Five Nights at Freddy's is a video game series and media franchise created by Scott Cawthon. The first game was released on August 8, 2014. Three sequels were released up to July 2015, setting a Guinness World Record for "most videogame sequels released in a year". The first seven games were independently developed and published by Cawthon, while he partnered with Steel Wool Studios for Five Nights at Freddy's: Security Breach (2021) and the Help Wanted series. 6 spin-off games have also been released, excluding Troll games, and the series has inspired numerous fangames.
Beginning with Five Nights at Freddy's: The Silver Eyes, Cawthon and Kira-Breed Weasley co-wrote a novel trilogy based on the series from 2015 to 2018. Guidebooks to the games and the anthology series' Fazbear Frights and Tales from the Pizzaplex have also been published. A film adaptation directed by Emma Tammi was released on October 27, 2023.