Five Nights at Freddy's: Help Wanted is a survival horror game in the Five Nights at Freddy's series. It was released for the Nintendo Switch in May 2020.
In recent years, the corporative entity Fazbear Entertainment came under fire for several incidents and disasters that allegedly occurred at their various locations (the events of the previous games), which have been established as urban legends. This problem is aggravated by a horror video game series based on the legends, created by an unnamed indie developer. In an attempt to overturn the bad reputation these rumors gave the company, Fazbear Entertainment commissioned the "Freddy Fazbear Virtual Experience", a virtual reality game meant to make light of the rumors and convince players those events were completely fictitious. However, this narrative is contradicted by sixteen cassette tapes hidden throughout the game, which contain logs recorded by one of the game's developers.
Meant as a warning for future players, the tapes expose a lawsuit happening during the game's development, involving an incident with a past employee, which threatened the game's completion. In addition, the tapes reveal that Fazbear Entertainment hired the indie developer to create the video game series based on the alleged legends, before cutting ties with him; the games were part of an elaborate ploy to discredit the rumors surrounding the company.[3] Most importantly, the tapes warn of a malicious code that was uploaded to the game from an old animatronic's circuit board. This code takes the form on an aberrant character known as Glitchtrap, who reveals himself as a digital reincarnation of William Afton, who attempts to escape from the game by possessing the player's avatar. It is implied that the circuit board containing the code was acquired from the remains of Springtrap, who was possessed by Afton's soul.
