Five Nights at Freddy's 4

Five Nights at Freddy's 4

Worth it · Action · 2015

Steam Deck Verified

The verdict

BUY IT.

Winter Sale 2026 Dec 17
cut in 0 of 8 sales

Worth it at $7.99, a BANGER if it drops to $5.53.

Cost per hour▼
$2.66/hr
ReviewsS
93% of 17,133
Critics
51 players 42 higher
Genre rank
Top 1% Action

Holding it back: Refunds, Cost per hour

Why
It needs 31% off ($5.53) to be a BANGER.
Watch this gameOne alert at $5.53 or less.

Time and effort

Main story
3h
To 100%
6h 2.0x the story

Price and sales

Sales
15 on record
Typical cut
50% off
Steam low
$1.99 October 2017
Sale every
84d last June 2020
Lowest now on Steamall-time low $1.99 on IsThereAnyDeal

Players and genre

Online
31 now
Recent reviews
91% 30 days
Cheaper than
38% of its genre
Better reviewed
98% of its genre
Price and player charts
The value story

The value story

15 discounts in the 11 years on record, a median of 50 percent off across all of them, roughly 12 weeks apart. The math puts its BANGER price at $5.53. The record reaches that level 14 times.

Its score sits in the top 1 percent of its genre. It is pricier than 62 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 98 percent. 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).

More about Five Nights at Freddy's 4

Critics scored it 51. Players sit 42 points higher at 93 percent, which usually means a game that plays better than it reviews.

Of the 800 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 31 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written April 2022 to August 2026. That is more refunded reviewers than 9 in 10 paid games this site has sampled to the same depth, and among the 2,368 games in its genre sampled this deeply, 303 have a larger share. The typical game sits near 5 in 1,000, so the score docks it. Inside the two-hour refund window, 91 percent of the 8,273 reviews written there were positive, against 93 percent overall, and those are 54 percent of everything written about it.

3 hours to finish it, 6 to exhaust it. The completionist tail is 2.0 times the campaign.

At 3 hours it is a handheld-sized game, and Valve rates it Deck Verified.

Buy now or wait

Buy now or wait

Not discounted in any of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last discount ended 2313 days ago.

Next sale
Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4

Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.

What drives the score

Grades: S best, D weakest

S is the best grade and D the weakest, judged as a buyer. ▲ raises the score, ▼ lowers it, ? is an input we do not have, • is a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work

Raising the score
Reviews
Gates the score. Weak reviews cap it, and nothing reaches BANGER without strong ones
MonetizationNone
Checked: no in-game purchases or loot boxes. That earns a small credit unless Steam lists in-app purchases
Holding it back
Cost per hour$2.66/hr
Price per hour of game. It moves the score inside the ceiling reviews set
Refunds31 of 800 reviews
Well above the typical game's share of reviews from refunded buyers, so the score takes a small dock
For context
AI contentNone disclosed
From the developer's own Steam disclosure. No disclosure is not proof of none, so it does not move the score

About the game

In this last chapter of the Five Nights at Freddy's original story, you must once again defend yourself against Freddy Fazbear, Chica, Bonnie, Foxy, and even worse things that lurk in the shadows.
Description from the Steam store page.
Minimum specs

Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, 1 GB of storage. Windows only.

No data upstream: achievement curve (Steam global achievements).

Cite this score

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Five Nights at Freddy's 4 scores 79/100 on the BANG Score (worth it) as of Nov 8, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/388090/five-nights-at-freddy-s-4
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Reviews set the ceiling, and price against real length moves the BANG Score inside it. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Oct 31, price as of Nov 7. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.

Critics vs players+42
Critics51
Players93
Player favorite. The critics underrated it.
Metacritic critics · 17,133 Steam player reviews

Details

DeveloperScott Cawthon
PublisherScott Cawthon
GenreAction
Released2015
Players750Kowners, SteamSpy estimate