The series is centered on the story of a fictional restaurant named Freddy Fazbear’s Pizza, a pastiche of restaurants like Chuck E. You can think of it like this: take Chuck E Cheese type characters that come to life at night and are scary, mean, and awful killers that require constant supervision to keep them from killing you and combine that with imagery that looks like the Saw movie trailers…well, that’s pretty much the jist of it.įive Nights at Freddy’s (often abbreviated to FNaF) is a media franchise based around an indie video game series created, designed, developed, and published by Scott Cawthon for Microsoft Windows, iOS, and Android. Wikipedia explains the basics of the 5 Nights at Freddy’s game well enough here.
You can read what parents are saying about this game here. In the past, I have weighed in on other popular things like Music.ly and 13 Reasons Why so it made sense to check out this one too.Ĭommon Sense Media also has a review that says it’s okay for kids 12 and up. But, many are having severe nightmares or sleep anxiety from playing it.
From what I have heard, elementary aged kids and up have been really into this video game. 5 Nights at Freddy’s is a video game that is quite popular with kids these days.
