200 Fun Facts About Five Nights at Freddys

With which words does Phone Guy open his recorded messages in the first Five Nights at Freddy's?

Hello? Hello, hello? opens the Night 1 call from a man finishing his last week in the same office, and he greets the guard the same way on the nights that follow.

What made the first Five Nights at Freddy's a viral hit?

Let's Play videos on YouTube fuelled its rise after the August 2014 release: the biggest channels played it, and viewers tuned in for the players' own screams at every jump scare.

Why are the first Five Nights at Freddy's animatronics left free to roam at night?

Their servos would lock up if they were switched off for too long, the recorded caller explains; they used to wander by day as well, until an incident got that banned.

Which animatronic character in Five Nights at Freddy's 2 is known for disabling the player's flashlight?

Balloon Boy never attacks the guard himself: once inside the office he just laughs and kills the flashlight, the guard's only defence against one of the animatronics that do.

In Five Nights at Freddy's 3, which system's failure makes the guard's vision fade in and out?

Ventilation failures black out the guard's view in waves; the game's phantoms cannot kill, but their jump scares knock systems out, buying the attraction's one true threat time to close in.

In Five Nights at Freddy's 3, what do the horror attraction's builders announce they have found by the second night?

A real animatronic: the builders had only paper-plate dolls and scraps to show until a derelict one turned up, and the guard spends the rest of the week keeping it out of his office.

What is the title of the first novel in the original Five Nights at Freddy's book trilogy?

The Silver Eyes was first self-published as a Kindle e-book in December 2015; a three-book publishing deal followed six months later and made it the opening volume of a trilogy.

Which multiplayer horror game added Five Nights at Freddy's villain Springtrap as a playable killer in June 2025?

Dead by Daylight's chapter of June 17, 2025 lets players hunt survivors as 'The Animatronic' across a map built as a rundown Freddy Fazbear's Pizza.

In Five Nights at Freddy's 2, who hands gifts to the dead children in the 'Give Gifts, Give Life' minigame?

The Puppet first hands each child a gift, then 'gives life' by fitting an animatronic mask over each head, the series' hint at how the murdered children came to haunt the original band.

Where does Five Nights at Freddy's 4 take place, instead of the usual security office?

A child's bedroom replaces the office: with no cameras to check, the player dashes between two hallway doors and the bed, armed with nothing but a flashlight.

In Five Nights at Freddy's: Sister Location, what does the player do to animatronics missing from their stage?

Give them an electric shock: an elevated control pad lights each stage and zaps any robot that is out of place, a routine that falls apart on Night 2 when the power fails.

In Security Breach, the stomach hatch where Gregory hides inside Glamrock Freddy was built to hold what?

Birthday cakes and piñatas are what the hatch is reserved for, as Freddy protests when he finds a boy in there; it becomes Gregory's main hiding place for the rest of the night.

What is the Halloween-themed DLC for Five Nights at Freddy's: Help Wanted called?

Curse of Dreadbear arrived on October 23, 2019 with a corn maze among its Halloween levels; its star is a stitched, bolt-necked Freddy whose brain the player has to program.

In Five Nights at Freddy's: Sister Location, what is the small blue rabbit on Funtime Freddy's hand called?

Bon-Bon can detach from Funtime Freddy's hand, and it is a recording of his soothing voice that the player plays in the breaker room to calm his twitchy partner down.

The Five Nights at Freddy's novels set Freddy Fazbear's Pizza in which real American town?

Hurricane, Utah, a real town in the state's south-west, is the heroine's childhood home; she goes back after ten years for a memorial and ends up inside the abandoned restaurant.

Which actor plays Mike Schmidt, the protagonist, in the 2023 Five Nights at Freddy's film?

Josh Hutcherson, Peeta in The Hunger Games, plays a guard who only takes the night shift because he needs a steady job to keep custody of his younger sister.

Critics called the characters in which earlier, family-friendly Scott Cawthon game unintentionally creepy, a sting that led to FNaF?

Chipper & Sons Lumber Co.'s beaver was called a scary animatronic by reviewers, so Cawthon leaned in and built a horror game around exactly that fear.

What does Freddy Fazbear hold in his right hand while performing on the show stage in the first game?

A microphone marks him as the band's lead singer, yet he is the last to leave the stage: he stays put for the first two nights and only starts stalking the office on the third.

Which FNaF 2 toy animatronic was left a tangle of parts after children kept dismantling it?

Mangle is Five Nights at Freddy's 2's Toy Foxy; after toddlers kept pulling it apart, staff left it as a heap of limbs with a second endoskeleton head, and it attacks from the office ceiling.

The live-action Five Nights at Freddy's film hit US theaters the day it began streaming where?

Universal released the film in theaters and on Peacock on the same day, October 27, 2023; Blumhouse produced it, and the hybrid release did not stop it topping the US box office that weekend.

Which giant, many-armed Security Breach animatronic chases Gregory through the Pizzaplex's arcade?

DJ Music Man, the arcade's giant spider-like DJ, crawls through wall tunnels while Gregory hunts for switches, then bursts out for a chase that can only be outrun.

In Five Nights at Freddy's 4, which door must be held shut to turn Nightmare Foxy back into a plush toy?

Closet door: once Nightmare Foxy slips inside he stays all night, and holding it shut resets him to a harmless plush until he works himself up again.

Which developer built Five Nights at Freddy's: Help Wanted with Scott Cawthon?

Steel Wool Studios was first asked only to rebuild the original game in VR; Cawthon liked the result so much that he had the team adapt the rest of the series too.

Which secret Five Nights at Freddy's animatronic is tied to the flashing words 'It's Me'?

Golden Freddy appears slumped in the office after the player spots his face on a hallway poster; in the first game his attack crashes the game itself.

With Glamrock Freddy and Glamrock Chica, which two new mascots complete Security Breach's Pizzaplex band?

Montgomery Gator and Roxanne Wolf, Monty and Roxy to the kids, fill the slots Bonnie and Foxy held in the classic band; Glamrock Bonnie is nowhere to be seen.

In the first Five Nights at Freddy's, what do the office doors do when the power runs out?

They open, and the lights die with them: with nothing left to hold him back, Freddy turns up in the dark doorway, and only the 6 a.m. chime can save the guard.

Behind the curtain of which attraction does Foxy lurk in the first Five Nights at Freddy's?

Pirate Cove's curtain hides Foxy from the start; leave the cameras down too long and he bolts for the office, unlike his bandmates, who creep up room by room.

In Five Nights at Freddy's 3, what restores systems that error out during a night?

The maintenance panel reboots each failed system one at a time or all three at once, but every reboot takes time and leaves the guard exposed while it runs.

Where is the facility in Five Nights at Freddy's: Sister Location built?

Underground: each shift begins with an elevator ride down to a rundown bunker of galleries and crawlspaces, a long way from the bright pizzerias of the earlier games.

When can the hidden Atari-style minigames appear in Five Nights at Freddy's 2?

After the player dies, one of four crude minigames may cut in at random, and those scenes of gifts, cake and murdered children carry much of the second game's backstory.

What slogan is printed on the bib Chica wears in the first Five Nights at Freddy's?

Let's Eat! reads the bib; her redesigned Toy version in the second game swaps the message for 'Let's Party!' and loses her beak whenever she leaves the stage.

Which instrument does Bonnie the rabbit play in the original Five Nights at Freddy's band?

Guitar: Bonnie plays it in Freddy's band, and after hours he is the band's most frequent visitor, leaning into the office's left-hand doorway again and again.

Which indie download site created a separate category just for Five Nights at Freddy's fan projects?

Game Jolt was flooded with so many imitations that it gave Five Nights at Freddy's fan games a category of their own; Cawthon later posted his own free spin-offs on the same site.

Who is the protagonist of the Five Nights at Freddy's novel trilogy?

Charlie Emily left town as a child to live with her aunt; back ten years later for a classmate's memorial, she and her old friends find a way into the abandoned pizzeria.

Which Five Nights at Freddy's game lets players set AI levels for 50 animatronics in one night?

Ultimate Custom Night began as a free add-on for Pizzeria Simulator before growing into its own game; with all 50 characters at level 20, Cawthon himself called the result impossible.

What happens to Glamrock Freddy on stage in the opening scene of Security Breach?

He malfunctions and collapses mid-show, then wakes backstage to a voice from his own stomach hatch: a boy has been hiding inside him all along.

In Five Nights at Freddy's 4, what sound at a doorway tells the player to hold the door shut?

Breathing means a nightmare animatronic is right outside: shut the door for a few seconds and it walks away, but switch on the flashlight instead and it attacks.

In the first Five Nights at Freddy's, which room's camera gives audio only, with no video feed?

The Kitchen camera is disabled, so it sends sound only: the guard hears Chica clattering pots and pans, or Freddy's jingle playing, from a room he never gets to see.

In Five Nights at Freddy's lore, William Afton co-founded Fazbear Entertainment with which man, whose daughter he murdered?

Henry Emily's daughter was among Afton's victims; Henry built the animatronics, and in the lore he is the one who finally engineers Afton's end.

Which of these is a spin-off role-playing game rather than a main Five Nights at Freddy's survival-horror entry?

FNaF World is a cutesy RPG where you play as the animatronics; Pizzeria Simulator looks like a spin-off but counts as a mainline game.

In FNAF: Sister Location, what is the amalgam of all the Funtime animatronics called?

Ennard, the Funtime animatronics merged into one wiry body, guts Michael Afton and wears his skin to walk out, a twist confirmed in Sister Location's cutscenes.

What is the name of the security guard protagonist in Five Nights at Freddy's 2?

Jeremy Fitzgerald survives the main week of Five Nights at Freddy's 2; on Night 6 the caller tells him he is being moved to the day shift to watch over one last birthday party.

What does Foxy do on finding the office door shut in the first Five Nights at Freddy's?

Bangs on it, draining power: the first blocked charge costs 1 percent, the next 6, then 11, so a guard who neglects the cameras pays even when the door holds.

How does Freddy Fazbear's Pizzeria Simulator's true ending finally destroy the animatronics gathered in the restaurant?

The building is set ablaze: the pizzeria was a trap built to gather the last haunted machines in one maze, and the man who designed it chooses to burn along with them.

Which Security Breach villain is a woman in a white patchwork rabbit costume?

Vanny is no animatronic but a human follower of Glitchtrap, the rabbit-shaped computer virus from Help Wanted; she stalks Gregory through the Pizzaplex.

Which of these survival tools was introduced in Five Nights at Freddy's 2 rather than the original game?

Winding a music box is new to the sequel, whose office has no doors at all; let the box run down and the one animatronic it pacifies climbs out to attack.

What is the name of the pink and white fox animatronic from Five Nights at Freddy's: Sister Location?

Funtime Foxy prowls the pitch-dark Funtime Auditorium; on Night 3 the player crosses it by pulsing a flash beacon to see where it stands, and flashing too much or too little brings an attack.

Through which Steam program did the first Five Nights at Freddy's reach the store?

Greenlight put the game before Steam's own users for approval in June 2014; it reached the store on August 18, ten days after first going on sale at another outlet, Desura.

Which Guinness World Record did Five Nights at Freddy's earn for its 2014-15 releases?

Most sequels in a year: Guinness counts three follow-ups within twelve months of the August 2014 original, the last on July 23, 2015, with Cawthon building most of each game himself.

Which game engine did Scott Cawthon use to build the early Five Nights at Freddy's games?

Clickteam Fusion 2.5 handled the code while Cawthon, working alone, modelled every character and room in Autodesk 3ds Max and dropped in the pre-rendered images.

Scott Cawthon announced his retirement from game development in June 2021 amid what?

Backlash over political donations erupted days before he stepped back; Cawthon himself said he was leaving to spend more time with his children and would pick someone to run the series.

In Security Breach, how does Gregory upgrade Glamrock Freddy during the night?

With parts from other animatronics: after repairing Freddy himself, Gregory sets about wrecking the bear's own bandmates one by one to harvest upgrades for him.

How much is the paycheck for surviving all five nights in the first Five Nights at Freddy's?

$120 for five six-hour night shifts works out to $4 an hour; the sequel's guard does even worse, taking home $100.50 for the same week.

What is the name of the horror attraction where Five Nights at Freddy's 3 is set?

Fazbear's Fright: The Horror Attraction, built from props salvaged from the old pizzeria, is the third game's setting; a newspaper after the final night reports it burned to the ground.

Under what tagline was Five Nights at Freddy's 4 teased in April 2015?

'The Final Chapter' was the tagline on the April 2015 teaser for Five Nights at Freddy's 4; originally slated for Halloween, it was released early on July 23, 2015.

Which tagline teased Five Nights at Freddy's: Sister Location in April 2016?

'There was never just one' pointed to a second, sister facility; the game then broke the series' mould by sending the player crawling from room to room instead of guarding a single one.

Which level's difficulty prompted a patch shortly after Sister Location's release?

Night four, where the player sits trapped inside a suit fighting off tiny attackers, drew so many complaints about its difficulty that Cawthon soon patched it to be easier.

How was Freddy Fazbear's Pizzeria Simulator priced on release?

Free on Steam, yet a full mainline game: Cawthon had teased Pizzeria Simulator as a spin-off days earlier. Its cheerful tycoon surface hides a classic FNaF night shift.

In Ultimate Custom Night, what does buying a Death Coin do?

Removes one animatronic for the night: a Death Coin costs ten Faz-Coins and works only on certain troublesome characters; oddly, the banished one's points still count toward the final score.

The VR game Five Nights at Freddy's: Help Wanted was announced in March 2019 during which livestreamed showcase?

State of Play made its debut that day, March 25, 2019, and Sony gave much of the first episode to PlayStation VR games, so the reveal trailer ran alongside Iron Man VR and Blood & Truth.

Which console headset received Five Nights at Freddy's: Help Wanted 2 at its December 2023 launch?

PlayStation VR2 got Help Wanted 2 at launch on December 14, 2023, alongside PC VR; Quest owners waited until May 9, 2024, and a mode needing no headset at all followed that June.

Which FNaF game explores Murray's Costume Manor?

Secret of the Mimic, the eleventh main game, arrived in June 2025; a Fazbear technician enters the abandoned workshop, stalked by a prototype robot that can wear any of its mascot costumes.

Which YouTube channel's charity livestream did the free 2019 minigame Freddy in Space 2 promote?

The Game Theorists ran the December 2019 stream for St. Jude; Cawthon hid dollar amounts inside the game, and every one that players uncovered became money he pledged to donate.

Which free beat 'em up did Scott Cawthon release in April 2021 to make up for delaying Security Breach again?

Fury's Rage opens with a cartoon Cawthon dreading the fans' reaction to another delay; the free brawler then lets the Glamrock band punch its way through city streets.

Which Pizzeria Simulator animatronic is a black bear built to trap the Puppet?

Lefty's name spells out the plan, Lure Encapsulate Fuse Transport Extract, and it worked: the Puppet is already sealed inside the black bear when the player salvages it.

Which kart racing spin-off was announced for the series' 10th anniversary in June 2024?

Five Laps at Freddy's, a kart racer casting Freddy, Chica and the other animatronics as drivers, was announced in June 2024 as the series marked its 10th anniversary.

Which platform hosted Five Nights at Freddy's: Survival Crew when it was released by accident in December 2023?

Roblox briefly hosted Survival Crew when its developers pushed the unfinished beta live by mistake on December 20, 2023; it was taken down after a backlash, with Cawthon promising a proper release.

Which fan-game series was the first published under the Fazbear Fanverse initiative?

One Night at Flumpty's led the way: after Cawthon pledged in August 2020 to fund and officially license the best-known fan games, its mobile ports were the first releases that autumn.

Which publisher released the three main FNaF novels?

Scholastic signed a three-book deal in June 2016, six months after Cawthon had self-published the opening novel as a Kindle e-book.

What does the sign in front of Foxy's curtain read in the first Five Nights at Freddy's?

Out of Order, the sign claims under an apologetic 'Sorry!', yet the retired fox is the one animatronic who sprints for the office the moment the guard stops checking on him.

In Security Breach, what does Gregory wear that lets him check the building's security cameras?

A wristwatch: the Faz-Watch that Freddy hands over replaces the series' fixed office monitor, putting the camera feeds, a map and incoming messages on a boy who never stops moving.

Which actor joined the second Five Nights at Freddy's film as Michael Afton?

Freddy Carter, Kaz in Shadow and Bone, plays him as the old restaurant's guard, who turns out to be the killer's son and tries to carry on his father's murders.

The 2024 game Into the Pit adapts a story from which FNaF book series?

Fazbear Frights: Into the Pit adapts the title story of the anthology's first volume (2019), in which Oswald climbs into a ball pit and lands in 1985.

Which hidden Five Nights at Freddy's 3 minigame shows the murdered children's spirits set free at a party?

Happiest Day only plays out in full once every other secret minigame is solved: a cake appears, the children's spirits vanish and the masks they wore drop to the floor.

What is the 2019 augmented-reality FNaF mobile game developed by Illumix called?

Special Delivery used the phone camera to bring animatronics into the player's own home; released free in November 2019, it went dark when its servers were shut down in March 2024.

Which musical act's first Five Nights at Freddy's song played over the 2023 film's closing credits?

The Living Tombstone's song began as a fan tribute to the first game and went viral on YouTube; the official film then adopted it for its end credits, as the sequel did with their second.

Which two companies have been major producers of FNaF collectibles?

Funko and McFarlane: Funko's toy adverts were parading Security Breach's new cast in mid-2020, before the game had a trailer and well over a year before it finally came out.

Which real venue's mascots influenced Scott Cawthon's animatronic designs for Five Nights at Freddy's?

Chuck E. Cheese party venues, with an animatronic house band playing to children's birthday tables, gave Cawthon the template he twisted into Freddy Fazbear's Pizza.

Which tune does Freddy play when the power runs out in the first Five Nights at Freddy's?

The Toreador Song from Bizet's Carmen jingles while Freddy's eyes flash in the dark doorway; when it stops, his attack follows unless 6 a.m. comes first.

How does the first Five Nights at Freddy's reveal that children were murdered at the pizzeria?

Newspaper clippings on camera report that a man lured five children into a back room; the bodies were never found, and customers later complained that the mascots smelled and leaked.

Which incident mentioned in the first Five Nights at Freddy's reportedly cost someone a frontal lobe?

The Bite of '87, mentioned in one of the recorded phone messages, supposedly cost a victim their frontal lobe and got the animatronics barred from roaming during the day.

In the first Five Nights at Freddy's, which control reveals an animatronic standing right outside the office?

The door light on either side of the office shows whether an animatronic is waiting just outside; like the doors and cameras, every use drains the night's limited power.

What happens to Mike Schmidt after finishing the seventh custom night?

He is fired: after the custom seventh night Mike Schmidt receives a pink slip citing tampering with the animatronics, general unprofessionalism and odor.

What do FNaF 1's animatronics supposedly do to a guard they mistake for an endoskeleton?

Stuff him into a suit: the recorded calls warn that a spare Freddy costume is packed with crossbeams, wires and machinery, so being forced inside one kills the guard.

Which Christian allegory did Scott Cawthon adapt as an animated film years before Five Nights at Freddy's?

The Pilgrim's Progress: Cawthon animated John Bunyan's allegory in the mid-2000s and returned to it in 2011 with a role-playing game whose enemies include Apollyon and Giant Despair.

Which two entrances besides the hallway lead into the FNaF 2 office?

Two air vents, left and right, flank the FNaF 2 office alongside the open hallway; none can be sealed, so the guard relies on the vent lights and the Freddy head.

Which two FNaF 2 animatronics see through the guard's mask?

Foxy and the Puppet ignore the mask: Foxy has to be driven back with repeated flashes of light down the hallway, while the Puppet is kept at bay remotely through the camera feed.

In FNaF 2, the new animatronics' facial recognition is tied into what?

A criminal database: the phone caller says it lets the new models spot a predator a mile away, yet the same robots have no proper night mode and wander toward the guard's office after hours.

Who voices the phone caller in FNaF 2?

The series creator himself: Scott Cawthon voices the phone caller in FNaF 2, as he did in the first game; the caller says he will take over the night shift himself.

What does the newspaper at the end of FNaF 2 say will be scrapped?

The redesigned mascots are to be scrapped over possible malfunctions, the closing newspaper says, while their older counterparts are saved for an eventual reopening.

What do fans call the laid-back caller who briefs the guard in FNaF 3?

Phone Dude, a new caller with a surfer-style drawl, replaces Phone Guy in FNaF 3 and explains that the attraction was built from relics of the old pizzeria.

How is Springtrap lured away from the office in FNaF 3?

Audio devices: a sound played through a chosen camera draws Springtrap toward that room and away from the office, and sealing the vents slows him further.

Where must Security Breach's Freddy keep returning?

A charging station: Freddy's battery is limited, and if it runs out while Gregory is still with him, Freddy himself attacks the boy and ends the game.

What did FNaF 3's cassette tapes say happened to the safe rooms?

They were sealed off: the final training tape says the staff-only safe rooms were closed up, and an old springlock suit was left shut inside one after a run of failures.

In FNaF 3's minigames, what colour is the figure who dismantles the animatronics?

Purple: the figure known as Purple Guy destroys the original animatronics one by one in FNaF 3's minigames, until their ghosts corner him.

Who torments the boy in FNaF 4's minigames?

His brother torments him through the minigames, and the prank he leads ends with the boy crushed in an animatronic's jaws.

What do the bullies call it when they shove the boy's head into Fredbear's mouth?

A kiss: the bullies joke that the boy wants to give Fredbear 'a big kiss' and shove his head into the animatronic's jaws, which clamp down and crush his skull.

What appears after beating FNaF 4's Nightmare mode?

A locked metal box: beating Nightmare mode shows a padlocked box and the text 'perhaps some things are best left forgotten, for now', a tease Cawthon left unopened.

What benefit does winning the Plushtrap minigame give?

Two hours off the next night: reaching the X in 'Fun with Plushtrap' starts the following night at 2 a.m. instead of midnight; the minigame plays like red light, green light.

Before FNaF 4's surprise July 2015 launch, its release was moved to which anniversary?

The first game's release: the date was pulled forward from Halloween to August 8, a year to the day after the original, and then Cawthon released it earlier still, on July 23.

What is the name of the company AI that guides Mike in Sister Location?

HandUnit, short for Handyman's Robotics and Unit Repair System, talks the new technician through each task, yet it is easily fooled: on the fifth night it fails to notice the animatronics are missing.

What is the full name of Sister Location's facility?

Circus Baby's Entertainment and Rental is the 'sister location' of the title, where the player is a new technician doing maintenance on animatronics that turn homicidal at night.

Which tiny ballerina animatronics attack Mike on Sister Location's fourth night?

Minireenas, Ballora's tiny ballerina dolls, climb the springlock suit Mike is trapped in on Night 4 and must be shaken off while he keeps the springlocks wound.

Which Sister Location machine tears out the animatronics' insides, leaving empty shells?

The Scooper guts the animatronics one by one; in the main ending they turn it on Mike so they can wear his body as a disguise and walk out of the facility.

Which girl is presumed to possess Circus Baby?

Elizabeth Afton, William's daughter, is pulled into Circus Baby by the stomach claw in the Sister Location minigame, after her father told her to stay away from it.

What name is Michael given after the name-entry keypad glitches in Sister Location?

Eggs Benedict: the keypad malfunctions as the player types, so the facility's guide voice picks a name itself and welcomes Michael as Eggs Benedict.

What does Mike watch at home between Sister Location's nights?

An animated sitcom: between nights Mike watches 'The Immortal and the Restless', a soap-opera parody about a vampire named Vlad; Ennard's eyes eventually appear in his living room.

How does Michael cross Ballora Gallery safely on Sister Location's second night?

Stop when her music grows loud: Ballora finds Michael only by the sounds he makes, so he crawls toward the Breaker Room and freezes whenever her music swells, a sign she is close.

What are the Pizzaplex's wheeled helper robots called in Security Breach?

S.T.A.F.F. bots are the Pizzaplex's wheeled helper robots in Security Breach, handing out maps and cleaning up, and the security variants raise the alarm when they spot Gregory.

Which laser weapon with unlimited ammo does Gregory use?

The Fazerblaster, the laser gun from the Fazer Blast arena, has unlimited ammo that restores over time, while the Faz Cam is a camera-like device that stuns instead.

Which two forms does the Daycare Attendant take?

Sun and Moon share one body: the Daycare Attendant is the friendly Sun while the lights are on and turns into Moon, the hostile personality, once they go out.

Which animatronic is the boss fought beneath Security Breach's Pizzaplex?

Burntrap waits in the ruins of an old Freddy Fazbear's Pizza buried under the complex, where Gregory defeats him in a boss fight.

Finishing which hidden arcade game in Security Breach reveals the truth about security guard Vanessa?

Princess Quest: finishing the trilogy of hidden arcade games reveals Vanessa as the complex's masked villain and appears to free her, and she leaves with Gregory and Freddy at sunrise.

At which 2020 event did the first teaser trailer for Security Breach debut?

PlayStation 5 Showcase: the teaser aired during Sony's September 16, 2020 stream, but delays pushed the game itself back to December 16, 2021.

Which animatronic does Cassie tearfully disable in Ruin?

Roxanne Wolf, left eyeless in Security Breach, at first mistakes Cassie for Gregory; a distressed Cassie has to deactivate her to go on, yet Roxy later comes to her rescue.

In Ruin, which third personality of the Daycare Attendant emerges when Cassie reboots it?

Eclipse takes over the shared body once Cassie reboots the Daycare Attendant, and unlike the hostile side that hunted Gregory it sends her on her way with a cheerful goodbye.

In Ruin, what draws Cassie into the wrecked Pizzaplex?

A message from Gregory: Cassie enters the ruined Pizzaplex after hearing what sounds like Gregory pleading for rescue, a lure later revealed to be the Mimic imitating his voice.

Which program does Cassie shut down in Ruin, the server for the rabbit entity?

M.X.E.S. is the security program Cassie disables in Ruin; it projects the rabbit figure in the AR world and, once shut down, releases the Mimic it was containing.

Which fictional VR product does the Help Wanted player use?

The Freddy Fazbear Virtual Experience is the in-universe VR game Fazbear Entertainment commissioned to repair its image by recasting the old horror stories as fiction.

Who secretly recorded Help Wanted's hidden warning tapes?

A playtester, credited only as QA and known as Tape Girl, hid the tapes to warn that malicious code had got into the game from an old circuit board.

Which Help Wanted mode puts the player face to face with Freddy, Bonnie, Chica and Foxy, one at a time?

Parts and Service has the player perform delicate maintenance on each animatronic in turn, and any slip of the hand provokes a jumpscare.

Why did Cawthon apologize over Help Wanted's promotional artwork?

It used fan-made models: some Help Wanted promotional images were built from fan-made 3D models, and Cawthon apologised, saying the person responsible had mistaken them for official assets.

In the 2023 Five Nights at Freddy's film, which figure do the ghost children keep mentioning to Mike?

A yellow rabbit: the spirits keep naming him, and he finally walks in wearing the suit and switches the animatronics back on before unmasking as someone Mike already knows.

What was the non-VR version of Help Wanted called?

Flat mode opened the headset-only game to ordinary screens on Windows and PlayStation 4, and that non-VR build is what later reached the Nintendo Switch.

Which gift basket is Michael's one-week bonus in Sister Location?

Exotic Butters: the guide voice bills the basket to Michael's next paycheck and, whatever he types, picks this one for him; the gag item turns up again in later games.

Which studio developed the 2024 pixel-art game Into the Pit?

Mega Cat Studios, a Pittsburgh team that makes retro-style games, even for old cartridge consoles, built Into the Pit in 16-bit-style pixel art for the series' tenth anniversary.

Which Japanese horror game about evading a stalker influenced Into the Pit's design?

Clock Tower, a 1995 Super Famicom game whose heroine hides from the scissor-wielding Scissorman, was cited by the team as an influence on Into the Pit's exploration, stealth and evasion.

Which present-day restaurant does Oswald visit in Into the Pit?

Jeff's Pizza, the run-down present-day pizzeria in Oswald's town, holds the ball pit that drops him into the 1985 Freddy Fazbear's Pizza.

Which animatronic is the main antagonist hunting Oswald in Into the Pit?

Spring Bonnie pursues Oswald after his trips through the ball pit to 1985 and takes his father's place at home, so much of the game is spent hiding under beds and in lockers.

Where did Cawthon confirm Into the Pit was authentic after its trailer leaked?

Reddit: after the game leaked in January 2024, Cawthon posted there that it was real and had his approval, saying it marked the tenth anniversary of the original.

Which studio first held the FNaF film rights in 2015?

Warner Bros. Pictures picked up the film rights in April 2015 with Gil Kenan set to direct, but after repeated delays the project moved to Blumhouse in March 2017.

Which director signed on in 2018 to write and direct the Five Nights at Freddy's film, then left?

Chris Columbus was hired in February 2018 to write and direct, but Cawthon scrapped that script for an idea he liked better, and by September 2021 Columbus was no longer involved.

Which company built the animatronics for the 2023 Five Nights at Freddy's film?

Jim Henson's Creature Shop built the film's animatronic cast; producer Jason Blum announced the workshop's involvement in August 2022, months before a director was confirmed.

The first FNaF film grossed about $297 million on roughly what budget?

$20 million: the film earned close to fifteen times what it cost, and a sequel with most of the same cast and crew followed in 2025.

Who plays Vanessa, the police officer who befriends Mike, in the 2023 Five Nights at Freddy's film?

Elizabeth Lail plays officer Vanessa Shelly, who warns Mike about the pizzeria and is eventually revealed to be William Afton's daughter.

In the 2023 Five Nights at Freddy's film, William Afton poses as Mike's career counselor under what alias?

Steve Raglan is the name the career counselor uses when he steers Mike into the night-guard job; only at the climax does he return in costume and reveal who he really is.

In the 2023 Five Nights at Freddy's film, what is the name of Mike's kidnapped younger brother?

Garrett was taken during a family camping trip while Mike was meant to be watching him, and Mike has replayed the abduction in his dreams ever since, hoping to learn who took him.

Which small animatronic joins the main four in killing the vandals in the 2023 Five Nights at Freddy's film?

Mr. Cupcake joins Freddy, Bonnie, Chica and Foxy when the vandals hired to wreck the pizzeria break in, and none of the gang gets out alive.

Which YouTuber turned down a role in the 2023 Five Nights at Freddy's film over a scheduling clash?

Markiplier was asked to appear in the film but had to decline because the dates clashed with shooting his own movie, Iron Lung.

Which fictional diner hosts MatPat's cameo in the 2023 Five Nights at Freddy's film?

Sparky's Diner is where the plan to wreck the pizzeria is hatched, with MatPat waiting on the plotters' table; it was also the first scene filmed when shooting began in February 2023.

Who performs Foxy's scatted pirate song in the film?

Kellen Goff, the voice of Funtime Freddy and Glamrock Freddy in the games, supplied Foxy's scatted pirate song in the 2023 film.

What does Abby make to turn the FNaF film's animatronics on Afton?

Drawing: Abby sketches Afton murdering the children and shows it to the animatronics, who see the truth, turn on him and set off the springlocks in his suit.

Which actress voices Toy Chica in the second Five Nights at Freddy's film?

Megan Fox voices Toy Chica in the 2025 sequel; the casting was announced that October along with MatPat, upgraded from a cameo in the first film to the voice of Toy Bonnie.

Which actress plays Lisa, the ghost hunter who awakens the Marionette, in the second Five Nights at Freddy's film?

Mckenna Grace plays Lisa, one of three ghost hunters touring the original restaurant; she wakes the Marionette, which possesses her and turns the animatronics loose.

Which actress plays Mike's sister Abby in both Five Nights at Freddy's films?

Piper Rubio plays Abby Schmidt in the 2023 film and its December 2025 sequel; Abby's bond with the animatronics drives both stories.

In the 2023 Five Nights at Freddy's film, which relative fights Mike for custody of Abby?

Aunt Jane wants custody of Abby for the monthly payments, so she hires vandals to wreck the pizzeria and get Mike sacked; the animatronics kill the intruders instead.

In the 2023 Five Nights at Freddy's film, what does Mike take hoping to relive his brother's kidnapping?

Sleeping pills: Mike uses them to force the dream of his brother's abduction; there the ghost children offer to keep him with his brother in exchange for Abby, and when he finally says no, they attack.

Why does Mike lose his mall security job at the start of the 2023 Five Nights at Freddy's film?

He attacks a bystander: Mike beats up a father he wrongly takes for a kidnapper, and losing that job is what pushes him to accept night shifts at the abandoned pizzeria.

Which 1980s hit do the animatronics perform in the 2023 Five Nights at Freddy's film?

'Talking in Your Sleep' by The Romantics is the animatronic band's signature number, heard in several scenes although it was left off the soundtrack album.

What rating did the 2023 Five Nights at Freddy's film receive from the MPA?

PG-13, despite a body count: the vandals who break into the pizzeria are all killed by the animatronics, and the rating cites strong violent content, bloody images and language.

Under which online nickname is Scott Cawthon known to Five Nights at Freddy's fans?

Animdude is the handle Cawthon has long used online; the first game's demo was posted to IndieDB under that username weeks before the full release.

In FNaF lore, what does Circus Baby use to lure a lone child close?

Ice cream: Baby counts the children around her, and when only one is left her stomach opens with a cone inside; the girl who steps closer is seized by a claw.

Why did Cawthon temporarily pull FNaF World from Steam after its January 2016 launch?

It was unfinished and buggy: FNaF World drew complaints about glitches, so Cawthon pulled it from Steam four days after launch and put an updated version on Game Jolt at no charge that February.

In the 2023 Five Nights at Freddy's film, why does Mike first bring Abby along to his night shift?

Her babysitter never shows: she was one of the vandals killed at the pizzeria the night before, so Mike has to take Abby with him, and the animatronics befriend her.

Which Fazbear Frights volume's title story features an animatronic that acts on a boy's text messages?

Fetch, the second Fazbear Frights book (2020), takes its title from a story about a robotic dog that carries out commands sent by text, with deadly results.

The 2023 Five Nights at Freddy's film was shot mainly in and around which US city?

New Orleans: filming ran there and in nearby communities from February 1 to April 3, 2023, after script problems had delayed the shoot.

Which line from the games does Afton say in the 2023 FNaF film?

I always come back: Afton's catchphrase from the games is what he says in the film as the animatronics turn on him and the springlocks in his suit give way.

Which duo composed the score for the 2023 Five Nights at Freddy's film?

The Living Tombstone's fan-made theme song was saved for the end credits.

Working alone, roughly how long did Scott Cawthon take to build the first Five Nights at Freddy's?

Six months of solo work produced the first game, with Cawthon's sons and friends as its beta testers and some of the sound effects made by Cawthon himself.

At which annual theme-park event were the 2023 Five Nights at Freddy's film's animatronics displayed that October?

Halloween Horror Nights at Universal Studios Hollywood showed off the film's animatronics in October 2023, fitting since Universal released the film later that month.

In Five Nights at Freddy's, the yellow backup singer in Freddy Fazbear's animatronic band is which kind of bird?

A chicken, as her full name Chica the Chicken spells out, and in the 2023 film she was a walking suit worn by performer Jess Weiss.

Freddy Fazbear, the brown bear mascot of Five Nights at Freddy's, takes the stage in which pair of accessories?

Top hat and bow tie, both black, give Freddy his old-time showman look, set off by three black freckles on each side of his muzzle.

In the first Five Nights at Freddy's, the starry sign in front of Foxy's curtained stage carries which message?

Sorry! Out of Order is the excuse posted at Pirate Cove, yet the fox behind the curtain is far from broken, growing more active the longer the cameras stay off him.

The white bib worn by Chica in the first Five Nights at Freddy's is printed with which two-word slogan?

Let's Eat is spelled out in yellow bubble letters outlined in purple, on a bib sprinkled with coloured triangles and what look like tiny pizza slices.

Which Security Breach animatronic hides the lost boy inside his stomach hatch and guides him through the Pizzaplex?

Glamrock Freddy breaks with every earlier Freddy by protecting the player, after an on-stage malfunction leads him to disobey the night guard's orders.

Which Toy animatronic does YouTube theorist Matthew 'MatPat' Patrick voice in the second Five Nights at Freddy's film?

Toy Bonnie speaks with MatPat's voice in the sequel, a step up from his brief cameo in the first film for the YouTuber best known for decoding the series' story.

Which rabbit-like character in Five Nights at Freddy's: Help Wanted tries to escape by taking over the player's mind?

Glitchtrap is malware uploaded from an old circuit board, and one ending locks the player behind a steel door, where he shushes them and slips out of sight.

Which worn-out Five Nights at Freddy's 2 animatronic has lost its whole face and its left arm?

Withered Bonnie is the most battered of the old models kept for spare parts, with glowing red eyes staring out of the hole where his face used to be.

Which white, orange and purple fox floods the monitors in Sister Location's Custom Night with the words PLEASE STAND BY?

Lolbit, a recoloured copy of another fox's disembodied head, is chased off the screens by typing L-O-L on the keyboard or clicking the letters lit up on the office keypad.

Which white-and-purple bear dances in the corner of the shopping catalog in the FNaF game Pizzeria Simulator?

Helpy looks like a pint-sized Funtime Freddy, and in Ultimate Custom Night he turns pest, blasting an air horn unless the player clicks him away in time.

Which purple Mediocre Melodies animatronic drags out the game-over screen in Ultimate Custom Night with long stories?

Mr. Hippo talks like a rambling grandfather, and quitting the game to dodge his monologue only makes him jumpscare the player again and start over.

Which rusted mass of wires with one glowing orange eye is one of four salvageable animatronics in Pizzeria Simulator?

Molten Freddy is what remains of Sister Location's final villain after it cast out its leader, and salvaging him rather than throwing him back earns the player $500.

Which Fazbear Entertainment technician is sent to retrieve abandoned schematics from Murray's Costume Manor?

Arnold is the player character of Secret of the Mimic, stalked through the workshop by an endoskeleton that wears the manor's old mascot costumes.

Which sing-song girl in a propeller beanie pops up in Ultimate Custom Night to add an extra animatronic to the night?

Dee Dee sings 'Uh-oh! How unfortunate' before throwing a new contender into the ring, and she can even summon characters missing from the selection screen.

Which murdered child's spirit is confirmed to possess Chica in the lore of Five Nights at Freddy's?

Susie haunts Chica, which is why the animatronic stalks adults after hours: the possessed band is seeking revenge on the man who killed them.

In Ultimate Custom Night, clicking which animatronic's parrot can win an upgrade or set off a jumpscare?

Rockstar Foxy may answer a click on his parrot with extra power, a cooler office, soundproofing or ten Faz-Coins, though sometimes he simply attacks.

Which pair of small animatronics try to pry open the desk the technician hides under on Night 2 of Sister Location?

Bidybabs peer through the holes in the desk's door and coo 'Hello in there!' before trying to drag it open while the power reboots.

In the second Five Nights at Freddy's film, Wayne Knight plays Mr. Berg, who holds which job at Abby's school?

Science teacher Mr. Berg destroys Abby's robot project, so she agrees to make Toy Chica her new one, and the freed animatronic later kills him at the school.

Which red, crudely animated fisherman makes Ultimate Custom Night players catch a fish or have their monitor locked?

Old Man Consequences first surfaced in a hidden spin-off ending, and his only advice in Ultimate Custom Night is to 'leave the demon to his demons' and rest.

Which actor, Shaggy in the live-action Scooby-Doo films, plays William Afton in the Five Nights at Freddy's movies?

Matthew Lillard has said his own children inspired him to take the part, and the role set off what The Hollywood Reporter called his Renaissance era.

In Five Nights at Freddy's 3's final minigame, what kills William Afton after ghosts scare him into an old mascot suit?

Its springlocks fail and the suit's metal parts snap back into place, crushing him while the spirits of his victims look on and then fade away.

In the first Five Nights at Freddy's film, the ghost children keep mentioning which disguise of William Afton?

A yellow rabbit is all the children will say, and the meaning lands when their killer walks in wearing that very suit and takes control of the animatronics.

In the first Five Nights at Freddy's film, what does Abby make to turn the animatronics against William Afton?

A drawing does it: the spirits love pictures, so Abby sketches what he did to them, and the freed animatronics turn on him before he is dragged away.

In the first Five Nights at Freddy's film, police officer Vanessa is revealed to be which relative of William Afton?

His daughter is the secret Vanessa keeps until late in the film, and it does not protect her: he stabs her during the final showdown at the pizzeria.

William Afton joined which multiplayer horror game as a playable killer called The Animatronic?

Dead by Daylight, nicknamed the hall of fame of horror for its licensed villains, gave him his own chapter and a map of the haunted pizzeria.

In the first Five Nights at Freddy's, what do newspaper clippings say about the bodies of William Afton's five victims?

They were never found, and later complaints that the animatronics smelled foul and leaked blood and mucus hint at where the killer had hidden them.

What happens to the suit holding William Afton's body as the second Five Nights at Freddy's film ends?

It powers back on after the departing spirits have warned that they can no longer hold 'him' back, leaving the killer free to return.

In every Five Nights at Freddy's minigame that shows William Afton killing, his simple sprite wears which expression?

A wide smile stays fixed on his purple sprite through every killing, which the games use to mark him as a murderer who enjoys his work.

William Afton's voice actor in the Five Nights at Freddy's games based the killer's delivery on which film villain?

Hannibal Lecter, as played by Anthony Hopkins, was the model, and the British accent that came with it was the actor's own audition choice.

Which dark purple bear lures the animatronics towards William Afton in FNaF 3's minigames with the words 'Follow me'?

Shadow Freddy walks each animatronic to a hidden back room where the killer waits to dismantle it, one per night for four nights.

Which fan-given name is used for William Afton's battered undead form, missing a forearm, in Pizzeria Simulator?

Scraptrap is the community's label for his second undead design, more bone and flesh than machine, worth a base $1,000 to any player who dares salvage him.

Which line of animatronics did William Afton design himself through his own firm, Afton Robotics?

The Funtimes were his most advanced work, and his voice opens Sister Location describing one of them, a machine he secretly built to capture children.

In the first Five Nights at Freddy's novel, William Afton poses as a mall security guard under which false name?

Dave Miller is the fake identity he builds after fleeing town, a shabby night guard who then tags along as teenagers sneak into the old pizzeria.

In Five Nights at Freddy's 2's SAVETHEM minigame, which two words flash on screen when Purple Guy catches the player?

You can't is the reply, a grim answer to the minigame's own title, after which the game shuts itself down; he has only a one-in-a-hundred chance of appearing.

How does Henry finally destroy William Afton and the last haunted animatronics at the end of Pizzeria Simulator?

He burns the building, revealing in a farewell speech that the whole pizzeria was built as a trap to gather the haunted animatronics and free the souls inside.

Brightening the newspaper that ends FNaF 3 reveals that William Afton survived the fire, lurking behind what?

A Freddy figurine in the corner of the photo hides his decayed face, the first hint that burning down the horror attraction had not finished him.

The Five Nights at Freddy's novels have William Afton flee and later return to which real Utah town?

Hurricane is the town he slips back into under a false identity, taking a guard job at the abandoned mall built over the old pizzeria.

In a Five Nights at Freddy's 2 minigame, William Afton's sprite has a yellow shape on its chest that resembles what?

A security badge is the usual reading, and the same close-up sprite shows him as a tall, skinny man with a long neck, holding a purple object.

In a Five Nights at Freddy's 4 minigame set in a diner, William Afton is glimpsed doing what for an employee?

Helping with a costume is all the cameo shows, the only moment the fourth game puts him on screen, and easy to miss unless the player doubles back to the dining room.

At the start of the first Five Nights at Freddy's film, Mike is fired for attacking a father he mistook for what?

A kidnapper is what Mike thought he saw, a reflex left by the unsolved abduction of his little brother, and losing that job is what sends him to the pizzeria.