Five Nights at Freddy's

Five Nights at Freddy's is an American media franchise created by Scott Cawthon. It began with the 2014 video game of the same name and has since gained worldwide popularity. The main video game series consists of ten survival horror games taking place in locations somehow connected to family pizza restaurant Freddy Fazbear’s Pizza. In most games, the player takes on the role of a night-time employee, who must utilise tools such as security cameras, lights, doors, and vents to defend themselves against hostile animatronic characters that inhabit the locations. The series' canon is revealed through voice recordings, minigames, and easter eggs.

Five Nights at Freddy's (2014)
Players control Mike Schmidt, who has signed a contract for position as a night security officer at a family pizza restaurant called "Freddy Fazbear's Pizza". A voicemail message from Mike's predecessor plays each night, in which he explains different aspects of the history of the restaurant. He explains that the restaurant's four animatronic characters – Freddy Fazbear, Bonnie, Chica and Foxy – become mobile at night because their servomotors will lock up if they are left off for too long. The employee warns Mike that if one of the animatronics encounters a human after hours, it will mistake them for an animatronic endoskeleton without a costume and will "forcefully stuff" them into a spare mechanical Freddy Fazbear costume, killing the person in the process.


 * Protagonist: Mike Schmitt (Michael Afton)
 * Main Antagonist: Freddy Fazbear
 * Animatronic Faction: Classic Animatronics
 * Secret Boss: Golden Freddy
 * Establishment: Freddy Fazbear's Pizzaria
 * Helper: Phone Guy
 * Nights: 7
 * Custom Night: 4/20 mode
 * Released: August 2014



Five Nights at Freddy's 2 (2014)
The player assumes the role of Jeremy Fitzgerald, a new security guard at Freddy Fazbear's Pizza in 1987. An unnamed employee calls Jeremy on the office phone each night to provide advice and information about the restaurant's backstory. He explains that the "new and improved" restaurant has introduced new animatronics, which have special facial recognition software and access to a criminal database to protect the children from potential harm. Despite these features, the robots were not programmed with a proper night mode; when they detect silence, their programming tells them they are in the wrong room and they seek out the nearest source of noise to find people to entertain, which happens to be Jeremy's office. The voice from the phone also explains that 'older' animatronics reside in the restaurant, but as the restaurant company opted to redesign the characters, they are kept for spare parts in a decrepit form.


 * Protagonist: Jeremy Fitzgerald (Michael Afton)
 * Main Antagonist: The Puppet
 * Animatronic Factions: Toy Animatronics, Withered Animatronics, Shadow Animatronics
 * Secret Boss: Golden Freddy
 * Nights: 7
 * Helper: Phone Guy
 * Establishment: Freddy Fazbear's Pizzaria (grand re-opening)
 * Custom Night: 10/20 mode
 * Released: November 2014



Five Nights at Freddy's 3 (2015)
The player assumes the role of a newly-hired employee at Fazbear's Fright, a horror-themed attraction inspired by the family restaurant Freddy Fazbear’s Pizza that closed thirty years prior. During the week before the attraction’s official opening, the employee must watch over the facility from a security office each night from 12 a.m. to 6 a.m., using a network of surveillance cameras placed in rooms and air vents. They must monitor the status of three operating systems – cameras, audio, and ventilation – and reboot them whenever they begin to malfunction. Camera problems cause the camera feeds to become obscured by static, and if ventilation fails, the employee’s vision begins to black out. The employee may also see hallucinatory "phantom" animatronics that resemble animatronics from the restaurant franchise, which can cause system malfunctions but cannot directly harm the player.


 * Protagonist: Micheal Afton
 * Main Antagonist: Springtrap
 * Animatronic Faction: Phantom Animatronics
 * Nights: 6
 * Helper: Phone Dude
 * Establishment: Fazbear Frights
 * Custom Night: Aggressive Mode
 * Released: March 2015



Five Nights at Freddy's 4 (2015)
The story of a young boy who is speculated to be the player character. In the first minigame, the boy is locked in his bedroom with plush toys, which he calls his "friends". One of the plushes, based on the animatronic "Fredbear", provides console for the boy as he is teased and tormented for his fear of a family restaurant near his home. In the subsequent four minigames, he is deliberately scared, abandoned at the restaurant, teased by his peers, and unwillingly locked in the restaurant’s parts and services room. Two easter eggs can be discovered during the minigames; one briefly shows the purple figure previously featured in the second and third games fitting someone into an animatronic suit, while the other shows a programme on a television screen dated 1983, presumably the year in which the minigames are set. Rumours are also mentioned of the animatronics of the restaurant coming to life at night.


 * Protagonist: Micheal Afton
 * Main Antagonist: Nightmare Fredbear
 * Animatronic Faction: Nightmare Animatronics
 * Other Animatronics: Plushtrap, Jack-O-Bonnie, Jack-O-Chica
 * Secret Boss: Nightmare
 * Nights: 8
 * Helper: None
 * Establishment: Afton Household
 * Custom Night: 4/20 Mode
 * Released: July 2015



Five Nights at Freddy's: Sister Location (2016)
Also known as ''Five Nights at Freddy's 5, Afton's son Michael is a new employee of Circus Baby's Entertainment and Rental, an underground facility and sister location to Freddy Fazbear's Pizza, featuring animatronics that are rented out to children's birthday parties. These include new circus-themed variations of the original animatronics: Funtime Freddy, Bon Bon, and Funtime Foxy, as well as several new characters such as Ballora, the Bidybabs, the Minireenas, and Circus Baby. These animatronics originated from Circus Baby's Pizza World, which was made in response to the popularity of Freddy Fazbear's Pizza, but had been shut down shortly before it was supposed to open due to "gas leaks". As his first night starts, the assistant A.I. HandUnit assigns him his daily tasks. On Night 2, the power goes out, and the player must hide from Bidybab in order to reset the facility's circuit breakers. Circus Baby, who turns out to be sentient, warns Michael to ignore the instructions given by HandUnit to avoid being killed by Ballora, then gives Michael her own instructions. In a post-death minigame, Circus Baby extends a claw from her stomach and pulls a little girl inside, implying that the animatronic is now possessed by the girl's soul.''


 * Protagonist: Micheal Afton
 * Main Antagonist: Circus Baby
 * Animatronic Faction: Funtime Animatronics
 * Secret Boss: Ennard
 * Nights: 6
 * Helper: HandUnit
 * Establishment: Circus Baby's Entertainment and Rental
 * Custom Night: 10/20 Mode
 * Released: October 2016



Freddy Fazbear's Pizzaria Simulator (2017)
Also known as Five Nights at Freddy's 6, Sometime after the events of the third game, the player character is the new franchiser of the re-branded Fazbear Entertainment Inc., with headquarters in Washington County, Utah. After investing in the restaurant, the player is left with $100 to spend on a new restaurant. After the first night, they are encouraged to prepare for their "ultimate test", which is a big party on Saturday. The player invests on various props, animatronics, and sponsors to add to and fund the restaurant. After each day is over, the player is faced with checking maintenance with four possessed and dilapidated animatronics: Scrap Baby, which is Circus Baby rebuilt from scraps after being ejected from Ennard; Molten Freddy, the remains of Ennard with Funtime Freddy as its primary head; Lefty, a mysterious black bear animatronic; and William Afton, Fazbear's co-founder and child serial killer whose undead body remains inside his worn-out "Scraptrap" outfit. The player could either complete maintenance with guidance from an unnamed "Cassette Man" before salvaging it, or throw it back outside, unless it had already been hidden in a previously-purchased low-quality object. The player is left to survive each night as the salvaged animatronics attempt to kill him.


 * Protagonist: Micheal Afton
 * Animatronic Faction: Scrap Animatronics
 * Other Animatronics: Lefty, Molten Freddy
 * Nights: 6
 * Helper: Henry Elizabeth (Cassette Guy)
 * Establishment: Freddy Fazbear's Pizzaria
 * Custom Night: None
 * Released: December 2017



Ultimate Custom Night (2018)
Also known as Five Nights at Freddy's 7, in this game you play as the soul of William Afton, main antagonist of the FNaF franchise, living through his own personal Hell (whether he is in a coma or not or he is actually in Hell is debated,) where he is tortured for eternity by every single animatronic possessed by a soul that he created. After the player dies by certain characters, they speak certain lines that suggest that the player character is actually William Afton, who was killed in a fire at the end of the sixth game and his soul is now trapped in a purgatory-like state, tortured by various animatronics as consequences of his actions. Some of the speaking antagonists mention an unknown entity, referred to as "the one you should not have killed", who is thought to stay with Afton to torture him. The entity is widely regarded to be the spirit living inside Golden Freddy because, after unlocking every intermission cutscene, a cutscene of Golden Freddy, twitching and surrounded by darkness, is shown.


 * Protagonist: William Afton
 * Animatronic Faction: All
 * Nights: Infinite
 * Establishment: Hell
 * Custom Night: 50/20 Mode
 * Released: June 2018



Five Nights at Freddy's: Help Wanted (2019)
Also known as Five Nights at Freddy's 8, Fazbear Entertainment has become very unpopular due to several incidents and disasters that allegedly occurred at their various locations over the years, which have been established as urban legends. This problem is aggravated by a horror video game series based on the legends, created by an unnamed indie developer. In an attempt to overturn the bad reputation these rumors gave the company, Fazbear Entertainment commissioned the "Freddy Fazbear Virtual Experience", a virtual reality game meant to make light of the rumors and convince players that those events were completely fictitious. However, this narrative is contradicted by sixteen cassette tapes hidden throughout the game, which contain logs recorded by one of the game's developers.


 * Protagonist: Vanny
 * Main Antagonist: Glitchtrap
 * Animatronic Faction: Hardmode Animatronics
 * Secret Boss: TBA
 * Nights: 31
 * Helper: Helpy
 * Establishment: Freddy Fazbear's Virtual Experience
 * Custom Night: None
 * Released: May 2019



Five Nights at Freddy's: Special Delivery (2019)
Also known as Five Nights at Freddy's 9, It begins with a simple premise - signing up for the Fazbear Funtime Service so that "you'll never be alone again". But as the story begins to unfold, players will realize that they may have signed up for more than they bargained for. Malfunctioning animatronics are delivered to their doorsteps for a series of frightening encounters. The inbox provides many tips for dealing with this, as well as some emails, not meant to be sent to the player. One series of emails tells the story of a man named Luis trying to inform a woman, Ness, about red-flag reports triggered by her harmful and offensive search words. The emails suggest that she is under the control of William Afton. Ness is heavily implied to be Vanny from Five Nights at Freddy's: Help Wanted and Five Nights at Freddy's: Security Breach, as Ness is suggested to be under the control of William Afton just like Vanny. Another series of emails tells the story of the employees at Fazbear Entertainment scanning the circuit boards of old animatronics for Five Nights at Freddy's: Help Wanted.


 * Protagonist: Me
 * Main Antagonist: TBA
 * Animatronic Faction: TBA
 * Secret Boss: TBA
 * Nights: TBA
 * Helper: TBA
 * Establishment: Fazbear Funtime Service
 * Custom Night: TBA
 * Released: November 2019



Five Nights at Freddy's: Security Breach (2021)
Also known as Five Nights at Freddy's 10, n Freddy Fazbear's Mega Pizzaplex, a large shopping mall centered around its animatronic mascots, Glamrock Freddy Fazbear, Glamrock Chica, Montgomery "Monty" Gator and Roxanne "Roxy" Wolf are getting ready to perform for an audience. During the performance, Freddy suffers a technical malfunction and shuts down. Freddy awakens back in his room where he discovers that a young boy named Gregory is hiding inside his stomach compartment. Around this time, the mall locks down for the night, trapping Gregory inside. Vanessa, the security nightguard, orders all animatronics and employee robots to search for Gregory, unaware that they are reprogramed to be murderous. However, Freddy's malfunction causes him to disobey Vanessa's orders and instead decides to help Gregory survive the night until the exit doors re-open at 6:00 a.m.


 * Protagonist: Gregory
 * Main Antagonist: TBA
 * Animatronic Faction: Glamrock Animatronics
 * Other Animatronics: The Blob
 * Secret Boss: Burntrap
 * Nights: 1
 * Helper: Freddy Fazbear
 * Establishment: Freddy Fazbear's Mega Pizzaplex
 * Custom Night: TBA
 * Released: December 2021