There's no doubt that Scott Cawthon has earned some fame and fortune thanks to the Five Nights at Freddy's franchise. We've seen six entries in the popular game series (including a spin off) within the span of two years, so you might say he's been working hard to "ride the wave". Now it seems that this might have taken its toll on the talented guy.
Cawthon has announced that we won't see the highly teased Five Nights at Freddy's 6 come to life, and his reasoning is quite simple. The expectations got higher and higher for each entry, which in turn led to him using more and more time of his life to develop the games. He fears that this in turn has meant he has neglected other things in his life, and that's one of the reasons why he's decided to stop working on what you might call Five Nights at Freddy's 6. Neither he or the other people involved in the now-cancelled project plan to divulge anything about the project, so we'll probably never know what might have been.
The good news is that Cawthon won't stop making games nor leave the FNaF universe behind; he just wants to get back to what made game-making enjoyable in the first place and that something set in the popular universe might be part of this. He mentions that he had a lot of fun making the Foxy Fighters from Update 2, as it took a lot of the pressure off him knowing that it was just for his fans. This leads us to believe that we might see some kind of spin off, and he even gives us a small tease:
"Maybe I'll try my hand at a pizzeria tycoon game, who knows. The point is that it would be something for fun, and something for the fans. :)"
Was it time for Cawthon to step away from the series, or would you have loved to see more?