#Five Nights at Freddy's Interactive Novels

[fivenightsnews]

A new cover for Five Nights at Freddy's: Interactive Novel #3 - Return to the Pit has been revealed.

(Source: https://kids.scholastic.com/content/kids64/en/books/afk/books.html)

[doks-aux]

I started reading Five Nights at Freddy's: The Week Before, and as you can see, I'm being very normal about it.

I've avoided as many spoilers as possible so I can experience the lore hunting on my own for once. Never been as deep into the fandom during a book release before. The pages on the right are my notes while reading, whatever I think might be important to the worldbuilding or mysteries or just interesting minutia like how the restaurant is run. These were the notes after getting through Night 2. I've finished Night 3 by now (so please no spoilers beyond that), so there's a bit more.

The page on the left is where I'm recording my "official" playthrough. It's an "interactive novel" (because Choose Your Own Adventure is off-limits), and the way I'm reading it is by committing to one route each night and playing it to the end or until I die and have to get back to the last branching decision. And then when the night is over, I go back and read the branches I didn't take. (Except for the Bonus Item route. I've heard it's best to leave that until the very end.) The inventory is only items I pick up in the official playthrough (I probably didn't have to cross out screwdriver and paperclip after I used them, whoops), and I'm only recording Game Overs I reach organically (there are more of those now, too).

It's a lot of fun. This was a smart way to present new information and provide some different gameplay experience. I've never been able to play the video games when they actually come out, so it's nice to have a way to discover things firsthand and not have to rely on watching other people's videos. And since there are so many diverging points, there's still the question of which version of the story actually happened (if this is indeed canon to the games' timeline instead of it's own slightly-to-the-left continuity) and what information we can actually trust. Maybe it's Stockholm Syndrome talking at this point, but a straight answer wouldn't be quite as much fun.

There are some WILD implications if it's even adjacent to the games' timeline though. Like, at this point it really seems like a night guard's actual purpose is to keep the animatronics in the building than to keep anyone out. The idea that they would just up and fucking leave if they had a means to honestly never occurred to me (or at least it would have died off quickly after the earliest games), but apparently they will do exactly that. And it's largely been accepted that at least the original Fazbear four weren't malicious toward children (The Silver Eyes said as much and I think one of the games did, too), but in this story they're straight-up obliterating kids if given the chance.

Good shit. Excited to read the second half.

[spibder]

also erm... fnaf movie yaoi..

[five-nights-at-artsys]

phone guy 🤝 oswald's dad

being two of the best dads in fnaf history

[theoatmealbowl]

Schedule update!

So the official Scottgames account just put out an update to the schedule for August 1st - 8th. It now is:

August 1st- myPOPGOES, Full Game Release

August 2nd- The Joy of Creation (remake), Demo

August 3rd- VIP- Interactive Novel (free)

August 4th- Scott Cawthon Interview with Dawko 2.0

August 5th- ??? Collab Announcement

August 6th- Steel Wool Announcement

August 7th- Five Laps at Freddy's, Demo

August 8th- Into the Pit, Full Game Release

I think a Fortnite collab might be less likely now...

[dish-soapp]

So the interactive novel ay lads?

[artblooger19moon]

Very Informative Pig VIP

FNAF belongs to Scott Cawthon

[justa-rat]

Do you like Five Nights at Freddys? Interactive novels and voice acting? Heard of said brand new interactive novel, VIP? Well let’s do a dramatic reading of it, on youtube, with each choice fully voice acted!

Like art? We can use some artists!

Just wanna write? I can use some script writers too!

[dovahkiin796]

This is the cover for the third book in the new interactive series. Just Monty busting through a door. Wasn't expecting anything mind blowing to begin with anyway. But damn does Monty had red in his eye.

While the cover isn't anything spectacular. The story is on the other hand. We'll be Cassie trying to escape the Pizzaplex. Some say this is a retcon, but I don't think so. By the time of RUIN Cassie would assume all the security guards and animatronics would be gone from the Pizzaplex. Plus, there's the juicy lore we'll find while trying to escape the Pizzaplex.

[thegeekcollective]

wait what the fuck

hey what the FUCK

[cephalonghostofficial]

First FNaF Friday Stream VOD featuring @dana-chan-the-control-brain

[dumbistsmartass]

This isn’t supposed to be out yet right?

I swear this comes out September 3rd

[fivenightsnews]

Five Nights at Freddy's: Interactive Novel #0 - VIP is officially out!

"Just in time for the 10th anniversary of Five Nights at Freddy's, head to the Pizzaplex in this interactive novel in which YOU decide what happens!"

[starlightshadowsworld]

"There's a new fnaf book"

...Okay, it's probably not that important.

"It's a prequel to the first game"

Okay probably relevant than.

"It's being theorised to be about Phone Guy."

... Huh?

"It's an interactive novel, it's got 25 possible endings"

WHAT?!

... I'm gonna have to read it aren't I? Godamnit!

I am intrigued though because, phone guy lore 👀? Because we know he was the previous Night guard.

And the book is called Five Nights at Freddys: The Week before. So it's a week before the events of the first game.

And if it's not sbout him, it's been so long since we've visited the original games.

Who knows what we'll find.

So I'm very interested.

And concerned.

[five-nights-at-artsys]

drew this a while back but !! have a coppelia because the week before just released

[theoatmealbowl]

Eight Nights at Freddy's.

Recently, the official FNAF twitter account announced that in the days leading up to the anniversary (August 8th), that starting August 1st, there would be a new FNAF based release each day. We have the schedule for the releases now, and it's REALLY good. The releases are:

August 1st- MyPopgoes, Full Game Release

August 2nd- The Joy of Creation (remake), Demo

August 3rd- VIP- Interactive Novel (free)

August 4th- Steel Wool Announcement

August 5th- Scott Cawthon Interview with Dawko 2.0

August 6th- ??? Collab Announcement

August 7th- Five Laps at Freddy's (by Clickteam), Demo

August 8th- Into the Pit, Full Game Release

(There may also be movie updates sprinkled in as well!)

This is honestly really cool, and it's awesome to see the anniversary get so much attention. I'm also personally happy about fanverse content being included, because there's lots of cool stuff going on there.

Also, if it matters... Fortnite has planned downtime on the 6th of August. I think I may know what the mystery collab is.