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Five Nights at Freddy's: Help Wanted key art: Freddy Fazbear with glowing white eyes in the dark, surrounded by the faces of Bonnie, Chica, Foxy, Funtime Foxy and other animatronics

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Five Nights at Freddy's: Help Wanted

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Work the night shift at Freddy's in VR, with the animatronics inches away.

Platforms
PC, PlayStation, Xbox, Switch, VR
Stores
Steam
Price
Paid
Rated
Overwhelmingly Positive on Steam (96% of 13,183 reviews); 4.8 stars from 15,371 ratings on Meta Quest; 4.48 stars on PlayStation; Metacritic 80 (PS4)
Length
about 5 to 10 hours for most levels
Players
1
Controls
VR motion controllers on PC VR, PlayStation VR and Meta Quest; in flat mode, mouse and keyboard or a gamepad on PC and the controller on consoles.
Made by
Steel Wool Studios
Released
2019

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What frightens The FNAF night shifts rebuilt in first person and VR, with the animatronics close enough to touch; between nights you repair and service the robots by hand while they may switch on and lunge at you.

Content: jumpscares, loud sounds, screams, verbal threats, fantasy violence.

Five Nights at Freddy's: Help Wanted puts you in the security office and the repair room of Fazbear Entertainment, in VR or on a flat screen. It remakes the nights of the first five games and adds new mini-games where you service, fix and hide from the animatronics, any of which can wake up and lunge at you.

About Five Nights at Freddy's: Help Wanted

Help Wanted is a collection of Five Nights at Freddy's levels made by Steel Wool Studios with Scott Cawthon. It came out in May 2019 for PC VR headsets and PlayStation VR, gained a flat, non-VR mode that December, and later reached Switch, Meta Quest and Xbox in 2020. A Full Time Edition for PS5, with optional PS VR2 support, followed in 2023. The fiction is the Freddy Fazbear Virtual Experience, a training program Fazbear Entertainment made to clean up its image, and the cassette tapes hidden in the levels tell a story that contradicts it.

Much of it rebuilds the classic nights of Five Nights at Freddy's 1 to 4 and Sister Location. You sit in the office, check the cameras, close doors, flick lights, put on a mask or listen at the bedroom doors, and an animatronic that gets past you ends the level with a jumpscare. Clear a level and a harder version unlocks, with warped graphics. Around those sit new levels: Parts and Service, where you open up an animatronic on a workbench to replace parts without setting it off; Vent Repair, where you solve puzzles to fix a ventilation system while keeping threats at bay; and Dark Rooms, where you shine a flashlight with limited power to catch the animatronics before they reach you.

In VR the fear is that everything is life-sized and right in front of you. A bear's face fills your view when it lunges, and reaching inside a robot's head to fish out a part feels unwise. Played flat, it is a way to try the classic nights with modern visuals. Hidden Faz-Tokens unlock toys, plushies and other prizes at the Prize Counter, and the Curse of Dreadbear expansion adds a Halloween hub of extra mini-games. It suits FNAF fans and anyone who wants short, sharp jumpscare challenges, and its sequel Help Wanted 2 builds on the same idea.

How to play Five Nights at Freddy's: Help Wanted

  1. Pick a level from the arcade-style menu; each is a short challenge set on one night or job.
  2. In the office levels, check the cameras and listen, then use doors, lights, the mask or the flashlight to keep the animatronics out until 6 AM.
  3. In Parts and Service, follow the steps on the board to open up the animatronic and fix or remove the parts asked for, watching for signs it is waking.
  4. Clear levels to unlock harder versions, and hunt for the hidden Faz-Tokens and cassette tapes along the way.

Screenshots

Five Nights at Freddy's: Help Wanted: the security office at 12 AM with monitors, the camera map, door and light buttons, 96 percent power, and Chica staring through the right window
Five Nights at Freddy's: Help Wanted: Freddy Fazbear sits slumped on a workbench in a dark repair room, holding a microphone, beside lockers and a red toolbox
Five Nights at Freddy's: Help Wanted: a red-lit child's bedroom at 12 AM, with a small pink Freddy toy springing out of a dresser drawer beside a lava lamp and a fan
Five Nights at Freddy's: Help Wanted: a flashlight beam in a dark storage room with a checkered floor, picking out plushies of Mangle, Circus Baby and Freddy among crates
Five Nights at Freddy's: Help Wanted: Nightmare Fredbear, a tattered bear with rows of sharp teeth and glowing orange eyes, lunging from a bedroom doorway at 1 AM

Tips

  • Use headphones: footsteps, breathing and music boxes tell you more than the cameras.
  • In repair levels, work steadily and watch the animatronic's eyes and head between steps.
  • In Dark Rooms, the flashlight's power runs down, so use it in short bursts.
  • Look around every level for Faz-Tokens and tapes; the tapes carry the story and lead to the other endings.
  • If VR makes you queasy, the flat mode plays the same levels on a monitor.

Questions

Do you need a VR headset to play Five Nights at Freddy's: Help Wanted?

No. The Steam version has a flat, non-VR mode, and the PlayStation, Xbox and Switch versions can be played on a normal screen. VR is supported on PC headsets, PlayStation VR, PS VR2 and Meta Quest.

Is Help Wanted a remake of the old games?

Partly. It rebuilds levels from Five Nights at Freddy's 1 to 4 and Sister Location in 3D and adds new mini-games of its own, such as Parts and Service, Vent Repair and Dark Rooms.

How long is Five Nights at Freddy's: Help Wanted?

It has about forty levels. Most players spend around 5 to 10 hours on them, and more if they chase every Faz-Token, tape and harder level.

What is the Curse of Dreadbear?

A paid expansion released in October 2019 that adds a Halloween-themed hub with new mini-games and prizes.

What is the Full Time Edition?

The PS5 release from 2023, sold on the PlayStation Store. It can be played on a TV or, optionally, with PS VR2.

Is it scary for younger players?

The ESRB rates it Teen for fantasy violence and PEGI rates it 12. Expect a constant sense of threat, frequent screams and jumpscares, and a voice that makes threats at you.

  • five nights at freddys
  • animatronics
  • vr
  • security guard
  • cameras
  • jumpscares
  • mini-games
  • first person

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