With Blumhouse’s new Five Nights at Freddy’s movie releasing this week on on October 27, and with the model new Destroy DLC out now for Safety Breach, there’s no higher time to play by the Five Nights at Freddy’s video games. Created by Scott Cawthon, the first 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 in taking up the evening shift towards these killer animatronics, we’ve detailed how to play every of the mainline FNAF video games in each chronological and launch date order beneath.
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How Many Five Nights at Freddy’s Games Are There?
There are 10 primary FNAF video games in complete, 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 in this class. These are Five Nights at Freddy’s World, Freddy in House 2, Safety Breach: Fury’s Rage, and Final Customized Night time.
Five Nights at Freddy’s Games in Chronological Order
For these trying to play by the Five Nights at Freddy’s video games in chronological order to get the full story, we’ve accomplished our greatest to prepare them in story order. In case you have completely different theories about this franchise’s order, although, share them in the feedback!
1. Five Nights at Freddy’s 4 (2015)
Obtainable on: Android/IOS, Nintendo Change, PC, PlayStation 4, Xbox One
When working by the timeline of Five Nights at Freddy’s, the recreation to begin out with is definitely Five Nights at Freddy’s 4, because it takes place in 1983. That is assumed due to an easter egg throughout one among the post-Night time minigames that may be seen by interacting with a TV in the front room. After hitting it sufficient occasions, it’ll ultimately carry up a nonetheless for a industrial for a present referred to as Fredbear and Associates, which seems to have aired in 1983, on condition that’s the date beneath the title.
In contrast to its predecessors, although, FNAF 4 has a distinct setting. This time, you play as a younger baby in their bed room moderately than as a safety guard in an workplace. All through the evening, you’ll want to run out of your bed room doorways to your closet (and even test behind you in your mattress) for a wide range of terrifying enemies, however primarily nightmare variations of the authentic animatronics: Freddy, Bonnie, Chica, and Cunning. Pay attention out for them and hold your flashlight shut to scare them away.
2. Five Nights at Freddy’s 2 (2014)
Obtainable on: Android/IOS, Nintendo Change, PC, PlayStation 4, Xbox One
Five 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 in 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 attain your workplace. With it on, most of the animatronics may have a more durable time recognizing you and go away, which’ll purchase you some extra time earlier than the first light. You even have a music field that you just want to hold wound up to hold The Puppet away. This animatronic received’t be fooled by your sneaky little pretend Freddy head, so make sure that to hold 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 at the finish of Night time 5, which is dated for that 12 months.
3. Five Nights at Freddy’s: Sister Location (2016)
Obtainable on: Android/IOS, Nintendo Change, PC, PlayStation 4, Xbox One
In a departure from the earlier recreation, and as its title could level to, Five Nights at Freddy’s: Sister Location takes place at a distinct spot referred to 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 full alongside surviving the animatronics.
Five Nights at Freddy’s: Sister Location is definitely a bit trickier to place on the timeline, and lots 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 starting of the recreation: “Due to the large 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 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 also be introduced up by Cellphone Man in FNAF 1 throughout Night time 1. So, for now, having Sister Location between the two looks like a great match. Tell us your theories in the feedback beneath, although!
4. Five Nights at Freddy’s (2014)
Obtainable on: Android/IOS, Nintendo Change, PC, PlayStation 4, Xbox One
The one which began all of it. Five Nights at Freddy’s was the first recreation that had gamers taking up the safety guard mantle to hold watch of Freddy Fazbear’s Pizza for 5 evening shifts. Primarily, you want to control the animatronics there: Chica, Bonnie, Cunning, and naturally, Freddy Fazbear. Their conduct has turn out to be a bit unpredictable recently, and so they like to roam round freely at evening… simply make sure that they don’t roam into your workplace.
Alongside the cameras that want to be checked, gamers can even shut the safety doorways close to them if the animatronics get too shut throughout the evening. Maintain in thoughts, although, you solely have restricted quantities of energy to use. As soon as it’s gone, goodbye doorways and lights!
Five Nights at Freddy’s takes place just a few years later than the beforehand talked about video games, seemingly someday in the early ‘90s. This may be assumed from Cellphone Man’s dialogue throughout Night time 1 the place he says that the animatronics used to give you the option 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. Five Nights at Freddy’s 3 (2015)
Obtainable on: Android/IOS, Nintendo Change, PC, PlayStation 4, Xbox One
In accordance to Five Nights at Freddy’s 3’s Steam description, this recreation is ready “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 round the 2020s. It brings gamers right into a model new location as properly… Fazbear’s Fright: The Horror Attraction. Sure, this new attraction relies on the terrifying occasions that occurred in Freddy Fazbear’s Pizza, and so they even have previous animatronics from it to actually hold you in your toes!
As soon as once more, you step into the footwear of a safety guard preserving watch of the attraction and its “nice new relics” which were picked up. Like earlier than, you’ll have safety cameras to monitor, however this time you even have a upkeep panel to reboot methods that go offline and shut off vents to forestall these creepy animatronics from crawling towards your workplace area.
6. Freddy Fazbear’s Pizzeria Simulator (2017)
Obtainable on: Android/IOS, Nintendo Change, PC, PlayStation 4, Xbox One
Should you’re feeling uninterested in working safety or upkeep, why not make the bounce into operating your individual pizza place? In Freddy Fazbear’s Pizzeria Simulator, you get to do exactly that. However don’t fear, this recreation isn’t with out its frights. You’ll nonetheless want to hold the animatronics away from you when in your workplace, and there’s a lot to monitor while you’re in there as properly.
Not solely do you’ve a pc close to you to hold tabs on every little thing and full your duties, however you’ll want to watch the vents on either side of you for something that could possibly be crawling by. Nonetheless, each your laptop and the vents make fairly a little bit of noise, so that you’ll have to take turns shutting them off to hear your environment.
All through the recreation, you’ll salvage animatronics as properly. One in all these is Springtrap, whose first look in the sequence was in FNAF 3, which locations this recreation someday after it in a chronological playthrough.
7. Five Nights at Freddy’s: Assist Wished (2019)
Obtainable on: Android/IOS, Nintendo Change, Oculus Quest, PSVR, PC, PlayStation 4, Xbox One
Five Nights at Freddy’s: Assist Wished was the franchise’s first step into VR – and later got here out on PC and consoles. Developed by Metal Wool Studios in collaboration with Scott Cawthon, in Assist Wished you possibly can play by a wide range of mini-games that function acquainted animatronics and experiences from earlier video games in the sequence.
However the place does this recreation match into the timeline? Throughout the opening ‘Welcome’ message for the recreation, HandUnit states that “Fazbear Leisure has developed one thing of a nasty status over the previous few many years, […] That is why we now have recreated many of those utterly fictitious eventualities (lies) that you have been fed over the final a number of years right into a hilarious VR recreation.” And on condition that Assist Wished recreates conditions from earlier video games in the timeline up to FNAF 3 on our listing, it is smart to place it after that recreation and close to Pizzeria Simulator.
8. Five Nights at Freddy’s: Particular Supply (2019)
Obtainable on: IOS/Android
Five Nights at Freddy’s: Particular Supply is an Augmented Actuality recreation that was launched on cell gadgets only a few months after Assist Wished. Very like how Assist Wished immersed you into FNAF in VR, Particular Supply did the identical by bringing the animatronics dwelling to you. On this recreation, you’ve to hold a watch out for them in your cell machine as they stalk round the room, using a flashlight and managed shock to cease them.
Related to 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 home and, when it comes to the franchise’s timeline, it might make sense that they’d create one thing like this round the time of The Freddy Fazbear Digital Expertise in Assist Wished. Given how HandUnit explains at the begin of Assist Wished that, “Fazbear Leisure is happy to be part of the digital age, and what higher manner to try this than with an edge-of-your-seat digital actuality expertise,” it appears like that was their first endeavor, and this might be their second outing into it.
9. Five Nights at Freddy’s: Safety Breach (2021)
Obtainable on: Google Stadia, PC, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Xbox One, Xbox Sequence X/S, Nintendo Change
The latest Five Nights at Freddy’s recreation, Safety Breach, is the second recreation in the franchise to be developed between each Scott and Steel 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 want to survive the numerous animatronics, however with a stunning useful hand alongside the manner.
In a chronological playthrough, this recreation comes in final. This could largely be taken away from the proven fact that Freddy Fazbear’s has now grown right into a Mega Pizzaplex, however there’s additionally a second in one among the endings that helps affirm that it’s set after one among the beforehand talked about video games. Nonetheless, in order to keep away from spoilers, we’ll allow you to uncover that ending by yourself!
The free Destroy DLC for Safety Breach can also be obtainable to play now. Our Safety Breach wiki information has a walkthrough, collectibles information, and knowledge on how to begin the Destroy DLC for those who want it, too.
10. Five Nights at Freddy’s: Assist Wished 2 (2023)
Obtainable on: PlayStation 5, PC, PSVR2, Steam VR, Meta Quest
As soon as once more developed by Metal Wool Studios in collaboration with Scott Cawthon, Five Nights at Freddy’s: Assist Wished 2 is the most just lately launched FNAF entry. When it comes to gameplay, it’s fairly related to its predecessor, that includes all kinds of minigames for you to dig into. However the place does this recreation land on the Five Nights at Freddy’s timeline?
Assist Wished 2 takes place between Five Nights at Freddy’s: Safety Breach and its DLC, RUIN. That makes it the final full recreation in the lore’s present timeline, however not fairly the very remaining occasion. This barely difficult placement is due to one among Assist Wished 2’s endings, in which your character turns into the Maskbot that provides the V.A.N.N.I masks to Cassie, the protagonist from the RUIN DLC. This interplay together with her occurs in direction of the begin of RUIN, that means the occasions of Assist Wished 2 begin someday earlier than that DLC.
Consistent with its older sibling, Assist Wished 2 can also be a VR recreation! It’s obtainable on PSVR 2, Steam VR, and Meta Quest. And for many who don’t need to be absolutely immersed as a Fazbear worker, a flat model of the recreation was additionally launched on June 20 for PlayStation 5 and PC.
Five Nights at Freddy’s Games in Launch Order
Should you’re in taking part in by the primary Five Nights at Freddy’s video games in their launch order, you will discover them listed as such beneath:
The Way forward for Five Nights at Freddy’s
Five Nights at Freddy’s: Into the Pit is confirmed to be the subsequent recreation in the FNAF sequence, which celebrates its tenth anniversary this 12 months. Based mostly on the Freddy Fazbear e book of the identical identify, Into the Pit will stray from earlier video games by that includes a 2D pixel artwork type. A launch date has not been introduced.
A sequel to the Five Nights at Freddy’s film starring Josh Hutcherson can also be on the manner, deliberate for launch on December 5, 2025.
Hannah Hoolihan is a contract author who works with the Guides and Commerce groups right here at IGN.