Wait, what?
Five Nights With Mr. Hugs (& Friends) is a fan game based on the Five Nights at Freddy's franchise. To be more specific, it's a Defictionalization of a video game Toy Freddy was shown to be playing in the Ultimate Custom Night. In the game, you take the role of Toy Freddy, who has to use the vacuum cleaner to keep the dust level below 20% before 6 AM hits, while also having to check on cameras through the monitor to prevent Mr. Hugs from entering the office and jumpscaring you. At the same time, you also have to watch out for Dust Bonnie, a Toy Bonnie-like dust bunny who has to be vacuumed away to prevent the jumpscare, and Larry, who will come from the basement and jumpscare you unless you shoo him away by your loud snoring during the sleep.
As you might've guessed from how we described it, it's not a serious game.
The game was released on September 15, 2018 on Gamejolt
, and can be downloaded and played for free.
Five Nights With Mr. Hugs (& Friends) provides examples of:
- Adaptational Heroism: Toy Freddy here is no longer Hostile Animatronic out for the nightguard's blood. Instead, he is the one in the shoes of the nightguard (sort of, his official job is a janitor), facing off against the vacuum cleaners (and a rabbit animatronic made of dust) of Freddy Fazbear's bakery.
- Affectionate Parody: The game blatantly goes out on its way to take itself as un-seriously as possible, with the ridiculous Excuse Plot (especially when the self-aware vacuum cleaners are involved), Stylistic Suck minigames, and the fact that vacuuming the dust and snoring on the job are actual gameplay mechanics here, among other things.
- Aerith and Bob: The main threats in this game are Mr. Hugs, Dust Bonnie...and Larry.
- A.I. Is a Crapshoot: Mr. Hugs and Larry, the sentient vacuum cleaners of Freddy Fazbear's bakery, have turned evil and will vacuum up any living person (or animatronic) they see.
- Antagonist Title: Mr. Hugs is an eponymous antagonist and a main threat in the game, while his "friends", Dust Bonnie and Larry, serve as secondary threats.
- Armless Biped: Dust Bonnie has only two legs connected to its spherical body and no arms.
- Bank Robbery: The third minigame has the player take the role of Mr. Mugs, a masked version of Mr. Hugs, who must steal the money from the "Place of Money" before the banker eats him alive.
- Big Bad: Mr. Hugs is the main antagonist of the game, trying to swallow up Toy Freddy in his vacuum cleaner bag for some reason.
- Downer Ending: After beating all five nights, Toy Freddy will receive a blue slip that states with remorse that, though he's a cool dude and a nice worker, he'll have to be scrapped at Freddy Fazbear's Pizza.
- Epic Fail: The pink slip you receive if your workplace will have more than 20% of dust by the time 6 AM hits mercilessly mocks you for failing such a laughably easy task. Fitting, considering that to lose like that you have to not use the vacuum cleaner at all or use it too seldom to achieve desirable results.note: This job is stupidly easy, how you could have failed?!?!
Go home, you stinky bear - Excuse Plot: Freddy Fazbear's bakery has broken air conditioning, so they need a janitor to vacuum this place, and Toy Freddy was chosen for this role. Oh, and self-aware vacuum cleaners turned evil and will swallow anything they can, so try not to die. Have fun.
- Flat "What": Every single night starts with a tiny "What" displayed onscreen before the night begins.
- Ghosts Abhor a Vacuum: To get rid of Dust Bonnie, a weird ghostly apparition of Bonnie made of dust, the player needs to use the vacuum cleaner until he (temporarily) disappears. Failing to do so before he reaches the right end of the screen would result in the Jumpscare.
- Giant Foot of Stomping: The first minigame has the player take the role of Fredman, a huge-legged Freddy that has to stomp on miniature Purple Guy with his massive legs before he gets away.
- Guide Dang It!: The game never tells you how to get rid of Dust Bonnie, so many players end up suffering from his wrath and jumpscares.
- Hair-Raising Hare: Dust Bonnie is an animatronic dust bunny that will kill you unless you vacuum him away before he reaches the end of the screen.
- Have a Nice Death: Once you get Jump Scared, you'll bear witness to a hilarious image of a vacuum cleaner completely consuming Toy Freddy's body, leaving only the head protruding out of an intake port, with his face looking completely spaced out.
- Living Dust Bunnies: Dust Bonnie is a sentient and hostile dust bunny that resembles a small bipedal Toy Bonnie. He can end your run just like Mr. Hugs and Larry, and needs to be vacuumed away to prevent the Jumpscare before he reaches the right end of the screen.
- Mini-Game: Once each night is completed, the player gets to play a bizarre non-sensical minigame afterwards, purely for entertainment value. Each minigame, barring the final one, is done in the primitive Atari-styled spritework akin to minigames from the main Five Nights at Freddy's games, and each one is ridiculously easy to beat once you figure out what to do to win.
- Non-Standard Game Over: If you finish the night with the dust level of 20% or higher, you'll receive a pink slip and will be forced to replay the night.
- Press X to Not Die:
- Dust Bonnie will jumpscare and kill you once he reaches the right corner of the office unless you vacuum him away.
- Similarly, Larry will jumpscare and kill you unless you sleep for a while, shooing him away with your snoring. However, snoring too much even after he left would make him attack you anyway.
- The second minigame requires the player to destroy BonTron by pressing the Self-Destruct Button that very briefly appears in the upper-right corner of the screen, before he burns down a trio of innocent little Bonnies.
- Punny Name: Dust Bonnie's name is a pun on "dust bunny" (since, you know, he's an animatronic dust bunny) and "Bonnie".
- Shout-Out: Design-wise, Larry is directly based on The Cameo of his VeggieTales namesake in vacuum cleaner form from 3-2-1 Penguins!.
- Squashed Flat:
- In the first minigame, Fredman is required to step on miniature Purple Guy with his huge feet. Once he does, the Purple Guy gets squashed into a flat circle, stating that he will come back.
- In the fourth game, the miniature Purple Guy now appears as Purple Can, who will boast about how he's back and ready to cause chaos...only for a car to run him over, squishing him flat.
- Unreadable Disclaimer: The warning screen when you boot up the game is extremely small and hard to read, not that it would be helpful in any way, as the warning simply warns the player about "Spooky vacuums and dust piles".
- Vicious Vac: Mr. Hugs and Larry are self-aware vacuum cleaners that had turned evil and intend to swallow up Toy Freddy into their dust bags.
