In a trailer shared at this year’s Game Developer Conference, indie developer Steel Wool Studios has announced that Five Nights At Freddy’s: Security Breach — the latest installment in the ongoing Five Nights At Freddy’s series of survival horror games — will be coming to Nintendo Switch. No release date was revealed alongside the announcement, and no further details have been provided since, however, the trailer, which showcases several minutes of Nintendo Switch gameplay, has been made available online by YouTube channel GameXplain.
Based on the footage shown in the trailer, it appears that the upcoming Nintendo Switch version of Five Nights At Freddy’s: Security Breach will be a direct port of the game. Security Breach was first released for PlayStation 4, PS5, and PC in late 2021.
Five Nights At Freddy’s: Security Breach has had a checkered development and release history. Originally slated for a late 2020 launch, the game was delayed to 2021 — “early 2021, not late 2021,” to quote Five Nights At Freddy’s creator Scott Cawthon, who explained in a Reddit post that more time was needed in order to fully realize his and Steel Wool Studios’ vision for the game.
While Cawthon and Steel Wool Studios may have originally had an early 2021 release in mind for Security Breach, the game would end up receiving numerous more delays before finally arriving on PlayStation 4, PS5, and PC on December 16, 2021 in North America, and worldwide on December 17 the very next day. As apology for Security Breach’s persistent delays, Cawthon released a side-scrolling beat-’em-up spinoff by name of Security Breach: Fury’s Rage for fans to play for free online.
In May of last year, Steel Wool Studios released a teaser image for the “Ruin” DLC expansion set to be released for Security Breach later this year. The image, which has already been dissected several times over for meaning and lore by Five Nights At Freddy’s fans, features a girl raising a lit flashlight to a large Glamrock Freddy suit that has fallen into, well, ruin. Several large monitors hang above them, each displaying security camera footage, with one screen in particular reading the words ‘HELP ME’.
Given the general lack of information regarding the upcoming Nintendo Switch version of Security Breach, it is not currently known whether the Switch version will be released ahead of the Ruin DLC, alongside it, or after the fact. Security Breach is currently available for PlayStation 4, PS5, PC, Xbox Series X|S, Xbox One, and Stadia. A film adaptation of the Five Nights At Freddy’s series is currently in production.
