Games: Main series: Five Nights at Freddy's, Five Nights at Freddy's 2, Five Nights at Freddy's 3, Five Nights at Freddy's 4, Five Nights at Freddy's: Sister Location, Freddy Fazbear's Pizzeria Simulator, Five Nights At Freddys VR Help Wanted, Five Nights at Freddy's: Security Breach | Spin-offs: Five Nights at Freddy's World, Ultimate Custom Night
Books: Five Nights at Freddy's: The Silver Eyes | Five Nights at Freddy's: The Twisted Ones | Five Nights at Freddy's: Fazbear Frights
As this is a Nightmare Fuel page, spoilers will be left unmarked. You Have Been Warned!
- An early teaser for the game was very dark and hard to see. If you brighten it
◊, you get quite possibly the most horrifying sight in the entire series: Mangle being hanged to death, and the text below reads "See what you've all done?". The image was later removed, but it was still a disturbing thing to witness. Even after it's revealed that Mangle was biting down on a paddle ball attached to a string (as you can see the string is coming from their mouth, not their neck), it's still creepy nonetheless. - This teaser. It's similar to the teaser where Mangle hangs itself, and while it's slightly less morbid, it still has a creep factor of its own. This teaser shows the enemy Ball Boy all torn apart, leaving nothing but his head in plain sight and his eyes all whacked out. Below it is the caption that says "Madness takes many forms".
- The creepiest part is how the teaser seems to be a GIF instead of JPG, because it seems like a light is making it more and less visible, either way.
- What happens as soon as you first boot up the game is creepy and very ominous. It shows something with two small glowing white eyes in total darkness speaking to you that "something has gone wrong" in a "safe place" and that is why it is here while disturbing music plays. This scene ends on a really familiar quote. I will put you back together. It's made even creepier that the quote was said by the Fredbear plush in FNaF 4, where it comforts the Crying Child at the end of Night 6.
- The underground area of the game is creepy enough on its own, but really nothing worse than the normal Blackout Basement level, except for the fact that it's the home of Eyesore, a large eye monster that's not visible on the overworld, making it more unexpected. The scariest part is how out-of-place it looks - unlike most other enemies, Eyesore is completely organic in appearance and lacks any cartoonish traits.
- And did we mention that it may also randomly attack the player while they are spawning in the caves?
- Want to get all of those strange red chests that seem to be out of your reach? Some of them can only reached by finding intentional glitches in the system that allow you to travel above the game world, that wouldn't be so bad if it wasn't for the fact that you can still find enemies but these ones are constantly glitching themselves between forms, are in photo-negative colors and carry some of the most powerful attacks in the game.
- The glitch plane itself is quite unsettling; both the "area" and the enemies don't have proper names (they are written mostly in punctuation signs) and it's quite likely that unless you were using guides, you only ended up in there by accident while looking for fake walls, something that a player might be prone to do given how many chests and new areas are reached like that.
- Discovering the real purpose of your little journey requires you to wait for Fredbear to finish speaking and then wait some more, causing him to go from cutesy 3D Adventure mode to a much more familiar pixellated 2D Fredbear form that seems unstable and informs you that you're being played by someone behind the scenes as the jolly music just stops. It's somewhat jarring, especially if you managed to stumble upon it by accident.
- It continues to get get creepier, as you can do it each time you meet Fredbear and he starts to give you additional instructions to fulfill your quest.
- If you go down into the fourth sub-tunnel, you'll end up at a lake in a small forest clearing with no way to escape. The place is deserted except for Old Man Consequences, whose name hints that that Freddy has ignored Fredbear's words. Considering that every animatronic that dies just comes back to life in the next fight, Freddy will be stuck here forever with no way to end this misery.
- Another creepy thing about it is that the same area gives you a different ending. If you move above the lake and go down while moving left and right, Freddy will eventually go in the water. What happens is a bit scary, he starts to fall down endlessly with no music playing and goes on for about two minutes. What you see afterwards is more confusing than scary though, but understanding what the ending means makes it more of Tearjerker/Heartwarming moment.
- Foxy.exe, a parody of Sonic.exe. When you first click on it, the pseudo-Windows background becomes bloody for a split second. You play as Adventure Bonnie walking along a near-featureless path with a picture of the original Foxy's head in the background. Foxy's voice is convincingly menacing, and his repeating sentences over and over makes it even creepier. As you walk from one screen to another, the background gets more and more warped, and the picture changes to reveal his endoskeleton. Of course, it wouldn't be a step back into the familiar horror tone of FNAF without a few jumpscares courtesy of Freddy (with the FNAF 1 screech) and Withered Foxy (with the FNAF 2 screech). Speaking of which, just like the source material for this game, a pleasant mugshot of Withered Foxy's face will sometimes fill the screen without warning, and while it does have eyes unlike the mugshot from FNAF 2, over time Foxy's head will pull apart revealing the endoskeleton's head.Foxy: Enjoy your step... through the heart of madness.
- At the end of Update 2 after defeating the True Final Boss, you are teleported back to the place where the Desk guy and asks why you killed his games. He then tells you of a character he made called Baby and says it's too late to deactivate her. Soon, the place goes dark with two strange dots glowing and a feminine voice saying to "stay in your seats". Once the place lights up again, the Desk Guy has been killed, with blood slowly pooling around his head. What makes this more jarring is that it comes right after the final fight against the Jerkass rainbow that, when beaten, accuses you of cheating and calls you a dumbass. If you come back to that place afterwards Desk Guy is still there, dead.
- At one point, fnafworld.com had been changed to nothing but complete darkness, with even the logo being gone from sight. Hidden in the source code of it and Scottgames were lines that, when pieced together, lead to a very disturbing conversation:You are crowding us.Be quiet.You can't tell us what to do anymore.Yes, I can. You will do everything that I tell you to do.We outnumber you.That doesn't matter, dummy.We found a way to eject you.
- On June 11 of 2017, fnafworld.com changed again—-no logo, no contact information.....just this◊.
- Even more chilling: the source code for the page now adds this to the "conversation" started in Scottgames.com's source code:
You would be lost without me.I can put myself back together.- Let's not forget the image name: "Iamstillhere". Now doesn't that bring back memories?
