Five Nights At Freddy’s is one of the biggest horror game series out there. What initially started as a single indie game with a unique concept quickly spawned a whole series, including spinoffs and even fan content. You’d think it’d be hard to keep a series set around one simple game element without it getting too repetitive, but creator Scott Cawthon found a way to keep bringing audiences back.
While there are a lot of animatronics with different functions and plenty of terrifying jump scares to endure, every Five Nights At Freddy’s game has its ups and downs. However, they’re all important to the overarching lore that connects all the games and keeps fans coming back for more. Here is a ranking of all the games.
Updated January 10, 2025 By Ben Jessey: Our ranking of the Five Nights At Freddy’s games wasn’t complete. So, in this update, we’ve added the two most recent games to the collection.
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Five Nights At Freddy’s AR: Special Delivery
Five Nights at Freddy’s AR: Special Delivery was an augmented reality game that launched on November 23, 2019, and ran until March 14, 2024. The game introduced a new service by Fazbear Entertainment, allowing customers to order their favorite animatronics to their homes. However, in typical Fazbear Entertainment fashion, the animatronics malfunctioned, turning what should have been entertaining experiences into terrifying attacks on the customers.
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The game’s mechanics were similar to those of Pokemon Go or Jurassic World Alive, but with a distinct FNAF twist. You had to fend off the malfunctioning animatronics using their mobile devices in real-world environments. Unfortunately, FNAF AR suffered from significant technical issues, including frequent glitches that caused phones to overheat and the game to freeze or shut down mid-session.
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Five Nights At Freddy’s World
It’s hard to forget the massive dumpster fire that was FNAF World. It’s a departure from the series that trades the usual horror gameplay for a cutesy tone and RPG turn-based combat. The game was harshly criticized when it launched for its many bugs and 8-bit art style that differed from the 3D graphics shown in the trailer.
While the game saw a huge update that boosted the graphics and fixed many of the issues, it couldn’t improve the problem at the game’s core. The adventure lacks a story outside of minor lore implications, and the overworld is simplistic and forgettable. Unfortunately, it falls short of everything you’d expect from an RPG or a Five Nights At Freddy’s game.
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Five Nights At Freddy’s: Help Wanted
Help Wanted is the first Five Nights At Freddy’s game to bring a unique aspect to this horror series: virtual reality. While this makes the game feel different and often more terryfying than other entries, it doesn’t have a lot of original content.
The game’s biggest feature is allowing you to experience the first three games in VR. While it has a few minigames and the DLC is largely new, it’s not really a full game on its own, so it’s far from being the best FNAF game.
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Five Nights At Freddy’s 4
FNAF 4 is the hardest Five Nights At Freddy’s game because it relies heavily on sound. Instead of the usual security office, this game takes place in a child’s bedroom. You must keep looking back and forth between two bedroom doors, the closet, and the bed if you hope to survive.
Unlike other FNAF games, if you flash your light in the hallway and the animatronic is too close to the door, it’s game over. You have to rely solely on listening to tell if the animatronics are nearby, which means playing the game might be impossible if you have auditory issues or don’t own a good pair of headphones.
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Five Nights At Freddy’s: Security Breach
Security Breach brought an open-world setting to the series – the first game to do so. You run around as a child named Gregory, being helped by Freddy himself to survive the other animatronics and explore the hidden secrets the Pizzaplex holds. There are even six possible endings, giving the game a lot of replay value.
Unfortunately, numerous bugs at launch resulted in many people finding it unplayable, while others found the game funny instead of scary. Thankfully, tit was updated a few months after it launched, and most bugs were fixed. It’s now in a much better state and easier to enjoy.
Steelwool released Ruin, Security Breach’s DLC, in July 2023. This addition to the story follows the adventures of Cassie, who explores the Pizzaplex after the events of Security Breach. The DLC, which was free for players who owned the base game, was a fantastic experience with a cohesive narrative, tight gameplay, and, of course, numerous endings. This helped the appeal of the overall game.
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Five Nights At Freddy’s: Ultimate Custom Night
Picture the average Five Nights At Freddy’s game, only with five times the number of animatronics, and they’re all coming for you. Welcome to Ultimate Custom Night. This game is like the Avengers of FNAF, with almost every animatronic from previous games teaming up against you to create a nightmarish survival horror experience.
Ultimate Custom Night feels like a celebration of the FNAF series. You need to juggle mechanics from previous games, like monitoring the cameras, repairing vents, preserving power, maintaining a steady room temperature, and many more. You can take on the preset challenges featuring a select few animatronics or tackle all 50 enemies at once in the near-impossible 50-20 mode.
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Five Nights At Freddy’s: Secret Of The Mimic
Secret of the Mimic has you exploring an abandoned workshop called Murray’s Costume Manor. Along the way, you learn a lot about the former owner of the place, Edwin Murray. Edwin’s story unravels during the game, and it actually makes for a pretty engaging tale.
Another good aspect of the game is how unsettling and creepy wandering around the workshop is. You always feel like one of the broken-down animatronics is going to suddenly wake up and attack you. So, the game excels when it comes to story and creepiness. Unfortunately, some uninspired puzzles and pacing issues hurt the game’s overall appeal.
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Five Nights At Freddy’s: Help Wanted 2
Typically, VR games in horror series are often scarier than other entries since you’re more immersed in what’s happening. Yet, Help Wanted 2 goes against that trend since it’s a VR game that is generally less scary than other entries in the FNAF series. It still has a creepiness to it, and there are some scary moments, but it isn’t terrifying throughout.
This is mainly because the game isn’t about you being hunted or chased. Instead, it’s about you completing a series of different minigames. A lot of these minigames are really well-designed and fun to play in VR. This somewhat makes up for the lack of scares, making this a solid game overall.
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Freddy Fazbear’s Pizzeria Simulator
Freddy Fazbear’s Pizzeria Simulator is a free game in the series, which made everyone wonder if it was just another spin-off. After all, the game doesn’t appear to connect to the others as you go through the tutorials on how to build your own Freddy Fazbear’s Pizzeria.
The game gets more interesting once you’re placed in your office, trying to balance work and maintain your sanity. You’ll see some familiar faces at night when you find them left for scrap in the back alley. Sadly, there are very few hints to push you in the right direction. If you don’t do exactly what the game wants, you’ll miss the true ending and get one of the six basic endings instead.
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Five Nights At Freddy’s 3
After the first two Five Nights At Freddy’s games, Freddy Fazbear’s becomes a sort of legend in the game’s universe, culminating in FNAF 3 trying to replicate the supposed horror experience. Everything seems to be just fine on the first night, but on night two, your employer finds an actual Fazbear animatronic to make the attraction more realistic. He has no idea it’s still alive.
As Springtrap haunts the halls for the rest of the nights, you have to worry about the building’s less-than-perfect systems, like the faulty camera wires that need to be reset and the vents that cause hallucinations if they stop working. Springtrap is menacing enough to terrify you all by himself, making for one of the best FNAF games.
