The first season ran from May 17, 2020 to June 12, 2020 and is a Backstory to the series. The second season lasted from July 6, 2020 to May 6, 2022 which is heavily inspired by the first half of Season 4 of The Stories.
On July 15, 2022, a third season titled The Scary Reality premiered and is currently ongoing.
The series is notorious for being a blatant bootleg of Five Nights at Freddy's: The Stories and to some extent Five Nights at Freddy's: Forgotten Events, right down to it copying its characters and even copying several scenes from the series.
The playlists for season 1
, season 2, and season 3 can be viewed on Mr. Golden Freddy's YouTube channel.
Spoilers for the first two seasons are unmarked.
Five Nights at Freddy's The Dark Fate provides examples of
- Alternate Timeline: During Season 2, Ennard brainwashes Springtrap which causes the whole timeline to be different. He still kills everyone in the second location and then they all get taken to the third location. In this alternate timeline, Glamrock Chica ends up escaping with Bonnie.
- Art Evolution: The animation for the series got smoother during the course of Season 2.
- Artifact of Doom: The artifact Shadow Freddy uses brings him back to life as Nightmare.
- Attack on the Heart:
- The animatronics face this when Nightmare attacks them in the third location.
- Glamrock Chica suffers this fate when Nightmare attacks her when she tried to kill Ennard.
- Back from the Dead: After Springtrap stabs Shadow Freddy with the sword, the artifact brings Shadow Freddy back to life as Nightmare.
- Backstory: Season 1 is Exactly What It Says on the Tin, a backstory to how Golden Freddy became good and how Nightmare began to get stronger.
- Big Bad: Ennard serves as one for most of Season 2 which sets the stage for The Scary Reality.
- Big Disaster Plot: Season 2 revolves around Nightmare getting stronger. It is also this for The Scary Reality.
- Brainwashed and Crazy: Springtrap gets brainwashed by Ennard that he begins to kill everyone in the second location.
- Early-Installment Weirdness: When the series first started it didn't have any text-to-speech-voices. That was until the Season 2 episode "Bonnie's Bad Dream".
- Gone Horribly Wrong: When Puppet first attempts to give life to Springtrap, this fails and causes an explosion.
- Gotta Kill Them All: Springtrap does during Season 1 and again in Season 2 when he gets Brainwashed by Ennard.
- Heel–Face Turn: Golden Freddy decides to stop being evil at the end of Season 1.
- Killing Your Alternate Self: Toy Chica from the future kills Toy Chica when she time traveled to the first location.
- The Mockbuster: Has absolutely nothing to do with a certain animatronic chicken and rabbit trying to save the word from a Nightmarish force.
- Nigh-Invulnerability: Discussed by Scraptrap where he tells Toy Chica about Nightmare talking over the world and that no one can stop him.
- Synthetic Voice Actor: All of the characters in the series are voiced by text-to-speech-voices from various programs.
- Trapped in the Past: Toy Chica travels back in time to when the first location was still open. She gets stuck there with the the other animatronics when Nightmare starts his plan.
