Five Nights at Freddy’s iOS app

Anyone who can recall going to a birthday party at either Showbiz Pizza Place and Chuck E. Cheese’s can think back to the days when these animatronic mascots paved way for eerie nightmares.  And this is what the new Five Nights at Freddy’s iOS app is reminiscent of—the kind that haunts your dreams until adulthood (apparently). If you’ve got a faint heart, this game is NOT for you.

As a player, you live the role of a night watchman who’s starting his new job at Freddy Fazbear’s Pizza.  You believe it’s all going well when all of a sudden, you receive a strange phone call from a colleague informing you that the mechanical mascots are behaving strangely.  Now it’s your job to survive the night without getting killed by one of the mascots.

Unfortunately your power over these machines is limited—very limited.  As you cower inside the walls of the control room, you have to make sure that you use the electricity reserve wisely.  Make sure you wisely decide when you want to check the cameras, close doors, and turn on lights outside the control room. If you run out of reserve before 6am, the entire establishment goes dark and you’re left to guess what happens next.

And while Five Nights at Freddy’s boasts of a basic gameplay, it is the atmosphere and tension of the game—the anticipation of guessing games that you’ll have to go through that will leave you terrified.  While there is a power gauge and a clock on the screen, they are barely enough to give you any idea of the exact minute or amount of electricity you have left.  What’s more is the fact that you’re stuck in the control room with a sea of grainy monitors transmitting feeds of these demonical beings.  And you’re left with nothing but to wait and anticipate the next move.

While Five Nights at Freddy’s is a good game to play for those who excite over a good horror, the jump scares aren’t recommended to just anyone. Again, it is NOT for the faint of heart.

You can download Five Nights at Freddy’s iOS app from the iTunes store. It costs $2.99 to download and is compatible with iPhone, iPad, and iPod Touch devices running on iOS 5.1 or later.