Welcome back nerds! Today, in honor of the newly released FNAF movie, I’ll be rating all of the games!
I’ll be using the Freaky Faz scale. I think the name is enough explanation. But, if it isn’t, I’ll give you guys a little explanation.
The Freaky Faz scale is something that I made up just for ranking any and all FNAF games. I use it for how much I like the game and how scary it is to me. A 1/10 means that I didn’t like it and it wasn’t that scary. A 5/10 could mean that I like the game but it isn’t that scary, or it could mean that I don’t like it much but it’s decently scary. A 10/10 would be that I loved the game and that it was super spooky.
Five Nights at Freddy’s. The original. The game that started it all.
Game play wise, FNAF one changed gaming as we know it. Before, games were all about jump scares and free roam, wanting every corner to be something scary.
But then Five Nights at Freddy’s came out in August of 2014 and changed everything.
You, the player, are playing as a security guard for Freddy Fazbear’s Pizza, a well known and child loved place. The animatronics play on stage to entertain the children.
Those same animatronics are what you’re to be guarding from midnight to 6 am.
Oh, they’re also trying to kill you. Yay!
The man on the phone tells you that they get a little quirky at night and might walk around. He totally doesn’t mention that they’re trying to kill you, by the way.
You have to look at the cameras to see where they are and then close the doors when they get close. Easy enough, right? Nah, you gotta manage your power as you go.
Bonnie the Bunny comes from the left, Chica the Chicken from the right. Freddy Fazbear himself is a little trickier. You have to listen for his laugh to hear him move, or try and see his eyes in the darkness of the cameras.
He also comes from the right, but doesn’t show up at the window like Chica does. You gotta guess if he’s still there or not.
Now, Foxy the Pirate Fox is a different story. You have to keep your camera on him for as long as possible to stop him from moving out of his cove and running to your door.
If you look at the cameras at the right time, you can see him running down the hall towards you. All hope isn’t lost, however. You can close the door on him and have him run into it, resetting his position in the cove.
You go through five nights of this (crazy, I know), and each night is more difficult than the last.
Overall, I give it a solid 8/10 on the Freaky Faz scale.
Five Nights at Freddy’s 2 is just like the last game, except it’s not.
This time, you don’t get doors. Just two open vents and an open hallway that you can flash your flashlight down.
You get a whole new roster and all of the characters from the first game to deal with here.
Same spiel for backstory. You get the Phone Guy and an explanation that leaves out the whole dying thing.
This one had the perfect atmosphere. Being stuck in an open office with nothing but your flashlight and an old Freddy mask to protect you.
The jump scares were freaky, trying to keep track of everyone was annoying, and trying to make sense of the Easter eggs was an…experience.
Overall, 7/10 on the Freaky Faz.
Five Nights at Freddy’s 3. I hate this game ever so dearly.
First of all, there’s only one animatronic.
A crusty, rotten, green rabbit with a man trapped inside who just refuses to die.
Boo >:(
You’re set up in an office, again, where you don’t have any doors, flashlight, or mask to protect you. Just an annoying giggle that you play over the speakers to keep rabbit man away from you.
Riveting game play, I know.
There are also the Phantoms, but they don’t kill you. They just jump scare you and make you have to reset things.
3/10 on the Freaky Faz. Screw that crusty rabbit man who probably has mold growing in and on him.
Five Nights at Freddy’s 4, on the other hand, is my baby girl.
This game scared the bejesus out of me.
Instead of an office, you’re in a child’s bedroom. You’re trying to defend yourself from the nightmare animatronics by listening for breathing and then closing the door on them.
There’s no cameras, no way for you to see them. You go on sounds and sound alone.
Freaky, especially if your hearing is as bad as mine.
Oh, and you have to try and get Foxy out of the closet (it’s okay, we all know he’s a homosexual) and get Freddy’s mini Freddles off of your bed. So you not only have to focus on the left and right, but you also have to focus on in front of you and behind you.
10/10 on Freaky Faz.
Now, everyone thought that the fourth game was the end. Four games to make the perfect series that had people puzzling over lore.
Wrong.
Five Nights at Freddy’s: Sister Location was a banger. I don’t care what anyone says, that plot twist at the end was great.
You go through the underground building by crawling through vents and listening to the disembodied voice that is there to help you out.
There are a bunch of spooky things that I don’t want to spoil because it’s so good to go into blind, so I’m encouraging you as the reader to play it for yourself. Or, if you can’t, watch Markiplier play it. He’s always funny.
20/10 on the Freaky Faz
FNAF World!
No.
-10/10
FNAF Pizzeria Simulator was so cool. You start in this 8-bit mini game where you get to customize your pizza and feed it to kids.
Well, after you finish the mini game, you’re met with an animatronic across the table from you.
Long story short, you get to build your own Pizzeria and decide what you wanna do.
Do you want to save all of the kids by gathering all of the animatronics to your restaurant, or do you want to throw them onto the street and focus on being successful?
The thing I love about this game is that you get to choose how you play and get an ending based on that. There’s no set path that you have to take, you just do whatever you want.
I’ll give it a solid 7/10.
Now, Ultimate Custom Night. Our last game for this list.
I didn’t like it.
The game play was funky and overstimulating. Finding lore things took forever.
I CAN’T REMEMBER ALL THE KEY BINDINGS.
Horrible, disgusting game. 1/10.
It gets a pity point.
Now, I know what you’re thinking. “What about Help Wanted or Security Breach?”
I’ll cover those at a later date. For now, we’re sticking with what we got.
My super awesome tier list goes like this:
- FNAF Sister Location
- FNAF 4
- FNAF Pizzeria Simulator
- FNAF 2
- FNAF 1
- FNAF Ultimate Custom Night
- FNAF 3
FNAF World doesn’t even get a number. I like to pretend that it doesn’t exist.
Go ahead and leave your own tier lists in the comments, I’d love to read them. Who knows, I might even shout some of them out.
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