Five Nights At Freddy’s Into The Pit Review (Steam)

by Jim Smale · August 23, 2024

Five Nights At Freddy’s Into The Pit Review, Survive five nights of terror in this chilling adventure game. Travel between time periods to solve puzzles, gather clues and outrun the threat relentlessly pursuing you. Move swiftly and stay hidden, and you may just survive. But be careful—it’s not just your own life that’s on the line this time.

Five Nights At Freddy’s Into The Pit Review Pros:

Decent pixel art graphics.
3.55GB download size.
Steam achievements.
Own in-game achievements.
Full controller support.
Screen settings – resolution, screen mode, brightness slider, and color contrast.
Icon size slider.
Speed run timer option.
You can remap the controls.
Accessibility options – font style (default/open dyslexic), hint rate, audio visualization, run mode (toggle/hold), and hiding mini-games (default/autoplay).
Five save slots.
Two game difficulties – creepy (narrative experience), and frightening (default).
Cool pixel art cutscenes.
You can skip the cutscenes or fast-forward the text.
2.5D game world.
Nods to famous film franchises.
Great soundtrack.
Jump scares plenty.
Pizza roller mini-game where you roll the ball down the lane and try and get it into holes for points via the ramp.
Has all these cool little sequences to take part in.
Clear button prompts.
With a strong use of stealth mechanics, you have a noise meter that goes up and down depending on if you are running or not.
You can hide under tables, chairs, etc, and pan the camera from side to side.
Very atmospheric.
Quick-time events trigger at certain times.
The game takes place over two time frames, same locations but at different times in history.
The sound work for effects is brilliant, you can hear footsteps, doors opening and closing nearby, words being spoken and so much more.
When you are being chased you get markers on the side of the screen to help.
This has a lot of horror elements throughout.
It has a cat-and-mouse-like approach to much of the game as you have to run away from the enemies and hide, making little noise as you explore.
A really good story, I don’t want to give too much away as you need to experience it yourself as it adds to the tension and gameplay.
Has puzzle elements throughout the game.
The game’s own achievements pop up and make a noise when earned.
Has a lot of callbacks to the good old days.
The logs menu has a rundown of all conversations and observations so far.
The quest list is self-explanatory and ticks off as you do them.
You have a map of where you are at all times but eventually, you unlock the neighborhood map and here you can jump to locations.
A surprisingly deep and rewarding experience.
Multiple endings.
You have an inventory system for items that can help.
Despite the simple locations, they all have a great sense of adventure and depth.

Five Nights At Freddy’s Into The Pit Review Cons:

The cursor stays on the screen when using the controller.
No voice work in the cutscenes.
You cannot set the text to auto-scroll.
Bare minimum graphics option.
Kind of immersion-breaking when something scary is happening and the dialogue for checking things out doesn’t change.
They repeat a lot of canned descriptions of items and furniture.
It can be hard at times to know what the game wants from you.
The screaming noises are a bit much and at a frequency that straight up hurts my ears.
Never sure when I’ve triggered a checkpoint or when the game saves.
Few of the quests are boring fetch and backtracking affairs.
Some of the interactive prompts have to be so precise, not good when being chased and time is of the essence.