There is some seriously good horror foundation here, but the Five Nights at Freddy's DNA does the game no favors: the gameplay seems tuned to set the player up to fail in order to deliver jumpscare game over screens at regular intervals more than anything else. It would be ungenerous to call this a jumpscare game, as there is more to the atmosphere than that, but it's definitely a product of its time.

The game also lacks closure and payoff: no matter which ending you get it's an anticlimax. What a shame.

Played this for the first time with the Ultra Deluxe edition.

The original content is more philosophically cohesive, imo, but the new content has some particularly striking imagery and I generally found its dialogue funnier than the original's, so I'd say overall I liked them about equally.

I appreciate that each distinct ending has something to say without trying to sway the player toward any particular viewpoint. I can't say it changed my perspective on the nature of gaming or anything, but it coherently articulated a lot of stuff running through the back of my head while I play games, so it was a worthwhile experience for me. The dialogue itself is nice too. Charmingly irreverent without being cloying.