Five Nights at Freddy's

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7.6

Generally favorable reviews- based on 793 Ratings

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  1. mosus
    Jul 2, 2023
    0
    Nearly invented mascot horror and it did perfectly. it shivers down your back if you see if a damn rabbit on your screen. I never thought that that would ever scare me. Scott did a perfect job. Thank you Scott.
  2. XxieatpastaXx
    Jun 30, 2023
    0
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  3. Killervoid
    Mar 28, 2023
    4
    Boring ass game sitting in a office for 6mintues closing the door if someone's there atmosphere is good and sound as well but that is it boring game would not recommend.
  4. MemeMachine357
    Feb 19, 2023
    3
    I'm goin to soo dis game for 3.99 becuz I pissed my underpants when de chikin get me
  5. Gamesfor
    Dec 2, 2022
    0
    This game sucks, even worse than it’s “imitators” Much rather play poppy and bendy.
  6. funnymystical
    Aug 21, 2022
    4
    Five Nights at Freddy's is overrated. To start off, lets talk about what the game is actually about! A security guard with limited power trying to not get inside a stuffed suit. Now that we're done with that, let's get to the bad.

    The interface is simple and clunky. You sit in a chair with two button options on your left and right which toggles the door and light. When it comes to    Five Nights at Freddy's is overrated. To start off, lets talk about what the game is actually about! A security guard with limited power trying to not get inside a stuffed suit. Now that we're done with that, let's get to the bad.

    The interface is simple and clunky. You sit in a chair with two button options on your left and right which toggles the door and light. When it comes to turning, it feels clunky and slow on PC, mobile devices on the other hand (ex: iOS, android) feels like the game is randomly turning for you.
    Let's talk about the camera's, pretty basic.

    Why is the game a 4/10? Its clunky and gets boring after 10 minutes + the "horror and scary" part isnt shown in the game.    … Expand
  7. GregLobstery
    Feb 18, 2022
    1
    Fnaf is just one of those games that I don't understand how it's taken seriously. It's like the cheapest dollar store jumpscares that are so non-scary I genuinely laugh when it happens because it's so god damn funny. Somehow this game spawned an incredibly complex lore and is considered a classic masterpiece now. Just watch Markiplier play the series, far more entertaining.
  8. Zzzaped123
    Feb 4, 2022
    0
    This game is daylight robbery. There is literally like 5 controls. All you do is close doors ps. hotel Mario did it before and that game is literally the same as being hit by a broomstick. Only eight year old's would find this scary since all it is is dark. Why do people like this it would take five minutes to take and the fandom is super weird
  9. timkahack98652
    Jan 26, 2022
    0
    For its time, this game is one of the scariest games of all time. The story is complex and well written, the presentation is flat, but that what makes it so great for the game's spirit. This is one of the greatest horror games of all time, and I say that you MUST play it. I cannot recommend this enough.
  10. maucoderGit
    Jan 9, 2022
    0
    Fnaf is a revolution in Videogames industry, Starting better jumpscares and other changes on industry
  11. Barbodx
    Dec 21, 2021
    4
    It isnt a fnaf game its completely a new game and it have a lot of bugs that need to be fix
  12. Pedro09866
    Dec 18, 2021
    0
    The game focus on Being good loking and not in terror or history or gameplay nothing but beautiful
  13. VBAf4eNKo
    May 24, 2021
    0
    Геймплей полное дерьмище: сиди на жопе ровно и шваброй кликай по кнопуськам. Графика - целая мыловарня, сделанная очень плохо. Сюжет - херня полная и как хоррор даже не запугивает.
  14. rj03
    May 18, 2021
    4
    Don't buy this rip-off of FNAF! This is not the same to the original thing. I mean, you can't see the security guard's face and you can only check the cameras and can't go out side the office. Also, Foxy acts less like a dog and more like a robot!!! And it looks way to creepy to what it usually is. FNAF is usually cut and adorable and is family friendly, not creepy and horrific! But mostDon't buy this rip-off of FNAF! This is not the same to the original thing. I mean, you can't see the security guard's face and you can only check the cameras and can't go out side the office. Also, Foxy acts less like a dog and more like a robot!!! And it looks way to creepy to what it usually is. FNAF is usually cut and adorable and is family friendly, not creepy and horrific! But most importantly... William Afton doesn't appear with toast!!! This is not FNAF!!!!!!… Expand
  15. ihatefnafhaters
    Apr 19, 2021
    0
    whoever hates fnaf is cringy believers please stop hating your an cringry believer cringy believer are people who belive cringry people
  16. kezzyhko
    Mar 1, 2021
    3
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  17. itsmeitisnt
    Jul 8, 2020
    0
    This game is a staple in horror history and its gave me PTSD Long time yes... bruh
  18. HipMahoko
    Jan 29, 2020
    2
    Over 5 years has passed, and this game didn't becamed a classic. I know about a terrible fandom, but in this review I say only about a game itself.
    First, this horror game is nothing but a casual clicker game, that better suits for mobile phones. The gameplay of this game is very boring. Second, this game is not so scary. It's just a compilation of cheap jumpscares. I never scared of this    Over 5 years has passed, and this game didn't becamed a classic. I know about a terrible fandom, but in this review I say only about a game itself.
    First, this horror game is nothing but a casual clicker game, that better suits for mobile phones. The gameplay of this game is very boring. Second, this game is not so scary. It's just a compilation of cheap jumpscares. I never scared of this game.
    Also, this game had a terrible plot. In other words, this game never had a plot. Only hints of the "deep" plot. Why Scott Cowton didn't wrote a plot. Because of business. If you have a terrible fanbase with 12-year old theorists, you will get a lot of money.    … Expand
  19. Mak_tt_
    Sep 1, 2019
    0
    It is boring and mediocre. You stare at cameras and close doors while waiting for jump scares. It’s not even scary it’s a joke.
  20. Communistfurry
    Aug 21, 2019
    0
    This crowdpandering garbage is the textbook example of lazy horror. Every single image that the game considers 'disturbing' is mindless jumpsacares that wouldn't even frighten a 10 year old after the first one.
  21. IndieCrit
    Aug 1, 2018
    2
    Let me say that I am being completely honest and unbiased. Five Night's at Freddy's is hot garbage, that is ugly, boring, bland, with cheap jumpscares and an extremely convoluted "plot". Boring and you will not get your money's worth.
  22. IloveIndie
    Jul 4, 2018
    1
    Artılar
    +Gece oluşturma ekranı iyi (1.5)
    +Hikayesi fena değil (2)
    +Mekanikler özgün (2)
    +Grafikler idare eder(1)
    Eksiler
    -Mekanikler özgün olsada, bir mobil oyun sığlığında olduğunu gerçeğini değiştirmiyor (3.5)
    -Oyun bir korku oyunu değil, bir gerilim oyunu gibi (4)
    -Hikaye anlatımı rezalet (3)
    Puan: 1/10
    -IloveIndie
  23. MrUknownerBrian
    Nov 20, 2017
    2
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Five Night At Freddy's is a great idea of horror game but very flopped.
    Story:
    The story is about "Mike Smicht" taking a night shift job in "Freddy Fazbears Pizza". Discovering that animatronics are coming for you and you need to protect yourself by doors and saving power. Failing will cause getting stuffed in freddy suit whitch means "Death".
    Gameplay:
    Gameplay is simple: Check Cameras,Check Lights,Close Doors When In Danger and Save Power.
    Unfontrently they aren't anything else to do whitch causes to get boring very fast.
    Graphics:
    I do not really feel if it is good or bad since you only see it on cam and office. So there is no explanation to graphics for me.
    Jumpscares:
    The jumpscare are horrible and it repeats same thing. If you keep getting same ones you will just not get scared anymore witch causes the game to be notreally-horror game.
    Results:
    The Five Night's At Freddy is horrible indie,horror cash grab game. There is no interesting and creepiness after hours experience on this game. I don't reccomend buying it unless it is free or at least one dollar on humble.
    2/10    … Expand
  24. FromKanga
    Jun 5, 2017
    3
    Oh this is going to be a really fun review...
    Five nights at Freddy's is a "survival horror" game made by Scott Cawthon.
    I was curious what was the game about since it has such a huge fanbase and it has so many theories, it got me intrigued, I'm sorry but I thought that this game was terrible. So the story was actually interesting at first and I was curious to continue, but as the    Oh this is going to be a really fun review...
    Five nights at Freddy's is a "survival horror" game made by Scott Cawthon.
    I was curious what was the game about since it has such a huge fanbase and it has so many theories, it got me intrigued, I'm sorry but I thought that this game was terrible.

    So the story was actually interesting at first and I was curious to continue, but as the game continued, I discovered that the story was really underdevelloped, it looses its charm really quickly and becomes just really stupid, people say the sequels have a more develloped story but in my opinion they just become more and more stupid, so yeah the story wasn't good in my opinion.

    And the "gameplay"...So the gameplay works like this, you check security cameras to make sure that the furies... I mean monsters don't kill you, when they get too close you have to press a button to shut a door which will stop the monster from catching you.

    You know, I complained about games being walking simulators (outlast, dear Esther ect...) but this is the worst way of doing a game, walking simulators are competent next to this, at least you actually do something. Here the gameplay is just pushing buttons to not die, literally, you don't walk, there's no exploring and it takes away all kind of tension.
    There is no excuse for this, I can respect it for trying something different but this was a horrible choice for making a game, it's not fun, there is no variety, it's just a bland point n click with no depth.
    People say it's scary but like I said, there's no tension so when a jumpscare happened, I didn't feel anything or cared at all.
    A lot of people said this game was good because of the theories, but that only proves to me that people enjoy the theories more than the game itself, which is never a good sign.

    I really can't recommend this game, it's too linear to have any kind of replay value, it's too boring because the gameplay has nothing interesting and no depth, the story was interesting at first but became a stupid story and made little to no sense.
    I'm sorry but this game in my eyes is just horrible, you can enjoy this game because everyone is allowed to have a different opinion but I really despised this game and if more horror games try to do the same thing as this game, I want no part in it.    … Expand
  25. DelWolf
    Apr 18, 2017
    2
    While FNAF provides a chilling atmosphere in the opening minutes of the game, and you are placed in a unique setting, giving this game some real potential, I completely lost interest once I realised the way it decides to "scare" you is a loud jumpscare. Not only that, but the repetitive gameplay (in my opinion) gets boring after five minutes. I would personally give this one a skip, andWhile FNAF provides a chilling atmosphere in the opening minutes of the game, and you are placed in a unique setting, giving this game some real potential, I completely lost interest once I realised the way it decides to "scare" you is a loud jumpscare. Not only that, but the repetitive gameplay (in my opinion) gets boring after five minutes. I would personally give this one a skip, and it's certainly not deserving of four sequels.… Expand
  26. reviewfrom19842
    Sep 7, 2016
    4
    Pros: It does give off this scary vide and when it jump scares (when you can see it coming) it's really scary.

    Cons: it can only be scary for about 15 minutes they I got really bored. The story in this game sucks so bad that it ruined the game for me.
  27. thejzboy
    Jul 5, 2016
    0
    Its the worst game i ever played you cant even move it was horrible its not scary at all you cant even move its fanbase is trash its boring worst game i ever played
  28. Mellow_Online4
    Mar 22, 2016
    3
    Oh bring Satan upon me I'm criticising one of the most popular horror games of 2014/2015! Now please hear me out!

    I think that in both video games and movies the horror genre is basically on life support and the only thing that horror games have left is that they hope that a youtuber does a let's play of them o their let's play channel. I find it quite hard to find a horror game that    Oh bring Satan upon me I'm criticising one of the most popular horror games of 2014/2015! Now please hear me out!

    I think that in both video games and movies the horror genre is basically on life support and the only thing that horror games have left is that they hope that a youtuber does a let's play of them o their let's play channel. I find it quite hard to find a horror game that has been released within the last 5 years that I can actually say were great horror games. These games being: Alan Wake, Amnesia: the dark descent, Outlast, Alien: Isolation and the evil within. That isn't a lot compared to there being like 500 horror games made in 5 years. Tons of my friends were talking about this game saying it's horror game of the year and I personally don't see why this is supposed to be scary. I just say to them "Alien: Isolation came out the same year"

    Five nights at Freddy's is a horror game (In case u hadn't figured that out already) where a whole lot of nothing happens. Well I mean stuff does happen and that stuff that happens is waiting. Remember those old jump scares that your friends used to send you in an email? Scott Cawthon did and decided to make a game based off of them. In those images you were just waiting for something to pop up and that's exactly what u do in FNAF. Your main goal is to keep an eye on the cameras in order to monitor where all 4 animatronics are at and when they get close to the door u shut it but u can't keep it shut for too long otherwise you will run out of power. Rinse and repeat. It isn't exactly the sort of pressure that should be in a horror game. I wait everyday in my life. I could literally recreate FNAF. I could wait in a waiting room then randomly my friend would say "boo" to me and that's basically. It also takes possibly the laziest and most cliché way of how to scare the gamers, it uses a jump scare. These are scary for like maybe the first 5-10 mins of the game but then the more I got these, the more I just got annoyed at the game and it really took away from any sort of horror elements I thought the game had at the time.

    There isn't really much story in the game itself, but the fan theories have tried to form some sort of story about a bite that happened in 87 by one of the animatronics but this story isn't exactly shown in the game, the fans were the ones that created the story and Scott must have just been like "Yeah that's a good story, I'll put it as a main plot element in the sequel." I would like to clarify that I don't have anything against Scott. He's an impressive indie developer and I'm sure he's a really nice guy.But like I said I'm just not a big fan of this game or it's "story"

    The graphics are to put it one way nostalgic. It isn't anything revolutionary but it brings back memories of the games I used to play on the windows 98, old detective games where I needed to scroll across the screen to find things in the scenery. The animations on the animatronics are also very good especially for an indie game. The sound is a mixed bag. Most of the sound is good but sometimes I hear sounds that I wouldn't exactly expect to hear in a pizzeria. For example u can sometimes hear one of the animatronics laugh. If they laugh that demoniacally y haven't any of the parents or their kids in the morning realised this and fear them. Y just at night? But that really is just nit-picking.

    I was personally bored of FNAF quite quickly and I didn't really want to touch it again after I beat 20/20/20/20 mode and I haven't touched it since. I personally didn't find any replay value in it which is why I haven't picked up the sequels either. But maybe u could find some reason to play through FNAF a second time. Throughout my whole playtime I had to press forward because I wanted to do everything I could, to analyse everything in FNAF in order to write this review and I was bored every second and the jump scares didn't alleviate that. I was just frustrated with them as it meant I needed to restart the night and waste more of my time.

    FNAF personally isn't for me but I can see why so many people like it. If u like FNAF that's fine I'm not going to judge u, I'm not going to judge Scott, I'm not going to address anybody. This game just isn't for me.    … Expand
  29. Nyarulathotep
    Mar 12, 2016
    2
    This is literally how my experience with this game went:
    1-Started the game
    2-Fell for first jumpscare 3-Fell for second jumpscare 4-Fell for third jumpscare 5-Felt nothing at fourth jumpscare 6-Uninstalled the game Jumpscares. That's LITERALLY all there is to this game series. Once the game scares you for a couple of times, you will get used to it and it wont get you anymore.    This is literally how my experience with this game went:
    1-Started the game
    2-Fell for first jumpscare
    3-Fell for second jumpscare
    4-Fell for third jumpscare
    5-Felt nothing at fourth jumpscare
    6-Uninstalled the game

    Jumpscares. That's LITERALLY all there is to this game series.
    Once the game scares you for a couple of times, you will get used to it and it wont get you anymore.
    Because theres only one way you can get scared by this game, and no matter how much of a scaredy cat you are it wont get you anymore after a while.
    And guess what? All the other four or five games in the series are EXACTLY THE SAME.
    That's it. That is LITERALLY it. Nothing more to add.

    What I ask you now is this: HOW THE **** THIS SERIES GOT POPULAR ENOUGH TO DESERVE A ****ING MOVIE?!    … Expand
  30. Ectsoplasm
    Feb 6, 2016
    3
    Let me be clear. FNAF is an awfully over-hyped series. It's not really very good. If you're familiar with ScrewAttack, you've heard them say it's a flash game. They left something out; this is a flash game, that COSTS MONEY. There are plenty of games out there that could qualify as flash games, but this is one which can actually be perfectly replicated on a no-budget flash game. Now don'tLet me be clear. FNAF is an awfully over-hyped series. It's not really very good. If you're familiar with ScrewAttack, you've heard them say it's a flash game. They left something out; this is a flash game, that COSTS MONEY. There are plenty of games out there that could qualify as flash games, but this is one which can actually be perfectly replicated on a no-budget flash game. Now don't get me wrong, this game is not abysmal, it does not stand on the same ground as Sonic '06 and Hatred. The game is boring after a few times playing, regardless of whether or not you survived all 5 nights, and its gameplay (or lack thereof) is garbage. Nonetheless, this horror game accomplishes more without movement than The Evil Within or Slender do with movement.

    Make no mistake, you should NOT buy this game, but it could almost be fixed if it were free-to-play.    … Expand
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Generally favorable reviews - based on 8 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 5 out of 8
  2. Mixed: 3 out of 8
  3. Negative: 0 out of 8
  1. Eurogamer Italy
    Oct 21, 2014
    60
    Five Nights at Freddy’s presents an interesting concept to the player, and tries a different approach to the genre other than the usual asylum, graveyard and ghost town. Even the gameplay has something to say, but after the first minutes, once understood the mechanism, is hard to find a real interest in continuing playing.
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  2. LEVEL (Czech Republic)
    Oct 13, 2014
    80
    No nightmare can match the sheer terror of looking into the eyes of a plush monster that has come to tear you apart. A new kind of horror is in town. [Issue#245]
  3. Games.cz
    Oct 4, 2014
    70
    Five Nights at Freddy's, even without both the third dimension and high production values in general, is really scary. It is a little horror game which will scare you with both its original idea and its implementation, proving there may be always a new approach in any genre.
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