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Five Nights at Freddy’s: Horror, Mechanics, and Cultural Impact

Five Nights at Freddy’s (FNaF), created by Scott Cawthon and launched in 2014, is a landmark indie horror franchise that reshaped survival-horror design and spawned an extensive multimedia phenomenon. At its core, FNaF centers on simple but potent mechanics, an atmosphere of dread, and an intricate (often intentionally oblique) mythology that invites fans to theorize, …

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