Prerequisites

• Java 17 or higher installed. Therefore any PC that can run Java 17 (Linux, Windows or MacOS).
• At least 1.5 GB of free RAM. The first few Nights may use much less since there are less files to load with a lower number of Animatronic Drawings.
• Keyboard and Mouse.

How to install from this GitHub

1. Install Java 17 or higher (JDK or JRE) if you don't have it or don't know if you have it already. You can follow this tutorial or any other.
2. Check the latest release, click on Assets to expand its content, and download the .jar file.
3. (OPTIONAL) Create a new folder where you please, and place the .jar inside. Feel free to skip this step if you don't care where the executable is, since where it is doesn't really matter, it only for organizing things on your folders.
4. Double-click the .jar file to start the game.

How to install from Game Jolt

1. Install Java 17 or higher (JDK or JRE) if you don't have it or don't know if you have it already. You can follow this tutorial or any other. Game Jolt is a gaming platform and social media focused on developing games and playing games made by other people. It allows small devs, or hobby devs like myself, to upload their creations there. The app version (not the web browser one) offers a game library with auto-updating which I have configured. If you want to use this method instead, follow these steps:
2. Install the Game Jolt Client on your computer.
3. Look for my game my game on their platform. If this link opens in the browser, try searching the name Five Nights at Cris' on the opened desktop app.
4. Install the game and wait until it's downloaded and installed.
5. Click Launch and enjoy!

How to update from GitHub

1. Download the .jar file of the latest release.
2. (OPTIONAL) Place it in the folder where you have the previous version. This is not required for the game to work, it's just nice to always keep the game in the same place to look for it later.
3. You can delete the previous version if you want.
4. You are done. You can double-click the latest .jar file to start the game now.

How to update from Game Jolt

No need to do anything, their auto-update feature will take care of downloading the latest version when opening the desktop Game Jolt Client.

How to configure

You should be ready to go. But, if you want, you can reduce the volume or change if the game runs in a window or fullscreen. You can always switch between windowed and fullscreen by pressing Alt+Enter or F11 at any point while the game is running.

Now, if on the Tutorial Night it looks like the minutes at the top-right change much slower than once per second, you may want to close the game, open it again, go to the Settings page, and lower the FPS. Try not to lower them too much, since your actions will lose precision as well. Please note that the Tutorial Night is faster, but future Nights will take more than one real-time second to move the minutes, so only check this on the Tutorial Night.

What if the game won't open on double-click?

1. Make sure you have Java 17 installed.
2. If you have it correctly installed and you are using Windows, it may be possible that the Windows association of .jar files (how Windows thinks .jar files must be executed) is broken. Try installing Java again, or look for similar issues on the Internet or StackOverflow.
3. If nothing seems to work, please feel free to open a new Issue here on this GitHub project with as much information as you have of the error and what you tried. I may take some time to take a look, but I will try to help.