How to Play Five Nights at Freddy's

Last Updated: May 17, 2022 Approved

Five Nights at Freddy's is a 2014 indie survival horror game and is often considered one of the scariest games of the year. Do you have the guts to play it? If so, read on.

Steps

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Listen to the phone guy. The phone guy was a previous security guard at Freddy Fazbear's Pizza. He will give you useful and important information. Some of the information he gives is to check security cameras often, as well as to close doors and turn on lights only if necessary. He also give some background information on the restaurant itself, so if you're very into the lore, listen closely on the last bit of his message.
- As the nights go on, the Phone Guy's messages will be shorter and will mostly apply to the day's events pertaining to the animatronics, and what you should do on that night. Apply what you have learned from him. The movement patterns of the animatronics will be much faster than the first night.
- On the fourth night, the Phone Guy has recorded his last message. In the recording, you can hear animatronic noises, then Freddy's jingle, the Toreador March. An animatronic jumpscare scream is heard, and the call is cut short.
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Use power sparingly. You have a limited power supply for each night. If you run out of power, Freddy will catch you, unless you make it to 6 AM before his jingle ends. Your shifts last for six hours, from 12 AM to 6 AM, so keep this in mind while rationing power. The transition from 5 AM to 6 AM can interrupt Freddy's attack if you run out of power, so try to survive until 5 AM at the least.

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Be very careful from the third night on. While the game will still be tough the first two days, the animatronics will become more active on the third night. Be sure to have most of your power saved. You'll need it much more on nights three, four, five and six.
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Understand the animatronics behavior. There are five animatronics in the game: Bonnie the Bunny, Chica the Chicken, Foxy the Pirate Fox, Freddy Fazbear, and Golden Freddy. Bonnie and Chica come from the left and right doors, having a random path. Foxy goes to the left door and is more aggressive depending on how much you check on him. Freddy comes to the right in a single path. Golden Freddy is summoned through a rarely-appearing poster.
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Be prepared for the fifth night. The Phone Guy will not have a message for you that night, so you will be on your own. The animatronics will be as active as ever as this is the last main night, and this is the one that you'll need your power the most. On night five you get a strange, garbled phone call that is speculated to come from Freddy. It's quite possible that after Phone Guy's death, the animatronics had access to the phone, which is why you receive this. This call has been confirmed to come from the book "Autobiography of a Yogi." Don't let it distract you though!
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Do your best. If this is your first time playing, be prepared. Five Nights at Freddy's is somewhat weird, and very scary. Be prepared for not just the fifth night, but things like jumpscares, animatronics traveling, and much more!
- If you have succeeded in surviving the fifth night, you can play night six and seven.
- Upon beating Night 6 you can unlock night 7. Here you can set the animatronic's AI difficulty. Setting Freddy to 1, Bonnie to 9, Chica to 8, and Foxy to 7, when you press "Go!", instantly, Golden Freddy's jumpscare appears, indicating that the child haunting Golden Freddy was killed in 1987. There is a lot of speculation and theories about this.

Community Q&A

Question

How do you get rid of Golden Freddy?

River

Community Answer

If you happen to see Golden Freddy on the floor of your office, quickly flick your monitor (the cameras) up for one second, then back down. Otherwise, Golden Freddy will crash your game, and you will have to close and re-open your game to play it.
Question

What is the mask for?

Cool⚡️KID

Community Answer

The mask is to fool the animatronics that you are Freddy instead of the night guard.
Question

What will happen if I run out of power?

Community Answer

You will die. Unless Freddy's jumpscare is cut off by the 6 am bell, which is rare.

Warnings

If you do see the poster of Golden Freddy and he appears in your office, do not stare at it for too long or else he will kill you. You have about three seconds to pull up the monitor before he crashes your game.

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Try not to play the game too much or too late at night, or you may have nightmares.

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If you get the Custom Night, do not set it to 1/9/8/7. Golden Freddy's kill screen will appear immediately, and crash the game.

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Do not play if you don't like jumpscares, flashing lights or loud noises.

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