Gaming’s sort of divided on the Five Nights at Freddy’s games. On one hand you have some people who dislike it because it relies on jumpscares to end a game and because the first game got so popular so fast it became one of those “Let’s Play fads” where everyone was playing it and therefore some swore off it because everyone else had already done it. But as a game it did have a wonderful tension-setting atmosphere, arguably most of the horror came from the waiting and paranoia it would grip you with, there were some great design elements (oh Mangle, you poor twisted fiend) and if you took the time to find all the hidden easter eggs you would be rewarded with some parts of what is a wonderfully creepy story.

I fall into the latter camp, mainly because I love the lore (missing just enough information to keep us guessing) and have a thing for creepy yet child-friendly things. So when I found out that the website at scottgames.com had changed from the OFFLINE image that’d been displaying since late last year to the image below, I was excited.

Wonderful creepy image, and looking at the website’s source also reveals one more chilling message of “I remain”. But then you lighten it a bit to reveal the 3 in the bottom-right corner… and something else that makes the image even more scary.

See those teeth on the animatronic? Stained red with blood maybe? Possibly whoever was responsible for the infamous Bite of ’87? There’s just so many things you could guess from this image if you know the backstory, and that’s what excites me.

Of course, this was only put up a few days ago so there’s been no more details revealed yet, but the auto-e-mailer for Scott Cawthon does confirm that yes he is working on a third game for the series and no he’s not going to tell us anymore yet. If it’s anything like FNAF2, we’re going to get more teaser images in the weeks to come and might even get to see what state the animatronics are in now… and that might help us place whether it’ll be a sequel or a prequel or a midquel or… something.

Can’t wait.