5 Nights at Freddy's

So, for those of you that don't know, this is an indie horror game where you play the part of a security guard working the graveyard shift at a Chuck E. Cheese-like Pizzeria. The only thing is, the animatronics activate during the night and wander the building and if they see you, you're pretty much dead. All you can do is sit in the guard's room, and watch the cameras as they make their way through the building and close the doors when they get close and hope they wander off again.

There are actually four games in the series at this point. Each one tells a little bit more about the stories behind the building, the animatronics, and why they seem to have a taste for security guards. Hints and secrets abound, telling little bits and pieces here and there.

It is honestly one of the most intense game series I've ever played, and it's enhanced by the fact that it really focuses on paying attention, just like those video jumpscares that get passed around every so often that tell you to focus on a picture for a minute before the image switches and it screams at you. You really have to listen very intently to make progress, especially in nights 4 and 5, which makes it hard to avoid the jumpscares.

Has anyone else here played it?

I think he just had the games finished, and meant to put them out on some kind of schedule, but then just couldn't contain his own excitement and released them.

I love the twisting storylines and all the theories. I haven't seen the very very very end of FNAF4 (20/20/20/20/20 mode) but I think FNAF4 is pretty much saying the murder of the 4 kids that inhabit the main animatronics wasn't random.

(Spoilers)

My understanding of FNAF4, is that the kids took the younger brother that you play as, tried to scare the bejeezus out of him by holding him up to Golden Freddy and he got bit. (Note, I don't think this is the Bite of '87, because there's no sign of the Toy versions or Mangle, which we do know were there in '87.) I think the purple guy (the murderer) saw the kids do that to the younger brother, and lured them to the back room and killed them out of some twisted idea of justice. So that's the spirits possessing Golden Freddy, Bonnie, Chica, Foxy, and regular Freddy explained. There's still no explanation of what happened to the first kid to be murdered by the purple guy, the one that became the puppet. And there's no explanation at all of why Balloon Boy or Mangle are possessed. (Although, they may just be generally malfunctioning, since neither Balloon Boy or Mangle actually kill you in any of the games.)

And...yeah....that's actually why I started this thread.