Nightmare Fuel Engine (also known as BlackScp096 Engine and Nightmare Engine) is a fully customized Friday Night Funkin’ engine built on top of Psych Engine.
It gives creators more control, cleaner tools, and high-quality features while staying easy for beginners.
✨ Features
🎬 Cutscenes & Media
MP4 Video Cutscene Support (high-quality playback)
Unskippable Video Support
Cutscene scripting with Lua, HScript, and JSON
🎵 Gameplay & Charting
Custom Note Types, including Warp Notes (inspired by Hit Single)
Custom Note Skins System
Excellent Mod Charting Tools (improved editor)
Ghost Tapping
Stable 4-Key FNF gameplay
🔧 Engine Systems
Mods Folder Support
Custom Events System
Editable Credits Page
Achievements System (supports custom achievements)
Game Jolt Trophies Only (no local achievements)
Full Lua, JSON, and Haxe compatibility
🔁 Compatibility
Full Psych Engine Mod Compatibility
Just drop any Psych Engine mod into the Nightmare Fuel Enginemods/folder and it will work instantly.
No conversion needed. No errors.
💻 Platform Support
Nightmare Fuel Engine is designed to run smoothly on:
✔ Windows
Built with HaxeFlixel and Lime, fully compatible with Windows 10 and Windows 11.
✔ Mac
The engine can be compiled for macOS using HaxeFlixel and the included source code.
All features — notes, Lua scripts, charts, videos, events — work across both systems.
No platform-exclusive features. No missing tools.
Just build your mod and play on your preferred OS.
🎯 Purpose
Nightmare Fuel Engine is built to give mod creators a powerful, flexible, and beginner-friendly tool for making polished, high-quality FNF mods.
Whether you’re a new modder or an advanced developer, this engine gives you everything you need.
🚫 Content Rules
This engine is meant for clean, safe, and allowed FNF content only.
NSFW content is strictly prohibited.
Mods made with this engine must follow standard community guidelines.
⚖️ Responsibility Disclaimer
Creators are fully responsible for the content they add to their own mods.
Nightmare Fuel Engine does not support, endorse, or protect NSFW content.
If a creator adds inappropriate material, they alone are responsible for the consequences of their actions.
The developers of Nightmare Fuel Engine are not associated with or responsible for mods that break these rules.
