Five Nights at Freddy's 4
Worth it · Action · 2015
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
BUY IT.
Worth it at $7.99, a BANGER if it drops to $5.54.
- Length
- 3h
- Value
- $2.66/hr
- Reviews
- 93% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, 1 GB of storage. Windows only.
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.
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How to read this
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The value story
The lowest price on record is $1.99, set in October 2017. 15 discounts in the 11 years on record. They run about 50 percent off, roughly 12 weeks apart. The math puts its BANGER price at $5.54. The record reaches that level 14 times.
On value it sits in the top 1 percent of its genre. 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).
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 3,221 games in its genre sampled this deeply, 428 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.
Players
22 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
Metacritic is gay as ♥♥♥♥ bruh FNaF 4 isn't flawed at all its just specialized. It sacrifices accessibility and strategic variety to achieve the purest form of survival horror in the series, making it the perfect entry for players who prioritize raw tension and skill execution over lore exposition or complex mechanics. If you're worried about there not being much replayability or whatever gay gameplay loop you need...
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 4 scores 79/100 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/388090/five-nights-at-freddy-s-4The 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 1, price as of Sep 24.
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