Five Nights at Freddy's 4 similar games & best alternatives

Five Nights at Freddy's 4

PC (Microsoft Windows) • 2015

Should you play it?

In this last chapter of the Five Nights at Freddy's original story, you must once again defend yourself against Freddy Fazbear, Chica, Bonnie, Foxy, and even worse things that lurk in the shadows.

What works

  • Intense horror atmosphere
  • Innovative audio-based gameplay
  • Challenging and rewarding
  • Deep and intriguing story
  • Good value for price

Things to keep in mind

  • High difficulty and frustration
  • Repetitive mechanics
  • Performance issues reported
  • No multiplayer or social features
  • Some players find audio cues hard to hear

What to play next

Top picks

Games that feels the closest overall

  • Five Nights at Freddy's

  • Frosty Nights

  • Five Nights at Freddy's 3

  • Five Nights at Freddy's 2

  • The Deadseat

  • Emily Wants to Play Too

More exploratory

Games that feels like Five Nights at Freddy's 4 but with more exploration of areas and secrets

  • Five Nights at Freddy's: Security Breach

  • Visage

  • Five Nights at Freddy's: Sister Location

  • CASE: Animatronics

  • Shadow Corridor 2 雨ノ四葩

  • CAPTURED 2

Less violent

Games that feels like Five Nights at Freddy's 4 but with less combat and destruction

  • Sophie's Curse

  • Ten Bells

  • Born Into Fear

  • Tattletail

  • Shadow Corridor

  • Who's at the door?

Choose your own criteria ->

From the same developer

From the same developer, ranked by motivational fit.

  • Five Nights at Freddy's

  • Five Nights at Freddy's 2

  • Five Nights at Freddy's: Sister Location

  • Five Nights at Freddy's 3

  • Ultimate Custom Night

Similarity map

How to use the graph

Similarity map

Each dot is a game placed from its motivation profile relative to this page’s game. Direction shows which motivation differs most; distance along that axis shows how large the gap is.

  • Purple star: this page’s game at the centre — everything is relative to it.
  • Direction: each axis is a main motivational difference vs this game (e.g. more / less competitive).
  • Distance on an axis: how large that difference is (ring scales show +/− points).
  • Coloured chips: click to highlight games that mainly differ on that motivation; click again to reset.
  • Dotted line: link between this page’s game and the one selected for comparison.
  • Hover a dot to preview that game in the panel on the right; click to keep that comparison.
  • Scroll or double-click the chart to zoom.

How to read the map This is a polar difference map: direction = which motivation differs, and distance = how much (same units as the sidebar deltas).

Five Nights at Freddy's 4: Less representative of its motivational profile, with noticeable differences. Motivations that often define this kind of title include Expression, Fellowship, Cooperation, Leadership. It leans lower than usual among comparable games on Exploration, Relaxation, Creativity.

Last update: 03/08/2026