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Five Nights at Freddy's is a 2014 survival horror video game developed and published by Scott Cawthon, the first in the Five Nights at Freddy’s series, the game follows a night guard who is hired for a night shift at the local Freddy Fazbear’s Pizzeria, which takes a dark turn when the animatronics start to turn alive.

Plot
As an anonymous night guard, you must survive five nights as you are hunted by five animatronics hell-bent on killing you. You are the night guard at Freddy Fazbear's Pizza, a Chuck-E-Cheese styled family restaurant. As the night progresses you are stalked by five animatronic characters looking to kill you.

Good Qualities

 * 1) The idea about a night guard that guards a haunted pizzeria is pretty original, especially for a popular indie game.
 * 2) Pretty good and nice graphics that resemble the old PC games from the early 2000’s, despite using an outdated game engine, as the graphics do succeed in giving the game a horrific atmosphere.
 * 3) The jumpscares are quite scary, with the best being Freddy's jumpscare as it is quite unexpected and also a bit unpredictable.
 * 4) This game, alongside Slender: The Arrival, popularized the survival horror genre, as it is now the most well-known genre of all games, and was also responsible for the creation of great games such as Tattletail and Poppy's Playtime.
 * 5) It spawned sequels and spin-offs that fully explain the entire lore perfectly, which is kinda cool unlike another popular game franchise.
 * 6) As a matter of fact, it also spawned some great fangames, such as Five Nights at Candy's, One Night at Flumpty’s & Five Nights at Sonic's Maniac Mania.
 * 7) Likable characters, like the Night Guard himself, who has to protect himself from the evil animatronics, Phone Guy, and sometimes Freddy, Bonnie, Chica, & Foxy.
 * 8) Many scary moments such as Phone Guy's death, which is rather shocking due to happening late in the game and many of the jumpscares (depending on your view).

Bad Qualities

 * 1) The game can get boring after a while, since all you do is just locking all doors and looking at the Security Camera, though this was supposed to invent fear.
 * 2) At times, the graphics can make the animatronic look a bit goofy, and depending on your view, the jumpscares can also be very grating, especially when playing in the highest difficulty as possible.
 * 3) Phone Guy's voice acting, while funny, somewhat sounds quite literally phoned-in at times.
 * 4) The earlier versions of the mobile versions are super laggy, which causes the game to be unplayable, not helping matters is that the versions have microtransactions, although fortunately, the remastered versions from Clickteam are a lot better and look more like the console and PC versions of the game.

Reception
The game received highly positive reviews from critics and gamers for it's tense atmosphere and it's original plot line, although many were divisive over the graphics.

It set out to be one of the most popular horror games ever made, and had spawned a franchise of the same name that explains the lore.

Trivia

 * There are a few Easter eggs in the game.
 * By typing the numbers 1, 9, 8, 7 in each character profile in the custom night, you will be greeted with a jumpscare of golden Freddy.