Five Nights at Freddy's began in 2014 as a deceptively simple indie horror game: sit in a security office, watch the cameras, and survive until dawn while malfunctioning animatronics stalk a children's pizzeria. Scott Cawthon's formula was cheap to make and impossible to put down, and it detonated across YouTube.
What followed turned a jump-scare gimmick into one of horror's strangest serial mysteries. The numbered sequels and spin-offs like Sister Location and Pizzeria Simulator buried a fractured timeline of murder and possessed machinery inside their mechanics, rewarding players who treated each game as a puzzle box. The brand now reaches into film and tie-in fiction, but the unsettling lore, decoded collectively by fans, remains the real draw.
The Five Nights at Freddy's franchise spans 1 books, 11 games, 2 movies in the CrossBinge catalog.
Movies
Games
- Five Nights at Freddy's (2014)
- Five Nights at Freddy's 2 (2014)
- Five Nights at Freddy's 3 (2015)
- Five Nights at Freddy's 4 (2015)
- FNaF World (2016)
- Five Nights at Freddy's: Sister Location (2016)
- Freddy Fazbear's Pizzeria Simulator (2017)
- Ultimate Custom Night (2018)
- Five Nights at Freddy's: Security Breach (2021)
- Five Nights at Freddy's: Into the Pit (2024)
- Five Laps at Freddy's (2026)
Books
Key people
- Emma Tammi (Director)
- Michael P. Sullivan (Actor)
- Piper Rubio (Actor)
- Grant Feely (Actor)
- Matthew Lillard (Actor)
- Cory Kenshin (Actor)
- Josh Hutcherson (Actor)
- Theodus Crane (Actor)
- Elizabeth Lail (Actor)
- Bailey Winston (Actor)