I Finally Played The Most Praised FNAF Fan Game 

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Funny thing about Memory 3 is that when Bonnie destroys a camera, Foxy can't appear in the place where the camera was destroyed, so if he destroys all of your cameras, you completely get rid of Foxy.

It's worth mentioning that chica doesn't actually kill you for the most part on the first few nights, she serves as a fnaf3-esque phantom jumpscare. On top of disorienting the player, she also lowers your sanity. The exception to her not killing you is when you are at the lowest sanity level (red).

Bonnie is so good in this fangame all thanks to his signature punch.

Fun fact - you actually play as Michael in night 4. That’s why you spend the whole night assembling Creation, and why the messages directly address you as “the one they call Michael”

I also gotta say the jumpscares are god tier. Bonnie literally punching your brains out or foxy decapitating you is something I haven’t seen in any other fan game.

One fear i have is sense of security being blown away. Forget regular jumpscares, imagine youre staring at an Endo, knowing its not going to move as long as u look at it. Then it turns around and kill you anyway

Honestly the "don't look back" hallway is what scares me the most in the game. For one, the way the endo moves towards you as fast as a goddamn bullet is horrifying, and makes me jump even when I know it's going to happen. And secondly, the simple instructions of "don't stop, don't look back" tends to trigger our curiosity. Pretty much every let's player who played the game turned around pretty much instantly. Some players just wanted to see what would happen (even though it's obvious), but some also doubted these instructions. Despite the game never once being wrong or lying to you, for some reason a lot of us tend to think "yea right" when we're given instructions as straightfoward as that. So basically, I think it's the scariest part because it sorta plays with your brain a bit, and challenges not only curiosity, but also how we trust the instructions given to us in certain contexts

Back in 2016, when I was still in high school, I used to go to this game club, and while there, I saw a few of the older students play the story mode of this game. Shit was feeling mad tense, and I wasn't even playing the game.

Should mention that the creator of this fangame went on to help developed "Dark Deception". He's working on one last fan game before permanently shifting focus on Dark Deception and future content. Up to you if you want to cover his other works even if its not a Fnaf fan game (because that game does have animatronics)

For me, memory 4 and 5 are one of the most terrifying things I've ever seen. I could say they are a nightmare fuel, but to my shock, I've never had any nightmares about them. But they stuck with me nonetheless.

Ah yes the game security breach took the endo section from. And yes before you say it, I know that weeping angels have far outdated both of those games. However, the fact that they are both endos is either an insane coincidence or direct inspiration

Everyone always seems to get Michael's relation to the family confused. He's just some random guy who showed up at their door. It literally says so in the first cutscene. IIRC he's not Michael Afton either, that was just a fan theory. Also not mentioning Toilet Bonnie straight up decking you in his jumpscare smh

Just one correction; Michael isn't a member of the family. He was a stranger that stumbled onto the Cawthon property and was allowed asylum in their home. He brought the Molten Characters with him.

Just wanna say, TJOC's memory three used to be the hardest in the game. It had to get patched to help because of it's difficulty because of a lot of reasons. Some major ones are that Foxy would be able to be in a room that has a broken camera and he could appear in 3 rooms at once.

Now here is the funny thing about the story. Your explanation of it is how it is presented on the surface level. The final story (while not adding too much else) what you didn't grasp and the details of the story the game doesn't make entirely clear that were actually revealed by Nikson himself make the story really unique to me! Basically, it takes place in the "real world," and Scott (not Cawthon) is a game developer who created horror indie franchise Five Nights at Freddy's. On one fateful night, Scott and his family are attacked by demonic presences taking the shape and form of Freddy and the gang, as well as Michael Afton. What I'm getting at is that Nikson explained that the Ignited Animatronics are demonic entities called "doppelgangers." Demons that feed on suffering fear, taking the physical forms of those fears or scary things (aka the characters from Five Nights at Freddys in this game) and killing whoever they seek to "replace." Michael is not REALLY Michael Afton, and the ignited are NOT REALLY Freddy and crew, Michael is a "doppelganger" who wants to live a normal human live and seeks to replace Scott and use his physical body as a host. The "Ignited" are doppelgangers who simply wish to spread fear and suffering, and they take the forms of the Freddy's characters after seeing the fear it put into the fans of the franchise. This is why Nick goes into a monologue about the "influence of FNAF on the world" before the office level. Essentially the basement level is canonically THE FIRST PIECE OF THE STORY. The basement (true to form) is actually taking place in hell or the "underworld" and has the doppelganger demons who eventually become the ignited, making a deal with the demon who will eventually take the form of Michael to basically kill Scotts family and allow him to attack and replace Scott, if he allows them passage to the world above. The world of the living. Hence why the basement is structured like a set of escape rooms and why the endos (referred to as "The Fallen") are trying to kill you. They are other demonic presences, trying to stop this deal from going through and "Michael" and the ignited from escaping to the world above. (Btw, little side note, the whole doppelganger demon's thing also explains why the version of Freddy and the gang in this game are referred to as "The Ignited" due to burns afflicted upon them when trying to breach the barrens of the underworld and safely pass into the real world with Michael. Which is also why he quote "looks like he came out of a bonfire" to Scott's wife in one cutscene and in the opening. He literally came from hell.) Anyway, the newspapers talking about "evil twins" and other house fires and arson attacks in the area near Scott's home, little bits of dialogue, as well as the entirety of the basement level and what the "eyes" on the tv screens are saying to Michael isn't just meta non-sense. It turns out this FNAF game is about demons who take the form of characters from the franchise in order to enact a violent attack on Scott's (remember NOT Scott Cawthon) family home, only to separate a family, burn down a home, and leave Scott alone with Michael so that the demon can replace him and take on his familial lifestyle. All through the perspective of Nick, Scott's Eldest Son, trying to recall the events years after the traumatizing attack. All of this info was revealed by Nikson and Phisnom during the 1 Year Anniversary Q&A Video for the game a few years ago. And to me, it actually makes the game really cool. On the surface, it's a silly meta narrative that uses FNAF and its character as a place name for a silly story that isn't all the serious. But it turns out, we just didn't get the full picture (because the game unfortunately doesn't really show or explain any of this, its left vague and was misread when the game first came out.) and when Nikson finally revealed the true story, I went back and played the game again, to find out, this was the story from the beginning, we just (due to a lot of circumstances at the time of release) thought very little of the story and wrote it off as "Scott is who we play as in this game?! WOAH POGGERS COOL META STUFF" when its surprisingly a lot darker and more unique for a FNAF Fan Game, as the gameplay and everything else about this game already is. So, at least to me, even the story of this game is not something to write off or disregard. It's just unique as everything else this game has to offer as a FNAF Fan Game! Thank you for coming to my TED-Talk. 💙

"a few times throughout the night, chica will appear inside of this wall" *SHE'S IN THE GODDAMN WALLS!!!!!!*

It’s got it’s problems, for sure, but you can’t say that it isn’t one of the pillars of the Fnaf Fan Game community and influential enough to have some of its mechanics added into security breach , an official Fnaf game.

Some things to note that you may not have known that I would either like to highlight and/or to clarify: •Each night has a mini cutscene that occurs if you fail or die in a certain way with each one ending with flashes of Golden Freddy with the text “Come Back” except for Night 5 doing “…” •Night 4 of the long hallway actually has it where an Endo will at fast speeds chase you down the hallway to where if you even stop for a moment then you may not even make it to the door in time as you just hear the endo getting closer and closer. You however did not encounter this cause you didn’t stop or turn around at all but yeah it may be pretty easy but it’s still pretty easy to mess up as well •Night 3 has an objective of making it to 6 AM *BUT* you MUST flash Freddy a certain amount of times before the end of the night or else instead of getting the victory you will instead be treated to a power out scenario like in FNaF1, complete with a Freddy playing The Toreador March in the dark •Golden Freddy can actually kill you in Night 5 where a giant floating head (FNaF2 style) can at times be seen behind you in the hall and if you look at it for about 3-5 seconds then you’ll instantly die to Golden Freddy •Most if not every night has a secret Golden Freddy appearance somewhere with most nights having it where he can only be found in a certain location while the phone call is on and successfully finding Golden Freddy will spawn somewhere in the room a piece of paper for the story •In Night 5, the Golden Freddy plushie will actually glitch out the more you flash Golden Freddy on the cameras, almost like a little indicator of your progress on defeating them and making it through the night •Most, if not all, of the nights have a unique visual that occurs usually when approaching near the end of the night where the environment will look more corrupt such as in Night 2 making the room darker and red while having the designs on the pictures change into an image of the ignited animatronics’ eyes glowing in the dark •Bit of a nice reference/Easter egg but the area during the cutscene where Freddy attacks and chases Scott throughout the house is based on the original layout and design of the Freddy level in the Joy of Creation: Reborn free roam alpha build of the game. •And lastly: the Ignited animatronics (and Michael I think as well) are all not the characters that they look like they’re based on but instead are some darker force taking the form and looks of Scott’s creations. It’s something that Scott even says in one of the cutscenes “You are not them- you are just using their faces!” when he was questioning how are they real and who are they and what do they want It’s nice that people are still talking about this game and how it still holds up to this day, really goes to show how even with its flaws it still has a strong stand even when compared to FNaF fan games nowadays

Why haven’t you checked out "Tyke & Sons: Lumber Co."? It’s a really cool FNAF game, with interesting daytime and nighttime segments to keep you quaking in your boots.

Crazy that this is the best 3D fnaf ever made, even funnier that the visuals are so much better than security breach and the game runs way easier

Correction: In Memory 1, Chica doesn't necessarily kill you but instead shocks you which lowers your sanity , anyways, great video

Something interesting to me, the way Bonnie works in UCN and how the Endoskeletons work in SB have a striking similarity to how they work in TJOC. Bonnie in UCN will scramble the cameras if you look at them too much, even if it’s for less time and the endoskeletons in SB are literally just doing the same Weeping Angel gimmick that TJOC does with them. Not saying it was intentionally copied, but it is interesting.

I love how TJOC predicted modern fnaf lore, because the first 4 games in the franchise could just be meta games, which is why Help Wanted actively mentions Scott as a real part of the lore.

Always loved how on night 5 the raging fire is the countdown clock. That's such a well executed story beat and gameplay mechanic

the endo jumpscare literally made me jump- anyway an awesome video, keep up the great work you're literally one of my favorite fnaf-tubers

I'm not sure, I could be remembering wrong, but I remember hearing that the reason Night 3 is so much easier and more chill than the other nights in this game is because it was actually nerfed in an update and used to be really hard. Again, I don't know if this is true or not but I think I've heard that before.

i absolutely love how fnaf security breach took massive inspiration from TJoC's endo, and how they function. It really goes to show how much scott and his team were involved in their community.

night 4 is genuinely the most terrifying and tense gameplay i’ve ever gone through. at a point i started crying while i was playing, then i didn’t touch the game for a while haha

One funny thing i noticed about memory 3 is that the flashlight is kinda hard to see at times when used to flash freddy so with the effect on freddys face it makes it look like scott straight up punched freddy in the upper jaw

The jumpscares are so loud that after half an hour of those you don't fear them anymore. They just hurt your ears.

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you didn't have to close the curtain when his arm was there, just when he was staring through the window. anyway amazing video, really glad u covered this game as it has a special place in my heart

I'm assuming that you didn't experience the 6AM loss mechanic for The Office memory since you didn't mention it at all. Basically if you didn't "find" (flash) Freddy enough times before you reach 6AM you will be thrown back through a loop where you'd have to try again.

I didn't get that during Memory 3 Freddy is recoiling because of the Flashlight, so I thought Scott was just hitting him over the head with a crowbar 💀

I've played so many fan games and I must say, this is my favorite. The story of this game, the animatronics, the levels (rooms) it's just amazing

Surfshark can get rid of ads? Now I can trust that! 3:00 Freddy will never attack you when his hand is on the window,BUT once his face is at the window should be shut immediately. 6:18 As I can see, this is sleep paralysis or shadow freddy. 6:52 helpful tip: Foxy is a little faster than Freddy.(meaning foxy should be stopped first.) 10:23 Good news:after breaking a camera, Foxy will never appear in that specific room. Bad news: after breaking all 3 cameras foxy will not appear at all but bonnie will jumpscare you randomly and that's a game over.(This is really rare.)

6:18 I think that upside down Freddy is there because of the sanity getting so low

I forgot this existed. The ambience Is actually nuts

I’m pretty sure the animatronics are like, otherworldly creatures taking the form of the animatronics, like, taking the form of popular imaginary things is how they survive, and Mike is like their herald

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It's so crazy to me the different experiences people can have with this game. So many people had a hard time on level 2 and an easy time on level 3. I completed level 2 in a couple tries, level three took me hours cause I couldn't get enough freddies. I love it though cause luck being involved in victory can make them even more suspensful.

14:30 while this hallway is the easiest part of the game, if you turn back it quickly becomes the most terrifying one in my opinion. if you do so, Foxy's endo (which is, in my opinion, the scariest) will spawn after like 3 seconds and just come running at extremely fast speeds towards you, which triggers a pretty terrifying jumpscare and sound.

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2:52 BRUH Michael isn't Nick's brother, he's the STRANGER WHO BROKE INTO THEIR HOUSE

I never thought that I'd ever watch Forager explaining fnaf fangames, but here I am

Attic has always been my favorite as well, but i would lie if i said that Basement isn't coolest memory and Living Room the hardest, regardless it's each level is unique and refreshing, not to mention actually scary and most of all, actually balanced while still being really challenging, it's just a matter of skill for this game, unfortunately there's some flaws like in any game, the explanations ain't always the best and the story, while being pretty dark and unique, can be upgraded, overall the controls feel pretty snappy and the graphics still hold up to this day, with an optimization that speaks for itself, it's honestly my favorite FNAF Fan Game and i'm really happy that RU-vid actually considered TJOC as an actual game and not FNAF all over again, really looking forward for Ignited Collection as Nickson has revealed some really cool ideas for it.

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congrats on the 100k! Love the video

13:32 he didn't jump out of the locker (you have to check it for that) he was next to the furnace, you just went too close to him.

Love the quality of your videos lad, you are living the life I always wanted when I was younger so live it to the best, you are entertaining, informational and just generally awesome, keep going as you are a breath of fresh air to the site

In memory 3, if you run out of time, the front doors open and Freddy starts playing March of Toreadors.

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It might make a bit more sense if I clarify that the Michael Schmidt and the ignited animatronics are quite literally demons that stole the faces of Scott's creations. It's actually pretty similar to the concept of the Mandela Catalogue.

ahh, i remember watching markiplier play the demo and there was this one part where i think it was freddy (?) was running at him and you could hear the sound of him and everything but you couldn’t see him and then he jump scared him. that part messed me up good for a couple of months (and i was like what 12 or 13?) i kept checking around me irl and closing doors that didn’t need to be closed. it was only recently that i was able to finally be brave and 😊sit down and watch a playthrough of this game. safe to say, this is definitely the scariest fnaf game imo, none of the actual fnaf games scared me THAT bad, not even fnaf 4 or sister location (sl because i find ennard to be the most terrifying animatronic yikes)

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Honestly, congrats on reaching 100 K Subs. You deserve that now. You‘re a cool RU-vidr overall and I would like to see more. Anyways, just wait for the joy of creation remastered, were Nikson remasters every signle game of the TJOC series. Yeah

I'm sad you didn't mention the Creation junpscare. It is genuinely the coolest junpscare in the game in my opinion.

CONGRATS ON THE 100,000 SUBS DUDE! Thank you so much for your awesome videos and for being true to the fnaf series as a whole

Yo! Congrats on 100k! You earned it man!

Yo good luck with 100k bro!!

One of the most terrifying things on TJOC is turning around in the hallway, hearing the impending doom that is approaching.

You forgot another endo in floor 5 that introduces bonnie version. If i remember correctly if you dont exactly put the items in the incenarator correctly and approach the bathroom, the room will flash red and you see sublime texts until the endo runs up to you and kills you.

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Congrats on 100k subs!

My man went from 99.2k to 99.8k in 2 hours Great job Plain!

Cool video man!! Glad you finally played the game!!

I’d like to correct something: on night 1, the lamp actually keep you from getting insane. For Foxy, you need to turn off the lamp and sleep

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i remember beating this game years ago, watched a guide tho. but i was really happy that i beated it by myself and not my brothers helping, i still remember the moment when i finally finished the final memory without cheating! (ive always been making my fnaf game all unlocked through editing the notepad shit and not playing it)

If it wasn’t for everything the fans do out of love for this series, fnaf probably would’ve been totally finished by 2018 or 2019 but things like this along with the vhs tapes and the interviews (and countless other fan projects) are what kept my love for fnaf. That is what fnaf should be. Not security breach although I still think it’s okay that it was made

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Congrats on 100k PlainTrace! 👏🎉

Good job reaching the 100k subscriber mark!🎉 It was a fun experience to see your channel get bigger and better since the first video.

12:17 Just to clarify, in Memory 4 you are actually play as Micheal instead of Scott, take place before the first three nights. Micheal has to do the missions in order to free the Ignited animatronic to the real world

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HES DONE IT!!! 100k! Well Done My GUY! man subbed since like 5k i wanna say! you've come so far! keep it up!

22:10 if I remember correctly The guy who made this game is also unsatisfied with the story so he is making "The Joy of Creation Collection"

The only thing about this game that isn’t top tier is the va and even then it’s not half bad, can’t wait for the remaster to come out on console and pc

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I know I’m late with this video but I just have to say. Night 4 has some of the scariest jump scares in fnaf history! Super loud and super fast paced.

This game mixed the aspect of good gameplay with stunning graphics which is very rare for fnaf fan games as most of them are only concepts published and not really a full game. Keep growing PlainTrace, and congrats on 100K subs :D

I love these game reviews! Also, fun fact, the Living Room part of the game was used as a demo for the game. The demo of the Joy of Creation was essentially in the Living Room, except you could not get up and walk around. It was classic FNAF style. Sit and look around. I don't think it was exactly the same. There was no real story yet, some mechanics may have been changed, not sure. The only way to see this version I think is through old gameplay videos from Markiplier or something. I don't believe it is still downloadable, but I may be wrong

PlainTrace I don’t know if you read comments but, Roblox has some pretty nifty FNAF fan games. Forgotten memories being 1, and Submarine simulator being the other while submarine simulators story and plot is different it’s inspired by fnaf. You should take a look at Forgotten memories, bring some friends because the gameplay mechanics are very different but amazingly well crafted in my eyes, it also follows it’s own FNAF timeline.

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Congrats for 100k subs bro! Hope you can do more videos on interesting FNAF games like TJoC

I believe we play as Michael in the fourth level Also he's not Nick's brother

I'm gonna be honest I'm a bit harsher on the story of this game cause I think having it be about Scott and his family being tormented by the animatronics just feels...disrespectful? Idk it just gives me an ick.

lol yea for the bedroom and living room parts of the game Chica doesn't kill you when get jumpscared by her, her jumpscaring is more of a distraction to let the others jumpscare you

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I really wanted to play this but the first night is really hard, and more importantly, REALLY SCARY so I just can't do it

I love how this channel has been getting even better!

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TJoC is an interesting one. I can't say I don't like it - the game is great, as a game. The story.. meh, it wasn't needed and it's weird and convoluted (which does fit the series, admittedly), but it works. I have to say, though, that the Ignited aren't my favorite designs. The concepts are there, sure - these burned, extra-withered animatronics sort of in lieu of the Phantoms, but taken in a different direction - but I don't think they pull it off too well, because the missing casing pieces just look far too deliberate. There's no torn remains at the edges, or additional damage to the pieces around where they're missing, it's just whole pieces neatly removed. Freddy, for example, could've had a massive gash going up the left of his head, to tie it into his missing ear, and also give him more character separate to Withered Freddy, but instead he just has the ear missing and little else. Or Bonnie's chest piece, which easily could've had the bottom and perhaps top still there, with a giant chunk in the middle forcibly torn out or just burned through. The good thing about TJoC's designs, though, is that the Ignited aren't the only ones in play. You also have the Fallen - and, as endos, where the weak points are just the joints since those aren't solid metal that would have to break, their designs make more sense when simply losing pieces modularly. The Fallen are amazing designs, some of my favorite I've ever seen - I love the concept of the characters still going after burning, losing their entire casings and only identifiable by select few details. Creation is very unique as well, with the tripod shape and the sort of Mangle-but-intentional style of limbs - he's quite cool to look at. Ignited Goldie is still kind of a 'meh' design for me. Although, that said, I don't have a clue _where_ Angel, the endo Freddy becomes, gets his hands back from since they're missing from Ignited Freddy and Creation ends up with an extra anyways (though I don't think all the Ignited combined even _with_ Goldie would have enough to really make Creation anyways; he doesn't gain his endo parts from their bodies but seemingly from their essences because demons or whatever). That said, the nights, or memories rather, definitely are incredibly long for a FNaF game. That's not just to make them harder though - that's because each one is basically several nights. Think back to FNaF 1 - while the animatronics did increase in AI level as the night progresses, that doesn't mean they massively increased - they would go up, at most, 2 or 3 levels. And new threats wouldn't really be added - Foxy in the first night technically activates, but it's so late he doesn't really get the chance to make his run. However, as you go, the nights progressively get harder - Bonnie, then Chica activating on the first, then Foxy coming in on the second, and Freddy after that, with everyone ramping up during and after that point. TJoC can't do that, because every 'night' has a different gameplay loop to it, so it has to have longer nights where everyone comes in throughout and ramps up in difficulty throughout the singular night. And during a shorter one, like 5 or 6 minutes, they would do so incredibly quickly. So, ten minute nights. Except Basement, of course, where things are a little different - but I would honestly say Basement is almost comparable to SL in spirit, being a bunch of minigames and scripted encounters while you do this and that until you've accomplished the level's goals - just with more encounters and longer minigames, rather than SL's short minigames and lengthy encounters. Also, you mentioned not knowing all of Floor 3 of the Basement. If you look back after the message, an endo with no arms and only one eye will rush you from the end of the hallway, easily catching up to you. The endo in question is Red, who is the remains of Foxy and one of the two which charges you from the doors during Attic - the other being Blue, Bonnie's remains, who appears on whatever Floor the one you have to collect stuff in is called, should you stay too long after being told that It Is Not Safe and you must Turn Back (these mean there are indeed four, not three, endos in Attic. All are visible side-by-side if you die during the furnace floor, watching you burn within it). Angel and Mouth - Freddy and Chica respectively, being the 'eyeless Fallen' (who moves unwatched) and the 'sleeping Fallen' (who attacks anything nearby but does not move), are the two on the cameras there. My favorite fangame will I think forever be Fazbear Entertainment: Storage, which is a great expansion on how FNaF 2 could've been based on FNaF 1's gameplay. Every game has its problems, and it is no different, but it is fun and satisfying - and the visuals there are great, too.

i would say memory 2 was the hardest you have to be pitch perfect for 10 minutes straight

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12:50 bro u were explaining i wasn't expecting that shit 😭

Almost at 100k! 🎉

TJOC has got to be one of my favorite fnaf fangames. I love the aesthetic it has and the unique gameplay of each level. And congrats on 100k PlainTrace! :]🎉