Get set for the five most terrifying nights of your life
A word of advice: never get a job as a night watchman. If you must, then make sure it's not at a fast food joint that houses a decommissioned animatronic animal pop group. As Five Nights at Freddy's proves, it's a career choice that will frighten the living daylights out of you.
Teddy bears picnic - on flesh
The premise of Five Nights at Freddy's - a port of a popular PC game - is that you take a temporary job as an unsuspecting security guard at a pizza restaurant chain and must make it through the night shift without getting your face eaten.
Normally of course, this wouldn't be too difficult, but Freddy Fazbear’s Pizzas isn't an ordinary restaurant. It's home to an animatronic band of furry creatures who turn evil at closing time, and like to roam around looking to eat people's brains before forcing them into a costume. It's a long way from Ronald McDonald and the Hamburglar that's for sure.
When you start the game, you'll get very little information or instructions, other than a haunting recorded message from an ex-employee of Freddy's about the dangers of the job.
You sit in your office monitoring 11 security cameras that are trained on various parts of the restaurant. You need to watch out for signs of movement from any of the four animatronic characters that are apparently turned off at first. If you spot one of the eerie looking critters moving about you might want to turn one of the office lights on to check if they are on their way to munch your eyes out. If one is at the door, then press the button to slam it shut as soon as you can.
Checking cameras, turning on lights, and closing doors all drains electrical power, of which you only have a finite amount. You start the night at 12AM and must make it through to 6AM without draining the power beyond zero percent - or allowing one of the costumed creatures into the office. Each night lasts about eight to nine minutes in real time.
The first night of Five Nights at Freddy's seems easy enough, and you won't spot a lot of movement from the characters - although when you do it's very creepy to watch. As you work your way through the nights, Chica the Chicken, Bonnie the Bunny, Foxy the Pirate Fox, and the enigmatic Freddy Fazbear will become increasingly active. For some of the characters, you'll be able to work out patterns and rules for how they will act. However, Freddy - who is stored behind a curtain away from the rest - is a law unto himself and it's seemingly impossible to predict what he'll do.
Don't be scared of the dark
The trick to succeeding in Five Nights in Freddy's is not to keep turning on lights and cameras, and slamming doors shut out of fear. A lot of the time you'll need to just sit tight to conserve power, which adds to the fear factor, since you feel vulnerable to attack.
The controls are very simple. You can look left or right from your chair by tapping either side of the screen, and activate hall lights and doors using the appropriate switches. The CCTV cameras can be accessed by hitting the large button at the bottom of the screen.
Prepare to jump
The graphics in Five Nights at Freddy's are out of the ordinary yet stylish. The game combines pixelated DOS-like presentation with scary modeling of the four characters. Jump scares are excellently implemented. The way you'll know a character has made it into the office is when they suddenly pop up on the screen accompanied by a shrill shriek - cue you flying several inches out of your seat.
The sound effects in Five Nights at Freddy's help to heighten the game's edginess. From the hiss and the crackle on the cameras, to the ominous clip clop of footsteps, everything about the game's noises is designed to terrify.
Five nights of hell
Five Nights at Freddy's is one of the most terrifying Android games I've played, and if you're brave enough to try the game you're in for a tense, tummy-tingling treat. That said, if you like your horror games to have a lot of action, you're best off trying something like Dead Space or Dark Meadow, where you can actually fight back!
User reviews about Five Nights at Freddys
by Anonymous
This is a fun but terrifying game, tecnique and strategy are good to have..
I love the idea of this game. It' s oh so addictive i literally played for an hour. Man! stay 5 nights at the most terrifying job, 6 hours filled with suspense and horrifying robots increasingly visiting your room. Now spoiler alert: beat night 5 and get your check. With yet a satisfaction, the game throws another night at you! night 6 is very difficult! after night 6, you get to customize your own night and set up diffiulties for the robots! now here's some advice for first timers, freddy is the bear who roams in the darkness with a great sense of direction. Be warned, if you lose power, he kills you or you pass the night. On later nights, make sure on 1a, that door is shut on the camera reset after freddy's appearance. He will come in on the most haunted jumpscare in all of the game. Bonnie will roam the left side. If you shine that light and you see him, shut that door until he leaves. Chica will roam the right side. If you see her in the left door lights on, shut it. If the buttons don't work, it means they have gotten in. You are screwed. Foxy, 1 of a kind, will only spawn in pirate cove and if not watched enough times, will disappear from the curtain room. If he does, shut the left door immediately and check 2a for a spooky and unpleasant sight of foxy charging toward the office. If he comes in, a high pitched scream goes on as he flies in. This applies for bonnie and chica killing you from taking the camera off when the doors do not work. Also bear will kill you when the power goes off. Advice for people who need it: if a door is not working, stay off the camera and shut the other door. If the power dies, make no move. Use least power and check on foxy at 12. At 1, begin flickering lights. At 2, make a good preserve for power. At 3 and 4, pay more attention to bonnie and freddy. Foxy will not matter if checked enough times. Chica will usually visit less, but keep sure of that. At 5, make sure the power is no less than 10%. If not, use no power at all. A 5th character named gold freddy will rarely spawn. Barely at round 3, normally on night one. Check that room with the freddy bear poster. It could show a golden freddy's face image. When seen, the camera must be taken down. You will see golden freddy in position to kill you. In this case, take a horrific jump scare and have the game crash. Another way to have him is to customize a night, and do 1987 in such an order. Now, look at the blank camera and listen for any suspicious audio. Five nights at freddy's is a very fun and scary game. It's storyline adds on to the eerie theme as well as the rooms looks and such scenes that will pop up and become mysterious. Bonnie, freddy and chica spawn in the very back. Bonnie goes the left route, chica takes right. Freddy takes a slower, but more accurate route. Foxy must be watched at all costs. Night 1 is almost too too easy. Night 2 is the beginning of foxy and the increase of the game's difficulty. Night 3, things become a good challenge. Night 4, i spent days on this, it isn't easy. Night 5 is a killer. Spoiler: night 6 involves smart and quick thinking for every hour. Every second, the cameras reset, and bonnie and chica are on the move. Freddy is also a good one and comes in from the right. Foxy must be watched less frequently than the others. Overall, i like the game, and thank you for such a great thinking. This game gives me a good scaring and addiction for such creativity and ideas. I love it!!!
Pros:
Effects like the doors and cameras.
Dark scene and eerie rooms.
Cons:
They also need to fix these bugs that show up.
They gotta put a phone call on night 6. More