With 96% positive Steam reviews, the new Five Nights at Freddy's game is being called the best in the horror series' 10 year history - here's why I'm not surprised
Aug. 10, 2024Mega Cat Studios knows what it’s doing
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The retro-styled Five Nights at Freddy’s: Into the Pit just launchedon Steamthis week and it’s already one of the highest rated in the series' 10 year history. Frankly, I’m not surprised.
As soon as I found out the retro maestros over at Mega Cat Studios were handling the first pixel art Five Nights at Freddy’s game, I knew the project was in mighty good hands. The beloved studio is known for developing and publishing bangers for retro consoles like the NES, SNES, andSegaGenesis, although its most recent releases have been on PC.
I was just raving about the newSega Genesis shoot ‘em up ZPFthat Mega Cat is publishing, and I fully expected the studio to do its thing on Five Nights at Freddy’s: Into the Pit. Well, now it’s released as part of the series’ 10th anniversary and already has an ‘Overwhelmingly Positive’ Steam rating; out of the more than2,000 reviewscurrently on Steam, 96% of them are positive.
Flicking through the user reviews, I’m seeing a whole lot of ‘best game in the series’ comments, which is really something else for a franchise that’s spawned 10 mainline entries and a bunch of spinoffs.
The story is an adaptation of the first volume of the Fazbear Frights series of books based on the Five Nights at Freddy’s universe. It centers around a 10-year-old boy named Oswald who visits an abandoned Freddy’s Fazbear’s Pizza and is transported back to 1985 in an alternate timeline where Spring Bonnie murders six children. Oswald’s father rescues him but gets trapped in this alternate timeline himself, and Oswald has to go back and save him.
Like any Five Nights at Freddy’s game, you’ll need to evade the clutches of killer animatronic creatures and solve puzzles to escape the pizzeria with your life. In it, you’ll “uncover secrets that span decades” and your actions will lead you to one of multiple possible endings.
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I’m going to reserve any personal assessment on the game until I’ve played more of it, but I will say it’s the first time I’ve been excited about a new Five Nights at Freddy’s game in many years, and I hope Mega Cat’s attachment to the franchise extends beyond this release.
Five Nights at Freddy’s: Into the Pit is available now on PS5, PS4, Xbox Series X/S, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch, and PC.
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After scoring a degree in English from ASU, I worked as a copy editor while freelancing for places like SFX Magazine, Screen Rant, Game Revolution, and MMORPG on the side. Now, as GamesRadar’s west coast Staff Writer, I’m responsible for managing the site’s western regional executive branch, AKA my apartment, and writing about whatever horror game I’m too afraid to finish.
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