Five Nights at Freddy’s
It's from 2014, when you were 8.
- Developer
- Scott Cawthon
- Genre
- Survival horror
- Debut platform
- PC / mobile (2014)
- Released
- 2014
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About
As of 2026, it's 12 years old.
Five Nights at Freddy's launched in 2014 and built a horror empire out of the simplest premise imaginable: you're a night guard at a haunted pizza restaurant, you can't move, and animatronic mascots want to murder you. You just sit there, flip cameras, slam doors, and slowly lose your mind.
Its cheap-but-deadly jump scares and a deep, cryptic lore made it a YouTube phenomenon, spawning sequels, books, and a movie at a pace that suggests the franchise also never sleeps.
Terrifying, minimalist, and weirdly lore-rich, FNAF is the game that proved a possessed animatronic bear and a security desk are all you need to scare a generation.
