After Seven Years, This FNAF Game Is Actually The Best In The Series

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Seven years after its release, is the best game in the entire series. It was initially teased as a simple restaurant simulator, but turned out to be an ingenious combination of humor and horror, with a touch of the now iconic silliness. Players must take on the task of creating their own Fazbear establishment, designing their restaurant, picking decorations, working with advertisers, fighting lawsuits, and battling monsters in the hours after closing.

The quirky daytime gameplay of building a new Fazbear pizza place is blended with terrifying vent-based horror at night, where players must keep their new animatronics away while wrapping up chores from the day before. also brings back almost all the true antagonists of the series to one location to meet their fate. This finale for characters like Circus Baby and Springtrap could have easily been the perfect ending for the entire series.

All games since the first have been released with a significant amount of fanfare. Teaser images by the creator of the series, Scott Cawthon, would be lightened, blown up, and analyzed until small pieces of information could be found. was no different, but instead of scary images of Springtrap pulling his head open, the teasers mostly consisted of eight-bit art of Freddy Fazbear holding pizzas or cupcakes. Needless to say, the scare factor for was not the same as the previous games in the series and made the actual game that much more of a surprise.

Instead of just being a restaurant simulator, provided some of the scariest gameplay of any game using the traditional stuck-in-place style of past games. The player is provided with no protection at all, not even a mask to hide under like in, while hostile and scary animatronics try to find them in a series of vents. Utilizing sound and strategically timing when to make noise, the player has to try to keep them away without any visual aid.

This free-to-play entry, which wasn’t even treated as a mainline game, proved itself to have the