Chances are, you're aware of some of the games' eccentricities and secrets: the haunted animatronics, the Bite of '87, and other macabre tidbits. Scott Cawthon's now iconic series is the game that launched a thousand (or more) YouTube videos of let's players screaming, hundreds of Reddit threads theorizing on the games' true story, and even a movie deal.įNaF sustained itself through many sequels, spinoffs, and a series of books. Because it was accessible to all ages, from the youngest to the oldest gamers, but still managed to confound skilled players and conceal secrets, it stayed in the spotlight where other horror games had failed. Five Nights at Freddy's' jumpscare-laden gameplay, deep lore, and memorably terrifying characters made it an instant sensation. FNaF came onto the scene in 2014 with a simple premise: survive some scares perpetrated by increasingly creepy pizzeria animatronics. Slender Man had fallen to the wayside, since the character did not have enough backstory to keep players interested in the creepiness.

Five Nights at Freddy's served as a revitalizing jolt to the horror game genre.

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