I still hold true that Five Nights at Freddy's was a good game with an original concept, centred around a genuinely unnerving premise. The game wasn't particularly long, nor was it particularly difficult if you knew what you were doing, but it had a tendency to stick with you long after you'd stopped playing. Some of the imagery was deeply unsettling, and the game's backstory was intriguing, so much so that even people who hadn't played the game would talk in depth about the murdered children who were stuffed inside cutesy animatronics. At some point, games like Five Nights at Freddy's started to find a new audience, an audience of players who had no interest in actually playing the game, or even in learning about the lore surrounding it. This new audience instead just wanted to watch famous youtubers jump out of their seats, scream in front of their webcams and basically play the game for them, so they didn't have to. It's pretty upsetting, but games like Five Nights at Freddy's have become associated with figures such as PewDiePie and Tobuscus to such an extent that it's actually really difficult to separate them. They're one in the same, to the point that now dozens of FNAF clones are being published to Steam on a weekly basis, just to appease this new let's playing audience. For that reason, Five Nights at Freddy's has to take the top spot for being a game with genuine promise, utterly ruined by its own fanbase, or rather, ruined by extension of a much larger, more pervasive fanbase. Are there any other games whose fanbases just put you right off? Let us know in the comments!
