Five Nights at Freddy's
Worth it · Strategy · 2014
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
BUY IT.
Worth it at $4.99.
- Length
- 2.2h
- Value
- $2.27/hr
- Reviews
- 94% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 1 GB of memory, 1 GB, 246 MB of storage. Windows only.
Welcome to your new summer job at Freddy Fazbear's Pizza, where kids and parents alike come for entertainment and food! The main attraction is Freddy Fazbear, of course; and his two friends. They are animatronic robots, programmed to please the crowds!
What drives the score
How to read this
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The value story
It has never been cheaper than $1.24. That was June 2015. Its cuts run 50 percent off as a rule. There have been 19 in the 12 years tracked, about 12 weeks apart.
Against its own genre it lands in the top 1 percent on value. It is better reviewed than 98 percent of its genre. Among the games that feel like it, Ultimate Custom Night (free, scores 90) beats it on value, while it beats Five Nights at Freddy's 3 ($7.99, scores 73).
The press gave it 78; the people who bought it give it 94 percent. A 16-point gap in the buyer's favour.
Of the 800 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 22 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written August 2024 to August 2026. That is more refunded reviewers than 8 in 10 paid games this site has sampled to the same depth, and among the 2,864 games in its genre sampled this deeply, 309 have a larger share. The typical game sits near 5 in 1,000, so the score docks it. 1 of the 22 refunded reviewers was past Valve's two-hour window when they wrote the review. Inside the two-hour refund window, 91 percent of the 21,673 reviews written there were positive, against 94 percent overall, and those are 41 percent of everything written about it. It sells extras on top of the sticker price (unlock); the score docks it lightly for that.
Finishing takes 2.2 hours; clearing it takes 5, which is 2.2 times the campaign.
It carries Valve's Deck Verified rating and runs 2.2 hours, about as long as a handheld game wants to be.
Players
118 players at peak in the last day.
The chart appears once this game has been counted more than once.Player counts via SteamSpy.
What players say
The start of one of the most innovative and influential horror games ever made, and this first game started it perfectly. The atmosphere is the scariest in the series, and each animatronic is iconic in their own way. The gameplay is a little dated, but you can't deny it's still a genuine terror to sit through.
Player reviews from Steam: the most helpful all-time, plus the newest that clear the same quality bar, with the hours each player had put in when they wrote it. The mix of Recommended and Not recommended follows the game's Steam ratio. Rotates daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: achievement curve (Steam global achievements).
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Five Nights at Freddy's scores 84/100 on the BANG Score (worth it). The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/319510/five-nights-at-freddy-sThe BANG Score is one number for value, 0 to 100: price against how it reviews and how long it was built to be. It answers the money question and stops there; whether the game is for you is still your call.
Reviews set the ceiling and price moves you inside it, so a cheap game that reviews badly cannot climb. Ratings from few reviewers are shrunk toward the middle, so 100 percent from nine people does not outrank 96 percent from ninety thousand. Length comes from HowLongToBeat where it can be matched, measured against a per-genre floor so a five-hour narrative game is judged against other narrative games rather than against a sixty-hour RPG. Where no verified length exists the score says so and carries a dock, because the biggest input is then a guess. The full method, including where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Aug 2, price as of Sep 24.
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