The series is set in an alternate universe of the original Five Nights at Freddy's series, and its story takes into account only the first three Five Nights at Freddy's installments. The series also shares a continuity with Five Nights at Candy's, and both series exist within the same universe.[1] The shared universe is dubbed the "CPU" (Candy/Popgoes Universe).[2]
POPGOES Arcade, alternatively known as POPGOES: The Dead Forest, is an arcade RPG spin-off game that serves as a prequel to POPGOES Evergreen. It was released on June 12, 2020.
myPOPGOES is a short teaser game released on Game Jolt on April 3, 2023. A paid, expanded version of the game is in development and set to be released on Steam in the future.
POPGOES Evergreen is an upcoming installment of the POPGOES series. It was first revealed on April 1, 2020, with POPGOES Arcade and was officially estimated to release in 2023. However, that was delayed to an unknown date.
Non-Fanverse Content[]
"Perhaps some things are best left forgotten, forever..."
The contents of this article or section are from projects not a part of the Fazbear Fanverse initiative. This includes pre-rebooted versions of the games, cancelled projects, etc. Anything related to such is considered unofficial to the initiative. However, our sister wiki (POPGOES Wiki) has already covered them.
Long Popgoes is a free downloadable package of custom Discord emojis by Kane Carter and Emil Macko. Although it was confirmed to be unofficial to the Fazbear Fanverse initiative, it did officially tease Sara and Saffron the Squirrel for POPGOES Evergreen.
POPGOES Archives is a Game Jolt page, archiving most of the pre-reboot POPGOES content. It includes the pre-reboot POPGOES, POPGOES Arcade, POPGOES Creator Pack, POPGOES Arcade 2, POPGOES Memories, POPGOES 2 Epitome Pack, and POPGOES Finale Demo.
The pre-reboot version of POPGOES was released on June 26, 2016 and sets in the original continuity of the POPGOES series but, along with other already-released games, was no longer canon when POPGOES Evergreen was announced.
The gameplay functions were slightly different, and there were other animatronic characters that never officially came back to POPGOES Evergreen, such as Strings, Gem Stone, Grave Stone, and the Lux Animatronics.
The 2015 version of POPGOES was an earlier draft for the pre-reboot POPGOES of 2016. The game was very similar to the final cut, although it contains very different plot elements, and instead of Fritz Glade being the main protagonist, it was Mike Schmidt Jr., the son of Mike Schmidt, who appeared in the first original Five Nights at Freddy's.
POPGOES: Silent Night was a planned downloadable expansion for the 2015 version of POPGOES and would have included an additional seventh night. With the main game's draft dropped, this expansion was scrapped.
POPGOES Encore! is a canned sequel to POPGOES's earlier 2015 draft. It was first conceptualized in late 2015 but was eventually cancelled, leaving several unfinished models (although one of them is completed) and dozens of concept arts.
POPGOES 2-2016 is a cancelled draft for the 2016 POPGOES sequel. The game is supposed to take place after the first game's Grave Ending, where it sets in Fritz's house, and the player would have played Simon Fitzgerald himself. The player would have confronted the Popgoes animatronics' dreamcatcher counterparts, which were created by a gigantic animatronic-like machine named "Help".
POPGOES Reprinted is a cancelled bundle game that would be made up of the first game's remake and the sequel to the 2016 continuity of POPGOES. The game was first teased on October 30, 2016 during Dawko's charity livestream and was expected to release in 2018, but was ultimately cancelled. Despite its cancellation, the story is still considered canon to the 2016 continuity.
This project was combined with two games:
POPGOES 1: The Blackrabbit - It was meant to be a remake of the first game, including updated renders, gameplay changes, and more voice acting.
POPGOES 2: The Dead Forest - It was a direct sequel to the first game. The game would have been set in a warehouse where Fritz must defend himself against the skeletal versions of the Popgoes animatronics known as "the Epitomes," as well as severally damaged forms of the original animatronics called "the Heartless."
There was also originally a "Day of the Dead" DLC for The Dead Forest. Once downloaded, the Epitomes would have been reskinned with calavera textures.
POPGOES 0, previously known as POPGOES IF, is a cancelled game meant to take place before the events of POPGOES 2: The Dead Forest, developed by Phil Morg. It was initially made as a fanmade POPGOES game but later became official after Phil revealed it to Kane. The game was first teased at the ending of POPGOES Arcade 2, where Generated Popgoes' arm holding the music box was revealed at the right when brightening up the screen. However, the game was later decanonized and ultimately cancelled due to POPGOES 2: The Dead Forest requiring a amount of plot changes.
POPGOES Finale is another cancelled game of the 2016 continuity. It was a compilation of three POPGOES Reprinted minigames and meant to be the final farewell to the POPGOES series.
POPGOES: The Plastic Grave is a cancelled project that was originally a comic but later changed into a novel. It was meant to explain POPGOES' original plot. It was supposed to be written by Kane Carter and drawn by HLLX, but was later changed to PanDarcy. The latter finished three pages before the project's cancellation.
The plot involved Jeremy Fitzgerald telling his story to a character named Poppy. The first page showed dialogue between them as Jeremy prepares to tell his story. The second page shows Toy Bonnie doing the Bite of '87, with the third and last showing Jeremy himself in a hospital bed, head all bandaged up, and a cork board at New and Improved Freddy Fazbear's Pizza, showing the company's reaction to the incident. The last page's dialogue has Jeremy explain how, due to the mass interest in his person and the public seeing him as "The Victim," he changed his name to "Fritz Glade."
The cover art for the novel version also implies that the connection between Popgoes' Pizzeria animatronics and the Toys would have been expanded upon and explained as well, as the Toys are prominently featured on the illustration, with corresponding Popgoes' Pizzeria animatronics below them. Interestingly enough, the novel's logo shows the "O"s in POPGOES being green, connecting to Toy Bonnie's and Popgoes' eyes rather than Bonnie Glade's.
POPGOES: Heart of Stone is another cancelled POPGOES comic, this one telling the story of how Stone the Crow would have been originally disconnected from the WeaselWare. It was to be written by Kane Carter and illustrated by Ellie "StupidButterfly" Patterson. Out of the 25 originally planned pages, only 8 were finished and released on Carter's Twitter between December 21 and 30, 2016. Four behind-the-scenes sketches were also shown on January 5, 2016.
The comic itself shows "Fritz Glade" driving to Popgoes' Pizzeria. Before coming inside, he notices that Stone has been vandalized. He takes a 500GB cartridge out of the bird animatronic and makes his way into his office, greeting Popgoes, Sara, and Saffron on the way. The last page shows him inserting the cartridge into his PC.
The BTS images show off Fritz's, Popgoes', and Stone's designs, as well as the original sketch of the third page.
POPGOES: Evolution is yet another cancelled POPGOES comic, though this time meant as a tie-in for POPGOES 2: The Dead Forest rather than the original game. It was scrapped when the game evolved into POPGOES: Reprinted and the team decided to have in-game comic book-style cutscenes. It was to be written by Kane Carter and illustrated by TigeraRainbowra. The first and only completed page was released on Kane Carter's Twitter on December 9, 2017. A second version of that first page was later shown off on POPGOES: Lost & Found on June 28, 2021. The next day, a rough storyboard for the beginning of POPGOES Evolution would be shown off on the aforementioned account.
The plot would be about how the Simon robot escaped and (almost) killed "Fritz." The first page has him chained up to a wall in Fritz's office, telling him how he can bring her (Bonnie) back if he is given access to WeaselWare. The rest of the plot comes from the storyboard; seemingly after a time skip to the end of the original game/Black Rabbit Chapter, Simon is freed and crawls to "Fritz's" desk, presumably killing his creator. After finding himself in the dining area of Popgoes' Pizzeria, he is confronted by Bonnie Glade, her Blackrabbit body completed. Due to the storyboard lacking text, it is unknown what they said during the confrontation. He then drags Strings into a different room (presumably The Dead Forest's office) and seemingly tears off his arms.
POPGOES: Memories is a presentation project meant to show off the story and characters of the cancelled POPGOES: Reprinted. It is a series of images posted to Kane Carter's Twitter on February 28 and March 28, 2018.
POPGOES: Lost & Found is a twitter account ran by Kane Carter, documenting the obscure and recovered content from through the POPGOES series. It was launched in June 2021.
The documented content includes:
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Scrapped Plot Points:
POPGOES Finale level names
Manora having a "Heart Attack" - a grotesque explosion of battery acid from her endoskeleton heart.
The ending of POPGOES 2 being a bad one, unless the player completed some very difficult puzzles. It would result in Epitomes being released into the world.
Epitome Gem Stone was being considered for a moment.
The other Dreamcatchers' names and canon designs:
Notes (taking notes) - Toy Bonnie
Bows (crossing bows) - Toy Freddy
Eyes (feasting eyes) - Toy Chica
Pieces (breaking pieces) - Mangle
Signs (showing signs) - BB.
Layouts of all the locations planned for POPGOES Finale
Minigames
Scrapped POPGOES 2: The Dead Forest minigames, where strings would travel through the WeaselWare as a disembodied head
Animated intros to the three stories planned for POPGOES Finale.
Mock-ups of POPGOES (2015)'s planned death minigames, where Strings could search for keywords and phrases in the WeaselWare's database,
Animations:
Original JJ's destruction scene from POPGOES Finale.
Epitome Popgoes crawling through a vent and hiding in the shadows of "an "outdoors" horror environment".
Popgoes approaching the player in his Heartless design.
Early test jumpscare of Simon Robot, meant for POPGOES Finale's secret ending.
Early version of Popgoes' jumpscare for POPGOES (2015).
A POPGOES trailer inspired by Danganronpa: Trigger Happy Havoc.
WIP of a deleted scene from POPGOES' trailer
A short recording of an early build of POPGOES, when each camera had a border with the room's name on it
Comic content:
Alternative version of the first page of POPGOES: Evolution.
Rough storyboard for POPGOES: Evolution.
Renders
An older Epitome Popgoes model.
Updated Models of Epitome Popgoes and Epitome Blake prior to being given Strings' arms.
BTS renders of POPGOES Arcade 2's replica of FNaF3's arcade room and Simon Fitzgerald's jumpscare.
Old, unrendered scenes of Gem Stone sitting next to strings in his and the office's oldest designs.
Older head models for Epitome Blake and Epitome Stone, as well as Simon Robot's Dear Skull.
Simon Robot in his older Deadline design (with WIP textures giving him blood-stained hands) in the POPGOES 2 warehouse.
Reprinted Popgoes' 3D Model.
Simon Robot's updated design head for POPGOES: Reprinted, as well as his head endo.
Two "particularly disturbing errors with Popgoes' model".
Lux Popgoes', Lux Blake's and Lux Stone's "angry expression" designs.
Previous attempt at updating Simon Robot's model for POPGOES 2, with both his original and Frayed designs.
Strings' endoskeleton head.
JJ's head buttons.
All the different rooms from POPGOES 2's warehouse.
Centre Hall
North Office
Left Corridor
Right Corridor
Stone Hub / Animatronic Charger
Bot Assembly Room
Electronics Room
Boiler Room
Item Storage Room.
First ever renders of Blake, Sara, Saffron and Stone, alongside a shorter Popgoes.
"Fritz"'s upstairs office for POPGOES Finale.
Scrapped teasers for POPGOES (2015) of the Popgoes' Pizzeria Animatronics and Bonnie Glade talking about evil:
Popgoes - I see evil
Blake - I hear evil
Sara and Saffron - I sense evil
Stone - I feel evil
Bonnie Glade - I made evil
Scrapped Art:
Unfinished promotional artwork of Simon Robot in his Deadline appearance.
Unfinished promotional artwork of Simon Robot.
Scrapped Music
Early versions of "Final Chance" - POPGOES Finale ending song
Concept Art:
Stylized concept art of Epitome Popgoes.
Concept sketches of Saraffron X, Blake X, Popgoes X and Chica X.
News report of Epitome sightings for POPGOES 2's bad ending's to-be final cutscene, showing Epitome Sara and Epitome Saffron in a forest.
Alternate design concept art for Manora's Aborted appearance.
The cut "Scrapped Parts and Service room", which would connect to Parts and Service.
Epitome Gem Stone.
Different variants of POPGOES 2's warehouse map.
All the different rooms from POPGOES 2's warehouse:
Centre Hall
North Office
Left Corridor
Right Corridor
Popgoes + Sara Hub / Animatronic Chargers
Saffron + Blake Hub / Animatronic Chargers
Stone Hub / Animatronic Charger
Bot Assembly Room
Electronics Room
Boiler Room
Item Storage Room.
A link to the Concept Art Livestream of the original POPGOES 2.
First ever mock-up for any POPGOES project, describing POPGOES (2015)'s gameplay and featuring the original animatronic designs.
Concept art of "Themed" versions of Freddy, Bonnie, Chica, Cupcake and Foxy, from the sister locations.
Sprites of the Themed Animatronics.
HD textures:
Dawko Staff Room easter egg
Scrapped FNaC easter egg
Scrapped TNaF easter egg
All POPGOES rooms
Minor reveals:
Epitome Blake's original name being Godzilla Blake
Future[]
POPGOES Ultraviolet[]
Kane Carter is interested in making new POPGOES games after the release of POPGOES Evergreen. Kane confirmed that if POPGOES Evergreen was successful enough upon its launch, he would make a sequel titled "POPGOES Ultraviolet," which would mainly focus on Simon.[3]
