Five Nights at Freddy's (2014)

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### Platform

Windows, Xbox One, Xbox One X/S, Xbox Series X/S, PS4, PS5, NIntendo Switch, iOS, Android

### Genre

Horror, point and click

**Five Nights at Freddy's** is a 2014 horror and point and click game made by Scott Cawthon. It is the first game in the FNaF series, the one that started it all. You play as a night guard at Freddy Fazbear's Pizza, but the animatronics are acting strange...

## Gameplay

In this game, you play as a man named Mike Schmidt. You are a security guard working the night shift and local kids restaurant: Freddy Fazbear's Pizza. This place has animatronics, four to be exact: Freddy Fazbear (brown bear), Bonnie the Bunny (blue bunny), Chica the Chicken (yellow chicken), and Foxy the Pirate (brown fox/pirate). But at night, they act strange and aggressive. You have to spend five nights to get your full pay.

### Night 1 + 2

On Night 1, Freddy and Foxy are practically unactive. They are discussed later. Bonnie and Chica are, and they have movement patterns (although they are slow on Night 1). Bonnie goes from the main stage, then to the back room/dining area, then through the hallway and to your office. Chica is more complicated. She can go through the dining area, but also through the bathroom area and sound only area. But eventually she will get to your office through the hallway. You have cameras, lights, and doors. Use the cameras to see where they are. Use the lights to see if one is right at your office, then close the doors. There will be other uses for these tools later on, but for now, these are the main purposes. But, there is a problem. The more you use these tools; using the cameras, closing the doors, using the lights; the power will go down. If it goes out, you have about 10-15 seconds to hope that the night ends, because after these seconds, Freddy will jumpscare you. Now, each night runs from 12 AM - 6 AM. Once it is 6 AM, the night is over. Each "hour" is truly 1 minute and 29 seconds, except for 12 AM - 1 AM, which is 1 minute and 30 seconds. Survive through this time and you'll be able to move onto the next night. Just make sure you do stuff, or else there's a small chance Foxy will start coming out!

### Night 3

This night introduces Freddy and Foxy. Foxy has stages. He is in Pirate's Cove, and he slowly comes out. When he is fully out, he will run to your office. Close the door to block him. If you check the cameras a lot though, he will not come out. Freddy starts on the main stage, then goes through the dining area, then the bathrooms, then the audio only area, then to your east hall corner, then in your office. If you use your camera and go to the camera that Freddy is on, he will be stalled, and will bes topped from moving for a while longer. You can keep him on main stage through the whole night by using a strategy, where you check the lights, but also flip the camera up and down on the main stage. This will stall Freddy and Foxy, and you will see if Bonnie or Chica are at your door.

### Custom Night

You can change the AI level of Freddy, Bonnie, Chica, and Foxy using the Custom Night. This changes the amount of movement opportunities they have, which you can look up more about online. The hardest challenge is 20/20/20/20, but after a while, people started beating it easier and easier. If you beat a Custom Night, you get "fired" for tampering with the animatronics and odor.

### Golden Freddy

Sometimes, you will get a hallucination of a yellow Freddy (probably) animatronic without an endoskeleton sitting in your room. And sometimes, you will get a hallucination of Golden Freddy's face, Bonnie's face, or Freddy's face, with weird features, flashing some of those images repeatedly. Text flashes around the screen saying, "IT'S ME". Sometimes his face will show up on a camera on a poster.

## Lore

### Newspaper

There is a chance that newspapers will show up on the E. Hall Corner camera. They talk about how five children went missing at Freddy Fazbear's Pizza, and that they were presumably dead. The person who killed the kids were caught. Because of a weird odor, which one person said smelled like a dead body, and the tragedy of the missing kids, the pizzeria was to close by the years end (the year of which the newspaper was written in).

### Golden Freddy

People think that "IT'S ME" is implying that there is someone in the Golden Freddy suit who knows the guard.

### Stuffed

Many think that the animatronics are stuffed with the kids' bodies, as it has been pretty much confirmed because of the large evidence,

### The Bite of '87

This bite is referenced by the guy who talks to you on the phone. The only thing we know is that it happens in 1987 and that, according to the phone guy, the frontal lobe got bitten off or removed.

## Reception

The game did great in terms of reception. This game was supposed to be Scott's last project, but it did really good. Many Let's Players played the game as well, which made other people watching buy it for themselves. People had a love for the characters and story after the release, and one day, Scott pleased these people with a sequel...?