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Five Nights at Freddy's

Watch the cameras, hold your nerve

Scott Cawthon's indie horror franchise, launched in 2014. Haunted animatronics, a pizzeria with a dark past and a story hidden in scraps for players to piece together.

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2014
First game: 1
Series: Scott Cawthon
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In the frameFive Nights at Freddy's

One world. Many eras.

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The Cawthon run. Cawthon built the core games at speed, from the 2014 original to Ultimate Custom Night, and each one added new mechanics and fresh pieces of the puzzle.

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Your next late night

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Five Nights at Freddy's

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Survive until 6amFive Nights at Freddy'sThe Five Nights at Freddy's games, from Scott Cawthon's 2014 original to Steel Wool's later entries. Animatronic horror built on tension, timing and buried lore.

A legacy worth revisiting

Something moved on camera four.

The first game gave you a security office, a handful of cameras and very little power. Cawthon turned that simple setup into a sprawling horror lore puzzle. Steel Wool Studios has since taken the animatronics into VR and free-roaming 3D.