Mechanism is a Fan Game of the Five Nights at Freddy's series. It was developed by Andiematronics and is available on Game Jolt here
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You play as Freddy Fazbear, animatronic and mascot of the pizzeria. Every level involves exploring the estabilishment and dealing with "suspicious activity" (which usually means killing the night guards), while fighting the various crazed animatronics infesting the place.
Mechanism provides examples of:
- Cast from Hit Points: You can attack enemies by shooting cogs at them. However, these cogs also double as your health meter. The game is kind at least enough to give you a free cog if you spend some time with just one left.
- Gotta Catch Them All: Cakes. In each of the regular levels, there will be a Purple Guy hidden somewhere; once killed, it will spawn a cake somewhere else in the level. Collecting them all allows you to access extra nights.
- Last Ditch Move: After losing all hit points, Springtrap will charge at you one last time.
- Multiple Endings: Eight of them. The Golden Ending requires you yo obtain all the cakes, defeat Springtrap, reach Night 22, find Golden Freddy and leave without killing Purple Guy.
- One-Hit Kill: Some enemies can kill you in one hit regardless of how many cogs you have left. Glitchtrap is even worse, since it will also erase your extra credit token.
- Timed Mission: Your battery only lasts a couple of minutes for every level. Except for night 22, where you get unlimited power - which is good, considering that it's a Marathon Level.
- Video Game Cruelty Punishment:
- Killing even one innocent night guard prevents you from accessing the secret nights.
- After killing Purple Guy on Night 19, you can choose to either pass on, or proceed to the secret levels to hunt him one last time in Night 22. Clinging to revenge and taking the latter option gives you worse endings. The best ending requires you to still access Night 22, but not kill Purple Guy during it.
