Every FNAF game ranked by a COMPLETE NEWCOMER

I played all of the mainline Five Nights at Freddy's ( FNAF ) games for the first time ever this year, here is my tier list of the lot.

Yes, despite being a known Security Breach content creator I hadn't played the series before!

00:00 Setting up the Tier List
01:35 Five Nights at Freddy's
04:27 Five Nights at Freddy's 2
07:48 Five Nights at Freddy's 3
11:38 Five Nights at Freddy's 4
15:00 FNAF World
17:38 Five Nights at Freddy's: Sister Location
21:54 Freddy Fazbear's Pizzeria Simulator
26:00 Ultimate Custom Night (UCN)
28:46 Five Nights at Freddy's: Help Wanted
29:21 Five Nights at Freddy's: Special Delivery (AR)
30:01 Five Nights at Freddy's: Security Breach
32:24 Security Breach: RUIN
35:40 Summary

[tylapederson]

I remember being terrified of fnaf in the early days, but I had the realization that freddy couldn't get me at my house, he only attacks nightguards at the pizzerias! Then fnaf 4 came out

[jessthebenjamin]

Something people need to remember about FNaF World is that the original version of it was BAD, and also wasn’t what was promised in the trailer. Modern FNaF World is really good, but the hate for the game came from the original releaee

[WildFox-hu]

The PNG jumpscares in UCN are actually a limitation of Clickteam. Clickteam has very strict file size limits and loads of other limits. That’s actually why FNaF world has to load after everything you do.

[WeeHobbit]

I've personally always found that Fnaf 2 is much more engaging to watch than it is to play

[synchrogamer]

Fun fact: there actually would’ve been more detailed jumpscares in UCN but it would sort of crash/overload the game so at least there’s a reason they aren’t detailed jumpscares.

[isabellesmith]

fnaf 3 is vastly underappreciated imo because it's the only game with the original formula (i.e. office and cameras) in which you actually have to look at all the cameras instead of the optimal strategy being to just leave it on one. makes you actually feel like a security guard I guess. it's also probably the game where you have the most control over where the animatronic goes; springtrap will *always* fall for the lure if he's within range, he literally cannot resist (his suit is in animatronic mode and hardcoded to follow the sounds of children), it really makes it feel more strategic, though I suppose you could argue that takes away from the terror of unpredictability in the other games.

[jacobkirk]

I think there is a massive separation between the people who played Sister Location and the people who watched play-throughs of it. It was maybe the best in the series to watch as a third party, but probably the least fun and replay-able.

[MoochMoment]

As a video game and a recent entry in a fairly long running series, Security Breach is an insult that needed way more time in the oven, and even then still probably wouldn't have been much better.

*But* as a wacky sandbox of an experience that lets you time travel and break out of the bounds of reality with little effort, it's a great time and I cant bring myself to dislike it

[agentofgrace]

I love backseat for the sole purpose of family friendly content.

[kovexplay]

Pretty interesting! As someone who never played a single fnaf game but got interested with the franchise your arguments were very understandable. There was nothing that I strongly disagreed with and your thoughts were genuine

[plushdragonteddy]

pizzeria sim will always be the best fnaf game to me. it's the only one i actually bothered trying to play for myself instead of just watching (though it was a bit spooky for me - i do best watching horror games). i love the game's sense of humor, the tense horror, and the sick ending. idk if fnaf will ever be able to top that

[ultmateragnarok]

FNaF 2 actually has 15 animatronics, two of which do not attack you (if you count crashing the game as a form of attack). The main withered band, the main toy band, BB and the easter-egg JJ, Goldie, the two shadows, the Puppet and the roaming endoskeleton. You could throw in the Paperpal that moves sometimes if you want. Anyways, some of them literally do nothing, though that makes the location feel more alive - in the way Bonnie and Chica wandering or Foxy's humming did in the first game - while the ones which do attack you are literally all fended off by the mask with the exception of Foxy and the Puppet. The music box takes away from the game, as you don't get any way to actually look at the dozens of renders of these characters, and the rest of the game is far too fast and bright to be as scary as the first. You just feel the panic of being overwhelmed, which certainly is a _form_ of being scared, but not the way the first - and fourth - managed it. Similarly the third doesn't give you time to appreciate its amazing design when wrestling its annoying gameplay system. Because the second and third _do_ have some of the best designs. Mangle is still my favorite character from the series to this day, the Puppet is so interesting, withered Foxy and Chica are both impressively eerie to look at, and the withered Golden Freddy design is probably the best iteration the character has had, aside from maybe being a bit bright. Honestly my least favorite part of the designs from 2 is that the eye-lights are no longer the haunting pinpricks they were in the first game, in Freddy's stage render or the creepy backstage ones or Bonnie's hallucinations; instead, they're these aggressive and large orbs that sort of detract from the effect.

[kaitlyn]

This is a really clever video. I've never seen a single video by this man before, but now I kind of want to check out his entire FNAF playlist

[SHALITAMAR]

I always smile When Backseat drops a new video
Backseat is genuinely one of the funniest people I saw on The internet

[duckcatthequrugosk]

FNaF World when it was released was hated really badly- but then years and years later, people have come to their senses and realized that it's a BANGER. I love FNaF World!!! <3

[merrakie]

so happy the fnaf vr was a definitive peak from chat. It was genuinely terrifying to play for me and my friends. While it was nice to replay the older games in vr, what really shined for me were the new scenarios because I had no idea what was coming or what i needed to do.

[luczcontador]

I always love when there's a new Backseat video. His voice is so nice, and the videos are edited very well, and its just so entertaining!

[Paper_Goose]

It feels like it’s been years since the last vid. Thank god he’s back.

[red_vibe]

this was so cool to see how you ranked and how chat ranked. i think if another streamer did this with their community it'd probably be different from streamer to streamer

[Aquacav]

The editing in this vid was really fun to watch, it feels like I’m a kid again discovering FNAF