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 way of the 5 Nights at Freddy’s video games. Created by Scott Cawthon, the primary recreation 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 thinking about taking up the evening shift in opposition to these killer animatronics, we’ve detailed tips on how 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 primary FNAF video games, there are 9 in whole, which we’ve coated under. 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 Evening.
5 Nights at Freddy’s Video games in Chronological Order
For these seeking to play by way of the 5 Nights at Freddy’s video games in chronological order to get the complete story, we’ve executed our greatest to rearrange them in story order. If in case you have completely different theories about this franchise’s order, although, share them within the feedback!
1. 5 Nights at Freddy’s 4 (2015)
Out there on: Android/IOS, Nintendo Change, PC, PlayStation 4, Xbox One
When working by way 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-Evening minigames that may be seen by interacting with a TV in the lounge. After hitting it sufficient occasions, it’ll ultimately convey up a nonetheless for a industrial for a present known as Fredbear and Buddies, 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 special setting. This time, you play as a younger baby 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 examine 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 hold your flashlight near scare them away.
2. 5 Nights at Freddy’s 2 (2014)
Out there 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 can have a tougher 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 you have to hold wound as much as hold The Puppet away. This animatronic received’t be fooled by your sneaky little faux Freddy head, so make sure that to maintain the music field going.
We’ve positioned this recreation 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 Evening 5, which is dated for that 12 months.
3. 5 Nights at Freddy’s: Sister Location (2016)
Out there on: Android/IOS, Nintendo Change, PC, PlayStation 4, Xbox One
In a departure from the earlier recreation, and as its title might level to, 5 Nights at Freddy’s: Sister Location takes place at a special spot known as Circus Child’s Leisure and Rental, which options its personal animatronics as properly. 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 at the start 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 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 be introduced up by Cellphone Man in FNAF 1 throughout Evening 1. So, for now, having Sister Location between the 2 looks as if an excellent match. Tell us your theories within the feedback under, although!
4. 5 Nights at Freddy’s (2014)
Out there 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 recreation that had gamers taking up the safety guard mantle to maintain watch of Freddy Fazbear’s Pizza for 5 evening shifts. Primarily, you have to regulate the animatronics there: Chica, Bonnie, Cunning, and naturally, Freddy Fazbear. Their conduct has change into a bit unpredictable currently, they usually wish to roam round freely at evening… simply make sure that they don’t roam into your workplace.
Alongside the cameras that should be checked, gamers may shut the safety doorways close to them if the animatronics get too shut in the course of the evening. Have in mind, 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, possible someday within the early ‘90s. This may be assumed from Cellphone Man’s dialogue throughout Evening 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)
Out there on: Android/IOS, Nintendo Change, PC, PlayStation 4, Xbox One
In accordance with 5 Nights at Freddy’s 3’s Steam description, this recreation 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 properly… 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 outdated animatronics from it to actually hold you in your toes!
As soon as once more, you step into the footwear of a safety guard holding 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 techniques that go offline and shut off vents to stop these creepy animatronics from crawling towards your workplace area.
Freddy Fazbear’s Pizzeria Simulator (2017)
Out there on: Android/IOS, Nintendo Change, PC, PlayStation 4, Xbox One
If you happen to’re feeling bored with working safety or upkeep, why not make the soar into working your personal pizza place? In Freddy Fazbear’s Pizzeria Simulator, you get to just do that. However don’t fear, this recreation isn’t with out its frights. You’ll nonetheless must hold the animatronics away from you when in your workplace, and there’s lots to observe while you’re in there as properly.
Not solely do you might have a pc close to you to maintain tabs on every part and full your duties, however you’ll want to observe the vents on each side of you for something that could possibly be crawling by way of. Nevertheless, 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 properly. Considered one of these is Springtrap, whose first look within the sequence was in FNAF 3, which locations this recreation someday after it in a chronological playthrough.
5 Nights at Freddy’s: Assist Wished (2019)
Out there on: Android/IOS, Nintendo Change, Oculus Quest, PSVR, PC, PlayStation 4, Xbox One
5 Nights at Freddy’s: Assist Wished 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 known as 5 Nights at Freddy’s: Assist Wished 2 for PSVR 2. Developed by Metal Wool Studios in collaboration with Scott Cawthon, in Assist Wished you may play by way of quite a lot of mini-games that function acquainted animatronics and experiences from earlier video games within the sequence.
However the place does this recreation 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 foul popularity over the previous couple of a long time, […] That is why we now have recreated many of those fully fictitious eventualities (lies) that you’ve got been fed over the past a number of years right into a hilarious VR recreation.” And on condition that Assist Wished recreates conditions from earlier video games within the timeline as much as FNAF 3 on our record, it is smart to put it after that recreation and close to Pizzeria Simulator.
5 Nights at Freddy’s: Particular Supply (2019)
Out there on: IOS/Android
5 Nights at Freddy’s: Particular Supply is an Augmented Actuality recreation that was launched on cell gadgets just some months after Assist Wished. Very like how Assist Wished immersed you into FNAF in VR, Particular Supply did the identical by bringing the animatronics residence to you. On this recreation, you need to hold a watch out for them in your cell system as they stalk across the room, using a flashlight and managed shock to cease them.
Just like Assist Wished, Particular Supply entails its personal department of Fazbear Leisure. Right here, the Fazbear Funtime Service is what’s sending the animatronics to your own home and, relating to 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 Wished. Given how HandUnit explains at first of Assist Wished that, “Fazbear Leisure is happy to hitch the digital age, and what higher means to do this than with an edge-of-your-seat digital actuality expertise,” it feels 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)
Out there on: Google Stadia, PC, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Xbox One, Xbox Collection X/S, Nintendo Change
The newest 5 Nights at Freddy’s recreation, Safety Breach, is the second recreation within the franchise to be developed between each Scott and Metal Wool Studios, following Assist Wished. 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 shocking useful hand alongside the way in which.
In a chronological playthrough, this recreation 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 verify 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 thinking about enjoying by way of the primary 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 Wished 2 from Metal Wool Studios is the sequel to 5 Nights at Freddy’s: Assist Wished 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.
