of noise, so that you’ll should take turns shutting them off to listen to your environment.
All through the sport, you’ll salvage animatronics as nicely. One in all these is Springtrap, whose first look within the sequence was in FNAF 3, which locations this sport someday after it in a chronological playthrough.
5 Nights at Freddy’s: Assist Needed (2019)
Obtainable on: Android/IOS, Nintendo Swap, Oculus Quest, PSVR, PC, PlayStation 4, Xbox One
5 Nights at Freddy’s: Assist Needed was the franchise’s first step into VR – and later got here out on PC and consoles – and even has a sequel set to return out later this 12 months referred to as 5 Nights at Freddy’s: Assist Needed 2 for PSVR 2. Developed by Metal Wool Studios in collaboration with Scott Cawthon, in Assist Needed you possibly can play via quite a lot of mini-games that function acquainted animatronics and experiences from earlier video games within the sequence.
However the place does this sport match into the timeline? Throughout the opening ‘Welcome’ message for the sport, HandUnit states that “Fazbear Leisure has developed one thing of a foul status over the previous few many years, […] That is why we’ve recreated many of those fully fictitious eventualities (lies) that you have been fed during the last a number of years right into a hilarious VR sport.” And provided that Assist Needed recreates conditions from earlier video games within the timeline as much as FNAF 3 on our record, it is sensible to put it after that sport and close to Pizzeria Simulator.
5 Nights at Freddy’s: Particular Supply (2019)
Obtainable on: IOS/Android
5 Nights at Freddy’s: Particular Supply is an Augmented Actuality sport that was launched on cell gadgets only a few months after Assist Needed. Very similar to how Assist Needed immersed you into FNAF in VR, Particular Supply did the identical by bringing the animatronics dwelling to you. On this sport, you need to maintain an eye fixed out for them in your cell system as they stalk across the room, using a flashlight and managed shock to cease them.
Much like Assist Needed, Particular Supply includes its personal department of Fazbear Leisure. Right here, the Fazbear Funtime Service is what’s sending the animatronics to your home and, in the case of the franchise’s timeline, it will make sense that they’d create one thing like this across the time of The Freddy Fazbear Digital Expertise in Assist Needed. Given how HandUnit explains at the beginning of Assist Needed that, “Fazbear Leisure is worked up to hitch the digital age, and what higher means to try this than with an edge-of-your-seat digital actuality expertise,” it feels like that was their first endeavor, and this may be their second outing into it.
5 Nights at Freddy’s: Safety Breach (2021)
Obtainable on: Google Stadia, PC, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Xbox One, Xbox Collection X/S, Nintendo Swap
The latest 5 Nights at Freddy’s sport, Safety Breach, is the second sport within the franchise to be developed between each Scott and Metal Wool Studios, following Assist Needed. It’s a free-roam survival horror the place you play as a younger boy named Gregory who will get trapped at evening in Freddy Fazbear’s Mega Pizzaplex. All through the evening, he’ll must survive the varied animatronics, however with a stunning useful hand alongside the way in which.
In a chronological playthrough, this sport is available in final. This will largely be taken away from the truth that Freddy Fazbear’s has now grown right into a Mega Pizzaplex, however there’s additionally a second in one of many endings that helps affirm that it’s set after one of many beforehand talked about video games. Nevertheless, in order to keep away from spoilers, we’ll allow you to uncover that ending by yourself!
5 Nights at Freddy’s Video games in Launch Order
If you happen to’re excited about taking part in via the principle 5 Nights at Freddy’s video games of their launch order, yow will discover them listed as such under:
5 Nights at Freddy’s Video games Coming Quickly
Introduced throughout PlayStation’s Showcase in Might, 5 Nights at Freddy’s: Assist Needed 2 from Metal Wool Studios is the sequel to 5 Nights at Freddy’s: Assist Needed and is ready to launch someday later this 12 months for PSVR2.
Hannah Hoolihan is a contract author who works with the Guides and Commerce groups right here at IGN.
