Fucking hell am I disturbed...

I have the VR version of the game, and tbh it was a total waste of money as I am too scared to play it!
No idea of the backstory, as it is not explained in the game.

Try not letting him see the film version then aswell. It's pretty gory

At 13 I was playing crash bandicoot, kula world, Tekken and rayman. God help the kids of today

Yep the kids in school are crazy about it.. it's a film too now iirc

Edit to say I'm in primary school so a lot younger that you child & in all fairness at his age I was watching ALL the usual horrors, not saying that that's okay or that you should be blasé about his gaming but I suppose that's his age & what his peer group are into

FNAF is not extreme horror lol. It’s made for kids.

To be fair ypu don't really know much when playing the game it's just a jump scare game really. The back story's are mainly in the books.

Nope. Definitely based on fact

Fnaf has been out years. It was a big thing in my kids primary school. Theyve all left school now.

Asachild I hated cartoons for that reason. Used to upset me. Now I love a good horror😄. Still won't watch cartoons though!!

Fairy stories are also pretty dark when you read the original stories. Bendy and the ink machine, piggy, fnaf, granny etc etc. Unfortunatly its just the way things are and so long as you check things before they go on them (and appropriate consequences when they find work arounds for things they know they shouldnt be watching) then I dont see the harm

It’s horrible. Horror is horror. Why would we expose our children to it?

You can’t call another child’s parting lax for allowing their child to play that game when you allow your son to play it

Playing horror games is neither weird or a "fetish" 🙄

I think kids that age love gruesome horror to be honest - I was about his age when I used to watch horror movies with my friends - Evil Dead, Halloween, Nightmare on Elm Street etc and we enjoyed scaring ourselves silly!

And you aren't lax with your parenting by letting him play it and/or playing it with him yourself? I'm confused.

I find it quite bemusing that people get upset about fnaf when cartoons are incredibly violent and we show them to kids much younger than 12!

Cartoon characters getting squashed by weights, electrocuted, set on fire, punched, smashed with mallets and huge rocks, having their skin all burnt off etc
Fairytales are just as crazy- you can only be a "good" character if you are attractive and slim, anyone who is disfigured or not conventionally attractive is automatically evil and "bad" etc etc

Obv I am not saying those things should be banned, but when you actually examine the messages contained within its really quite disturbing.

I agree. The backstory is pretty horrific. That said, my kids played it for about a week (over age 12) and then just got bored with it.

I remember watching nightmare on elm street, amityville, halloween, and one of the boys put hellraiser on in the library when we were meant to be studying and we watched that when I was about 13/14 (it was before the days of ofsted!) and we enjoyed being scared and jumping out of our skin. It didnt turn me into a serial killer and I actually went on to work in psych with vulnerable people.

Of course if you arent comfortable with it then talk to him but kids have always enjoyed horror and it doesnt mean anything sinister. If it did, then all of my school cohort would be mass murderers by now.

Yes, agreed about the horror. I read a lot of horror aged around 11/12, especially James Herbert. My parents would not let me watch the Exorcist, but didnt seem to mind me reading it.

You said his dad would help him crack controls. That’s undermining you.

That is grim, but he's 14. Not 5. At 14/15 I was really really into the collectible magazine "Murder Casebook" which was all about serial killers so really life grizzly stuff.

And young children have read disturbing stories since the age of time. Read any fairy tales lately? Some really grizzly tales can be delivered in a child friendly way. If you describe the same story in a not child friendly way you've definitely wouldn't be reading them to your children!

That's a bit off, I'm sure everyone has clever kids.

My kids like taking apart and reinstalling tech, and stuff like that, they can also do a lot of clever online stuff, so its not about being clever as such, or interested in tech. There's just games they never play, because they aren't allowed and never were. (But no judgement from me as there's no peer pressure to in their social groups, and I wonder if I've been quite lucky there).

It's a long game isn't it, if they've been playing a long time however they want, just saying no suddenly will probably be almost impossible.

I played this as a young teen. Can’t say it’s scarred me but I suppose it’s probably changed in ten years.

Her kids are probably not as smart as ours. Mine can code and build websites. He will uninstall parental controls somehow. Teens push boundaries deliberately. No teen does exactly what their mother says that's ridiculous to suggest.

They play Minecraft on their laptop, and aside from the retro gaming that's all they play. I quite like Minecraft especially creative mode which they mostly use it in. Not sure if I sound very fuddy duddy, I have it a lot easier tbh because in their friendship groups it's mostly Minecraft anyway so no one's teasing them etc on bit playing the other stuff.