This game perfectly captures the pure, almost primal fear of being in your bed and having to worry about staring at the cold, empty abyss of darkness outside your room as a child.
Gimme a sec just gotta… turn on my camera flash… and… Okay, no demons I could see in the closet. Also, pro tip if you have to go around your house at night in the dark: Swear at the demons. No, really. Tell them you don’t want to deal with their BS tonight. The psychological impact is remarkable.
@bit6Fnaf takes place in Utah I think, and this house on a ranch in the middle of nowhere… I think the fact that the dog is barking at such a late hour makes it even scarier
Me: I have a brother. The hallways: *never be alone plays, slowly getting louder and louder in the beat with footsteps* Brother:*at someone elses house for a while* Me: 😱 Its true (im being cringe) I'LL NEVER BE ALONE😭 the demon under my bed that eats my underwear and socks: *on vacation eating little children at the butcher shop* Me: what is getting closer to my room then?*grabs a projector and turns on without projections inside* The music: nah nah NANANANA nEvAh Be AlOnE aGaYiN Me: *opens my bedroom door slowly and steadily* ... ???: i҉t҉s҉ a҈l҈l҈ g҈o҉i҉ g҉ t̶o̶ b̶e̶ ዐጕልሃ D⃠O⃠N⃠T⃠ L҈I҈S҈T҈E҈N҈ T҉O҉ t̸H̸E̸M̸ Me: ToO wHo??*turns around* Brother:*in his bed* Demon: *munching on socks* Me: *turns back o the door and nothing is there* .... Objective-go back to bed Me: nah am i in some story? *Walks and gets in bed* Ending -Survivor- You went back to bed and survived the night. See yiu tomorrow for another scare! *-next night-* Objective-survive the night Me: just stay in bed, I'll be fine. Clock: 2AM Ending -Yum- You didn't survive. You fell asleep early and the monsters found you. What a munch! Me: oh crap im in hell Hell: your not supposed to be here Me: *back in the bed* Ok keep getting in and out of bed! Clock: 6 AM Ending: what are you doing? Don't you want an ending? You could've got one 1 hour ago! Me: wait what? Ending: you got the forever ending, you died from exhaustion. Me: wait this is a videogame please restart the night! Ending: fine, a one off. (Restarts) Time to do this... TO BE CONTINUED
As a teen when FNaF came out, it's uncanny just how similar FNaF 4 was to my experience at failing to sleep as a kid. I genuinely couldn't sleep because of all the scary things my brain would latch onto and activate when I was in bed, it was almost like I was fighting for my life. I wasn't expecting this kind of response to a comment like this. 💀 For anyone reading this who has suffered or still suffers from this, I'd suggest getting checked for something like OCD or autism. Turns out your brain has a higher tendency to latch onto potentially threatening things when you've got some kind of hyper fixation disorder, so it's not any fault of your own.
I thought I was the only one, I was always afraid of something at night. I remember Jeff the Killer and FNAF being a couple of them, and also I got freaked out when my friends said Slenderman could appear wherever he wants whenever he wants so that kept me up at night too
@@macietyler8677 Ironically, what I'm talking about was long before I knew what creepypastas were or when FNaF was even a thing. Even with full visibility thanks to a night light I was still piss scared, since being in bed just made me feel all kinds of vulnerable to whatever might be hiding behind every crack, door or corner. Overactive imaginations suck.
For some reason my grampa has installed a bell in my house which plays the same sound as the one in this ambience, I keep hearing it in the middle of night
@@hmmm4844 You are playing fnaf 4: calm You get jumpscared: panik You turn off your pc: calm You still hear the ambience: panik You hear something breathing on the other side of your door: panik
When i was younger me and my older brother would play fnaf 4 in our house. Dead serious. We made masks. I did nightmare bonnie bc i thought he was cool, Michael did foxy. It was fnaf4 kinda. We put a camera in the bathroom (just bc we dont have the two door thing and it would be too op for the monster) Anyways it was so much fun. We would turn off the lights. One would run around trying to get in, once in you had to wrestle the other person. In a nice way. When I was it id beat my bro up but nicely. Anyways this music would play in the background man it was so much fun Just two kids and a horror game Also im a girl guys Edit: sadly now michael is graduated so I have no one to play with, before he leaves tmw I want to play one more round. To finally beat him 🤍. Edit 2: i beat him ✌️😜
I hated this game with a passion cause I was so scared of the series as a preteen. FNAF 1,2 and 3. (3 not so much) But my only way of coping with my nightmares on it was that they were at a restaurant. “Why would they be at my house?” It’s like Scott heard my monologue and said that would be a great idea. Doesn’t make it any better that my room is nearly identical to the FNAF 4 room setup.
I remember that in my teenager life, i was thinking about the happy to be a fan of the series (Actually im not, i don't care about fnaf since 6 years ago) Now i have 21 yr old, i can respect that, making 4 games in less than 1 year is impressive.
Still takes me back a bit whenever I read comments on the older Fnaf games. Comments from people who fondly remember playing the games or pretending with fnaf in their homes when they were younger. Fnaf really is a surprising phenomena huh?
Yeah, I’ve been thinking about it lately it really was such a big deal, everyone at school was talking about it and passing around BS rumors about secret endings and theorizing. I really do think it’s an important cultural moment that changed the way we view consume and interact with media. It showed our generation that a video game could be more than a set of rules to compete by, they can have complex worlds and narratives, they can be an experience. I think analogue horror is something we can directly attribute to fnaf
Heres my fnaf 4 IRL story: So I was 10 years old in the doctor's office (this was around late July 2019) and I was just starting to enter my fnaf obsession. I was scrolling on google trying to learn more about fnaf characters (I didn't know much at this time. I didn't even know ANYTHING about purple guy whatsoever. I didn't know nightmare chica existed. And I would always get phantom BB mistaken for nightmare BB.) So when I searched up springtrap I saw an image of his face. His face UNDERNEATH the mask. I just froze up. Kinda confused at first. And then once I really understood what I just saw, my feelings of shock and confusion turned into disgust and fear. I showed my older brother, and he wasn't phased by it at all. Later that day when I went home, for some stupid reason I kept searching it up. I was curious, but kinda intrigued. Y'know that feeling when you're scared but can't look away? So yeah, I spent like the rest of the day looking at that. That night. My brother started watching a video about William Aftons death. I didn't actually see anything, but I heard the audio. It made my face go cold. When I asked him to turn it off, he didn't listen. So then I didn't sleep for the next two nights. I didn't think I was gonna get attacked. The issue was. When my eyes were open, I started to hallucinate fnaf characters (Springtrap, Nightmare, Nightmare Bonnie, And Marionette) but when my eyes were closed I kept seeing William Afton's face. When ever I fell asleep, my body's reflexes woke me back up due to the fear. I wasn't afraid to sleep. I WANTED to sleep. But I couldn't bring myself to close my eyes! Two days later I was fine tho. Today I look back at this and laugh. (I'm 14 now)
The other 4th graders in my class at the time relayed the lore of the 💀 kids stuffed inside animatronics, me too scared to ever touch a fnaf game, I was still plagued with nightmares of freaky animatronics hunting me in my small bedroom. I feel you man, that dark curiosity 😅 fun story!
This is the creepiest ambient in a FNaF game. You wouldn't wanna hear this when the lights are out, and you're alone in your room, while your parents are next door.
All jokes aside fnaf 4s gameplay is absolutely ingenious. This game legitimately feels like the nightmares I would have as a child. That sense of familiarity combined with the feeling of never being safe all make this game feel like a true nightmare which is absolutely perfect!
FNAF4 was always the scariest for me, not just because of the atmosphere, sound, animatronic designs, gameplay loop, etc. but also because of how similar the game’s setting was to my childhood home. The title screen shows that it’s a rural (probably Midwestern) house surrounded by countryside and isolated. I had already been living in a new house in the suburbs years before the FNAF games came out, but this game took me back to the eeriness of living in a country house with a long driveway.
Dude i remember fnaf 4 made me afraid to use flashlights when i was little. I felt WAY more comfortable in the dark than using a flashlight in the dark.
I believe FNaF 4 was easily the scariest of all the games. It not only tapped into that familiar fear of the dark corners of our childhood rooms, but it had this persisting, chilling effect of constantly feeling that your back was exposed. Also, the fact you had to listen for the monsters in the darkness kept the tension high, even when you had mastered the mechanics. This was something not shared with the previous games as with those, a lot of the fear seeped away as you got used to the controls. With the constant running around and shadows in the corners thanks to the limited view of the flashlight, this game kept the fear in its players despite the constant jump scares they were facing by plummeting them back into the suffocating atmosphere the moment they hit play again.
I remember when i was a kid, it was a common thing that the electricity went off in my house, i used to sleep with my door open so i always had to stare to the dark of my hall because it was just outside of my room, just watching to the entire hall, with the sound of the silence, everyone in my house sleeping, only me and my imagination making sure i couldn't sleep for at least 2 hours, just watching, and hoping that nothing or anyone would peek out of a corner or pass running from there... It was almost traumatizing.
I think FNAF 4 and quite possibly the best ambiance in the entire series, the dog barking the clock going off, the creaky floors, the sounds of the monsters moving around outside. Horrifying! Also excuse me? Did I hear him muttering human girls and pussy before he woke up!? 😂
I remember one time I got a little bluetooth speaker and put a 1 hour mix of the FNaF4 ambience on infinite loop, then went to sleep The fact that I don't remember the dreams I had that night, but do remember how I felt when I woke up (actually freaked out), kinda scares me lmfao. (though it doesn't help that my room is literally a former shed that got converted into a bedroom, so I'm basically sleeping in a small cabin in Florida wilderness, with the FNaF4 ambience playing all around me)
Also did the same with FNaF2's office ambience (aka the best of the entire franchise, nothing gets close to the creepy fridge and occasional ethereal whistle). Those dreams were just weird tho. I don't even think they were themed around anything...
Damn, y'all simulated this as kids? I was in Middle School when it came out, and the first 2 games TRAUMATIZED me, but once the 3rd rolled around I was no longer scared of fnaf. Felt like it jumped the shark, and ever since I've been waiting for a fnaf game to make me feel the same way as before.
Man I had this realization recently, I didn't really think much about the fact that so many people were in high school or middle school when the mid games came out. I was just out of high school when the first fnaf came out and I agree with the fact that it jumped the shark. The early games had a more vague ambiguous feeling that I loved. I think it's all because of sister location, where the story turned to having the animatronics be fairly sapient instead of just machines that are haunted.
Fnaf 4 still scares the crap out of me, the ambiance is so quiet to the point you have to turn the volume up all fhe way to actually hear them, and then whenever you get jumpscared your soul basically escapes your body! 😂
Back when I had just heard of fnaf the games terrified me. After some time, I got used to them and thought "eh, it's not like they're attacking kids and are right inside your house". Boy was I wrong
Fnaf 4 had teenage me sleeping with the lights on. You gotta respect the crying child for persisting through this bc most of us probably would have died as we hid under our blankets trying to wish the horrors away
the little bells that start playing at 0:19 are actually from a song called Don’t Blow It by Cliff Martinez from the Solaris soundtrack. Scott used them in the ambience
The grandfather clock is what gets me because when I’d sleep at my grandparents’ houses I’d end up sleeping near those loud clocks cause there were no extra rooms. XD
I see alot of ppl talking about their experiances with FNAF 4 and games they played. - Before FNAF 2 I was literally doing that watching my grandma with dementia - In the day, she'd be ok, and she'd sleep early but tend to roam around at 12-6 like FNAF - I would sit in a living room chair watching the only exit no lights and play a gameboy sp - like the cameras - The " music box" was her cats, they would be needy pricks and make alot of noise which would cause her to wake up if they didn't have fresh food- always - She wouldn't recognize me at night, so she'd freak out yell ect - I found if I was approached I could pull the blanket over my head and she'd leave. kinda like the freddy mask. despite being 83 years old she could move around very quiet so I would often get jump scared like FNAF2 she would roam around in the hall and despite being there it was like an expressway before she actually if she ever did come up to me. and it was random thankgod there was no " FOXY" now getting jump scared wasn't a gameover in this experiance but it was stressful. you have no idea how spooky it is for an old woman to start mumbling and roaming around at night.
I remember every few days, my nieces would come over to my house. And once it turned night we'd play FNaF 4 at my house, and I'd always be Foxy. We turn off all the lights, and only use a flashlight we bought from Walmart to use. Then, we made our own game similar to FNaF 4, but it was outside at night.. And it was NIGHTMARE FUEL. Especially since there was a murder at my neighborhood only a few years ago. Sadly, my nieces don't come over as much, and we kind of just live our own lives now.
Wow, this video really captured the eerie and nostalgic atmosphere of FNAF 4! The ambience takes me right back to those nights of creeping around, trying to survive against those terrifying animatronics. The way the sounds are layered creates such a chilling vibe, and it's amazing how a game's ambience can stick with you even after all this time. The FNAF series has always been a master of creating suspense, and this video perfectly highlights that unique feeling. Thanks for sharing this, it's like a trip down memory lane that still sends shivers down my spine!
I have to be honest, no fnaf game ever really scared me like the 4th one. I mean... Obviously jumpscares are going to make you jump, but fnaf 4 was scary even without the jumpscares.
I must be insane, I always laughed at that bot where they were flashed and slunk back down into the hall like they were avoiding a bath. It was always hilarious to me. The only thing in fnaf that every truly scared me was Springtrap, because I was smart enough to know that there was a human corpse in there and it was still ALIVE...
And then the recent lore drop with the last story of tales which detail with great detail what fnaf 4 actually was which was a automated fear gas chamber experiment that william put many people through as the last story dittophobia tells the story of rory the last child William expiermented on he even has levels of fear down to a science
