The Return to Bloody Nights

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1983, Fredbear's Family Diner, and the guard hired after the killings.

Platforms: PC
Price: Free
Rated: Game Jolt: about 25,100 followers and 2,600 likes
Players: 1
Controls: Mouse: switch cameras on the map and use the controls at your desk; watch the generator heat
Made by: Twisted Mind Games (kazovsky, SealDude)
Released: 2023

What frightens In 1983, the new night guard at Fredbear's Family Diner watches its halls on flickering cameras while a generator overheats, as Fredbear and Spring Bonnie start to move, possessed by children murdered weeks before; their faces appear in the dark doorway beside your desk.
Content: jumpscares, loud sounds.

A free FNAF fan game by Twisted Mind Games, released in 2023, that its makers call a love letter to the first Five Nights at Freddy's. You are the new night guard at Fredbear's Family Diner in 1983, weeks after a killing spree, watching cameras and a heating generator while the diner's animatronics wake.

About The Return to Bloody Nights

The Return to Bloody Nights is a fan game by Twisted Mind Games (kazovsky and SealDude, with programmer RomanJ), released free on Game Jolt in March 2023 as a rebuilt version of their earlier Bloody Nights at Freddy's. Its makers call it a love letter to the first Five Nights at Freddy's: lore-focused, with simple, old-style night gameplay and a few new mechanics.

It goes back to 1983 and the early days of Fazbear Entertainment, when William Afton and Henry Emily opened Fredbear's Family Diner with Fredbear and Spring Bonnie. One of the two men has lost his sanity and begun killing. You are the security guard hired a few weeks later, and your job, as the nights go on, is to find out what really happened.

Your desk sits in a cramped office with an old monitor, plush toys of the two mascots and a certificate with Afton's name on it. Through the cameras you watch the central hall, the side halls and the parts and service room, and a generator heat gauge rises the more you use the system. A red button glows by the doorway, and sometimes a yellow face is waiting in the dark beside it. Between nights there are 8-bit minigames, cutscenes and, at the end, multiple endings, plus a custom night, challenges and extra locations.

It suits players who follow the FNAF timeline and want a fan game that fills in the diner's years before the first game, played in the first game's spirit.

How to play The Return to Bloody Nights

Download the free full release for Windows from the game's Game Jolt page.
Watch the halls on the camera map and track the animatronics.
Keep an eye on the generator heat and give the system time to cool.
Use the controls at the doorway when something is there, and survive until 6 AM.
Play the 8-bit minigames between nights to follow the story toward its endings.

Screenshots

The Return to Bloody Nights screenshot: the security office desk with an old monitor, two mascot plushies, a phone and a certificate in William Afton's name

The Return to Bloody Nights screenshot: a yellow bear animatronic's face lit in a dark doorway beside a glowing red door button

The Return to Bloody Nights screenshot: the Central Hall camera at 1 AM with a shadowy animatronic and a Spring Bonnie poster, and the generator heat gauge

The Return to Bloody Nights screenshot: a flashlight finds a grinning jester puppet among shelves of parts in the dark

Tips

Do not stay on the cameras so long that the generator overheats.
Check the doorway beside the desk often; not everything shows on camera first.
Read the notes and watch the cutscenes: the endings depend on the story you uncover.