History VideoGame / FiveNightsAtFreddysVRHelpWanted

* LiteraryAgentHypothesis: Tape 13 reveals that Fazbear Entertainment [[spoiler:hired an unnamed indie game developer (likely Scott Cawthon, or an AuthorAvatar for him) to [[LeaningOnTheFourthWall make video games about the events surrounding Freddy Fazbear's Pizza]] to discredit the rumors around said events]].[[invoked]]

* TheBadGuyWins: Clearing the Pizza Party level ends with [[spoiler:Glitchtrap luring you into the backstage area, where he uses your body as a conduit to escape into the real world, leaving you stuck in a Freddy suit. It's also the only time in the game the credits plays, and [=HandUnit=] seems oblivious to your fate]].

* ContinuitySnarl: Just like in ''Ultimate Custom Night'', both [[VideoGame/FiveNightsAtFreddys4 Nightmarionne]] and [[VideoGame/FiveNightsAtFreddysSisterLocation Bonnet]] appear in this game, despite the fact that both of them were previously stated to be [[CanonDiscontinuity non-canon]]. [[spoiler:Of course, given that all the previous games might well have existed in-universe, it's possible that they are in-universe [[CanonForeigner Canon Foreigners]] added by Fazbear Entertainment to make the game more interesting. Considering the VR game itself is, well, a VR game in-universe, this is the most probable explanation, since everything ''but'' the contents of the tapes and Glitchtrap are entirely game assets.]] ''The Curse of Dreadbear'' adds Jack-O-Bonnie and Jack-O-Chica from that same update, also non-canon, and completes a set of Halloween animatronics with the additions of [[FrankensteinsMonster Dreadbear]] and [[TheGrimReaper Grim Foxy]]

** In the game over screen for ''Curse of Dreadbear'', Grim Foxy is seen scratching the wall with his hook, in a movement reminiscent of [[Franchise/ANightmareOnElmStreet Freddy Krueger]].

[[caption-width-right:350:Are you ready for Freddy...in '''[[UsefulNotes/VirtualReality VR?]]''']]

[[caption-width-right:350:Are you ready for Freddy...in '''[[VirtualReality VR?]]''']]

''Five Nights at Freddy's VR: Help Wanted'' is the ninth game in the ''VideoGame/FiveNightsAtFreddys'' series and the third spin-off; series creator Scott Cawthon developed it in collaboration with Steel Wool Studios.

** When menacing you in the ''[=FNAF4=]'' bedroom, Nightmarionne speaks like a smoker burning 20 packs a day, via voicelines recorded by Aleks Le in ''VideoGame/UltimateCustomNight''.

** Night 5 of [=FNAF2=] features the neon color scheme, although it is otherwise nothing special. In the same patch that added Withered Foxy in the place of the original Foxy, a Withered mode was added as a second hard level. It acts as Night 6 of [=FNAF2=], utilizes a red color scheme, and adds Withered Freddy, Withered Bonnie, and Withered Chica, causing the player to have to avoid ''ten'' enemies at one time versus the seven of Night 5. It is also the first level with a difficulty lever, for easy mode or hard mode.

** Night 5 of [=FNAF2=] features the neon color scheme, although it is otherwise nothing special. In the same patch that added Withered Foxy in the place of the original Foxy, a Withered mode was added as a second hard level. It acts as Night 6 of [=FNAF2=], utilizes a red color scheme, and adds Withered Freddy, Withered Bonnie, and Withered Chica, causing the player to have to avoid ''ten'' enemies at one time versus the seven of Night 5. It is also the first level with a difficulty level, for easy mode or hard mode.

** Night 5 of [=FNAF1=] is [[DeliberatelyMonochrome monochrome]]. The doors and door lights randomly switch on and off on their own and will continue to do so even after you run out of power. [[AntiFrustrationFeatures Fortunately for the player]], the doors and lights do not do this is Foxy and Freddy, the more difficult enemies, are in their respective hallways.

** Golden Freddy does not appear in the levels based on the first ''Five Nights at Freddy's'', likely because his method of summoning/banishment from that game is impractical to implement in the VR environment of ''Help Wanted.'' He also doesn't appear in the ''[=FNaF=] 2'' recreations, though this is because he appears in Night 6, while the game's recreation only goes to 5.
** Phantom Chica and Phantom Puppet do not appear in the ''[=FNaF=] 3'' levels, likely for the same reason as Golden Freddy above.

** Chica's portrayal in many fan works as a [[TrademarkFavoriteFood pizza-loving]] glutton is given this treatment as well. In the second Parts and Service stage, she ends up with pizza stuck to her body and hanging from her beak after a trip to the kitchen, and in Pizza Party, you get to witness her walk up to a pizza box with her arm stretched towards it.
* BackForTheDead: [[spoiler:Assuming that the Jeremy referred to in the tapes is Mr. Fitzgerald from the second game, who hadn't been seen since then, he's implied to have been DrivenToSuicide in nasty fashion here. Then again, he was also implied to be the likely victim of the Bite of '87, so his presence alone is confusing.]]

* TheBadGuyWins: Clearing the Pizza Party level ends with [[spoiler:Glitchtrap luring you into the backstage area, where he uses your body as a conduit to escape into the real world, leaving you stuck in a Freddy suit]].
* BatFamilyCrossover: The game's levels include settings and animatronics from games 1-5 (not counting FNAF World, presumably.) Most interestingly, some of the characters from ''Sister Location'' appear in the house from ''4''.

* BlackComedy: As usual, everything related to Fazbear Entertainment management and [=HandUnit=] tends to fall into this. Particularly evident is the Freddy maintenance minigame, in which Handy acts completely blase about Freddy's teeth having a deathgrip on a child's baseball cap and various other clothing items stuck into his body cavity (likely due to murder), and just has you dump them into a "lost and found bin" that is clearly meant for garbage.

** The original teaser poster[[note]]Since taken down, due to accidentally using fan models in place of original artwork[[/note]] featured a quote from [[IncompetenceInc Fazbear Entertainment]] ensuring someone (presumably the public or customers) that "Everything is working as intended!" This statement is made, even though you will be spending much of the game-fixing the things that are not going as intended.

** At the end of the Pizza Party level, which is only unlocked by completing every other level in the game, Fazbear Entertainment assures you that there is nothing else left to see in the game, and once again claims that the horror stuff is all just tall tales. [[spoiler:Yeah, not really, as Tape Girl will attest.]]

* ContinuitySnarl: Just like in ''Ultimate Custom Night'', both [[VideoGame/FiveNightsAtFreddys4 Nightmarionne]] and [[VideoGame/FiveNightsAtFreddysSisterLocation Bonnet]] appear in this game, despite the fact that both of them were previously stated to be [[CanonDiscontinuity non-canon]]. [[spoiler:Of course, given that all the previous games might well have existed in-universe, it's possible that they are in-universe [[CanonForeigner Canon Foreigners]] added by Fazbear Entertainment to make the game more interesting. Considering the VR game itself is, well, a VR game in-universe, this is the most probable explanation, since everything ''but'' the contents of the tapes and Virtual Spring Bonnie are entirely game assets.]]

* CorruptedData: The game seems to revolve around the fact that the Help Wanted Simulator game [[spoiler:has been corrupted by malicious data]].

** When menacing you in the ''[=FNAF4=]'' bedroom, Nightmarionne speaks like a smoker burning 20 packs a day.

* LevelInReverse: The Blacklight version of Ennard's Vent level is flipped upside down, which means instead of going down into the boiler room, you're going ''up''.

** Night 5 of [=FNAF1=] is [[DeliberatelyMonochrome monochrome]]. The doors and door lights randomly switch on and off on their own and will continue to do so even after you run out of power.
** Night 5 of [=FNAF2=] features the neon color scheme, although it is otherwise nothing special.

*** Other ''Sister Location'' animatronics (and multiple copies of them, too) roam the auditorium in Funtime Foxy's level.

*** Giant cockroaches stroll about in Chica's level. The chemi-spray stops working after the first dose, meaning you have to pull them off by hand.

*** Foxy's level is on fire, his movements are more erratic, the fuses glitch out, his eyes are single-color GlowingEyesOfDoom, [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking and all of the desks are labeled #1]]

*** Ennard's level is upside down and has various animatronic parts in the background. One of the first segments now has a creepy, shadowy version of Springtrap crawling towards you, putting a time limit on a segment which was originally lacking one.

** If you haven't collected all of the tapes, [[spoiler:Glitchtrap lures you backstage and is implied to then [[DownerEnding stuff you in a suit]]]].

* SelfDeprecation: The basic premise is that this is a GameWithinAGame, and that Fazbear Entertainment hired an Indie Game developer (whom they called a "complete lunatic") to create games based off the rumored murders to discredit the rumors. That said, the game also has a face shot of Cawthon himself.

* SomethingCompletelyDifferent: ''Foxy's Pirate Ride'' in the ''Curse of Dreadbear'' DLC is an on-rails shooter, and the only animatronic present is the stationary Foxy who welcomes you to the ride and explains how to beat the level. There's also only one jumpscare, but it's a cardboard cutout of Foxy and doesn't kill you. [[spoiler:Subverted should you hit Helpy whenever he appears. You're still playing on an on-rails shooter, but hitting him means he'll send you on 3 entirely different tracks throughout the ride, where the other animatronics ''do'' come out to play and kill.]]

** Pizza Party doesn't have a timer, but there is a certain point where no matter how fast you scroll through the level, one of the animatronics will be fast enough to jumpscare you.

*** Other ''Sister Location'' animatronics roam the auditorium in Funtime Foxy's level.

*** Giant cockroaches stroll about in Chica's level.

*** Foxy's level is on fire.
** Vent Repair:

* RunningGag: Nose honking is back! This time, [[spoiler:the player gets to honk the ''animatronic'' Freddy's nose]].

Steel Wool will release a "Flat" update on December 17th, 2019. This update will enable the game to be played without a VR headset.

* DeveloperForesight: Unlike in the original game, in the VR recreation of FNAF 1, you can actually get up and walk out of the office. If you do, Foxy will instantly run down the hallway and kill you.

* PressXToDie: If you try to exit through the left door of the ''[=FNaF 1=]'' office, Foxy will immediately barrel down the hallway to end your night.

* PressXToGameOver: If you try to exit through the left door of the ''[=FNaF 1=]'' office, Foxy will immediately barrel down the hallway to end your night.

* ShoutOut:
** In the ''Curse of Dreadbear'' DLC Spooky Mansion Hallway level, [[spoiler: looking back will prompt Nightmare Freddy to come after you. [[VideoGame/TheJoyOfCreationReborn The game even warns you not to look back.]] ]]
** In the game over screen for ''Curse of Dreadbear'', Grim Foxy is seen scratching the wall with his hook, in a movement reminiscent of [[Franchise/ANightmareOnElmStreet Freddy Krueger]].
** "Pirate Ride" is obviously based on [[Ride/DisneyThemeParks Disney's dark rides]], specifically ''Ride/PiratesOfTheCaribbean''.

* SomethingCompletelyDifferent: ''Foxy's Pirate Ride'' in the ''Curse of Dreadbear'' DLC is an on-rails shooter, and the only animatronic present is the stationary Foxy who welcomes you to the ride and explains how to beat the level. There's also only one jumpscare, but it's a cardboard cutout of Foxy and doesn't kill you. [[spoiler: Subverted should you hit Helpy whenever he appears. You're still playing on an on-rails shooter, but hitting him means he'll send you on 3 entirely different tracks throughout the ride, where the other animatronics ''do'' come out to play and kill.]]
* StealthPun: ''Foxy's Pirate Ride'' is an on-rails shooter, themed around a shooting dark ride...
* SuspiciouslySpecificDenial:

** [[spoiler: Following Tape Girl's orders will ultimately get you killed, because Glitchtrap already possessed her... or, perhaps, Glitchtrap is merely mimicking her voice. Regardless, don't trust her.]]
** Shows up again in the ending of the Halloween DLC, when you wear the new mask in the hub world. [[spoiler: You hear one side of a conversation between an unknown female character (possibly the beta tester) and someone else, talking about how she made it herself, and nobody suspects...]]

* AdaptedOut: Golden Freddy does not appear in the levels based on the first ''Five Nights at Freddy's'', likely because his method of summoning/banishment from that game is impractical to implement in the VR environment of ''Help Wanted.'' He also doesn't appear in the ''[=FNaF=] 2'' recreations, though this is because he appears in Night 6, while the game's recreation only goes to 5.

* AdaptedOut:
** Golden Freddy does not appear in the levels based on the first ''Five Nights at Freddy's'', likely because his method of summoning/banishment from that game is impractical to implement in the VR environment of ''Help Wanted.''
** Freddy, Bonnie, and Chica are all absent in levels based on ''Five Nights at Freddy's 2'', with their roles being merged with their Toy counterparts. Golden Freddy also doesn't appear, though this is because he appears in Night 6, while the game's recreation only goes to 5.

** Shows up again in the ending of the Halloween DLC, when you wear the new mask in the hub world. [[spoiler: You hear one side of a conversation between Tape Girl and someone else, talking about how she made it herself, and nobody suspects...]]