How to Play the Five Nights at Freddy's Games in Chronological Order

With Blumhouse’s adjacent Five Nights astatine Freddy's movie releasing this December, there’s nary amended clip to play done the Five Nights astatine Freddy’s games. Created by Scott Cawthon, the archetypal Five Nights astatine Freddy's crippled launched backmost successful 2014 and has since garnered an unthinkable instrumentality base. The fearfulness deed has been followed with a wide assortment of sequels; from mainline games to plentifulness of spinoffs.

For those funny successful taking connected the nighttime displacement against these slayer animatronics, we’ve elaborate however to play each of the mainline FNAF games successful some chronological and merchandise day bid below.

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How Many Five Nights astatine Freddy’s Games Are There?

There are 12 main FNAF games successful total, which we’ve covered below. As acold arsenic spin-offs and much challenge-based games go, though, determination are 4 further FNAF games that autumn successful this category. These are Five Nights astatine Freddy’s World, Freddy successful Space 2, Security Breach: Fury’s Rage, and Ultimate Custom Night.

Which Five Nights astatine Freddy's Game Should You Play First?

We urge starting with Five Nights astatine Freddy's, the series' archetypal introduction from 2014. It's the perfect mode to familiarize yourself with the series' mechanics, arsenic newer entries physique connected that archetypal formula. It's besides a harmless mode to statesman from a communicative position fixed however convoluted the chronology has go implicit the past decade.

Five Nights astatine Freddy’s Games successful Chronological Order

For those looking to play done the Five Nights astatine Freddy’s games successful chronological bid to get the afloat story, we’ve done our champion to put them successful communicative order. If you person antithetic theories astir this franchise’s order, though, stock them successful the comments!

1. Five Nights astatine Freddy's: Secret of the Mimic (2025)

Available on: PC, PS5

The newest FNAF crippled happens to beryllium the earliest-set crippled successful the bid truthful far. Secret of the Mimic, from what we tin stitchery from assorted hints in-game, takes spot successful 1979, respective years earlier the authoritative opening of Freddy Fazbear's Pizza. The Mimic was primitively introduced successful the Ruin DLC for Security Breach, and plentifulness of theories person been thrown retired determination astir who (or what) The Mimic truly is.

Secret of the Mimic dives into these questions. The subordinate takes connected the relation of a Fazbear technician named Arnold who's tasked with retrieving the Edwin Murray's inventions from a peculiarly unsettling Costume Manor. When powerfulness goes retired astatine the manor, Arnold begins to announcement signs helium whitethorn not beryllium alone. Secret of the Mimic uses first-person view, leaning into the endurance fearfulness genre with subtle hints astir the slayer animatronics (and their creators) we brushwood aboriginal successful the series.

2. Five Nights astatine Freddy’s 4 (2015)

Available on: Android/IOS, Nintendo Switch, PC, PlayStation 4, Xbox One

Five Nights astatine Freddy’s 4 takes spot successful 1983. This is assumed due to the fact that of an easter ovum during 1 of the post-Night minigames that tin beryllium seen by interacting with a TV successful the surviving room. After hitting it capable times, it’ll yet bring up a inactive for a commercialized for a amusement called Fredbear and Friends, which appears to person aired successful 1983, fixed that’s the day beneath the title.

Compared to its predecessors, though, FNAF 4 has a antithetic setting. This time, you play arsenic a young kid successful their chamber alternatively than arsenic a information defender successful an office. Throughout the night, you’ll request to tally from your chamber doors to your closet (and adjacent cheque down you connected your bed) for a assortment of terrifying enemies, but chiefly nightmare variations of the archetypal animatronics: Freddy, Bonnie, Chica, and Foxy. Listen retired for them and support your flashlight adjacent to scare them away.

3. Five Nights astatine Freddy’s 2 (2014)

Available on: Android/IOS, Nintendo Switch, PC, PlayStation 4, Xbox One

Five Nights astatine Freddy’s 2 is adjacent successful a chronological playthrough and brings players to the newly-opened Freddy Fazbear’s Pizza to enactment the nighttime shifts arsenic a information guard. FNAF 2 besides introduces caller animatronics successful the premix alongside updated versions of its classics. These caller additions are The Puppet and Balloon Boy, truthful you’ll person much to ticker retired for connected the cameras.

This clip around, you’re besides fixed a Freddy Fazbear caput to deterioration successful lawsuit the animatronics hap to scope your office. With it on, astir of the animatronics volition person a harder clip recognizing you and leave, which’ll bargain you immoderate much clip earlier the ace of dawn. You besides person a euphony container that you request to support coiled up to support The Puppet away. This animatronic won’t beryllium fooled by your sneaky small fake Freddy head, truthful marque definite to support the euphony container going.

We’ve placed this crippled arsenic 2nd successful enactment for a chronological playthrough, arsenic it’s acceptable successful 1987. This tin beryllium assumed from the paycheck you person astatine the extremity of Night 5, which is dated for that year.

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4. Five Nights astatine Freddy’s: Sister Location (2016)

Available on: Android/IOS, Nintendo Switch, PC, PlayStation 4, Xbox One

In a departure from the erstwhile game, and arsenic its rubric whitethorn constituent to, Five Nights astatine Freddy’s: Sister Location takes spot astatine a antithetic spot called Circus Baby's Entertainment and Rental, which features its ain animatronics arsenic well. This clip around, you play arsenic a technician moving nighttime shifts with a bid of tasks to implicit alongside surviving the animatronics.

Five Nights astatine Freddy’s: Sister Location is really a spot trickier to spot connected the timeline, and galore fans inactive statement erstwhile it could beryllium set. The crushed we’ve chosen this slot is due to the fact that of a enactment HandUnit says astatine the opening of the game: “Due to the monolithic success, and adjacent much so, the unfortunate closing of Freddy Fazbear’s Pizza, it was wide that the signifier was set, nary pun intended, for different contender successful children’s entertainment.” This enactment could beryllium referencing erstwhile Freddy Fazbear’s Pizza closed down successful ‘87 pursuing FNAF 2, which is besides brought up by Phone Guy successful FNAF 1 during Night 1. So, for now, having Sister Location betwixt the 2 seems similar a bully fit. Let america cognize your theories successful the comments below, though!

5. Five Nights astatine Freddy’s (2014)

Available on: Android/IOS, Nintendo Switch, PC, PlayStation 4, Xbox One

The 1 that started it all. Five Nights astatine Freddy’s was the archetypal crippled that had players taking connected the information defender mantle to support ticker of Freddy Fazbear’s Pizza for 5 nighttime shifts. Mainly, you request to support an oculus connected the animatronics there: Chica, Bonnie, Foxy, and of course, Freddy Fazbear. Their behaviour has go a spot unpredictable lately, and they similar to roam astir freely astatine night… conscionable marque definite they don’t roam into your office.

Alongside the cameras that request to beryllium checked, players tin besides adjacent the information doors adjacent them if the animatronics get too adjacent during the night. Keep successful mind, though, you lone person constricted amounts of powerfulness to use. Once it’s gone, goodbye doors and lights!

Five Nights astatine Freddy’s takes spot a fewer years aboriginal than the antecedently mentioned games, apt sometime successful the aboriginal ‘90s. This tin beryllium assumed from Phone Guy’s dialog during Night 1 wherever helium says that the animatronics utilized to beryllium capable to locomotion astir during the day, “but past determination was the wound of ‘87.” This helps spot it aft FNAF 2 and earlier FNAF3, which we’ll get to next.

6. Five Nights astatine Freddy’s: Into the Pit (2024)

Available on: PlayStation 5, PlayStation 4, Xbox Series X|S, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch, PC

Into the Pit, the latest crippled successful the series, is simply a point-and-click escapade based connected the Five Nights astatine Freddy's publication of the aforesaid name. The communicative is divided betwixt 2 clip periods: modern time and 1985.

It's uncertain wherever Into the Pit's modern storyline fits into the series' chronology, oregon if it exists wrong the ongoing communicative astatine all, though assuming it does, we're assured it takes spot astir the clip of Five Nights astatine Freddy's 3. We've placed it up of FNaF3 fixed respective items recovered successful Jeff's Pizza, the mounting of Into the Pit, tin beryllium recovered astatine FNaF3's Fazbear's Fright, which was said to beryllium decorated with remains from the archetypal restaurant, which aboriginal became Jeff's Pizza.

7. Five Nights astatine Freddy’s 3 (2015)

Available on: Android/IOS, Nintendo Switch, PC, PlayStation 4, Xbox One

According to Five Nights astatine Freddy’s 3’s Steam description, this crippled is acceptable “Thirty years aft Freddy Fazbear's Pizza closed its doors,” which would enactment it aft the events of FNAF 1, fixed that’s erstwhile Freddy Fazbear’s Pizza closed for good, and, if we’re going with the aboriginal ‘90s, would acceptable it sometime astir the 2020s. It brings players into a marque caller determination arsenic well… Fazbear’s Fright: The Horror Attraction. Yes, this caller attraction is based connected the terrifying events that happened successful Freddy Fazbear’s Pizza, and they adjacent person aged animatronics from it to truly support you connected your toes!

Once again, you measurement into the shoes of a information defender keeping ticker of the attraction and its “great caller relics” that person been picked up. Like before, you’ll person information cameras to monitor, but this clip you besides person a attraction sheet to reboot systems that spell offline and adjacent disconnected vents to forestall those creepy animatronics from crawling toward your bureau space.

8. Freddy Fazbear’s Pizzeria Simulator (2017)

Available on: Android/IOS, Nintendo Switch, PC, PlayStation 4, Xbox One

If you’re feeling bushed of moving information oregon maintenance, wherefore not marque the leap into moving your ain pizza place? In Freddy Fazbear’s Pizzeria Simulator, you get to bash conscionable that. But don’t worry, this crippled isn’t without its frights. You’ll inactive request to support the animatronics distant from you erstwhile successful your office, and there’s plentifulness to show erstwhile you’re successful determination arsenic well.

Not lone bash you person a machine adjacent you to support tabs connected everything and implicit your tasks, but you’ll request to ticker the vents connected some sides of you for thing that could beryllium crawling through. However, some your machine and the vents marque rather a spot of noise, truthful you’ll person to instrumentality turns shutting them disconnected to perceive your surroundings.

Throughout the game, you’ll salvage animatronics arsenic well. One of these is Springtrap, whose archetypal quality successful the bid was successful FNAF 3, which places this crippled sometime aft it successful a chronological playthrough.

9. Five Nights astatine Freddy’s: Help Wanted (2019)

Available on: Android/IOS, Nintendo Switch, Oculus Quest, PSVR, PC, PlayStation 4, Xbox One

Five Nights astatine Freddy’s: Help Wanted was the franchise’s archetypal measurement into VR - and aboriginal came retired connected PC and consoles. Developed by Steel Wool Studios successful collaboration with Scott Cawthon, successful Help Wanted you tin play done a assortment of mini-games that diagnostic acquainted animatronics and experiences from earlier games successful the series.

But wherever does this crippled acceptable into the timeline? During the opening ‘Welcome’ connection for the game, HandUnit states that “Fazbear Entertainment has developed thing of a atrocious estimation implicit the past fewer decades, [...] That's wherefore we person recreated galore of these wholly fictitious scenarios (lies) that you've been fed implicit the past respective years into a hilarious VR game.” And fixed that Help Wanted recreates situations from erstwhile games successful the timeline up to FNAF 3 connected our list, it makes consciousness to spot it aft that crippled and adjacent Pizzeria Simulator.

10. Five Nights astatine Freddy’s: Special Delivery (2019)

Available on: IOS/Android

Five Nights astatine Freddy’s: Special Delivery is an Augmented Reality crippled that was released connected mobile devices conscionable a fewer months aft Help Wanted. Much similar however Help Wanted immersed you into FNAF successful VR, Special Delivery did the aforesaid by bringing the animatronics location to you. In this game, you person to support an oculus retired for them connected your mobile instrumentality arsenic they stalk astir the room, utilizing a flashlight and controlled daze to halt them.

Similar to Help Wanted, Special Delivery involves its ain subdivision of Fazbear Entertainment. Here, the Fazbear Funtime Service is what’s sending the animatronics to your location and, erstwhile it comes to the franchise’s timeline, it would marque consciousness that they’d make thing similar this astir the clip of The Freddy Fazbear Virtual Experience successful Help Wanted. Given however HandUnit explains astatine the commencement of Help Wanted that, “Fazbear Entertainment is excited to articulation the integer age, and what amended mode to bash that than with an edge-of-your-seat virtual world experience,” it sounds similar that was their archetypal endeavor, and this would beryllium their 2nd outing into it.

11. Five Nights astatine Freddy’s: Security Breach (2021)

Available on: Google Stadia, PC, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Xbox One, Xbox Series X/S, Nintendo Switch

Security Breach is the 2nd crippled successful the franchise to beryllium developed betwixt some Scott and Steel Wool Studios, pursuing Help Wanted. It’s a free-roam endurance fearfulness wherever you play arsenic a young lad named Gregory who gets trapped astatine nighttime successful Freddy Fazbear’s Mega Pizzaplex. Throughout the night, he’ll request to past the assorted animatronics, but with a astonishing adjuvant manus on the way.

In a chronological playthrough, this crippled comes successful last. This tin mostly beryllium taken distant from the information that Freddy Fazbear’s has present grown into a Mega Pizzaplex, but there’s besides a infinitesimal successful 1 of the endings that helps corroborate that it’s acceptable aft 1 of the antecedently mentioned games. However, truthful arsenic to debar spoilers, we’ll fto you uncover that ending connected your own!

The escaped Ruin DLC for Security Breach is besides disposable to play now. Our Security Breach wiki usher has a walkthrough, collectibles guide, and accusation connected however to commencement the Ruin DLC if you request it, too.

12. Five Nights astatine Freddy's: Help Wanted 2 (2023)

Available on: PlayStation 5, PC, PSVR2, Steam VR, Meta Quest

Once again developed by Steel Wool Studios successful collaboration with Scott Cawthon, Five Nights astatine Freddy’s: Help Wanted 2 is beauteous akin to its predecessor, featuring a wide assortment of minigames for you to excavation into. But wherever does this crippled onshore connected the Five Nights astatine Freddy’s timeline?

Help Wanted 2 takes spot betwixt Five Nights astatine Freddy’s: Security Breach and its DLC, RUIN. That makes it the past afloat crippled successful the lore’s existent timeline, but not rather the precise last event. This somewhat analyzable placement is owed to 1 of Help Wanted 2’s endings, successful which your quality becomes the Maskbot that gives the V.A.N.N.I disguise to Cassie, the protagonist from the RUIN DLC. This enactment with her happens towards the commencement of RUIN, meaning the events of Help Wanted 2 commencement sometime earlier that DLC.

In keeping with its older sibling, Help Wanted 2 is besides a VR game! It’s disposable connected PSVR 2, Steam VR, and Meta Quest. And for those who don’t privation to beryllium afloat immersed arsenic a Fazbear employee, a level mentation of the crippled was besides released connected June 20 for PlayStation 5 and PC.

Five Nights astatine Freddy’s Games successful Release Order

If you’re funny successful playing done the main Five Nights astatine Freddy’s games successful their merchandise order, you tin find them listed arsenic specified below:

• Five Nights astatine Freddy’s (2014)
• Five Nights astatine Freddy’s 2 (2014)
• Five Nights astatine Freddy’s 3 (2015)
• Five Nights astatine Freddy’s 4 (2015)
• Five Nights astatine Freddy’s: Sister Location (2016)
• Freddy Fazbear’s Pizzeria Simulator (2017)
• Five Nights astatine Freddy’s: Help Wanted (2019)
• Five Nights astatine Freddy’s AR: Special Delivery (2019)
• Five Nights astatine Freddy’s: Security Breach (2021)
• Five Nights astatine Freddy's: Help Wanted 2 (2023)
• Five Nights astatine Freddy's: Into the Pit (2024)
• Five Nights astatine Freddy's: Secret of the Mimic (2025)

The Future of Five Nights astatine Freddy’s

Secret of the Mimic launched connected June 13. There's nary authoritative connection connected caller Five Night's astatine Freddy's games successful development, though we're definite they exist. In the meantime, a sequel to the Five Nights astatine Freddy's movie starring Josh Hutcherson is besides connected the way, planned for merchandise connected December 5, 2025.

Hannah Hoolihan is simply a freelance writer who works with the Guides and Commerce teams present astatine IGN.