A ball pit is an impressively horrible place to put a time machine. Even before anything supernatural happens, disappearing beneath one at a rundown pizzeria sounds like a decision someone should stop immediately. Five Nights at Freddy’s: Into the Pit takes that childhood attraction and supplies a much worse reason to stay out.
Developed by Mega Cat Studios, the game follows Oswald, whose boring summer takes a turn when he discovers that the local ball pit can transport him into the past. Unfortunately, something dangerous is waiting there, and the consequences reach beyond his own life. Getting the excitement he wanted leaves him responsible for saving people who might otherwise never escape.
Amazon Prime members can now claim Five Nights at Freddy’s: Into the Pit for PC at no additional cost. The game joined Amazon’s October giveaways on October 1, with redemption through the Epic Games Store. Subscribers can find the offer through Amazon Luna’s claimable PC games, adding another horror title to their library ahead of Halloween.
Collider Exclusive · 8 Questions · 2 Minutes What Is Your Biggest Horror Nightmare? Elm Street · Chucky · Scream · The Conjuring
Four horror franchises. Four completely different ways of scaring you. One waits until you fall asleep. One makes sure nobody believes you. One is already in your group of friends. And one is in the house with your family. Answer eight quick questions about how you actually watch horror, and find out which nightmare was built for you.
😴Elm Street(Freddy Krueger)
🧸Chucky(Child’s Play)
📞Scream(Ghostface)
🕯️The Conjuring(The Warren Files)
01
Which horror scene makes you cover your eyes? Four classic images. One of them is worse than the others for you.
02
You are home alone and you hear a noise. First thought? Everybody has one. It arrives before you have decided anything.
03
Which horror movie rule would you break first? Everybody thinks they would survive. Almost nobody actually does.
04
Something genuinely frightening happens. What do you do? Not in a film. In your actual living room, tonight.
05
How do you actually watch a horror film? Be honest about this one. Nobody is checking.
06
Somebody offers you serious money. Which do you still refuse? The amount does not matter. There is one on this list you are not doing.
07
Which feeling stays with you a week after the film? Good horror does not stop when the credits do.
08
Something wakes you at 3am. What is the worst possibility? Eight questions in, this is the one that decides your nightmare.
The Lights Just Went Out Your Nightmare Is…
Four franchises, four completely different ways of getting underneath
your skin. This is the one built out of your particular fear, why it works so well on you, and what
it would leave behind.
A Nightmare on Elm Street · Since 1984
Elm Street
Your nightmare does not wait outside the door. It waits for you
to close your eyes, which you are going to have to do eventually, because nobody has ever
won that particular argument.
Freddy is horror’s cruellest idea: a threat that lives in the one place you cannot
guard, cannot lock, and cannot avoid forever.
You are the one who is fine during the film and wide awake at two in the morning. Your
own head is where this does its damage.
These films understood exhaustion as a horror engine. The kids on Elm Street do not lose
because they are weak. They lose because they are tired.
You can lock every door in the house. You still have to sleep.
Child’s Play · Chucky · Since 1988
Chucky
Your nightmare is not really the doll. It is the face of the
person you tell, and the way they decide, very kindly, that you have imagined all of it.
Chucky works precisely because he is absurd. That is the trap: the more accurately you
describe him, the less anybody is going to believe you.
You are the one shouting at the screen because the characters are not listening. You
know that feeling from real life too.
The franchise is at its best when the adults in the room are the real obstacle, and you
have met those adults.
By the time somebody finally believes you, you will have handled most of it on your own.
Scream · Ghostface · Since 1996
Scream
Your nightmare has your number, knows your name, and has almost
certainly been inside your house before. The worst part is that you already know them.
Scream is the only one of these where the killer takes the mask off and turns out to be
somebody who was at the party.
You are the person who calls the twist out loud before it lands. You watch people the
same way you watch films.
The franchise made the rules of horror part of the plot, which means the survivors are
the ones paying attention. You would be paying attention.
Everybody is a suspect, including the person who just offered to walk you home.
The Conjuring · The Warren Files · Since 2013
The Conjuring
Your nightmare is not really about you. It is about the people
asleep down the hall, and the feeling that whatever is here is not interested in leaving.
The Conjuring films are domestic horror. The house, the family, the perfectly ordinary
room that quietly stops feeling ordinary.
Your instinct is to get everybody into one room. Your fear is protective rather than
personal, which is rarer than it sounds.
This is the one franchise where belief is the weapon. The people who come through it are
the ones who are not alone and refuse to be.
Whatever is here did not come for you. It came for the household, and you are the one
standing in the hallway.
‘Five Nights at Freddy’s: Into the Pit’ Is Yours to Keep After Claiming
Five Nights at Freddy’s: Into the PitImage via Mega Cat Studios
The offer gives subscribers a permanent addition to their PC libraries, so there’s no need to finish the game before Halloween. Amazon’s claimable games remain accessible after a Prime membership ends, allowing players to redeem the offer now and return when they have time. This copy is for the Epic Games Store, so it won’t add the game to a Steam library or unlock a console version. Originally released in August 2024, Into the Pitadapts the opening story from the franchise’s Fazbear Frights books. Its move into a 2D adventure gives players control of Oswald as he travels between the present and a much more dangerous past, with an honestly terrifying story to uncover involving his father and children whose survival depends on what he does.
That makes it an accessible, albeit stressful, starting point for someone whose familiarity with Five Nights at Freddy’s comes primarily from the movies. Players have a specific protagonist and mystery to follow, without beginning with a security-office shift. Longtime fans, meanwhile, get to explore a story from the books in a different format. Amazon’s October lineup also includes several other horror games, with DOOMalready available and Vampire: The Masquerade – Swansong joining on October 15. Ad Infinitum follows on October 22, giving subscribers another option closer to Halloween. Each has its own redemption platform, so players should check the listing before claiming.
For Into the Pit, subscribers can head to Amazon Luna’s claimable PC games, select the offer, and follow the Epic Games Store redemption instructions. The game is included at no additional cost with an eligible Prime membership.
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