"They've gone through hell to entertain you, now you have to go through theirs."
Animator's Hell is a Five Nights at Freddy's fangame by Gestalt Games released in 2020. It is based on the FNAF animation community, featuring 27 (as of v1.2.0) selectable characters that can show up in the night. You have to manage various mechanics to fend them off until 6 AM to survive. As expected from the subject material, the cameras are jam-packed with references to the community and the movements are extremely fluid.
The game can be downloaded here
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This game provides examples of:
- Adjustable Censorship: You can mute the characters' swearing in the options.
- Bland-Name Product: There are cans of Dr. Blender (named after the Dr. Pepper soda and the Blender graphics software) on the desk.
- Creepy Twins: Gemini are a pair of doll-like animatronics. When one shows up in the office, you have to give it part of the mask or you'll die.
- Darker and Edgier: Updates make the game look much bleaker, with the main color scheme going from black and white to black and red.
- Easter Egg: You can click the nose of the clown figure on your desk. Doing this too many times results in death.
- Interface Screw: Not getting rid of spiders that are spawned by Spyder makes them cover a decent chunk of the screen, with up to three being there at once.
- The Many Deaths of You: Each animatronic is shown on the game over screen.
- Ms. Fanservice: Abigail and Tranquility are easily the most humanoid and curvy out of all the in-game female characters with dresses that emphasise their chests.
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Nintendo Hard: The game's easy enough with only a few characters, but enabling most/all of the roster will keep your hands full and Twisted 27 is considered harder than 50/20 in the main series' Ultimate Custom Night. Still, it's mostly fair and explained well, even if several characters can be quite tricky. - Shout-Out: ZapLord looks like Pac-Man and makes you play that game.
- This Is for Emphasis, Bitch!: One of Axie's voice lines after killing you is "Gotcha, bitch!"
