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New Five Nights At Freddy's Game Leaked By Its Creator

In a weird twist to end 2023, the latest Five Nights At Freddy’s title was leaked onto Roblox, and it was done by its own creator.

One of the last game reveals we got for 2023 came in the weirdest fashion as a new Five Nights at Freddy's was leaked by its own creator. Scott Cawthon, the solo dev behind ScottGames, has apparently been working on the latest entry in the horror survival series, which had not even been officially announced yet. But out of nowhere, a couple of weeks ago, the new game called Five Nights at Freddy's: Survival Crew randomly showed up on Roblox for players to download. Somehow, the new FNAF game was loaded to the servers for anyone to download. It was quickly pulled, and then a message about the release was posted to Reddit by Cawthon himself, which we have for you here.

What a screwed up day. Bear with me.

Yes, there is an official Roblox game being worked on; I'm actually a big Roblox fan and play it a lot with my kids. But the fact that this was released today is one of the most baffling, insane, things to ever happen in my ten years of working on FNAF. This is a game in its infancy; temp assets; temp gameplay, unfinished everything. The fact that it got dropped today suddenly on the public just blows my mind.

Apparently there was a huge misunderstanding when I approved a skin, and it was interpreted as RELEASE THE GAME. I obviously took the game down immediately. So despite how difficult it might be to overlook this… well, no, I don't think this can be overlooked. It was a huge blunder. I will fix in 2024. Again, I hope everyone can at least believe me when I say that this was a game in its testing phases and was in no way ready to be released to the public. I, myself, have never even played it yet. So again, catastrophic misunderstanding, and I apologize. Will fix.

Regardless of how it got up there, the fact that it showed up has probably got to be one of the biggest accidental promos ever, because now it's got everyone buzzing about the next entry due out sometime in 2024. Keep in mind that whatever version is making the rounds is a very early version and will probably not be the final game we get. We'll see what comes of it as the year progresses.

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