Five Nights at Candy's is the most accurate fangame with it's own unique characters, with a game that pays an homage to FNAF 1 by directly taking it's gameplay style, and adding new features to it.
In this game you have your standard 2 doors that have lights on either side with a more circular office, with the added tension of having a window in front of you to deal with another animatronic.
The animatronic characters are as follows:
- Candy the Cat (Mascot/Face of Candy's Burger and Fries who appears on the left door)
- Cindy the Cat (Candy's Purple Female Companion who appears on the Right Door)
- Chester the Chimpanzee (Guitar Playing Monkey that works similar to Candy and Cindy in terms of moving throughout the building and like Candy, appears at the left Door)
- The Penguin (Acting similar to that of a server, and acts similar to Balloon boy in FNAF 2 where he prioritizes entering your office to deactivate your ability to shut doors, as in service he leads patrons to their seats, he needs an easy way to get around which is why he has access to the door controls. He doesn't jump scare you, but helps his fellow animatronics do so.)
- Blank (somewhat similar acting to that of Foxy, he's a separate animatronic that prioritizes entering your officer through the front window by punching it. He has the appearance a stripped character/incomplete character that has a bunch of kids drawings as the restaurant uses him as a drawing animatronic for kids to draw on. To stop him, shut the front window and allow him to punch his hand against the metal door... be wary about this taking out some of your power.)
- Old Candy (Older Model of Candy who had an incident with a nightguard stunning him, causing him to malfunction which caused him to defend a child from his father by... killing him... logical. In this game he is reactivated as he still is angry over what that previous nightguard did to him, he's now after you.
He plays somewhat the same as other animatronics, however within the cameras he has no glowing eyes, so it's tougher to see him without having to use the night vision, that takes power. Shut the door if you see him on any of the door cameras, you'll know he's there because a humming sound is made. Old Candy along with the last animatronic of the game work in a similar way.)
- RAT (He was there before Candy even existed... he's certainly older... rotted... and horrifying looking... it's almost as if it's not even an animatronic... like a wooden suit come to life to kill you... This is the Rat. When he shows up... everyone else is gone. He hunts you and has the ability to shut off your door controls... its a fight against the clock to see whether you'll lose power, or he'll screw you over by deactivating your controls temporarily. Similar to Old Candy, in order to see where he's at you have to use night vision as he doesn't have glowing eyes... theres something more to this character.)
Gameplay wise the game plays similarly to that of FNAF with the same 5 night structure, 1 extra night, and Custom Night which each night getting gradually harder, and custom night having a 7/20 mode.
The game does have it's repetitive nature like other FNAF games both official and other fangames (of course there are outliers but still), however the enjoyment comes from the characters, the screen, and the atmosphere of the game however it doesn't reach the level of creep factor FNAF 1 had, except for when RAT shows up. The game uses the same camera system that you slowly realize you don't have to prioritize apart from when facing Old Candy and the RAT, as they're the only characters without shiny eyes.
The game uses the same FNAF1 gameplay except here you are given 3 Doors (left and right door, and front window) with limited power, and depending on the amount of utilities you are using will cause the power to decrease faster, essentially a copy of FNAF1's gameplay which is fine because this is a fangame and that's what it's trying to be, and it does a good job with it.
The Jump scares are ok, the worse however which isn't even scary just kind of... exists, is Blank as he just... blankly stares and yawns in your face... terrifying.
Story wise, the game introduces something that has a small effect to the story of this entry but doesn't really have anything worth in an overarching story apart from this puppet named Vinnie, which looks like the puppet from FNAF2 but with a sad face, and blue makeup.
The game essentially has the same incident with kids being blended and soaked into the animatronics of Blank and Old Candy, but has been spreaded throughout the whole restaurant however this storyline mostly kind of doesn't matter in comparison to FNAC2 and especially FNAC 3 focusing on the RAT (CAT introduced in FNAC2, and finally Vinnie in FNAC 3).
It's a great Fan game of FNAF that has issues but since it does so many things that make it feel like a proper homage with cool animatronic designs, I think it deserves it's solid 4 stars I'm giving it.
In this game you have your standard 2 doors that have lights on either side with a more circular office, with the added tension of having a window in front of you to deal with another animatronic.
The animatronic characters are as follows:
- Candy the Cat (Mascot/Face of Candy's Burger and Fries who appears on the left door)
- Cindy the Cat (Candy's Purple Female Companion who appears on the Right Door)
- Chester the Chimpanzee (Guitar Playing Monkey that works similar to Candy and Cindy in terms of moving throughout the building and like Candy, appears at the left Door)
- The Penguin (Acting similar to that of a server, and acts similar to Balloon boy in FNAF 2 where he prioritizes entering your office to deactivate your ability to shut doors, as in service he leads patrons to their seats, he needs an easy way to get around which is why he has access to the door controls. He doesn't jump scare you, but helps his fellow animatronics do so.)
- Blank (somewhat similar acting to that of Foxy, he's a separate animatronic that prioritizes entering your officer through the front window by punching it. He has the appearance a stripped character/incomplete character that has a bunch of kids drawings as the restaurant uses him as a drawing animatronic for kids to draw on. To stop him, shut the front window and allow him to punch his hand against the metal door... be wary about this taking out some of your power.)
- Old Candy (Older Model of Candy who had an incident with a nightguard stunning him, causing him to malfunction which caused him to defend a child from his father by... killing him... logical. In this game he is reactivated as he still is angry over what that previous nightguard did to him, he's now after you.
He plays somewhat the same as other animatronics, however within the cameras he has no glowing eyes, so it's tougher to see him without having to use the night vision, that takes power. Shut the door if you see him on any of the door cameras, you'll know he's there because a humming sound is made. Old Candy along with the last animatronic of the game work in a similar way.)
- RAT (He was there before Candy even existed... he's certainly older... rotted... and horrifying looking... it's almost as if it's not even an animatronic... like a wooden suit come to life to kill you... This is the Rat. When he shows up... everyone else is gone. He hunts you and has the ability to shut off your door controls... its a fight against the clock to see whether you'll lose power, or he'll screw you over by deactivating your controls temporarily. Similar to Old Candy, in order to see where he's at you have to use night vision as he doesn't have glowing eyes... theres something more to this character.)
Gameplay wise the game plays similarly to that of FNAF with the same 5 night structure, 1 extra night, and Custom Night which each night getting gradually harder, and custom night having a 7/20 mode.
The game does have it's repetitive nature like other FNAF games both official and other fangames (of course there are outliers but still), however the enjoyment comes from the characters, the screen, and the atmosphere of the game however it doesn't reach the level of creep factor FNAF 1 had, except for when RAT shows up. The game uses the same camera system that you slowly realize you don't have to prioritize apart from when facing Old Candy and the RAT, as they're the only characters without shiny eyes.
The game uses the same FNAF1 gameplay except here you are given 3 Doors (left and right door, and front window) with limited power, and depending on the amount of utilities you are using will cause the power to decrease faster, essentially a copy of FNAF1's gameplay which is fine because this is a fangame and that's what it's trying to be, and it does a good job with it.
The Jump scares are ok, the worse however which isn't even scary just kind of... exists, is Blank as he just... blankly stares and yawns in your face... terrifying.
Story wise, the game introduces something that has a small effect to the story of this entry but doesn't really have anything worth in an overarching story apart from this puppet named Vinnie, which looks like the puppet from FNAF2 but with a sad face, and blue makeup.
The game essentially has the same incident with kids being blended and soaked into the animatronics of Blank and Old Candy, but has been spreaded throughout the whole restaurant however this storyline mostly kind of doesn't matter in comparison to FNAC2 and especially FNAC 3 focusing on the RAT (CAT introduced in FNAC2, and finally Vinnie in FNAC 3).
It's a great Fan game of FNAF that has issues but since it does so many things that make it feel like a proper homage with cool animatronic designs, I think it deserves it's solid 4 stars I'm giving it.