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Gregory just got locked inside the scariest pizzeria in gaming, and Markiplier brought the camera.

Five Nights at Freddy’s just changed shape entirely. On December 16, 2021, Steel Wool Studios and ScottGames released “Five Nights at Freddy’s: Security Breach” for PlayStation 5, PlayStation 4, and PC via Steam, trading the series’ familiar stationary-camera dread for a fully free-roam survival horror experience. Two days later, Markiplier — the creator whose reactions have shaped how millions of fans experienced this franchise for years — dropped “Five Nights at Freddy’s: Security Breach – Part 1,” the opening episode of a new dedicated playthrough series.

• Steel Wool Studios and ScottGames launched “Security Breach” on December 16, 2021, for PS5, PS4, and PC/Steam — the first entry in the franchise built around full free-roam exploration rather than five stationary night shifts.
• The story traps a young boy named Gregory inside the massive “Freddy Fazbear’s Mega Pizzaplex” after nighttime lockdown, and rather than simply hiding from the animatronics, he allies with Glamrock Freddy, climbing directly into a hatch in the bear’s chest to survive.
• Markiplier’s Part 1 shows his live reaction to the new mechanics — security cameras, stealth routes, and Fazwatch notifications — while dodging hostile Glamrock Chica, Roxanne Wolf, Montgomery Gator, and Pizzaplex security guard Vanessa.

A Pizzeria the Size of a Mall

Every prior mainline entry in this franchise dropped players behind a desk with a handful of camera feeds and a door-lock budget. “Security Breach” throws that formula out. Gregory can walk — and run, and hide — through an entire neon-lit “Mega Pizzaplex,” a sprawling complex built to feel like an actual shopping mall rather than a single haunted building. According to Push Square’s breakdown of the release, that shift to free-roam exploration is the defining change of the game, giving players agency the earlier titles never allowed.

Markiplier’s first episode captures exactly what that transition feels like for someone who built a chunk of his channel on the franchise’s earlier, more claustrophobic entries. Instead of freezing at a desk waiting for a jump scare, he’s forced to actually move through corridors, duck into utility rooms, and make real-time decisions about which hallway is safe — a completely different rhythm than fans who followed his older FNAF videos would expect.

An Unlikely Alliance With Glamrock Freddy

The biggest twist in the opening hours isn’t a new monster — it’s a new ally. Gregory teams up with Glamrock Freddy, one of the Pizzaplex’s rebuilt animatronic performers, and uses a hatch in the bear’s chest and stomach as an actual hiding spot while sneaking through the mall’s utility corridors. It’s a mechanic that inverts everything the series trained players to expect from an animatronic on screen.

Gregory doesn’t just run from the animatronics this time — he climbs inside one to survive.

That inversion is also what makes the threat from the other animatronics land harder. Glamrock Chica, Roxanne Wolf, and Montgomery Gator are all hostile, patrolling, and actively hunting Gregory through the Pizzaplex, while Vanessa — the complex’s security guard — adds a human element of suspicion and danger on top of the robotic ones. Fans looking for the deeper lore connecting these new characters to the franchise’s long-running mystery have plenty to dig through, including breakdowns like Game Theory’s look at whether Golden Freddy is really lurking in Security Breach and its companion piece on the secret Afton connections players have been chasing since launch.

Markiplier’s First Night on Camera

Part 1 leans heavily on Markiplier’s live, unscripted reactions to systems the franchise has never used before — reading Fazwatch notifications on the fly, plotting stealth routes around patrolling animatronics, and reacting in real time to how differently this game plays compared to the desk-bound entries he’s covered in the past. It’s the introduction phase of Gregory’s first escape attempts, and the video captures the exact moment the format shift registers for a creator who’s spent years mastering the old rules.

Markiplier has long been credited with helping popularize this franchise for a mainstream audience well beyond the core horror-gaming crowd, and Part 1 arrives as essentially a season premiere for his channel’s FNAF audience. With the Pizzaplex only just cracked open in this first episode, the real test comes once Gregory has to make it through a full night without Glamrock Freddy’s help running out of power first.