Five Nights at
Freddy's 2

Five Nights at Freddy's 2 (2014) is a point-and-click survival game where you defend yourself against killer robots. Like the first game, you check cameras, but instead of doors, you have a mask that hides you from animatronics. It stands out for an increased reliance on audio cues to infer what's happening as your time is eaten up by hiding behind the mask and winding up an ever-present music box.

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You play a nightguard at a new Freddy Fazbear's Pizza location, with ten animatronics pursuing you rather than the five of the first game. Like the original game, you can't move from your office and have a camera system you can use to check where the animatronics are, but now there are no doors at the entrances to your office. Instead, you have new tools at your disposal, some of which only work on specific characters.

You can deter some creatures by flashing them with your light. Others enter your office, and you must hide behind a mask until they leave. During this time, you can't check the cameras and must use the audio cues to infer what the robots are doing. One character is only kept at bay by keeping a music box wound up, eating away at even more of your time. On the later nights, you become almost totally reliant on the soundscape to know what's going on as all your time is dedicated to using your flashlight, the mask, and keeping the music playing.

The result is a game where you must intuitively detect what's happening through limited audio and visual hints while managing an increasingly complex set of systems. It's the first game in the series to lean into the complex storytelling the series is known for. Gradually getting to grips with the task at hand can be tricky, but mastering it makes for a highly rewarding challenge.

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Our examiner, Ben Kendall, first checked Five Nights at Freddy's 2 5 weeks ago. It was re-examined by Jo Robertson and updated 5 weeks ago.