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Top Horror Games

60+ horror games ranked by player tags and tunable re-ranking. Related tags include Survival Horror, First-Person, Action, Atmospheric.

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  1. #1 Dead by Daylight
    98% matchMostly Positive79% of 888,188 reviews2016
    Developer: Behaviour Interactive Inc.
    Platforms: Windows
    Median: 34.4hMean: 355.0h≥1hr: 95%

    Trapped forever in a realm of eldritch evil where even death is not an escape, four determined Survivors face a bloodthirsty Killer in a vicious game of nerve and wits. Pick a side and step into a world of tension and terror with horror gaming's best asymmetrical multiplayer.

  2. #2 Phasmophobia
    97% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 815,266 reviews2020
    Developer: Kinetic Games
    Platforms: Windows
    Median: 16.9hMean: 50.2h≥1hr: 95%

    Phasmophobia is a 4 player online co-op psychological horror. Paranormal activity is on the rise and it’s up to you and your team to use all the ghost-hunting equipment at your disposal in order to gather as much evidence as you can.

  3. #3 Serena
    87% matchMostly Positive77% of 6,550 reviews2014
    Developer: Senscape
    Platforms: Windows, Mac, Linux
    Median: 6mMean: 13.3h≥1hr: 21%

    How long has it been? A man sits in a distant getaway cabin waiting for his wife Serena. Where is she? Things in the cabin evoke memories, and the husband comes to a disturbing realization... This short point-and-click adventure is the result of a massive collaborative effort between dozens of fans and designers of adventure games.

  4. #4 Layers of Fear (2016)
    87% matchVery Positive88% of 27,237 reviews2016
    Developer: Bloober Team SA
    Platforms: Windows, Mac, Linux
    Median: 3.1hMean: 8.3h≥1hr: 82%

    A first-person psychological horror with a strong emphasis on atmosphere and storytelling. Explore an ever-shifting Victorian mansion as a painter seeking to complete his masterpiece, even at the cost of his own sanity.

  5. #5 Outlast
    85% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 133,959 reviews2013
    Developer: Red Barrels
    Platforms: Windows, Mac, Linux
    Median: 3.6hMean: 18.6h≥1hr: 83%

    Hell is an experiment you can't survive in Outlast, a first-person survival horror game developed by veterans of some of the biggest game franchises in history. As investigative journalist Miles Upshur, explore Mount Massive Asylum and try to survive long enough to discover its terrible secret... if you dare.

  6. #6 The Forest
    82% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 665,921 reviews2018
    Developer: Endnight Games Ltd
    Platforms: Windows
    Median: 13.1hMean: 37.0h≥1hr: 93%

    As the lone survivor of a passenger jet crash, you find yourself in a mysterious forest battling to stay alive against a society of cannibalistic mutants. Build, explore, survive in this terrifying first person survival horror simulator.

  7. #7 Lethal Company
    82% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 503,936 reviews2023
    Developer: Zeekerss
    Platforms: Windows
    Median: 12.2hMean: 28.7h≥1hr: 94%

    A co-op horror about scavenging at abandoned moons to sell scrap to the Company.

  8. #8 DEVOUR
    80% matchVery Positive91% of 86,959 reviews2021
    Developer: Straight Back Games
    Platforms: Windows, Mac
    Median: 4.4hMean: 13.4h≥1hr: 90%

    DEVOUR is a co-op horror survival game for 1-4 players. Stop possessed cultists before they drag you to hell. Run. Scream. Hide. Just don't get caught.

  9. #9 R.E.P.O.
    79% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 370,836 reviews2025
    Developer: semiwork
    Platforms: Windows
    Median: 10.7hMean: 22.0h≥1hr: 95%

    An online co-op horror game with up to 6 players. Locate valuable, fully physics-based objects and handle them with care as you retrieve and extract to satisfy your creator's desires.

  10. #10 Kholat
    80% matchMixed66% of 6,857 reviews2015
    Developer: IMGN.PRO
    Platforms: Windows
    Median: 3.2hMean: 5.7h≥1hr: 84%

    The most terrifying journey of your life set in the beautiful winter scenery of the Ural Mountains. Uncover the horrific mystery behind the Dyatlov Pass Incident. Narrated by the famous Sean Bean.

  11. #11 Poppy Playtime
    77% matchVery Positive88% of 132,662 reviews2021
    Developer: Mob Entertainment
    Platforms: Windows
    Median: 1.0hMean: 8.8h≥1hr: 51%

    You must stay alive in this horror/puzzle adventure. Try to survive the vengeful toys waiting for you in the abandoned toy factory. Use your GrabPack to hack electrical circuits or nab anything from afar. Explore the mysterious facility... and don't get caught.

  12. #12 Escape the Backrooms
    75% matchVery Positive91% of 134,540 reviews2025
    Developer: Fancy GamesPublisher: Secret Mode
    Platforms: Windows
    Median: 7.0hMean: 12.9h≥1hr: 90%

    Escape the Backrooms is a 1-4 player co-op horror exploration game. Traverse 30+ eerie backrooms levels while avoiding entities and other dangers. Try to escape but be warned: survival isn't guaranteed.

  13. #13 SCP: Secret Laboratory
    73% matchVery Positive91% of 228,941 reviews2017
    Developer: Northwood Studios
    Platforms: Windows
    Median: 2.0hMean: 45.3h≥1hr: 65%

    Deep within a secure underground facility, a sudden containment breach allows many of the secured anomalies to escape from their chambers. Assist the Foundation in re-securing the facility, help the Insurgency in their goal to capture it, or wreak havoc as an SCP in a frantic bid to escape.

  14. #14 Cry of Fear
    74% matchVery Positive89% of 82,586 reviews2013
    Developer: Team Psykskallar
    Platforms: Windows
    Median: 1.3hMean: 7.6h≥1hr: 57%

    Cry of Fear is a psychological single-player and co-op horror game set in a deserted town filled with horrific creatures and nightmarish delusions. You play as a young man desperately searching for answers in the cold Scandinavian night, finding his way through the city as he slowly descends into madness.

  15. #15 Left 4 Dead 2
    71% matchOverwhelmingly Positive98% of 1,024,556 reviews2009
    Developer: Valve
    Platforms: Windows, Linux
    Median: 12.9hMean: 97.7h≥1hr: 93%

    Set in the zombie apocalypse, Left 4 Dead 2 is a co-operative action horror FPS takes you and your friends through the cities, swamps and cemeteries of the Deep South, from Savannah to New Orleans across five expansive campaigns.

  16. #16 Resident Evil 4
    71% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 234,964 reviews2023
    Developer: CAPCOM Co., Ltd.
    Platforms: Windows
    Median: 27.6hMean: 51.2h≥1hr: 96%

    Survival is just the beginning. Six years have passed since the biological disaster in Raccoon City. Leon S. Kennedy, one of the survivors, tracks the president's kidnapped daughter to a secluded European village, where there is something terribly wrong with the locals.

  17. #17 Subnautica
    71% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 344,093 reviews2018
    Developer: Unknown Worlds Entertainment
    Platforms: Windows, Mac
    Median: 13.4hMean: 40.0h≥1hr: 90%

    Descend into the depths of an alien underwater world filled with wonder and peril. Craft equipment, pilot submarines and out-smart wildlife to explore lush coral reefs, volcanoes, cave systems, and more - all while trying to survive.

  18. #18 Dying Light
    70% matchOverwhelmingly Positive95% of 482,438 reviews2015
    Developer: Techland
    Platforms: Windows, Mac, Linux
    Median: 21.6hMean: 60.9h≥1hr: 95%

    First-person action survival game set in a post-apocalyptic open world overrun by flesh-hungry zombies. Roam a city devastated by a mysterious virus epidemic. Scavenge for supplies, craft weapons, and face hordes of the infected.

  19. #19 Resident Evil 7 Biohazard
    69% matchOverwhelmingly Positive95% of 115,718 reviews2017
    Developer: CAPCOM Co., Ltd.
    Platforms: Windows
    Median: 10.7hMean: 27.5h≥1hr: 93%

    Fear and isolation seep through the walls of an abandoned southern farmhouse. "7" marks a new beginning for survival horror with the “Isolated View” of the visceral new first-person perspective.

  20. #20 Little Nightmares
    69% matchVery Positive95% of 115,101 reviews2017
    Developer: Tarsier StudiosPublisher: BANDAI NAMCO Entertainment
    Platforms: Windows
    Median: 2.7hMean: 10.2h≥1hr: 68%

    Take on the role of Six, a lone child lost in a massive metal vessel known as the Maw, surrounded by dangerous, distorted versions of adults. You’ll need to do your best to escape in one piece or your fate will be worse than you ever dared dream.

  21. #21 Resident Evil 2
    69% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 201,291 reviews2019
    Developer: CAPCOM Co., Ltd.
    Platforms: Windows
    Median: 14.4hMean: 32.0h≥1hr: 95%

    A deadly virus engulfs the residents of Raccoon City in September of 1998, plunging the city into chaos as flesh eating zombies roam the streets for survivors. An unparalleled adrenaline rush, gripping storyline, and unimaginable horrors await you. Witness the return of Resident Evil 2.

  22. #22 Pacify
    69% matchVery Positive86% of 42,392 reviews2019
    Developer: Shawn HitchcockPublisher: Hitchcock Games
    Platforms: Windows, Mac
    Median: 2.1hMean: 7.8h≥1hr: 73%

    There is reportedly an evil inside that house. Something about an old funeral parlor offering a last chance to talk to their dead loved ones. Plus something about lights, laughter, a girl, missing people, etc... You know the same stuff everyone claims. Take a team, and check the place out.

  23. #23 Five Nights at Freddy's
    68% matchVery Positive94% of 57,765 reviews2014
    Developer: Scott Cawthon
    Platforms: Windows
    Median: 1.3hMean: 10.5h≥1hr: 56%

    Welcome to your new summer job at Freddy Fazbear's Pizza, where kids and parents alike come for entertainment and food! The main attraction is Freddy Fazbear, of course; and his two friends. They are animatronic robots, programmed to please the crowds!

  24. #24 The Outlast Trials
    67% matchVery Positive93% of 98,919 reviews2024
    Developer: Red Barrels
    Platforms: Windows
    Median: 10.0hMean: 32.7h≥1hr: 95%

    Red Barrels invites you to experience mind-numbing terror, this time with friends. Whether you go through the trials alone or in teams, if you survive long enough and complete the therapy, Murkoff will happily let you leave… but will you be the same?

  25. #25 Amnesia: The Dark Descent
    67% matchVery Positive95% of 35,239 reviews2010
    Developer: Frictional Games
    Platforms: Windows, Mac, Linux
    Median: 1.2hMean: 10.2h≥1hr: 54%

    Amnesia: The Dark Descent, a first person survival horror. A game about immersion, discovery and living through a nightmare. An experience that will chill you to the core.

  26. #26 Resident Evil Requiem
    66% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 154,152 reviews2026
    Developer: CAPCOM Co., Ltd.
    Platforms: Windows
    Median: 20.3hMean: 25.1h≥1hr: 98%

    Requiem for the dead. Nightmare for the living. Prepare to escape death in a heart-stopping experience that will chill you to your core.

  27. #27 Sons Of The Forest
    66% matchVery Positive88% of 299,895 reviews2024
    Developer: Endnight Games LtdPublisher: Newnight
    Platforms: Windows
    Median: 14.9hMean: 32.0h≥1hr: 94%

    Sent to find a missing billionaire on a remote island, you find yourself in a cannibal-infested hellscape. Craft, build, and struggle to survive, alone or with friends, in this terrifying new open-world survival horror simulator.

  28. #28 Outlast 2
    67% matchVery Positive91% of 62,280 reviews2017
    Developer: Red Barrels
    Platforms: Windows
    Median: 4.5hMean: 16.8h≥1hr: 85%

    Outlast 2 introduces you to Sullivan Knoth and his followers, who left our wicked world behind to give birth to Temple Gate, a town, deep in the wilderness and hidden from civilization. Knoth and his flock are preparing for the tribulations of the end of times and you’re right in the thick of it.

  29. #29 Content Warning
    65% matchVery Positive94% of 156,373 reviews2024
    Developer: WilnylPublisher: Landfall
    Platforms: Windows
    Median: 3.4hMean: 7.9h≥1hr: 85%

    Film your friends doing scary things to become SpöökTube famous! (strongly advised to not go alone)

  30. #30 Ready or Not
    65% matchMostly Positive77% of 320,774 reviews2023
    Developer: VOID Interactive
    Platforms: Windows
    Median: 12.8hMean: 33.0h≥1hr: 95%

    Ready or Not is an intense, tactical, first-person shooter that depicts a modern-day world in which SWAT police units are called to defuse hostile and confronting situations.

  31. #31 Alien: Isolation
    66% matchVery Positive93% of 64,460 reviews2014
    Developer: Creative AssemblyPublisher: SEGA
    Platforms: Windows, Mac, Linux
    Median: 4.8hMean: 16.8h≥1hr: 82%

    Discover the true meaning of fear in Alien: Isolation, a survival horror set in an atmosphere of constant dread and mortal danger.

  32. #32 Doki Doki Literature Club!
    65% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 219,150 reviews2017
    Developer: Team Salvato
    Platforms: Windows, Mac
    Median: 3.0hMean: 38.2h≥1hr: 74%

    The Literature Club is full of cute girls! Will you write the way into their heart? This game is not suitable for children or those who are easily disturbed.

  33. #33 Resident Evil Village
    65% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 142,279 reviews2021
    Developer: CAPCOM Co., Ltd.
    Platforms: Windows
    Median: 15.8hMean: 32.8h≥1hr: 94%

    Experience survival horror like never before in the 8th major installment in the Resident Evil franchise - Resident Evil Village. With detailed graphics, intense first-person action and masterful storytelling, the terror has never felt more realistic.

  34. #34 Little Nightmares II
    64% matchVery Positive93% of 55,847 reviews2021
    Developer: Tarsier StudiosPublisher: BANDAI NAMCO Entertainment
    Platforms: Windows
    Median: 5.9hMean: 8.6h≥1hr: 89%

    Little Nightmares II is the second game in a series that has thrilled and captivated millions of players worldwide since 2017. Now it’s your turn to try to survive this critically acclaimed entry in the most charming horror series ever made.

  35. #35 Firework
    64% matchOverwhelmingly Positive98% of 43,818 reviews2021
    Developer: Shiying StudioPublisher: Gamirror Games
    Platforms: Windows
    Median: 3.6hMean: 6.6h≥1hr: 85%

    An accidental fire at a funeral forces the police to re-investigate a closed case of massacre. Lin Lixun participates the re-investigation by chances. As the investigation goes deeper, the past of the victims gradually emerges. However, the case becomes more bewildering.

  36. #36 Inside the Backrooms
    64% matchVery Positive81% of 45,968 reviews2022
    Developer: MrFatcat
    Platforms: Windows
    Median: 4.7hMean: 15.0h≥1hr: 87%

    Inside the Backrooms is a horror multiplayer game mixed with different mechanics that will make you spend an intense night with friends. Explore, think, interact, but be careful, it is rumored that there are several entities wishing to find you...

  37. #37 Inscryption
    63% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 143,157 reviews2021
    Developer: Daniel Mullins GamesPublisher: Devolver Digital
    Platforms: Windows, Mac, Linux
    Median: 10.2hMean: 16.5h≥1hr: 92%

    Inscryption is an inky black card-based odyssey that blends the deckbuilding roguelike, escape-room style puzzles, and psychological horror into a blood-laced smoothie. Darker still are the secrets inscrybed upon the cards...

  38. #38 Buckshot Roulette
    62% matchOverwhelmingly Positive95% of 115,773 reviews2024
    Developer: Mike KlubnikaPublisher: CRITICAL REFLEX
    Platforms: Windows, Linux
    Median: 2.6hMean: 8.0h≥1hr: 79%

    Play Russian roulette with a 12-gauge shotgun. Four enter. One leaves. Roll the dice with your life. Good luck!

  39. #39 MiSide
    62% matchOverwhelmingly Positive98% of 136,956 reviews2024
    Developer: AIHASTOPublisher: IndieArk
    Platforms: Windows
    Median: 5.8hMean: 21.1h≥1hr: 92%

    Let's imagine that you have a game in which you care for a character. But could you imagine one day getting into that game yourself?

  40. #40 Metro 2033 Redux
    63% matchVery Positive92% of 129,041 reviews2014
    Developer: 4A GamesPublisher: Deep Silver
    Platforms: Windows, Mac, Linux
    Median: 6.2hMean: 14.2h≥1hr: 83%

    In 2013 the world was devastated by an apocalyptic event, annihilating almost all mankind and turning the Earth's surface into a poisonous wasteland. A handful of survivors took refuge in the depths of the Moscow underground, and human civilization entered a new Dark Age. The year is 2033.

  41. #41 Ultimate Custom Night
    63% matchVery Positive95% of 61,937 reviews2018
    Developer: Scott Cawthon
    Platforms: Windows
    Median: 1.2hMean: 8.7h≥1hr: 54%

    Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!

  42. #42 The Evil Within
    63% matchVery Positive85% of 32,478 reviews2014
    Developer: Tango GameworksPublisher: Bethesda Softworks
    Platforms: Windows
    Median: 6.5hMean: 19.0h≥1hr: 89%

    Developed by Shinji Mikami -- creator of the seminal Resident Evil series -- and the talented team at Tango Gameworks, The Evil Within embodies the meaning of pure survival horror. Highly-crafted environments, horrifying anxiety, and an intricate story are combined to create an immersive world that will bring you to the height of tension.

  43. #43 Dead Space
    62% matchVery Positive91% of 63,544 reviews2023
    Developer: MotivePublisher: Electronic Arts
    Platforms: Windows
    Median: 10.2hMean: 16.8h≥1hr: 87%

    The sci-fi survival-horror classic returns, completely rebuilt to offer an even more immersive experience — including visual, audio, and gameplay improvements — while staying faithful to the original game’s thrilling vision.

  44. #44 Resident Evil 3
    62% matchVery Positive83% of 109,799 reviews2020
    Developer: CAPCOM Co., Ltd.
    Platforms: Windows
    Median: 7.9hMean: 20.1h≥1hr: 93%

    Jill Valentine is one of the last remaining people in Raccoon City to witness the atrocities Umbrella performed. To stop her, Umbrella unleashes their ultimate secret weapon: Nemesis! Also includes Resident Evil Resistance, a new 1 vs 4 online multiplayer game set in the Resident Evil universe.

  45. #45 Five Nights at Freddy's: Security Breach
    62% matchVery Positive86% of 68,416 reviews2021
    Developer: Steel Wool StudiosPublisher: ScottGames
    Platforms: Windows
    Median: 9.5hMean: 30.2h≥1hr: 90%

    In Five Nights at Freddy’s: Security Breach, play as Gregory, a young boy who’s been trapped overnight inside of Freddy Fazbear’s Mega Pizzaplex. With the help of Freddy himself, Gregory must uncover the secrets of the Pizzaplex, learn the truth, and survive until dawn.

  46. #46 Dead Space (2008)
    62% matchVery Positive92% of 28,635 reviews2009
    Developer: EA Redwood ShoresPublisher: Electronic Arts
    Platforms: Windows
    Median: 3.7hMean: 10.5h≥1hr: 79%

    You are Isaac Clarke, an engineer on the spacecraft USG Ishimura. You're not a warrior. You're not a soldier. You are, however, the last line of defense for the remaining living crew.

  47. #47 Resident Evil 4 (2005)
    62% matchVery Positive94% of 92,494 reviews2014
    Developer: Capcom
    Platforms: Windows
    Median: 7.0hMean: 29.5h≥1hr: 86%

    (Release: 2014) Special agent Leon S. Kennedy is sent on a mission to rescue the U.S. President’s daughter who has been kidnapped.

  48. #48 Alan Wake
    62% matchVery Positive90% of 56,400 reviews2012
    Developer: Remedy Entertainment
    Platforms: Windows
    Median: 4.6hMean: 13.2h≥1hr: 87%

    A Dark Presence stalks the small town of Bright Falls, pushing Alan Wake to the brink of sanity in his fight to unravel the mystery and save his love.

  49. #49 港詭實錄ParanormalHK
    62% matchVery Positive90% of 20,031 reviews2020
    Developer: Ghostpie Studio
    Platforms: Windows
    Median: 3.3hMean: 7.8h≥1hr: 76%

    Paranormal HK is a first person horror game about Urban legends of Hong Kong, China. The story is about a crew of online supernatural channel“Beyond the Invisible” went to Kowloon Walled City to film a short movie for their latest episode and encountered something out of their expectations.

  50. #50 F.E.A.R.
    62% matchVery Positive94% of 18,784 reviews2010
    Developer: Monolith Productions, Inc.Publisher: Warner Bros. Games
    Platforms: Windows
    Median: 2.9hMean: 16.2h≥1hr: 69%

    Experience the original F.E.A.R. along with F.E.A.R. Extraction Point and F.E.A.R. Perseus Mandate.

  51. #51 Dying Light 2 Stay Human: Reloaded Edition
    61% matchMostly Positive79% of 211,147 reviews2022
    Developer: Techland
    Platforms: Windows
    Median: 31.6hMean: 62.9h≥1hr: 97%

    Humanity is fighting a losing battle against the virus. Experience a post-apocalyptic open world overrun by hordes of zombies, where your parkour and combat skills are key to survival. Traverse the City freely during the day, but watch the monsters take over during the night.

  52. #52 Among the Sleep - Enhanced Edition
    62% matchVery Positive89% of 8,096 reviews2014
    Developer: Krillbite Studio
    Platforms: Windows, Mac, Linux
    Median: 3.0hMean: 4.0h≥1hr: 85%

    Among the Sleep: Enhanced Edition is a new and improved version of the award winning first person horror adventure. In the game you play as a small child trapped in a weird nightmare where you go looking for your mom.

  53. #53 Freddy Fazbear's Pizzeria Simulator
    61% matchVery Positive94% of 32,569 reviews2017
    Developer: Scott Cawthon
    Platforms: Windows
    Median: 1.2hMean: 7.6h≥1hr: 55%

    Start your own Freddy Fazbear's Pizzeria with Freddy Fazbear Pizzeria Simulator!

  54. #54 Slender: The Arrival
    61% matchVery Positive88% of 9,226 reviews2013
    Developer: Blue Isle StudiosPublisher: Blue Isle Publishing
    Platforms: Windows, Mac
    Median: 2.5hMean: 5.1h≥1hr: 77%

    Slender Man returns more terrifying than ever. You're on your own. No one to help you. No one to hear you scream. Relive the horror all over again with cutting edge visuals for the 10th Anniversary Update and experience survival horror at its finest.

  55. #55 Dark Deception
    61% matchVery Positive89% of 23,237 reviews2018
    Developer: Glowstick Entertainment
    Platforms: Windows
    Median: 48mMean: 13.0h≥1hr: 43%

    Death awaits you in Dark Deception, a story-driven first-person horror maze game. There's nowhere to hide & nowhere to catch your breath. Run or die - it's your choice. Trapped in a realm of nightmarish mazes with a mysterious woman, your only hope of survival is to find a way to escape.

  56. #56 Bendy and the Ink Machine
    61% matchVery Positive89% of 34,313 reviews2017
    Developer: Joey Drew Studios
    Platforms: Windows
    Median: 1.8hMean: 12.5h≥1hr: 60%

    Bendy and the Ink Machine® is the first person puzzle action horror game that will forever ruin your childhood love of cartoons.

  57. #57 SILENT HILL 2
    60% matchVery Positive95% of 58,918 reviews2024
    Developer: Bloober Team SAPublisher: KONAMI
    Platforms: Windows
    Median: 18.6hMean: 26.0h≥1hr: 93%

    Investigating a letter from his late wife, James returns to where they made so many memories - Silent Hill. What he finds is a ghost town, prowled by disturbing monsters and cloaked in deep fog. Confront the monsters, solve puzzles, and search for traces of your wife in this remake of SILENT HILL 2.

  58. #58 Five Nights at Freddy's 2
    61% matchVery Positive94% of 25,453 reviews2014
    Developer: Scott Cawthon
    Platforms: Windows
    Median: 1.4hMean: 16.1h≥1hr: 58%

    Welcome back to the new and improved Freddy Fazbear's Pizza! As always, Fazbear Entertainment is not responsible for death or dismemberment.

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