POPGOES Arcade

POPGOES Arcade is an official Five Nights at Freddy's spinoff produced by Scott Cawthon as part of the Fazbear Fanverse Initiative, and developed by long-time community creators. The Steam release bundles two retro-styled RPG campaigns — POPGOES: The Dead Forest, originally released for free in 2020, and a new sequel called POPGOES and The Machinist that unlocks after completing the first — into a single package, with shared characters and lore that ties back to the broader FNAF universe.

The Dead Forest introduces new protagonists like Popgoes the Weasel and Manora the Mouse alongside familiar FNAF faces such as Chica the Chicken and Foxy the Pirate. The art style deliberately mimics the minigames embedded in the main FNAF series, and the gameplay is an RPG progression of exploring an expanding map, battling corrupt forest animals, collecting items and abilities, and saving the world. Loads of secrets, easter eggs and lore are packed into every region for players invested in the wider mythology.

The Machinist sequel adds new areas, new enemies and new abilities like Overkill and Scrap Coins, plus deeper lore connections to the larger POPGOES storyline. The Steam version layers on a customisable room that displays your weapons and trophies, the Bestiary and the Index as enemy-tracking encyclopedias, and fifty Steam achievements split evenly across the two chapters. A 2025 Fighting Chance update introduced random Battle Gift modifiers and reworked abilities and visuals to keep returning players engaged with material they'd already cleared.