Anyone who remembers the viral sensation when it was coming out should agree: Five Nights at Freddy’s dominated the Internet for a few years.
Horror games were on the rise with YouTube Let’s Play series, and everyone either wanted to watch someone get their pants scared off, or get scared themselves.
Everything about the FNAF series did exactly that.
It didn’t matter if you were playing or watching, every second of the game was terrifying in new and unsettling ways.
I don’t want to delve into spoiler territory because half of the fun and scares around the FNAF games is the intense nail-biting lore written by creator Scott Cawthon.
So I’ll let you dive into the depths of the FNAF lore, and for now we can discover some of the best FNAF Minecraft skins out there.
Of course, Freddy Fazbear has to be the first skin on a Five Nights at Freddy’s list.
I mean, it’s in the name.
Beyond that, this skin (along with the majority of those on this list) are made by the Planet Minecraft creator Legoskeleton.
I’ll be hyping them up for this entire list. But I have to start somewhere by saying, “I can’t believe how good these skins look.”
Genuinely, the FNAF visual styles don’t seem like they’d mold themselves too well into Minecraft. But this Freddy Fazbear skin is as close to perfect as I can imagine.
Anyone who has played FNAF 3 understands the terror caused by Springtrap.
I have such vivid memories of my heart pounding as I frantically try to seal vents and listen for the audio cue before it pops up.
Now I can relive those fun memories in the once safe and secure world of Minecraft!
But actually, the decaying and decrepit form of Springtrap is perfectly depicted by Legoskeleton. It’s a great skin for shift-clicking to jump scare your friends.
FNAF’s Sister Location combined lots of the elements of the other games and turned them on their heads.
This skin, which was miraculously put together from the teasers for Sister Location by creator _Forerunner_, is a perfect representation of why the FNAF games work so well.
One look at the skin here and I don’t even want to begin to think about how this thing will jump scare me.
I think that part of the success of FNAF stems from how original all of the character designs were, and moreso, how they had such interesting alt skins.
Case in point: this Dismantled Chica by Legoskeleton looks vastly different from the original.
By adding the decay and tearing apart the already creepy suit, this version of Chica is significantly less cute than its put-together form.
Bonnie’s look is closest to that of the titular Freddy. So I think Bonnie often gets overlooked by fans, despite the fact that Bonnie was an ever-present threat in the games.
Just peering into the sunken purple eyes of this skin has me fearful again that I won’t check a monitor quick enough.
But that’s alright.
For Minecraft skins, all I need to do is look cool.
The Mangle has to be among my favorite FNAF characters.
While so many of the designs are slight twists on kid’s entertainment animatronics, the Mangle is a straight-up deformity built from the dregs of a scrapped Foxy.
Beyond the lore being engaging and cool, this skin stands out among the other FNAF ones.
While the other skins have such easily identifiable figures, the Mangle is hard to pin down – but is recognizable as a Five Nights at Freddy’s monster.
If you want to flex your FNAF knowledge, or just like the cool gangly design, Mangle is probably for you.
Five Nights at Freddy’s develops its signature horror stylings by playing on comfort characters, children’s animatronics, and twisting them enough to make them uncanny and unsettling.
The Nightmare takes all the tease of the game and throws it right out the window.
Gone are the warm colors and the soft exterior of Freddy Fazbear.
With the Nightmare, you get rows of jagged teeth, sharpened claws, and a pitch-black body.
It’s something that I would never, ever want to see in an actual Nightmare I have.
But it’s totally something I would want to see in a Minecraft game.
