The Return to Freddy's 5 (formerly known as The Return to Freddy's Rebooted and The Return to Freddy's Remastered before that), was going to be the first game within Return to Freddy's Volume 2, and the final installment in the TRTF timeline chronologically.
However, upon Bioninjagames' cancellation of TRTF5 on February 6th, 2017, the TRTF Saga was officially ended by Tyler Ahlström, the founder of the series.
It was confirmed that Tyler would recreate the game, but since his departure and the cancellation of The Return to Freddy's: Chapter One, along with a rebooted series, were abandoned, it is likely that this might not be the case anymore for Tyler to work on his planned rebooted TRTF projects and move on with original games and ideas.
Breim has confirmed in a comment question in the Game Jolt page of A TRTF Story: Desolation if TRTF5 will ever be finished, which he simply replied that it will never be,[1] meaning that any chances on getting TRTF5 officially revived again are very much unlikely now.
Due to how many times this was altered and changed hands, a lot of assets went missing (Builds, Models and Maps, Audio and more), basically becoming lost media. A fair bit of these assets have resurfaced, but some also happened to disappear a bit after resurfacing. Currently, its unknown what things ended up being permanently destroyed, and its unknown how many people have access to missing assets relating to TRTF 5.
If you happen to think you have anything relating to this game, I suggest putting it on The Internet Archive to preserve it, or contacting a archivist from this community. You'll find many on the TRTF Discord server.
It has been 3030 days, 22 hours, 54 minutes and 3 seconds since it was originally announced.
Plot Summary
You're an investigator, it is the year 2036. Everyone, but you stepped down on a cold case of the mysteries and murders of Fazbear Inc. You... are alive... You... are the child from the past....
Development History
Tyler Ahlström began teasing the game with an image of an early version of Tortured Lockjaw, at the time called "Hybrid Lockjaw". Soon, BFP began teasing more characters, including the hybrid versions of Freddy Fazbear, Bonnie, Chica, Foxy, Kitty FazCat, and Vigo. BFP then started to create teaser games, starting with one where Gron and Vincent vandalize the machine that created the animatronics. Years later, it began creating the Tortured Suits, which at the time still were called "Hybrids". Another version of Torture Lockjaw was shown in another teaser. Soon, two more games were made. Some rooms of the game were shown in a few more teasers and some wallpapers, along with Lockjaw's 3rd design, known as Tortured Lockjaw. Since then, BFP has been consistently updating his website with new teasers, until 11-22-15, when he announced it was cancelled. However, on December 20th he released a trailer, revealing it is no longer cancelled, or wasn't cancelled to begin with.
On December 5, 2015, Tyler retired from game development and gave the project to Yin Kouiu. However, a user forced BFP to reveal that Yin was actually his alternate account. On October 2016, BFP decided to hand TRTF over to TannerFeline and Toonster after his counselor advised him to stop working on it. In December 2016 Toonster and TannerFeline eventually split apart deciding to make there own individual versions of TRTF5 after Toonster said he wanted to change the lore, which Feline didn't agree with. Eventually Toonster decided to cancel his version of TRTF5. Eventually later in December 2016, BFP decided to hand the whole entire TRTF series to a person named Bioninjagames. Bioninjagames decided to change the lore just like Toonster and also decided to remove some of the characters and give the torture animatronics' new models. Bioninjagames' version of TRTF5 was set to release on April 15th, 2017. On January 6th, 2017 TannerFeline decided to cancel his version of TRTF5. Exactly one month after that happened on February 6th, 2017 Bioninjagames eventually decided to cancel his version of TRTF5, due to the massive backlash it got, since he wanted to change the lore.
Known Characters
Torture Suits (Story Mode)
BFPuppet (Scrapped)
Tortured Dug
Tortured Sally
Tortured Koly
Tortured Circus Baby (Scrapped)
Tortured Fang (Scrapped)
Torture Suits (G.P.D. Mode)
Adventures (Adventure Mode)
Adventure Fang (Scrapped)
Adventure Buster
Adventure Scales
Adventure Vigo
Adventure Golden Lockjaw/Gron
Adventure Beast
Adventure Bonnie
Adventure Freddy
Adventure Timmy
Adventure Toony
Adventure Chuck
Adventure Spring Bonnie
Adventure Chica
Adventure Darl
Adventure Koly
Adventure Sally
Adventure Puppet
Adventure BFPuppet (Scrapped)
Adventure Phone Meaun
Adventure Vincent
Adventure Alison
Adventure Dug
Adventure Fredbear
Adventure Phone Buddies
Adventure Phone Guy
Adventure WoodBuddy
Adventure Torture Device
Adventure Saber
Adventure Lynda
Adventure Jester-In-A-Box (Scrapped)
Humans
Known non-Torture Suits
Trivia
This was going to be the only game in the series to have free roam.
At one point in the game's development, in a scene, the player is asked about everything being a nightmare.
This theory was believed even before this was shown, due to text when the game starting.
The text was later changed to "Life is like a butterfly's dream".
The game still mentions nightmares during the beginning cutscene that plays when the game was launched for the first time.
There were going to be 9 endings. It was originally going to be 15, but Tyler didn't have enough ideas.
This was going to take place during both day and night.
Tyler confirmed that most of the animatronics from the series would have returned in the game.
A character contest was also held to see who were the most requested animatronics to return.
This game contains the most cut characters from any TRTF game, having Torture Ice Cream Man, Popper Ping, Tortured Tealer, Tortured Ripdoll, and the cut design for Tortured Sugar, albeit only in Kennytheestallion and TannerFeline's version.
During its lifespan and development of the game, Tyler planned to make one of the first and ever merchandise items around the series, such as iPhone cases, coffee mugs, t-shirts, posters and etc.
From hints of the remastered version of the TRTFSR, it is likely that the remaster of The Return to Freddy's Remastered (2020) game was to possibly be a remake of not only the first, but the fifth game as well.
