I want to start off by saying that I genuinely enjoyed my time with FNAF: Security Breach. The Game looks fantastic (When you can run it at that level, regardless of having a pretty beefy PC), the art style is great and the gameplay and story elements had me hooked. To the point I braved the end game, collected most of the collectables and messages and completed one ending of it after about 16 or so hours of gameplay (I did spend a big portion AFK and paused to take breaks)

However, and it pains me to say this because I can see the passion and drive to deliver a good game to fans of FNAF and one that explored new gameplay avenues, I cannot recommend this game in it's current state and for it's current price tag. The number of bugs, glitches and outright BS moments I had in this game frustrated me beyond reason. Having animatronics teleport to you when spotted by STAFF bots, who already have some frankly bizarre and erratic patrol patterns, felt cheap and led to a number of unfair deaths and lost progress. I was softlocked a number of times and had to reload to a previous point to progress. I fell through the floor once when Freddy clipped into geometry. And that's not even mentioning the atrocious optimisation.

This game is huge, I believe some of that space is deserved, however 80+ GB storage is ridiculous for the amount of content. MW2019, as an example, was that large on launch and had Multiplayer, Campaign and Warzone bundled together. Now, this isn't entirely the fault of the developers, machines have become so powerful and large that optimising for storage is kind of neglected. However, performance and content should be utmost if storage space optimisation is secondary. This game runs terribly, and for someone who could run CP2077 on launch on high graphics with Ray Tracing Sprinkled On at a comfortable 40-60fps is saying alot. I can't have Ray Tracing on, period, it lags the game to a frankly ridiculous extent and having the graphics on High will also make it lag at points. Instead, I had to play the Game at medium settings, which still looked good, great even, but the amount of pop-in, LOD errors and stuttering was laughable. It's simply inexcusable. I understand they're a rather small group of devs, who were likely rushed or pressed for budget, but the game needs polish. Lots of it. Bugs and Performance Optimisations, which they're doing, to give them credit. I believe the game should have come out later, to make time for polish.

The gameplay and story is honestly where the game excels. Having Freddy be a good guy this time was a great idea, and exploring the megaplex felt surreal and disconcerting, especially when you heard the "comforting" lulls of one of the animatronics looking for you. While their designs aren't particularly scary, it doesn't matter when you're being chased by an 8 foot tall beast of metal and wires. On that note, the sound design is crisp and just very well done. Animatronic foot falls will sound different depending on the surface, the music is great and the ambiance is palpable. The environments look brilliant and, while confusing at first, finding your way around the pizzaplex becomes second nature once you learn where everything is. Also, the story, in spite of being sort of secondary to your escape attempts, is still well done and introduces interesting new potential lore to Five Nights At Freddy's.

To summarise, the game is good, not great, not meh or bad. It's good, but there's too many bugs, bizarre game and level design decisions and such poor optimisation that I simply cannot recommend it at the moment. Regardless of how much I enjoyed my time with the game, which was a lot I would not have finished it otherwise, and regardless with how impressed I was with many of the details and lore drops and animations and gameplay additions. I can't recommend the game, not in it's current state or price. Wait for it to go on sale, then grab it. I hope Steel Wool continues their excellent and passionate work, because if this was a taster, the next should be great once they get their QA and polish sorted.

TLDR; Game is good, but a bit of a mess right now, Wait for a sale and then pick it up