The retro-styled Five Nights at Freddy's: Into the Pit just launched on Steam this week and it's already one of the highest rated in the series' 10 year history. Frankly, I'm not surprised. As soon as I found out the retro maestros over at Mega Cat Studios were handling the first pixel art Five Nights at Freddy's game, I knew the project was in mighty good hands.
The beloved studio is known for developing and publishing bangers for retro consoles like the NES, SNES, and Sega Genesis, although its most recent releases have been on PC. I was just raving about the new Sega Genesis shoot 'em up ZPF that Mega Cat is publishing, and I fully expected the studio to do its thing on Five Nights at Freddy's: Into the Pit. Well, now it's released as part of the series' 10th anniversary and already has an 'Overwhelmingly Positive' Steam rating; out of the more than 2,000 reviews currently on Steam, 96% of them are positive.
Flicking through the user reviews, I'm seeing a whole lot of 'best game in the series' comments, which is really something else for a franchise that's spawned 10 mainline entries and a bunch of spinoffs. Another thing that really excites me personally is all the chatter in the reviews about Into the Pit bringing Five Nights at Freddy's back to its horror roots. Even the Steam description places a lot of emphasis on the horror elements, promising a "heart-pounding adventure" and "five nights of terror in this chilling adventure game.
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