FNAF Games In Order: By Release Date And Chronological Timeline ...

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FIVE Nights At Freddy’s (FNAF) is a point and click survival horror video game developed by Scott Cawthon.

The aim of the game is to survive five nights at Freddy Fazbear’s Pizza without getting caught and stuffed into a mascot costume – ultimately, getting killed by the other characters.

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This is done by tracking their movements via the restaurant’s security cameras.

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Unfortunately, there’s also a power shortage that gives you only a limited amount of energy during the night, energy which you’ll have to cleverly conserve and use only when you need it the most.

With each night survived, the robots get way more active reaching your room more often.

Based on how much money the player earns on their pay check, it’s implied that the game takes place in 1993 and beyond.

The concept is similar to that of the 2006 comedy film, Night At The Museum.

In both stories, the attractions act as expected during the day, come to life during the night, and both protagonists are night guards who work for security at the establishments.

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FNAF games release order

Five Nights at Freddy’s (2014)

Platforms: Microsoft Windows, Android, IOS, PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch

The first game in centred around a character called Mike Schmidt.

He begins working as a night security guard at Freddy Fazbear’s Pizza, where the animatronics move at night and supposedly kill anyone they see by stuffing them into a spare animatronic suit.

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Five Nights at Freddy’s 2 (2014)

Platforms: Microsoft Windows, Android, IOS, PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch

Players must survive a night shift at the “new and improved” Freddy Fazbear’s Pizza restaurant, without being attacked by any of the animatronics that wander from room to room.

In addition to the animatronics from the first game (which are depicted in a deteriorated state), the game features several new antagonists, who can be fended off using different tactics.

Five Nights at Freddy’s 3 (2015)

Platforms: Microsoft Windows, Android, IOS, PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch

FNAF 3 is set thirty years after the events of the first game.

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The player must defend themselves from the deteriorated animatronic-costume hybrid named Springtrap.

Burnt and tattered hallucinations of some of the animatronics from the previous two games appear; and although they cannot kill the player, they can hinder ventilation, sound, and camera systems.

Five Nights at Freddy’s 3 (2015)

Platforms: Microsoft Windows, Android, IOS, PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch

The player character is an unknown and unnamed character who has delusions of being attacked by nightmarish versions of the first game’s animatronic characters.

The player must defend theirself with a flashlight and doors through a series of minigames.

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Five Nights at Freddy’s: Sister Location (2016)

Platforms: Microsoft Windows, Android, IOS, PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch

The player character Michael Afton, nicknamed Mike, is a new employee of Circus Baby’s Rentals and Entertainment (a sister company of Fazbear Entertainment that rents animatronics for children’s parties).

The game features a “custom night”, in which the player can use mechanics reminiscent of the first game (such as interactive doors and a camera system) which were absent from the main game.

New minigames are also available.

Freddy Fazbear’s Pizzeria Simulator (2017)

Platforms: Microsoft Windows, Android, IOS, PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch

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The game’s story again follows Michael Afton who, sometime following the events of Five Nights at Freddy’s 3 and Sister Location, becomes the manager of a new Freddy Fazbear’s restaurant run by the mysterious “Cassette Man”.

Ultimate Custom Night (2018)

Platforms: Microsoft Windows, Android, IOS, PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch

Ultimate Custom Night was originally intended to be a post-launch add-on to Freddy Fazbear’s Pizzeria Simulator, but was eventually turned into a stand-alone game.

Five Nights at Freddy’s: Help Wanted (2019)

Platforms: VR, Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 4

The player is a technician repairing a pizzeria’s animatronics.

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From a first-person perspective, they fix the animatronics, solve puzzles and navigate dark hallways while avoiding malfunctioning and hostile animatronics.

Five Nights at Freddy’s: Security Breach (2021)

Platforms: PlayStation 5, PlayStation 4, Steam

The game’s plot revolves around a young boy named Gregory being trapped in a large shopping mall teeming with murderous animatronics who hunt him down by the orders of Vanny, a mysterious woman in a rabbit costume, while also evading the complex’s security guard, Vanessa.

FNAF games in chronological timeline order

The FNAF universe can be quite complicated with not much of a concrete timeline for some games.

The instalments tend to jump around time with hallucinations and visions that are canon to the universe.

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RECOMMENDED STORIES

1. Five Nights at Freddy’s 4 (set in 1983)
2. FNAF 2 (1987)
3. Five Nights at Freddy’s Sister Location (the early 1990s or late 1980s)
4. FNAF (1993)
5. FNAF 3 (set in 2023)
6. Freddy Fazbear’s Pizzeria Simulator (2023)
7. Five Nights at Freddy’s Help Wanted
8. Five Nights at Freddy’s: Special Delivery
9. FNAF: Security Breach (between 2024 and 2029)

Spin-offs (non-canon)

• Five Nights at Freddy’s World (2016)
• FNAF: Special Delivery (2019)
• Freddy in Space 2 (2019)
• Security Breach: Fury’s Rage (2021)