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Five Nights at Freddy's: Into the Pit is a 2024 role-playing adventure horror game developed and published by Mega Cat Studios. The sixth spin-off and sixteenth overall game in the Five Nights at Freddy's series, the game serves as an adaptation of the title story of the 2019 book of the same name, originally written by series creator Scott Cawthon and Elley Cooper, from the Fazbear Frights anthology series of novels. It portrays the events depicted in a 2D interactive side scroller in a pixel art style.

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Five Nights at Freddy's: Into the Pit
Developer(s)	Mega Cat Studios
Publisher(s)	Mega Cat Studios
Director(s)	Xianead Penilla
Producer(s)	Raina Cally Ang Xiao Han
Designer(s)	Asher Navarro Angeles
Writer(s)	Madison Petrick
Composer(s)	Alain Lee Godornes
Series	Five Nights at Freddy's
Platform(s)	Microsoft Windows PlayStation 4 PlayStation 5 Xbox One Xbox Series X/S Nintendo Switch
Release	August 7, 2024 Microsoft Windows August 7, 2024 PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Xbox One, Xbox Series X/S September 27, 2024 Nintendo Switch October 31, 2024
Genre(s)	Horror, adventure, role-playing
Mode(s)	Single player

The game was released on August 7, 2024, a day earlier than initially planned, coinciding with the 10-year anniversary of the franchise to positive reviews. Ports for the PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Xbox One and Xbox Series X/S were released on September 27 and a Nintendo Switch port was released on October 31.

Gameplay

Plot

A boy named Oswald, sick of his dad leaving him at a rundown Jeff's Pizza every day of his summer, hides in the ball pit to teach him a lesson. He emerges at a different restaurant, Freddy Fazbear's Pizza, with animatronics and arcade games in the 1980s. However, things go wrong when he follows a yellow rabbit to a back room of the restaurant. Parents and children are fleeing the restaurant and Oswald returns to the pit. His dad and Jeff are waiting for him but the yellow rabbit jumps out of the pit and takes Oswald's dad. When his father emerges, Oswald knows something is wrong but no one else can tell. Oswald has to avoid his "dad" (who glitches out to reveal the yellow rabbit) while uncovering the secrets of his town, his family, and the pizzeria, and try to get his real father back.^[1]

Endings

Depending on the player's choices throughout the game, they can obtain several endings distinguished by a star rating:

• On any night, the player can exit Freddy Fazbear's Pizza out the main entrance, leaving Oswald's father behind; If the player fails the final quick time event on the fifth night, Oswald ends up back in the pizzeria and his eyes glow like the yellow rabbit.^[2]
• If the player gets to the fifth night without finding Oswald's father's belongings and the photo, Oswald rescues his father but the yellow rabbit takes him back in the pit and he is tied up, with his fate left ambiguous.^[2]
• If the player has the belongings and the photo on the fifth night, but fails the final quick time event, they return to the Freddy Fazbear's Pizza stage, where they follow the yellow rabbit to Pirate Cove and are stuffed into an animatronic.^[3]
• If the player gets the belongings and photo on the fifth night, Oswald is able to save his father from the yellow rabbit and it hangs itself in the ball pit's netting. However, having not seen them leave, Jeff checks in the ball pit and is attacked.
• If the player gets the fixes and completes the arcade machines, completes the three secret games, and finds the belongings and photo, Oswald leaves with his father, the family has dinner, and Jeff lives, restoring the pizzeria to its former glory.

Development

Production on Into the Pit began as a novelty game, intended to be released as a physical cartridge for the Super Nintendo Entertainment System, but Scott Cawthon decided to change course for a full game, wanting it to be more readily accessible.^[4]

Release

Into the Pit was originally scheduled for release on August 8, 2024, the day the first game in the series released. However, because the game accidentally released a day early in Japan, the game was fully released shortly after. PlayStation and Xbox ports were released on September 27,^[5][6] followed by the Nintendo Switch on October 31.^{[citation needed]} Physical releases for all consoles are planned for June 20, 2025, with a special edition exclusive to Iam8bit including stickers, a poster, and a digital soundtrack.^[7][8]

Tie-in media and merchandise

On August 13, 2024, Youtooz released a pin set and plush of Spring Bonnie based on the game. The tie-in book Five Nights at Freddy's: Return to the Pit was released on December 24 the same year.^[9]

Reception

Reception

Aggregate score

Aggregator	Score
Metacritic	(PC) 87/100[10]

Review scores

Publication	Score
IGN	8/10[11]
ComicBook.com	5/5[12]
Game Rant	[13]
Pocket Tactics	9/10[14]
TheGamer	4/5[15]

Five Nights at Freddy's: Into the Pit received "generally positive" reviews according to review aggregator Metacritic.^[10]