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 by means of the 5 Nights at Freddy’s video games. Created by Scott Cawthon, the primary sport launched again in 2014 and has since garnered an unimaginable fan base and adopted up its horror hit with all kinds of video games; from mainline installments to loads of spinoffs.
For these taken with taking over the evening shift in opposition to these killer animatronics, we’ve detailed how one can play every of the mainline FNAF video games in each chronological and launch date order beneath.
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How Many 5 Nights at Freddy’s Video games Are There?
Relating to the principle FNAF video games, there are 9 in whole, which we’ve coated beneath. So far as spin-offs and extra challenge-based video games go, although, there are 4 further FNAF video games that fall on this class. These are 5 Nights at Freddy’s World, Freddy in House 2, Safety Breach: Fury’s Rage, and Final Customized Night time.
5 Nights at Freddy’s Video games in Chronological Order
For these trying to play by means of the 5 Nights at Freddy’s video games in chronological order to get the total story, we’ve performed our greatest to rearrange them in story order. You probably have totally different theories about this franchise’s order, although, share them within the feedback!
1. 5 Nights at Freddy’s 4 (2015)
Accessible on: Android/IOS, Nintendo Change, PC, PlayStation 4, Xbox One
When working by means of 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 occasions, it’ll finally convey up a nonetheless for a business for a present known as Fredbear and Associates, which seems to have aired in 1983, on condition that’s the date beneath the title.
In comparison with its predecessors, although, FNAF 4 has a unique setting. This time, you play as a younger baby of their bed room fairly 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 examine behind you in your mattress) for a wide range of terrifying enemies, however primarily nightmare variations of the unique animatronics: Freddy, Bonnie, Chica, and Cunning. Pay attention out for them and maintain your flashlight near scare them away.
2. 5 Nights at Freddy’s 2 (2014)
Accessible on: Android/IOS, Nintendo Change, 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, many of the animatronics could have a more durable time recognizing you and depart, which’ll purchase you some extra time earlier than the break of day. 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 faux Freddy head, so be sure 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)
Accessible on: Android/IOS, Nintendo Change, 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 unique spot known 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 collection 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 lots of followers nonetheless debate when it may very well be set. The rationale we’ve chosen this slot is due to a line HandUnit says initially of the sport: “Because of the huge success, and much more so, the unlucky closing of Freddy Fazbear’s Pizza, it was clear that the stage was set, no pun meant, for an additional contender in kids’s leisure.” This line may very well 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 as if a very good match. Tell us your theories within the feedback beneath, although!
4. 5 Nights at Freddy’s (2014)
Accessible on: Android/IOS, Nintendo Change, 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 over 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 habits has change into a bit unpredictable recently, and so they prefer to roam round freely at evening… simply be sure they don’t roam into your workplace.
Alongside the cameras that must be checked, gamers may shut the safety doorways close to them if the animatronics get too shut throughout the evening. Be mindful, 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 just a few years later than the beforehand talked about video games, seemingly 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 throughout the day, “however then there was the chew 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)
Accessible on: Android/IOS, Nintendo Change, PC, PlayStation 4, Xbox One
In response to 5 Nights at Freddy’s 3’s Steam description, this sport is about “Thirty years after Freddy Fazbear’s Pizza closed its doorways,” which might put it after the occasions of FNAF 1, on condition 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, and so they even have previous animatronics from it to actually maintain you in your toes!
As soon as once more, you step into the sneakers of a safety guard conserving watch of the attraction and its “nice new relics” which have been picked up. Like earlier than, you’ll have safety cameras to observe, however this time you even have a upkeep panel to reboot programs that go offline and shut off vents to stop these creepy animatronics from crawling towards your workplace house.
Freddy Fazbear’s Pizzeria Simulator (2017)
Accessible on: Android/IOS, Nintendo Change, PC, PlayStation 4, Xbox One
When you’re feeling bored with working safety or upkeep, why not make the leap into operating your personal pizza place? In Freddy Fazbear’s Pizzeria Simulator, you get to just do 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 if you’re in there as nicely.
Not solely do you could have a pc close to you to maintain tabs on all the things and full your duties, however you’ll want to observe the vents on either side of you for something that may very well be crawling by means of. Nonetheless, each your laptop and the vents make fairly a little bit of noise, so that you’ll need to take turns shutting them off to listen to your environment.
All through the sport, you’ll salvage animatronics as nicely. Considered one of these is Springtrap, whose first look within the collection was in FNAF 3, which locations this sport someday after it in a chronological playthrough.
5 Nights at Freddy’s: Assist Needed (2019)
Accessible on: Android/IOS, Nintendo Change, 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 come back out later this 12 months known 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 may play by means of a wide range of mini-games that characteristic acquainted animatronics and experiences from earlier video games within the collection.
However the place does this sport match into the timeline? In the course of the opening ‘Welcome’ message for the sport, HandUnit states that “Fazbear Leisure has developed one thing of a nasty popularity over the previous few many years, […] That is why we’ve recreated many of those utterly fictitious eventualities (lies) that you’ve got been fed during the last a number of years right into a hilarious VR sport.” And on condition 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)
Accessible on: IOS/Android
5 Nights at Freddy’s: Particular Supply is an Augmented Actuality sport that was launched on cell gadgets just some months after Assist Needed. Very like how Assist Needed immersed you into FNAF in VR, Particular Supply did the identical by bringing the animatronics residence to you. On this sport, you need to maintain a watch 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 entails its personal department of Fazbear Leisure. Right here, the Fazbear Funtime Service is what’s sending the animatronics to your home and, in relation to the franchise’s timeline, it might 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 in the beginning of Assist Needed that, “Fazbear Leisure is happy to affix the digital age, and what higher manner to try this than with an edge-of-your-seat digital actuality expertise,” it seems like that was their first endeavor, and this is able to be their second outing into it.
5 Nights at Freddy’s: Safety Breach (2021)
Accessible on: Google Stadia, PC, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Xbox One, Xbox Sequence X/S, Nintendo Change
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 assorted animatronics, however with a stunning useful hand alongside the way in which.
In a chronological playthrough, this sport is available in final. This may 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. Nonetheless, 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
When you’re taken with enjoying by means of the principle 5 Nights at Freddy’s video games of their launch order, you could find them listed as such beneath:
5 Nights at Freddy’s Video games Coming Quickly
Introduced throughout PlayStation’s Showcase in Could, 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 about 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.