<Tr> <Th> Latest release </Th> <Td> Freddy Fazbear's Pizzeria Simulator December 4, 2017 </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> Spin - offs </Th> <Td> FNaF World </Td> </Tr> <P> Five Nights at Freddy's (often abbreviated to FNaF) is a media franchise based around an indie video game series created, designed, developed, and published by Scott Cawthon for Microsoft Windows, iOS, and Android . </P> <P> The series is centered on the story of a fictional restaurant named Freddy Fazbear's Pizza, a pastiche of restaurants like Chuck E. Cheese's and ShowBiz Pizza Place . The first three games involve the player working as a nighttime security guard, in which they must utilize several tools, most notably checking security cameras, to survive against animatronic characters, which become mobile and homicidal after - hours . The fourth game, which uses different gameplay mechanics from its predecessors, takes place in the house of a child who must defend against nightmarish versions of the animatronics by closing doors and fleeing on foot . The fifth game takes place in a maintenance facility owned by a sister company of Freddy Fazbear's Pizza . The player character is a technician instead of a night guard, who must do different tasks each night as told by an AI voice heard in the game . In the sixth game, the player acts as the owner of a pizzeria which they must decorate with payable items, and must also work the night shift for their pizzeria, which plays similarly to previous games . </P>

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