Phone Guy explains that the restaurant's four animatronic characters – the titular Freddy Fazbear, Bonnie, Chica and Foxy – are allowed to become mobile at night due to their servomotors locking up if they are left off for too long. A voicemail message from Mike's predecessor nicknamed "Phone Guy", plays each night, in which the employee tells Mike about different aspects of the history of the restaurant. The player controls Mike Schmidt, who has signed up for position as a night security officer at a family pizza restaurant called "Freddy Fazbear's Pizza". In the game's most difficult challenge, all animatronics are set to their highest level of 20. Finishing the main game unlocks a higher difficulty sixth night, the completion of which subsequently opens up a seventh "custom night" during which the player can adjust the AI difficulty of the animatronic characters. The game has five levels comprising five "nights" in the game, each increasing in difficulty. If the player is jumpscared by any of the animatronics, they will be sent to the main menu and must restart from the beginning of the night. After a random amount of time, the office will go pitch black and Freddy will jumpscare the player, resulting in the game ending, unless the player makes it to 6 a.m. The restaurant's main animatronic, Freddy Fazbear, will subsequently appear in the left doorway with flashing lights in his eyes while a music box rendition of " Toreador March" plays. Use of these mechanics consume the player's limited electrical power if all the power is exhausted, the cameras become inoperable, the doors open and the lights go out. The player cannot leave the office, and must close the office doors for self-defense, achieved by clicking buttons adjacent to each door. The cameras do not cover certain areas of the building, most notably the two hallways directly to the left and right of the player, which require checking by lights that the player can control by clicking a button located adjacent to each door in their office. The camera feeds are poorly lit and grainy, and one security camera, located in the kitchen, only provides an audio feed. Each animatronic character has distinct movement patterns, and most of this movement takes place off-screen. These feeds are used to track the movement of the mobile animatronics throughout the night. The player, alone in an office, is given access to a network of security camera feeds that provide views of various parts of the restaurant. (several minutes in real time) without being jumpscared by the four animatronic characters that inhabit the facility. The player acts as a night security guard for a fictional pizza restaurant, and must complete their shift that lasts from midnight to 6:00 a.m. Gameplay Ī gameplay screenshot showing the inside of the protagonist's office, with Chica the Chicken standing in the right hallwayįive Nights at Freddy's is a survival horror video game with point-and-click elements. The game's success led to the launch of a media franchise, including several sequels, spin-offs, books, and merchandise, with its popularity making it subject to numerous imitations and fangames.Ī film adaptation, produced by Blumhouse Productions and starring Josh Hutcherson as Mike Schmidt, and Matthew Lillard as William Afton, is scheduled to be released on October 27, 2023. It was the top-selling game on Desura for the week ending August 18, 2014, and became the subject of numerous popular " Let's Play" YouTube videos, primarily from YouTuber Markiplier. Upon release, the game received generally positive reviews from critics, with praise for its originality, simplicity, and atmosphere, quickly gaining a cult following. The game was later made available on iOS, Android, Windows Phone, Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One. Developed in six months using the Clickteam Fusion 2.5 game engine, Five Nights at Freddy's was released for PC in August 2014 on Desura and Steam. The game takes place in a fictional family pizzeria called "Freddy Fazbear's Pizza", where the player takes the role of a security guard who must defend themselves from the restaurant's animatronic characters that become mobile and homicidal at night.Ĭawthon conceived the idea of the game after receiving criticism of his previous game, Chipper & Sons Lumber Co., for its unintentionally frightening characters that had animatronic-like movement. Five Nights at Freddy's is a 2014 point-and-click survival horror video game developed and published by Scott Cawthon.
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