Geek Culture Reviews

It has been over a decade since Five Nights at Freddy’s first flickered onto our screens, quietly released on August 8, 2014, by a relatively unknown indie developer named Scott Cawthon. At the time, it seemed like just another quirky horror game in the ever-growing pile of let’s play bait on Steam. A game where you sit still in a security office and monitor malfunctioning animatronics through grainy security feeds? Sounds niche, right? Yet here we are, several games, books, and a big-screen adaptation later, and FNaF (as it’s now colloquially known) is no longer just a one-hit wonder. It is a full-blown pop culture phenomenon, having influenced the indie horror space more than perhaps any other series in recent memory. Looking back now, it is easy to forget just how strange and refreshing the original game was when it first released — and how much of its DNA can still be felt in the genre today. The Horror of Helplessness What made the original Five Nights at Freddy’s so different fro...

Welcome back to the Pizzaplex… For those who know me away from Geek Culture Reviews, October is usually an expensive month as it’s my daughter Grace’s birthday. While  she gets the normal haul of gifts from me & her Mum, and her Grandparents, my brothers - and family friends - often opt to give her cash instead. Now 14 she’s heading into the territory of more complex board games and as such with her birthday cash she came home today with a copy of Five Nights At Freddy’s: Survive Until 6AM Security Breach Edition that she picked up in our local HMV.  Of course it wasn’t long before we sat down to play it, and after recently finishing the video game of FNAF: Security Breach - we were both eager to venture back to the Freddy Fazbear Pizzaplex. But did we survive?  Created by Funko, FNAF: Survive Until 6AM Security Breach Edition is a simple card game that’s a spin-off to the original ‘Survive Until 6AM’ title. Themed around Security Breach, up to two players need to sur...