Five New-Fangled Nights is a game inspired by Five Nights at Freddy's and created by Caleb Hill. The full version of the game was released on 27th November 2025.
It uses a rubberhose-esque artstyle based on 1930s cartoons.
Similar to its inspiration, it is about a nightguard being hired to watch the animatronics of a kiddy restaurant, who turn aggressive at night. Unlike most FNAF games or fangames, this one puts extensive focus on the ghost children who possess the animatronics. The cutscenes between nights show the kids meeting and interacting with each other as they plot ways to kill the nightguard, who they suspect as being their murderer.
This game has a Characters page in progress.
The game can be downloaded here
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Tropes:
- Anachronism Stew: Despite being set in 1927, the game features a children's pizzeria with animatronic characters, a concept that didn't really take off until 1977 with Chuck E. Cheese.
- Bait-and-Switch: Similarly to Night 4 from the original Five Nights at Freddy's, Phone Fella's phone call has him say that he may not be around to leave a message for the night guard tomorrow, while banging noises are heard, culminating in a brass sting like the one heard in the game's jumpscares... only for Phone Fella to then tell someone on his end of the call to "pipe down", before stating that he has maintenance workers over at his place doing cleanup, hence the previously heard noises prior to the brass sting.
- Bittersweet Ending: The nightguard survives for five nights and gets his paycheck. The ghost children are dismayed that they didn't kill their supposed murderer, but then they discover that the nightguard left his nametag behind and realize that he isn't the same person who murdered them. The ghost children are horrified to realize that they almost murdered an innocent person, and that their true killer is still out there somewhere. However, the ghost children have formed a strong friendship with each other and vow to keep searching for their killer.
- Creepy Jazz Music: The game uses actual jazz songs from The '30s and earlier to fit the vintage cartoon aesthetic. Most notably, the intro of "Spooky Spook" by the Victor Military Band serves as the animatronics' Leitmotif, playing during their title cards.
- Deliberately Monochrome: The game is rendered in black and white to fit with the vintage theme.
- Easter Egg: Clicking on character pictures in the Extrees book will make something happen in them.
- Click on Rat's picture in the Extras book and then go back to the title screen. Freddy-Bear on the title screen will be replaced by Rat Flipping the Bird.
- The main animatronics in the game have YouTube videos embedded in their pictures. Clicking on each picture takes the player to the video in question.
- Freddy-Bear's picture links to the song "Torn Alive" by XTRATUNA.
- Bonnie's picture links to a FNAF Source Filmmaker video featuring the song "Pumped Up Kicks".
- Chica's picture links to a YouTube short of "Chicken Jockey!"
- Foxy's picture links to 5 AM at Freddy's: The Prequel.
- Episode Title Card: Each night has its own title card featuring an animatronic who is either introduced or very prominent in that night.
- Flat "What": When Cassie looks with sadness at the nametag of the nightguard due to not capturing them, Gabe mentions that "Charlie" isn't their killer, which Cassie responds with a flat what.
- Flipping the Bird: In an Easter Egg, Rat is seen giving the player a middle finger on the title screen.
- Game-Over Man: Most of the animatronics have their own taunting quotes on the Game Over screen, depending on which one of them killed you.
- Inkblot Cartoon Style: The game's shtick is that it's Five Nights at Freddy's 1 but drawn in an early cartoon style. The whole game is Deliberately Monochrome, and the animatronics are drawn like typical cartoon animals of the 30's. (Bonnie in particular resembles Oswald the Lucky Rabbit.) The game even uses actual songs from the 30's to further set the mood.
- Jacob Marley Apparel: Each of the kids exhibit the injuries that they sustained from being murdered. Jeremy has his brains exposed, Susie's decapitated with a bone sticking out of her body's neck, Gabe's eyes are missing and leaking presumably blood and Fritz's chest is opened up and only his ribs can be seen, lacking his heart and lungs. Subverted with Cassie, who's the only one whose injuries aren't visibly shown on her.
- Jump Scare: In true FNAF tradition, each animatronic that catches you will perform a jump scare that leads to an instant Game Over. Unusually for a FNAF-style game, instead of a scream, there is a loud brass sting that plays instead. (However, Freddy-Bear and the Moose also roar during their jumpscares, while Chica makes a chicken sound.)
- Retraux: The game has a vintage rubberhose art style.
- The Roaring '20s: The nightguard's paycheck at the end confirms that the game takes place in 1927.
- Scare Chord: The game uses a loud brass sting for its Jump Scare sound, to fit the Inkblot Cartoon Style and the Creepy Jazz Music heard throughout the game.
- Shout-Out:
- Bonnie in this game heavily resembles Oswald the Lucky Rabbit.
- Bonnie's Episode Title Card reads "Nightguard Season."
- Foxy's Episode Title Card reads "The Quick, Grey Fox," a reference to the famous sentence "The quick, brown fox jumped over the lazy dog," which contains all the letters of the English alphabet.
- Take That!: The trailer for the game's release starts with the Plus version of Freddy appearing only for Freddy-Bear to appear and tell him to scram.
- The Un-Reveal: Unlike the other kids, how Cassie was murdered is kept a mystery. Her ghost doesn't exhibit any visible injuries unlike the other ghost kids, and her body is only shown in shadow when the kids stuff it into a suit for her to possess on night 5, though, given the other kids' reactions, how she got killed wasn't exactly pretty.