Five Nights at Freddy's is an
indie point-and-click survival horror video
game developed by Scott Cawthon.
The game centers on the titular pizza restaurant Freddy Fazbear's Pizza, where the
player must act as a night watch, defending themselves from possessed, animatronic animal characters by tracking their movement through the facility using security cameras.
Five Nights at Freddy's was first released via Desura on August 8, 2014. On August 20, 2014, after it was approved by the service's crowdsourcing platform Greenlight, Five Nights at Freddy's was also released via Steam. A port for Android was released on August
27, 2014 via Google Play Store.
The game was praised by critics for being a unique take on the survival horror genre, with a particular emphasis on its simplistic design, along with how its gameplay mechanics and aesthetics contributed to an overall feeling of fear and paranoia. Five Nights at Freddy's was the
top-selling game on Desura for the week ending August 18, 2014, and
the game became the subject of a number of popular "Let's Play" videos on YouTube—including
one by Markiplier, who labelled it the "scariest
game in years".
tl;dr A truly terrifying game about killer robots that won't stop raining hell on you until you're either dead or you make it to morning! It has five nights. FIVE DAMN NIGHTS. Don't forget to mention a damn sixth and seven night which are just nopes in themselves.
