Five Nights
at Freddy's 3 is an indie point-and-click survival horror video game created
by Scott Cawthon. It is the third
installment in the Five
Nights at Freddy's series, and is chronologically set thirty years after the events of the first game.
The gameplay deviates from the
previous games in the series slightly. In keeping with the first two installments, players are once again tasked with surviving a week of night shifts, lasting from 12 AM to 6 AM (4 minutes of
real time), the difference this time being that there is only a single animatronic present who can end the playthrough, although some of the animatronics from earlier games return as "phantoms",
who can impede the player's efforts to survive but cannot harm them directly. The game takes place in a horror attraction named Fazbear's Fright, which is constructed using props and equipment
scavenged from former Fazbear Entertainment restaurants. The attraction aims to capitalize on the previous incidents that occurred at the various restaurants formerly operated by Fazbear
Entertainment. However, players must now monitor two different camera systems (security cameras within the building, and cameras within the ventilation system) and three subsystems: audio (which
is used to lure the animatronic away from the player's office), security cameras (used to observe and track the animatronic's position), and ventilation (which the player is told must be kept
running in order to avoid seeing hallucinations during the shift)