Five Nights at Freddy's 3

About Five Nights at Freddy's 3

Five Nights at Freddy's 3 is the third game in Scott Cawthon's series, released on PC in March 2015, on Android on March 6 and on iOS on March 12. Ports for PlayStation 4, Xbox One and Nintendo Switch, published by Clickteam, followed on November 29, 2019; the Xbox version also runs on Xbox Series X|S and Windows through Xbox Play Anywhere.

Thirty years after Freddy Fazbear's Pizza closed its doors, its story has become a rumour and a childhood memory. The owners of Fazbear's Fright: The Horror Attraction want to revive the legend as authentically as they can, and have collected whatever survived: empty shells, a hand, a hook, an old paper-plate doll. Then they found one animatronic. You work the night shift in its office.

There is only one animatronic that can kill you, Springtrap. You follow him on two camera networks, one for the rooms and one for the vents, seal vents to slow him down, and play an audio lure on the cameras to draw him away from your office. The audio, camera and ventilation systems break down, and rebooting them from a maintenance panel takes time you may not have. Phantom versions of animatronics from the earlier games appear and jump at you; they cannot kill you, but they cause system failures that let Springtrap in.

Critics were split. PC Gamer and Destructoid praised the reworked cameras, which give you more reason to use them, while all three of them, Nintendo Life included, found the phantoms repetitive. Nintendo Life called the game simpler and more skill-based, and saw its weaker horror as a trade-off for the improved mechanics. Metacritic lists the PC version at 68.

The game has five nights and an extra sixth. A night lasts only a few minutes of real time, so most of your hours go into retrying the harder nights. After each night an Atari-style minigame tells more of the series' backstory, and hidden minigames decide which of two endings you get. On Steam it is in English only; the console and phone versions add subtitles in ten more languages, including French, German, Spanish, Japanese and Chinese.

How to play Five Nights at Freddy's 3

1. Sit in the office and open the camera monitor to find Springtrap on the room or vent cameras.
2. Play the audio lure on a camera near him to draw him away from your office.
3. Seal vents he is crawling through to slow him down.
4. When the audio, cameras or ventilation fail, open the maintenance panel and reboot them.
5. Survive until 6 AM to finish the night, then play the minigame that follows.

Tips

• Keep track of where Springtrap is before you do anything else; he is the only one who can kill you.
• Use the audio lure to pull him away from the office rather than waiting for him to arrive.
• Fix broken systems quickly; phantoms cause failures that leave you blind and deaf.
• Check the vent cameras as well as the rooms; he can come through either.
• Play the minigames between nights; the hidden ones decide which ending you get.

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