These are the original numbered Five Nights at Freddy's games, the indie horror phenomenon that turned a haunted pizza restaurant into a global obsession. The premise is brutally simple: you sit in one spot as a night-shift security guard, watching cameras and slamming doors to keep murderous animatronics from reaching you before dawn. The first two arrived in 2014, the next two in 2015, an astonishing pace that helped fuel the series' explosive online life.
The horror comes from helplessness, scarce resources and sudden jump scares, but the real engine is the cryptic, breadcrumbed lore buried in each entry, which spawned an entire culture of fan theories. A games-only core (the brand later sprawled into books and film), and one of the defining horror series of the 2010s.
The The numbered nights franchise spans 4 games in the CrossBinge catalog.
Part of Five Nights at Freddy's.