Five Nights at Freddy's

With Blumhouse’s new Five Nights at Freddy's film releasing this year on October 27, there’s no better time than now to play through the Five Nights at Freddy’s games. Created by Scott Cawthon, the first game launched back in 2014 and has since garnered an incredible fan base and followed up its horror hit with a wide variety of games; from mainline installments to plenty of spinoffs.

1. Five Nights at Freddy’s 4 (2015)<p> When working through the timeline of Five Nights at Freddy’s, the game to start out with is actually Five Nights at Freddy’s 4, as it takes place in 1983. This is assumed because of an easter egg during one of the post-Night minigames that can be seen by interacting with a TV in the living room. After hitting it enough times, it’ll eventually bring up a still for a commercial for a show called Fredbear and Friends, which appears to have aired in 1983, given that’s the date beneath the title.

2. Five Nights at Freddy’s 2 (2014)<p> Five Nights at Freddy’s 2 is next in a chronological playthrough and brings players to the newly-opened Freddy Fazbear’s Pizza to work the night shifts as a security guard. FNAF 2 also introduces new animatronics in the mix alongside updated versions of its classics. These new additions are The Puppet and Balloon Boy, so you’ll have more to watch out for on the cameras.

3. Five Nights at Freddy’s: Sister Location (2016)<p> In a departure from the previous game, and as its title may point to, Five Nights at Freddy’s: Sister Location takes place at a different spot called Circus Baby's Entertainment and Rental, which features its own animatronics as well. This time around, you play as a technician working night shifts with a series of tasks to complete alongside surviving the animatronics.

4. Five Nights at Freddy’s (2014)<p> The one that started it all. Five Nights at Freddy’s was the first game that had players taking on the security guard mantle to keep watch of Freddy Fazbear’s Pizza for five night shifts. Mainly, you need to keep an eye on the animatronics there: Chica, Bonnie, Foxy, and of course, Freddy Fazbear. Their behavior has become a bit unpredictable lately, and they like to roam around freely at night... just make sure they don’t roam into your office.

5. Five Nights at Freddy’s: Into the Pit (2024)<p> It's uncertain where Into the Pit's modern storyline fits into the series' chronology, or if it exists within the ongoing narrative at all, though assuming it does, we're confident it takes place around the time of Five Nights at Freddy's 3. We've placed it ahead of FNaF3 given several items found in Jeff's Pizza, the setting of Into the Pit, can be found at FNaF3's Fazbear's Fright, which was said to be decorated with remains from the original restaurant, which later became Jeff's Pizza.