SPOILERS FOLLOW: The mini-games paint a better picture of what is going on, but it’s still vague. You seem to be related to someone who works at Freddy Fazbear’s pizzeria, so you’re around the animatronics all the time. Your family life is a mess, and you seem to be subject to abuse—either from your father, or your brother. Your mother is nowhere in sight. The game refers to a “he” constantly, who apparently subjects you to all sorts of horrors—but I have no idea who this person is.

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The game seems to imply that you’ve seen something horrible, too—you know what the animatronics are capable of, which is why you’re so scared of them. Nobody believes you though, and all of your friends tease you over your fear of the animatronics. It’s entirely possible that you’re not scared of the animals themselves, but rather, what the humans do with them. The real ‘monsters’ are the humans, who choose to lock you up in the rooms with the animatronics. FNAF4 is really sad!

Things come to a head on the final night, when the party happens. Your brother’s asshole friends push you too far, and then this happens:

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Yeaaaah. It’s tragic. While FNAF4 makes the timeline confusing, I think it might have the best story out of all of the games so far.

Is this the bite of 87? It sure seems like it, but there is some debate online as to whether that’s actually the case.

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Here is where things get particularly wacky: people are interpreting the final scene to mean that the entire game is actually a dream that you are having in a coma. Everything in the house isn’t real, posits this theory. I know, that sounds ridiculous, but there is evidence to support it. Namely, every so often you’ll see curious items by your bedside—like an IV drip:

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[Source: matty19908]

Other players have reported similarly curious items near your bed. I’m convinced.

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Aside from that, the biggest mystery the game holds is in this screenshot:

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Are those...actual photographs of Scott Cawthon and his family? The internet seems to think so. This would put the grand total of publicly available but shitty photographs of Scott Cawthon on the internet up to three whole pictures.

Watch Others Play It

I wouldn’t blame you for opting to watch the game instead of playing it yourself. Luckily, YouTube has plenty of options. The most-watched video by far is Markiplier’s, though, which I’m embedding below. Feel free to share playthroughs of your favorite YouTubers!