I'm curious what the timeline is for the events so far for all the games of Five Nights at Freddy's.
From playing FNaF 3 I'm not sure if I'm wrong but it seems to take place shortly after the events after FNaF2, which happens after FNaF1, but some people have been telling me it's the other way around, in that FNaF 3 comes first, then 1 & 2.
How do 4 and the two un-numbered sequels factor into this?
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Using this video and this video from the Game Theorists Youtube channel, the timeline goes as follows. (If you want to watch the video yourself he starts some explaining around 4:00 and starts the timeline at 6:50.)
First FNAF 1. William Afton uses a springtrap suit and lures 5 kids into an employee only section, killing them and giving us, Chica AKA Susie, Golden Freddy AKA Cassidy, Freddy AKA Gabriel, Foxy AKA Fritz, and Bonnie AKA Jeremy. He hides their bodies in animitronic suits. This resturant closes because people get scared of the missing children and stop coming.
Then Sister Location. (Not the underground one we know, I'll get to that later) This is open for just a single day due to Circus Baby luring in William Afton's daughter, Elizibith Afton and killing her. After she dies her spirit takes over Circus Baby.
Then FNAF 4. This is also where the Bite of 83' takes place, killing William Afton's son, Micheal Afton. William Afton puts his son back together creating Purple Guy. It should be noted that William is still using the springtrap suit to kill children.
While this is going on Micheal Afton takes a job at FNAF Sister Location, where in the end Micheal get's scooped but lives giving even more reason to believe that he is a robot.
Then we go to FNAF 2 where William Afton kills Herry's daughter who goes on to become the Puppet (Henry helped William design and build the animironics) The Puppet gives life to all of the other Lost Souls putting them in suits just like all of the others. William Afton is suspected of killing the missing children and he is not allowed back. He continues to sneak back in disguised as a security guard until the restaurant closes.
Then FNAF 3 which I believe was mostly used for backstory. I don't think very much happened here.
I did my best on this one a definitely missed a lot so I'd really reccomend watching those videos I linked. He goes into much more detail than I did and seems to have covered everything.