Five Nights at Epstein's

Five Nights at Epstein's is a browser survival horror game built on the classic security office formula: you never leave your chair, and every shift runs from midnight until 6 AM. Your screen is a bank of 11 camera feeds covering the compound, and four separate stalkers move between them while you watch. Audio lures let you play a noise on a chosen camera to pull a wanderer away from your room, the vent panels can be opened or closed to block the crawl space, and the E key is your panic button for whatever turns up at the window — you get about half a second to hit it.

What makes the nights tense is that everything you use can break. Firing the same audio lure from the same camera over and over overloads the system, so you have to alternate feeds and repair the gear at the control panel when it fails. One of the four is permanently strapped in place and has to be shocked before its warning meter turns critical, which means you can never stay buried in the cameras for long. Five nights make up the main run, Nights 6 and 7 unlock after that, and finishing them opens a Custom Night where you set the difficulty of each stalker yourself. If you want the game that started this whole genre, play Five Nights at Freddy's.