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Five Nights at Freddy's: Help Wanted

Five Nights at Freddy’s: Help Wanted is a collection of classic and original mini-games set in the Five Nights universe. Survive terrifying encounters with your favorite killer animatronics in a collection of…

90 28 May 2019

Five Nights at Freddy's: Help Wanted is an adventure developed by Steel Wool Studios, released 28 May 2019 on Meta Quest 3, PlayStation VR2, Nintendo Switch and PlayStation 4.

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What Five Nights at Freddy's: Help Wanted is

Five Nights at Freddy's: Help Wanted is an adventure game developed by Steel Wool Studios and released in 2019. It was published by Scottgames. It is available on Meta Quest 3, PlayStation VR2, Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, PlayStation VR, Xbox One, Meta Quest 2, Oculus Quest, Oculus Rift, PC (Microsoft Windows) and SteamVR. It runs on Unreal Engine 4.

The premise, in the publisher's words

Fazbear Entertainment has become extremely unpopular due to several incidents and disasters that allegedly occurred at their various locations over the years, which have been established as urban legends. The problem is aggravated by a horror video game series based on the legends, created by an unnamed indie developer. In an attempt to overturn the bad reputation these rumors gave the company, Fazbear Entertainment commissioned the "Freddy Fazbear Virtual Experience", a virtual reality game meant to make light of the rumors and convince players that those events were completely fictitious. However, this narrative is contradicted by sixteen cassette tapes hidden throughout the game, which…
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How it plays

It is played from a first person perspective. Its themes are action, horror and survival. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.

Where it sits in the Five Nights at Freddy's series

Five Nights at Freddy's: Help Wanted is the 23rd of 60 entries we hold in the Five Nights at Freddy's series. It arrived 11 months after Ultimate Custom Night. The next entry was Five Nights at Freddy's in 2019. Its critic score of 90 is 14 points above the series average of 76. The highest-rated entry is Five Nights at Freddy's: Into the Pit at 95.

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How it was received

Five Nights at Freddy's: Help Wanted holds a critic score of 90 out of 100. That places it above 92% of the 7,527 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2019 averaged 69, so it scored 21 points above the year average.

What it launched against

Five Nights at Freddy's: Help Wanted launched on 28 May 2019, within three weeks of A Plague Tale: Innocence, Outer Wilds, Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night and Rage 2. It reviewed better than all of them. It arrived 6 years into the PlayStation 4's life, so it was built for hardware developers already knew well.

Released around the same time: A Plague Tale: Innocence, Outer Wilds, Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night, Rage 2.

Cheats and codes

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Official trailer

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When did Five Nights at Freddy's: Help Wanted come out?
Five Nights at Freddy's: Help Wanted was released on 28 May 2019 for Meta Quest 3, PlayStation VR2, Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, PlayStation VR, Xbox One, Meta Quest 2, Oculus Quest, Oculus Rift, PC (Microsoft Windows) and SteamVR.

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