How to play Five Nights at Freddy's: Help Wanted on Mac

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Game summary

Five Nights at Freddy’s: Help Wanted is a collection of classic and original mini-games set in the Five Nights universe. Experience the horror in flat (non-VR) mode or VR. Oculus Rift and HTC Vive are supported. A VR Headset is NOT required to play.
First released: May 2019

Play Five Nights at Freddy's: Help Wanted on Mac with Parallels (virtualized)

The easiest way to play Five Nights at Freddy's: Help Wanted on a Mac is through Parallels, which allows you to virtualize a Windows machine on Macs. The setup is very easy and it works for Apple Silicon Macs as well as for older Intel-based Macs.

Parallels supports the latest version of DirectX and OpenGL, allowing you to play the latest PC games on any Mac. The latest version of DirectX is up to 20% faster.

Our favorite feature of Parallels Desktop is that when you turn off your virtual machine, all the unused disk space gets returned to your main OS, thus minimizing resource waste (which used to be a problem with virtualization).

Five Nights at Freddy's: Help Wanted installation steps for Mac

Step 1
Go to Parallels.com and download the latest version of the software.
Step 2
Follow the installation process and make sure you allow Parallels in your Mac’s security preferences (it will prompt you to do so).
Step 3
When prompted, download and install Windows 10. The download is around 5.7GB. Make sure you give it all the permissions that it asks for.
Step 4
Once Windows is done installing, you are ready to go. All that’s left to do is install Five Nights at Freddy's: Help Wanted like you would on any PC.
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🕹 Editor's notes

Five Nights At Freddys Help Wanted is a collection of all the greatest hits of Scott Cawthon’s horror and survival games, released on May 28th, 2019.

This game is best experienced when played using a Virtual Reality headset. The Oculus Rift is highly recommended if you want to play this game. This game has several modes, which are all entertaining for various reasons.

All these modes have been redesigned from the ground up for Virtual Reality, allowing players to man the security booth and much more using their own hands.

Plot

Five Nights at Freddy’s Help Wanted is a horror game with scary animatronics, where you have to try and avoid having encounters with them. It involves the best characters from all five of Scott Cawthon’s classics and mini-games from the Five Nights series.

In the game, you will have to survive in the mini-games integrated into the old versions of Five Nights. You will repair animatronics, and ventilation systems, revisit the first three games, and much more.

This game has reintegrated characters and locations from past games, and you can play the games in any order you wish.

Gameplay

This game has a various game modes, each harder than the next one. In some modes, you have to take the role of a mechanic who is charged with repairing a series of broken animatronics. Your job is to repair the broken animatronics by tediously removing and replacing broken parts.

If you make the wrong move, your life will be at risk at the hands of a mechanical beast. In other modes, you are supposed to crawl through the air vents of a pizzeria to solve various puzzles. This is one of the scariest modes in the game, as you are surrounded in all directions by pitch-black shafts where there are various types of unimaginable horrors.