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Five Nights at Freddy's 3

PC (Microsoft Windows) • 2015

Should you play it?

Thirty years after Freddy Fazbear's Pizza closed it's doors, the events that took place there have become nothing more than a rumor and a childhood memory, but the owners of "Fazbear's Fright: The Horror Attraction" are determined to revive the legend and make the experience as authentic as possible for patrons, going to great l

What works

  • Intense horror atmosphere
  • Unique gameplay mechanics
  • Rich story and lore
  • Challenging and rewarding
  • Good value for price

Things to keep in mind

  • Randomness can feel unfair
  • Some jump scares feel cheap
  • Limited multiplayer or social features
  • Steep learning curve
  • Some system mechanics can be confusing

What to play next

Top picks

Games that feels the closest overall

  • Five Nights at Freddy's 2

  • [Chilla's Art] Aka Manto | 赤マント

  • Dead Signal

  • The Deadseat

  • Viscerafest

  • CASE: Animatronics

More expressive

Games that feels like Five Nights at Freddy's 3 but with more self-expression and customization

  • Ultimate Custom Night

  • Peripeteia

  • Angry Video Game Nerd II: ASSimilation

  • Angry Video Game Nerd I & II Deluxe

  • Turbo Kid

  • Vultures - Scavengers of Death

Less violent

Games that feels like Five Nights at Freddy's 3 but with less combat and destruction

  • Nuclear Blaze

  • Teslagrad

  • MOLE

  • Retail Hell

  • Eve of Souls: Static Pod

  • High Entropy: Challenges

Choose your own criteria ->

From the same developer

From the same developer, ranked by motivational fit.

  • Five Nights at Freddy's 2

  • Five Nights at Freddy's: Sister Location

  • Five Nights at Freddy's

  • Five Nights at Freddy's 4

  • Ultimate Custom Night

Similarity map

How to use the graph

Similarity map

Each dot is a game placed from its motivation profile relative to this page’s game. Direction shows which motivation differs most; distance along that axis shows how large the gap is.

  • Purple star: this page’s game at the centre — everything is relative to it.
  • Direction: each axis is a main motivational difference vs this game (e.g. more / less competitive).
  • Distance on an axis: how large that difference is (ring scales show +/− points).
  • Coloured chips: click to highlight games that mainly differ on that motivation; click again to reset.
  • Dotted line: link between this page’s game and the one selected for comparison.
  • Hover a dot to preview that game in the panel on the right; click to keep that comparison.
  • Scroll or double-click the chart to zoom.

How to read the map This is a polar difference map: direction = which motivation differs, and distance = how much (same units as the sidebar deltas).

Five Nights at Freddy's 3: Broadly representative of its motivational profile, with a few distinct shifts. Motivations that often define this kind of title include Expression, Fellowship, Cooperation, Leadership. Here, the score leans higher than usual among comparable games on Violence, Survival. It leans lower than usual among comparable games on Relaxation.

Last update: 03/08/2026