The latest entry in the Five Nights at Freddy’s series was revealed and released early when the game went live on Roblox. The game is called Five Night’s at Freddy’s: Survival Crew, and is a multiplayer game developed by Metaverse Team Frights.
Creator Scott Cawthon confirmed in a comment on a post about Survival Crew in the series’ subreddit that the game is official, but was released early due to a miscommunication.
“Yes, there is an official Roblox game being worked on; I’m actually a big Roblox fan and play it a lot with my kids,” the post reads. “But the fact that this was released today is one of the most baffling, insane, things to ever happen in my ten years of working on FNAF.”
According to Cawthon, the game is still in a very early stage, and was nowhere near ready to be released. He explained the early release as a result of a mistake with his approval of a much smaller asset, saying “apparently there was a huge misunderstanding when I approved a skin, and it was interpreted as RELEASE THE GAME.”
The statement continues, “I obviously took the game down immediately. So despite how difficult it might be to overlook this… well, no, I don’t think this can be overlooked. It was a huge blunder.” Though the game was taken down, its page on the Roblox site is still up, stating that the game is currently in beta.
It also provides a brief description of the game, which reads as follows:
“Welcome aboard as Fazbear Security’s newest team member! You and your crew will be on night duty at all Fazbear Entertainment’s properties. We don’t anticipate you having any trouble (then again, we never did before either and look what happened…). But if something seems out of place, you can always use the handy charging stations located throughout our properties to overload the electrical systems and shock any wayward animatronics back into compliance.
Can we count on you to keep things quiet until morning?”
Cawthon ends his comment with “Again, I hope everyone can at least believe me when I say that this was a game in its testing phases and was in no way ready to be released to the public. I, myself, have never even played it yet. So again, catastrophic misunderstanding, and I apologize. Will fix.” The game is expected to release in full sometime in 2024.