Five Nights at Freddy’s 3 (NSP, XCI) ROM + v1.0.1 Update

Five Nights at Freddy’s 3 Childhood fears should always remain in the past, but the owners of “Fazbear’s Fright: The Horror Attraction” are unknowingly resurrecting those terrors. Thirty years after the closure of Freddy Fazbear’s Pizza, the horrific incidents that occurred there are now just a mere rumor and distant memory. This is a point-and-click survival horror video game developed and published by Scott Cawthon. It is the third installment in the Five Nights at Freddy’s series and takes place in a horror-themed attraction based on the restaurant chain featured in the first two games.

GAMEPLAY

Five Nights at Freddy’s 3 is a point-and-click survival horror game. Players take control of an unnamed night security guard at a soon-to-open horror attraction known as “Fazbear’s Fright”, and must complete their shift without being killed by a homicidal animatronic that wanders around the attraction.

Unlike the two previous games, Five Nights at Freddy’s 3 features only one animatronic capable of killing the player, that being a rabbit-like character known as “Springtrap”, which wanders around the attraction and targets the player’s office. The four main animatronics from the first game (Freddy Fazbear, Bonnie, Chica, and Foxy) as well as a few from the second game make appearances as “phantom” animatronics, though these are incapable of killing the player.

The player is unable to leave their office and is defenseless against Springtrap, only able to delay its advancement. They can use two security camera networks to monitor Springtrap’s movement and can halt its progress by strategically opening and closing air vents. The player also has access to a set of audio devices through the cameras, which can be used to lure Springtrap away from the office.

Alongside the camera and audio systems, the player must also maintain the ventilation system. All of these three systems will occasionally fail, requiring the player to reboot them through a lengthy process that leaves them vulnerable. If the ventilation fails for a prolonged period, the player will hallucinate and their vision will be obstructed, causing phantom animatronics to begin appearing.

If a phantom animatronic appears in the office, the player will be jumpscared and one of the systems will fail. If Springtrap enters the office, the player will be jumpscared and killed, causing a game over. After each night, the player can choose to play an Atari-style minigame. These minigames provide a backstory for the series. The game consists of five “nights” and an extra sixth night.

The player takes on the role of an unnamed security guard who must defend themself from a decrepit animatronic called Springtrap that roams the attraction while battling hallucinations of other withered animatronics. To survive, the player must monitor the building’s security cameras while maintaining additional systems, which will occasionally shut down.

PLOT

The player assumes the role of an unnamed security guard at Fazbear’s Fright, a horror-themed attraction based on Freddy Fazbear’s Pizza, a family restaurant that closed thirty years prior, where homicidal animatronic characters attacked anyone present after midnight. The player is assigned the role of night security guard for the week before the opening of Fazbear’s Fright, while the team behind the attraction searches for items from the former restaurant to be exhibited. These items include cassette tapes recorded by an employee, which play at the start of the following night. On the second night, the player learns that the team discovered a destroyed, rabbit-like animatronic named “Springtrap”, which the protagonist must prevent from entering their office for the week.

As the week progresses, the tapes discuss a variety of subjects, such as how to operate “spring lock suits”, which function as both animatronics and a costume for employees. Another tape mentions safe rooms built at each Freddy Fazbear’s Pizza location, which are inaccessible to all people except employees and are unknown to the animatronics and customers. The cassettes on later nights discourage the use of the spring-lock suits after an event that involved “multiple simultaneous spring-lock failures”, and the final message states that the safe rooms were sealed off for unknown reasons.

In between nights, the player can play Atari-style minigames that provide insight into the history of the former restaurant. In the first four minigames, animatronics from previous games are destroyed by an unnamed purple figure, who is a supposed serial killer previously seen in the minigames of Five Nights at Freddy’s 2. In the fifth minigame, the ghosts of the figure’s victims corner him, prompting him to seek protection by hiding inside of a yellow rabbit suit. While inside, its spring-lock mechanism fails, crushing the figure to death as the ghosts fade away.

The game has two different endings, with the ending determined by whether the player has completed all of the minigames, with the “bad ending” occurring if the player does not complete all minigames, and a “good ending” occurring if the player completes all minigames. After the sixth night, a newspaper clipping reports that Fazbear’s Fright burned down under unknown circumstances and that all salvageable items will be sold at a public auction. Brightening the image used in the newspaper clipping reveals Springtrap in the background.