Five Nights at Freddy's Plus

Five Nights at Freddy's Plus is an upcoming reimagining of the point-and-click game Five Nights at Freddy’s, originally created by Scott Cawthon. The remake is being developed by Phisnom and is officially endorsed as a part of The Fazbear Fanverse Initiative.

In Five Nights at Freddy's Plus, a security guard takes the night shift at Freddy Fazbear's Pizza, a decrepit children's pizzeria with animatronic mascots who roam the halls at night. As the security guard, it’s the player's job to keep the animatronics at bay within the safety of the Security Office.

History
Originally, Phisnom created a remake of Five Nights at Freddy's 2 known as Five Nights at Freddy's 2: Open Source (later renamed to Another FNaF Fangame: Open Source), as practice for learning a new game engine. Since the game wasn't a transformative remake of the original game, Scott Cawthon soon took the game down. However, he was intrigued with the project and contacted Phisnom about a Five Nights at Freddy's remake.

A remake of the original Five Nights at Freddy's was first revealed alongside the Fazbear Fanverse Initiative on August 21st, 2020. As one of the games in the initiative, the game will be getting official ports to mobile devices and consoles in the future. The official name of the game was finally revealed on August 28th as Five Nights at Freddy's Plus, alongside a teaser on the official Twitter account. The image teased the new design for Freddy Fazbear, and mirrors key art of the original Five Nights at Freddy's.

On September 12th, 2020, the first teaser video for the game was revealed called Connection Error. It features Bonnie inside the Dining Area, approaching the camera and causing the eponymous connection error.

On October 31st, 2020, another teaser was released in celebration for Halloween. This teaser featured three images of the new Freddy design, a hallway with a Freddy poster, and what appears to be a back room.

On January 19th, 2021, several new teasers for the game was posted to Twitter, YouTube, and Streamable. The first of these teasers, Routine Check, featured a recording of Freddy Fazbear going through his scripted animations on stage, before the video glitches out after "005 - FRIENDLY LAUGH" with a black screen and Freddy's ominous laughter. The second, Quiet Hours, is a video recorded from the perspective of somebody looking up onto the band of animatronics. The third, Stage Performance, is of a stage performance with Chica as the lead singer. As Chica sings, the video abruptly corrupts as her singing slows and the lights grow dimmer. As she repeats the phrase "Follow me", her voice grows more corrupted as the curtains draw and children are heard screaming in the background. The video ends on a black screen with a distorted version of the music playing in the background. A secret fourth video, Night Mode was discovered when glitched text was found throughout the last three videos and turned into a YouTube URL. This video is from the perspective of Foxy attempting to escape the pizzeria during the night while imagery flashes violently on the screen. It was released publicly on Janurary 20th after being discovered.

Due to the positive reception of the new teaser videos, Phisnom released four bonus images on the FNaF Plus Twitter account on January 23rd, 2021. They included an image of plastic toys of the core three animatronics, another image of these characters as plushies, an image of the Office with the "CELEBRATE" poster, and an image of a pair of clocks with the bigger of the pair saying "Fregdrick's Tools & Timepieces" on it.

On May 31st, 2021, an animated GIF of CAM 10 was put up on Twitter.

On August 2nd, 2021, Breaking + Entering was teased. It is the last teaser video short that premiered on August 8th, 2021, which is the anniversary of the original Five Nights at Freddy's. After the premiere, bonus images were released onto the Twitter account. Hidden somewhere within the Breaking + Entering teaser video is one last bonus video, Help Wanted. This teaser video was released publicly on August 11th

For the St. Jude 24 Hour Charity Stream, the FNaF Plus twitter account revealed their final image, being a full body shot of Foxy.

From February 4th, 2022 onward, Phisnom held a continuously updating Q&A for the game.

Reception
Before the game's release, the reimagining was met with respect and excitement by the general Five Nights at Freddy's community. The reception to the first teaser trailer on Reddit was generally positive commending the game for its use of more subtle horror. However with the teaser displaying Freddy Fazbear's new design in full, the reaction was a lot more mixed with many saying that Freddy's new design takes away some of the charm of Freddy's classic design.

Following the release of the teaser videos on January 19, 2021, fan reception became far warmer, with praise directed at its unsettling horror elements and the designs of the other animatronics, such as Bonnie and The Puppet, although opinions were again mixed over whether or not the designs are too scary to work in a real-life pizzeria.

Trivia

 * The teasers for Five Nights at Freddy's Plus are unique compared to Scott Cawthon's original games, where they take the form of videos as opposed to images. These teasers appear to pull inspiration from the FNaF VHS phenomenon, popularised by YouTube creator Squimpus McGrimpus.
 * Before the name "Five Nights at Freddy's Plus" was chosen, subtitles such as "1.5", "REC" or "RED" were considered. None of these were chosen because they implied the game was a spin-off, or was set between Five Nights at Freddy's 2 and the original.
 * Phisnom indirectly confirmed that he would not be making a sequel to Five Nights at Freddy's Plus in his thoughts about the latest entry in the Five Nights at Freddy's series, Security Breach . This stems from a drain of passion in the franchise's current direction, and the lack of drive to make any more Five Nights at Freddy's fangames.at the end fnaf well remake the game's