Freddy in Space 2 is a Spinoff of the massively popular Five Nights at Freddy's series. It was developed by Scott Cawthon with character sprites made by Claudia Schröder, and released for free December 3, 2019 on Game Jolt
. The game was created for Game Theory's 9-hour St. Jude Children's Research Hospital fundraiser.
The game is also a sequel to the minigame FNaF 57: Freddy in Space from Five Nights at Freddy's World.
Freddy in Space 2 provides examples of:
- Art Shift: This is the first game in the franchise with no 3D assets. Instead, the assets are 2D.
- Expy:
- Chica's redesign and characterization in this game — with her blue, form-fitting Latex Space Suit and her ponytail — appears to be intentionally modeled after Samus Aran, specifically her Zero Suit form.
- Bonnie's outfit sports some very Dragon Ball Z inspired shoulder pads.
- While Foxy's legs have next to no covering in regular canon, the way they're rendered for this game brings classic Star Fox designs to mind.
- Genre Shift: Instead of being a strategy/horror game, Freddy in Space 2 is a side-scrolling Shoot 'Em Up Metroidvania game.
- Multiple Endings: Beating the game within 30 minutes results in a different ending.
- My Friends... and Zoidberg: When the characters (and the narrator) refer to the Fazbear Gang, the Puppet is frequently referred as an odd one in the group, being referred in the lineup of Freddy's companions as "that weird gangly space Puppet".
- Non-Standard Character Design: The Fazbear gang (Freddy, Bonnie, Chica, Foxy and the Puppet) are all redesigned into anthropomophic animals (or alien, in the Puppet's case), but Golden Freddy is still an animatronic.
- Sequel Number Snarl: Despite the original being called FNaF 57: Freddy in Space, this one has decided to drop the original title altogether, even though it could have gone the Wonder Boy route and been called FNaF 58: Freddy in Space 2. Granted, most of the sequels prior were just Un-Installments anyway.
- Shout-Out: The secret bosses reference Youtubers famous for playing FNaF, as well as an extra boss referencing FNaF World:
- Poopet Master references Dawko, as well as his early years of playing FNaF, when he pronounced the Puppet's name as "Poopet".
- The Mad Theorists reference MatPat and Stephanie of Game Theory fame.
- Mechiplier is Markiplier mixed with Terminator.
- Animdude: The Revenge references the final boss of FNaF World, and his boss music, "The Colder Stone", is a remix of "Stone Cold", the final boss music from FNaF World.
