Five Nights at Freddy's Lore: The Beginning

Since its beginning in 2014, the Five Nights at Freddy’s brand has amassed a big and devoted fan following, and it’s easy to understand why. Initially gaining popularity owing to the entirely unique nature of its deceptively simple gameplay, the series has grown significantly in intricacy and plot over the years.

One of the most attractive aspects of the present form of Five Nights at Freddy’s is the massive amount of rich and intriguing backstory that surrounds the series’ various events and characters. The mythology of FNAF is extensive, spanning numerous core games and a slew of spin-off titles, and it may be somewhat intimidating for newcomers to the genre.

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Five Nights at Freddy’s Original

The original Five Nights at Freddy’s game was released in 2014, and it quickly soared to the top of the survival horror genre due to the stressful nature of its ominous gameplay. The player controls a nightshift security guard at Freddy Fazbear’s Pizza, an abandoned restaurant said to be haunted by haunted and reanimated life-size animatronics that roam the property at night.

The pizzeria itself is in decay as a result of a series of tragedies, including the abduction and possibly murder of five children by a guy called William Afton. It is said that the victims’ remains were put into the pizzeria’s several animatronic characters, who were called Freddy, Bonnie, Chica, and Foxy, resulting in a worldwide boycott of the company and its eventual downfall.

With the protagonist watching the animatronics at night through security cameras, it gradually becomes clear that these allegations are real, with the mascots wandering freely across the complex, coming closer and closer to the player’s position with malice. The player can only survive the facility’s extended stay by controlling the power supply of doors and lights, ensuring that none of the possessed animatronics can approach near enough to inflict a lethal wound.

The sequel to Five Nights at Freddy’s

Five Nights at Freddy’s 2 was published in 2014, only a few months after its predecessor, and told a prequel story to the events of the previous game. The title, which takes place at a different location of the same restaurant business, has several of the same animatronics from the original game as well as a slew of new ones, such as Balloon Boy, a more passive figure.

The original animatronics from the first game are originally maintained in the restaurant as backup suits, but they return to the facility at night with their newer counterparts.

FNAF 2 delves more into the aforementioned murder of five children that was discussed in the original game, narrating the story using Atari-style mini-games. For the majority of the franchise’s tale, the perpetrator of these atrocities is represented as a dark and gaunt purple figure, giving him the title Purple Guy. Following the deadly intent revealed by the newly added animatronics in the title, the game concludes with them being deactivated in favor of the traditional characters from the original game.

Three Nights at Freddy’s

The third mainstream chapter of the FNAF franchise, set 30 years after the events of the previous game, provided fans with a significant acceleration in the series’ narrative and plot. This game takes place at a new facility named Fazbear’s Fright, a horror attraction aiming to profit on the food chain’s frightening urban legends.

Once again, the player takes on the position of a nightshift security guard at the facility, with lethal paranormal encounters pervading the title’s main gameplay. The debut of a brand-new animatronic known as Springtrap is essential to the plot of FNAF 3. Springtrap was built by the murderer William Afton, or Purple Guy, hiding from the spirits of his victims in an empty rabbit animatronic outfit, as revealed in the same mini-games as FNAF 2. With the suit malfunctioning and locking Afton within, his soul seems to remain.

This is the fourth game in the Five Nights at Freddy’s series

Five Nights at Freddy’s 4 is one of the franchise’s more distinctive entries, taking place in a child’s bedroom rather than the usual security office inside a facility. When the player assumes control of the youngster, it is revealed that the protagonist is terrified of the animatronics inside Freddy Fazbear’s Pizzeria, suggesting that the story is set before the events of the previous game.

The narrative of the game follows the notorious “Bite of ’83,” in which a youngster was tragically murdered in an accident involving one of the facility’s animatronics. The protagonist of the game is shown to be the victim of this tragedy, being repeatedly ridiculed by his friends and siblings for his unreasonable fear of the pizzeria’s characters. During a birthday party at the site, his head was jammed into one of the animatronic’s mouths, and his tears produced a technological error, forcing the animatronic to bite down and kill the youngster.

Following Five Nights at Freddy’s releases

Despite not keeping the sequential names of the previous games, several new titles have been produced inside the FNAF world after FNAF 4.

The game Sister Location recounted how William Afton created the animatronics in Five Nights at Freddy’s, with his daughter’s spirit allegedly occupying a smaller animatronic named Circus Baby that predates the founding of the Fazbear restaurant franchise.

The player controls William Afton’s son, Michael, during the events of Freddy Fazbear’s Pizzeria Simulator. With the franchise’s animatronics now severely deteriorating, to the point that they are barely working and reconstructed scrap copies of their former selves, it is revealed in the title that Springtrap survived the events of FNAF 3, and is now known as Scraptrap.

Five Nights at Freddy’s: Security Breach, the most current release, includes free roam gameplay and lasts just one night, bringing fans up to speed with the franchise’s plot.

Security Breach indicates that the Freddy Fazbear brand has spawned a whole mall, with the player playing a youngster called Gregory who works with a new non-hostile Freddy to traverse the facility’s fraudulently controlled animatronics. With the game concluding with a return to the wreckage of the original pizzeria and the revelation of Afton’s ghost living on as the even more deformed “Burntrap,” it is evident that the Five Nights at Freddy’s franchise’s saga is far from ended.