Leaks constantly occur in the world of video games. Most of the time they are due to human error. Hacker stories are fascinating and make catchy headlines, but besides being ethically problematic, they are rarely what we report on. Most of the time it’s just someone pressing the wrong button or getting a date wrong. Like it has been the case with Roblox in recent days.
A new game of Five Nights at Freddy’s is coming to Roblox. Or to be more exact, it has already arrived at Roblox, even when it shouldn’t have. Something that its creator, Scott Cawthon, has defined as “one of the most incomprehensible, insane things that have happened in my ten years working on FNAF”.
Roblox players discovered last Wednesday that there was a new Five Nights at Freddy’s game available on Roblox. Its name was Five Nights at Freddy’s: Survival Crew and it was an asymmetrical multiplayer horror game in the style of Dead by Daylight, but replacing the iconic horror movie killers with the animatronic robots from the franchise. The problem is that the game shouldn’t have been released when people found it. Because it’s not even finished.
According to Cawthon, the game is basically in its early stages of development. It’s not just incomplete, but its assets and gameplay are still temporary. It’s literally a test version, not even a beta, that should never have been released to the public.
How is it possible then that it leaked in this way? Although it is not clear, the most likely explanation is that Cawthon approved a skin and that was interpreted as the game being released. A not exactly minor misunderstanding and one that, of course, we understand qualifies as one of the most incomprehensible and insane things he has experienced in his ten years developing the game. Because it makes no sense.
Five Nights at Freddy’s: Survival Crew is still in the Roblox store, but it is listed as a beta version. The game is expected to officially release at some point in 2024 and, while it may no longer be a surprise, it will surely still make fans of the franchise happy.
