FNAF 1 Remakeis one of this year’s best April Fool’s Day pranks: a fan-made remaster of the originalFive Nights at Freddy’swith a terrifying analog-horror glow-up and a surprisingly meta plot about nostalgia and the inevitability of change. It also has a mind-melting secret ending.
Secret endings are a long-running tradition inFive Nights at Freddy’s, and they’re always hidden behind convoluted in-game puzzles, intentionally clunky pixelated mini-games, monstrously difficult animatronic encounters—or a combination of all three.FNAF 1 Remake‘s secret ending incorporates all these familiar pieces while throwing in something new. Here’s how to get it.
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How to get the 1-Star ending in FNAF 1 Remake
Before you’re able to unlockFNAF Remake 1‘s secret ending, you’ll have to get the box-standard 1-star ending first. Getting the 1-star ending inFNAF 1 Remakeis pretty standard fair as far asFive Nights at Freddy’sfan games go. To get it, you must (drumroll) make it through all five nights from 12am to 6am, facing off against reimagined versions of the originalFNAF‘s animatronics. Sounds normal? Just wait.
Once you reach 4am on Night 5, Buddy,FNAF 1 Remake‘s in-game host, pulls a full “Just Monica” and decides he doesn’t want to say goodbye yet. After a creepy intro that would makeThe Walten Filesblush, Buddy drags you right into Night 6. Here, Buddy comes at you in all his spindly, grinning glory. Use every trick you’ve learned from the previous nights to stay alive until 6am. Once you do, you’ll get the 1-star ending.
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Once you’ve beaten the game regularly, focus on the top right of the game window. You’ll need to fiddle around in the Extras menu, but eventually, the window’s name will change from “FNAF 1 Remake” to “FIND ME, I’M WAITING FOR YOU.” If you head to the title screen, it’ll change to “THE ANSWER IS HERE, FIND IT.”
If you look carefully, you’ll see a black door icon hidden in the screen’s bottom left corner. Click on it, and you’ll find yourself face-to-face with a hooded version of the Marionette. They’ll explain how Buddy’s trapped them and the other animatronics in the game, but there’s still a chance for everyone to escape. They’ll ask you to collect five objects hidden around the Pizzeria so they can perform a ritual meant to free Buddy’s captives.
Each of the five nights now has an object (a jittering, photo-realistic eye, to be exact) hidden on one of the Pizzeria’s cameras. Don’t worry; you don’t have to play the entire game again: you’re able to use the Night Selection option in the Extras menu to jump into each night and find their hidden object. The game saves once you grab an artifact, so you can exit out once you’ve collected it.
Here’s where all the hidden objects are inFNAF 1 Remake.
Once you’ve got all the artifacts, head back to the Marionette’s secret room and hand them over. The Marionette will then give you your last task: to head into the game’s raw data and play a pixelated mini-game. You need to grab all the balloons you see and reach the end of the hall while avoiding Buddy. You’ll get a 10-second countdown whenever Buddy’s about to loom in, so duck into the nearest patch of black pixels whenever you see it flash up.
Once you’ve beaten the mini-game, you’ll get a special surprise from the developer that I won’t spoil here. If you head back to the title screen, you’ll see you’ve gotten a shiny red star to commemorate your success.
