June 20 Will Be a Big Day for Five Nights at Freddy's Fans

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Five Nights At Freddy's: Help Wanted 2, after its initial launch as a VR-only title, is finally making its way to the PlayStation 5, with a release date set for June 20. What's more, players who already own the PlayStation VR 2 version of the latest game in the Five Nights At Freddy's seriesare getting the PS5 port for free.

The original Five Nights At Freddy's: Help Wanted launched back in 2019, and although it followed many familiar FNAF themes, like placing the player in the role of a Fazbear Entertainment employee on their first day on the job, it also diverted from the series' classic trapped-in-a-room survival horror roots by having the player complete a series of minigames. While the original Help Wanted followed a format and theme closer to the earlier games in the blow-up indie horror series, Help Wanted 2 instead takes place in the lore's timeline between the free-roaming Five Nights at Freddy's: Security Breach and its DLC expansion Ruin, pitting the player against 40 minigames featuring the updated characters from those games, like Roxanne Wolf and Montgomery Gator, as well as adversaries from Sister Location, like Circus Baby and Ballora.

The news of the June 20 release date was made official on PlayStation Blog on April 18 by Ray McCaffrey, the chief development officer at the game's developer, Steel Wool Studios. In his blog post, McCaffrey praised the PlayStation 5 port of the game for its implementation of «point-and-click controls for speedier service, happier customers, and less danger.» He noted that the development team has taken great care to make sure that all 40 minigames contained in Help Wanted 2 still play as intended, even without the use of a VR headset and motion controls, paying particular respect to the revamped first-person-shooter controls on Captain Foxy’s Log Ride.

This is a big moment for non-VR-using FNAF fans, as it marks the first time Help Wanted 2 will be playable without a headset. Help Wanted 2 initially launched for the