Five Nights at Freddy's 4

Maybe the best FNAF game, but it doesn't seem as talked about as 1/2/3. Seriously the concept behind this one is truly and completely unhinged/demented. Literally playing as a child in a dark room with just a flashlight, a closet at the other end of the room, two doors with hallways on either side, and the bed behind you is devious. I distinctly have so many memories of being a child in my room or just a room at night in the dark, with only a little light source, feeling something watching me, so I would shine my light into a doorway or the closet of the room to make sure that nothing is there. That is what FNAF 4 is. It is a pure extraction of the most primal kind of childhood fear of the dark. It takes your concepts of that kind of fear as a child, and replaces the empty doorways and closets with something that is actually coming to get you. Utterly brilliant. The little foxy plush is maybe one of all humankind's greatest creations. The nightmare animatronics are so, so good. Maybe my favorite designs out of the entire franchise, they're so exaggerated but not to the point of looking comedic or immersion breaking. The gameplay loop here is solid too. It's like FNAF 2's loop but streamlined. A good mixture of listening for audio cues, time management, and priority management. One of the biggest issues with FNAF 2 is that as fun as that game is, it's also really annoying. Like 90% of the game is just managing Foxy, Balloon Boy, and the withered animatronics from the vents. Those annoyances are cut out in FNAF 4, so you're just focusing on managing the smaller set of animatronics, with Freddy behind you being similar to the wind-up mechanics from FNAF 2. The night 5 1V1 battle is great. Really breaks up the flow of gameplay in a good way, because it builds off of the skills that you already built up, while forcing you to apply yourself even harder and in a slightly modulated way. Sucks that this is kind of just the last mainline game that plays like this.