Unfortunately for the player, the animatronic characters are not friendly, so the player must use the security cameras and doors to watch the animatrons and keep them out of the security office.Īs a gamer who has grown up on a variety of games, including first person shooters, real-time and turn-based strategy games, and roleplaying games, I'm used to games where I take a more active roll in confronting threats, usually by blowing them up. The player in the game takes on the role of a security guard monitoring the restaurant's cameras at night. The game has a very simple point and click interface and is set in the 1990s in a pizza restaurant named after its mascot, an animatronic character named Freddy Fazbear.

What strange games are these kids playing today?įNaF is a survival horror game created by Scott Cawthon in 2014 and published through Steam for many platforms. I was curious about this gaming franchise that has expanded into novels and graphic novels in my library. So what does Five Nights at Freddy's (FNaF) say about our society today? As a GenX gamer who cut his teeth on computer and console games in the 1970s and 1980s, I've been pondering that question since I decided to spin up Five Nights on my computer at home.

Games are a form of art, and like any art they are a mirror of our society, showing us an image of ourselves.

Th-th-that's not what I meant.' - Phone Guy in Five Nights at Freddy's I mean, you know, they usually move on to other things by now. 'Hello, hello? Hey you're doing great! Most people don't last this long.

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