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FNAF Fan Games: The Best Free Five Nights Fan Games

The best Five Nights at Freddy's fan games are free on PC and have followings in the tens of thousands: Five Nights at Candy's, The Joy of Creation: Story Mode and One Night at Flumpty's lead the way. Each takes the night-guard formula somewhere new, with its own cast, tools and rules.

The games

  1. Five Nights at Candy's teaser: Candy the blue cat animatronic's face half in shadow, with the word SOON FNAFFive Nights at Candy'sThe fan game most players start with: Emil Macko's own cast of cat animatronics in a burger restaurant, on the classic cameras-and-doors night.
  2. Five Nights at Candy's 2 key art: a close-up of Candy the cat animatronic's worn face, one eye missing, beside a glowing purple 2 FNAFFive Nights at Candy's 2The sequel moves to an abandoned robot factory: no doors, only a phone's light down a long hallway and room phones to lure the withered animatronics away.
  3. Five Nights at Candy's 3 key art: the stitched, grinning face of the Monster Rat with glowing red eyes beside a red number 3 FNAFFive Nights at Candy's 3Built on the Five Nights at Freddy's 4 pattern: a child's dark bedroom, a flashlight on the Monster Rat's eyes and something under the bed.
  4. The Joy of Creation: Story Mode screenshot: a burned Bonnie animatronic with glowing red eyes looming in a dark living room FNAFThe Joy of Creation: Story ModeFive levels in full 3D, each with its own way to survive until 6 AM, as burned animatronics break into a family's house.
  5. Five Nights at Freddy's: In Real Time screenshot: Bonnie leans right up to the Supply Closet camera at 4 AM on night 2, with power down to 28 percent FNAFFive Nights at Freddy's: In Real TimeThe first FNAF remade with animatronics that move on the camera feeds in real time, and a new story ten years on.
  6. The Return to Bloody Nights Classic title art: a grinning yellow bear animatronic in a purple hat beside the title on a purple star background FNAFThe Return to Bloody NightsA love letter to FNAF 1 set at Fredbear's Family Diner in 1983, weeks after the killings, with an overheating generator and multiple endings.
  7. Final Nights 4 banner: Fredbear and Spring Bonnie standing on a purple-curtained stage in a dark diner, stage lights and a glowing 4 in a top hat below FNAFFinal Nights 4: Fates EntwinedTwo stories at Fredbear's, 1973 and 2017, with classic camera nights, mini nights and point-and-click puzzles.
  8. The Joy of Creation: Halloween Edition title art: a decayed Springtrap with glowing white eyes beside the title in red and white brush letters FNAFThe Joy of Creation: Halloween EditionA free-roam night in Fazbear's Fright, hiding from a burned Springtrap and luring him with sound.
  9. The Glitched Attraction banner: Freddy, Mangle, Ballora and other animatronics crowd a cluttered back room full of posters and prize wheels FNAFThe Glitched AttractionSix free-roam escape rooms built on FNAF's own locations, with each game's animatronics hunting you as you solve them.
  10. Forgotten At Fredbear's banner: a bloodied Fredbear in a purple hat and bow tie with a shadowed rabbit animatronic behind him, in the dark FNAFForgotten At Fredbear'sA laid-off father on the night shift at Fredbear's Family Diner in 1983, with cameras, a panel and an override.
  11. Those Nights at Fredbear's: New Destiny title art: Fredbear's grinning golden face beside a red-furred animatronic in the dim light of a stage FNAFThose Nights at Fredbear's: New DestinyNight shifts at Fredbear's on foot, crouching and leaning with a flashlight while Fredbear and Plushtrap roam.
  12. Five Nights at Chuck E. Cheese's: Rebooted title art: a blurred, red-lit animatronic mouse face behind glitching video lines beside the title FNAFFive Nights at Chuck E. Cheese's: RebootedA 1979 pizza restaurant's last nights before its animatronics are replaced, watched on grainy cameras.
  13. Baby's Nightmare Circus title art: a nightmare animatronic face with glowing red eyes and rows of jagged teeth, beside the title FNAFBaby's Nightmare CircusA short flashlight night against nightmare versions of Sister Location's Circus Baby and friends.
  14. One Night at Flumpty's screenshot: the office at 12 AM with a counter of odd toys and posters, door and light buttons on each side and the door power meter FNAFOne Night at Flumpty'sThe hand-drawn original: Flumpty Bumpty the egg and his friends, one night, and rules you learn by dying.
  15. One Night at Flumpty's 2 screenshot: the cluttered hand-drawn room at 12 AM with the light switch, a winged pig creature, a vent and the laptop battery and exposure meters FNAFOne Night at Flumpty's 2Flumpty's sequel trades doors for a light switch, a vent and a laptop with a dying battery, with each character on its own rules.
  16. One Night at Flumpty's 3 key art: Flumpty Bumpty's pale egg face streaked with blood, grinning out of the dark beside the title in red pixel letters FNAFOne Night at Flumpty's 3The end of the Flumpty trilogy: a freezing room, a camera flash and the egg waiting at 6 AM; also on phones.
  17. JOLLY key art: the huge round eyes of Jolly the blue bee animatronic in the dark, with the title in glitching blue letters FNAFJOLLYA party venue's bee mascot and his gang, a generator to ration and an elevator to push back up before something rides it down.
  18. JOLLY 2 key art: the grinning face of a red bee animatronic with pin-prick white eyes beside a red number 2 FNAFJOLLY 2Guard a cargo of animatronics and shock them at the doors, unless a pipe is leaking and the shock would fry you too.
  19. JOLLY 3: Chapter 1 key art: Jolly the bee animatronic's grinning face with glowing white eyes in blue light beside an octagonal 3 FNAFJOLLY 3: Chapter 1Six-minute nights of oxygen fans, a gas lever and metal animatronics with rules of their own.
  20. JOLLY 3: Chapter 2 key art: two withered animatronics with glowing red eyes in red light beside an octagonal II FNAFJOLLY 3: Chapter 2Five more nights under the facility, with a slow radar, a circuit-frying jammer and failing air conditioning.
  21. SCP: The Endurance banner: pale, grinning SCP creatures and a beaked plague-doctor figure around the title in red neon FNAFSCP: The EnduranceFNAF nights with SCP creatures on the cameras of a Foundation facility, ventilation to keep running and a flash.
  22. Oblitus Casa title art: dark, decayed cartoon faces in shadow beside the title under a house outline FNAFOblitus CasaThe last chapter of Five Nights at Treasure Island: cameras, candlelight and costumed cartoon characters on a haunted island.
  23. One Night In 2D cover: the blocky pixel face of a brown bear animatronic with a black top hat staring out of red darkness FNAFOne Night In 2DFNAF in a side-on 2D office, playable in the browser: you physically walk your guard between the doors, lights and monitor.

Fan games are almost as old as Five Nights at Freddy's itself. Scott Cawthon's formula, a night shift, a few cameras, something that moves when you are not looking, is simple enough for one person to build on, and Game Jolt filled up with fan games. Most are forgotten; a handful built followings in the tens of thousands and invented their own characters and stories. These are the ones worth playing, all free on PC.

Five Nights at Candy's is the series most players reach for first. Emil Macko replaced Freddy's band with a cat-themed burger restaurant, then kept changing the rules: the second game takes away your doors and leaves you a phone light and a long factory hallway, and the third puts you in a child's bedroom with a flashlight, a closet and the Monster Rat, in the manner of Five Nights at Freddy's 4. If you only play one fan series, make it this one.

The Joy of Creation: Story Mode is the biggest departure. It is in full 3D, needs a reasonably strong PC, and splits one night into five levels: a crib with a sanity meter, a living room where you see through the animatronics' eyes, an office with a generator and cameras, a basement and an attic. It uses the official characters, burned and twisted, rather than a cast of its own. The Glitched Attraction takes the same 3D, on-foot approach further: six free-roam escape rooms built on the series' own locations, from the FNAF 4 bedroom to Sister Location, each with its animatronics and a puzzle of its own.

One Night at Flumpty's starts as a joke, an egg with a fixed grin and his storybook friends, and turns out to be properly tense. Each game hands you a different set of tools, a light switch and a laptop in the second, a camera flash and a freezing room in the third, and every character has its own rule to learn. They are the easiest fan games to play on a phone: Clickteam sells all three on the App Store and Google Play.

If you would rather relive the official story, three fan games stay close to it. Five Nights at Freddy's: In Real Time remakes the first game with the animatronics moving on the camera feeds as you watch, and they hide between cameras if you miss them. The Return to Bloody Nights and Final Nights 4: Fates Entwined both go back to Fredbear's Family Diner in its earliest days: the first puts you on the night shift in 1983, weeks after the killings, with a generator that overheats, and the second splits its nights between the diner's founder in 1973 and an investigator in 2017, with point-and-click puzzles and multiple endings. Nikson's earlier The Joy of Creation: Halloween Edition is a single night on foot in Fazbear's Fright, hiding from a burned Springtrap and luring him away with sound.

Fredbear's Family Diner has become a fan-game setting of its own. Forgotten At Fredbear's casts you as a laid-off father on the diner's night shift in 1983, with cameras, a control panel and an override, and Those Nights at Fredbear's: New Destiny lets you walk the restaurant on foot, crouching and leaning round corners with a flashlight while Fredbear and Plushtrap roam. Five Nights at Chuck E. Cheese's: Rebooted moves the night shift to a real-world pizza chain in 1979, and Baby's Nightmare Circus is a short flashlight night against toothed nightmare versions of Sister Location's cast.

JOLLY and its sequels are for players who like managing systems. The first gives you building power, a generator with a reserve of its own and an elevator to keep pushing up; JOLLY 2 has you shock animatronics at the doors while fixing the leaking pipes behind you; JOLLY 3's two chapters add oxygen fans, a gas lever, a slow radar and a jammer that fries whatever reaches the door.

Two fan games bring in other worlds. SCP: The Endurance puts creatures from SCP - Containment Breach on the cameras of a Foundation facility, with ventilation to keep running and a flash to drive them back, and Oblitus Casa closes the Five Nights at Treasure Island series with a return to its haunted theme-park island by camera and candlelight.

One Night in 2D is the one to try first if you are not on Windows: it runs in the browser, and redraws the original nights side-on, so you walk your guard between the doors, lights and monitor yourself.

Start with Five Nights at Candy's if you want the closest thing to an official sequel, The Joy of Creation if you want 3D and variety, and One Night at Flumpty's if you want something stranger. None of these are official games; their characters and stories belong to their makers, and the FNAF characters to Scott Cawthon.

Questions

What is the best FNAF fan game?

The Joy of Creation: Story Mode has the largest following on Game Jolt, close to 100,000; Five Nights at Candy's is the usual pick for a classic night-guard fan series with its own characters.

Are FNAF fan games free?

Yes on PC: every game here is a free download from Game Jolt, and One Night in 2D also plays free in the browser. The One Night at Flumpty's games are paid on phones.

Can I play FNAF fan games on my phone?

The One Night at Flumpty's games are sold on the App Store and Google Play. Most other fan games are Windows only.

Are fan games official Five Nights at Freddy's games?

No. They are made by fans, inspired by Scott Cawthon's series, and most use their own characters.

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