Five Nights at Freddy's 3
Worth it · Action · 2015
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
BUY IT.
Worth it at $7.99.
- Length
- 2.4h
- Value
- $3.33/hr
- Reviews
- 90% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 1 GB of memory, 1 GB, 246 MB of storage. Windows only.
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
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The value story
The lowest price on record is $1.99, set in October 2017. It has been discounted 16 times in the 12 years tracked here, typically at 50 percent off, with about 12 weeks between sales.
On value it sits in the top 1 percent of its genre. It is better reviewed than 96 percent of its genre. Among the games that feel like it, Five Nights at Freddy's 4 ($7.99, scores 79) beats it on value, while it beats Five Nights at Freddy's 2 ($7.99, scores 70).
Critics scored it 68. Players sit 22 points higher at 90 percent, which usually means a game that plays better than it reviews.
This site sampled 800 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 14 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written January 2021 to August 2026. That is more refunded reviewers than 8 in 10 paid games this site has sampled to the same depth, and among the 3,221 games in its genre sampled this deeply, 805 have a larger share. Inside the two-hour refund window, 88 percent of the 4,321 reviews written there were positive, against 90 percent overall, and those are 42 percent of everything written about it.
Finishing takes 2.4 hours; clearing it takes 5, which is 2.2 times the campaign.
At 2.4 hours it is a handheld-sized game, and Valve rates it Deck Verified.
Players
17 players at peak in the last day.
The chart appears once this game has been counted more than once.Player counts via SteamSpy.
What players say
The gameplay is meh and has great lore, a cool charter who is connected towards the lore no spoilers. /7.8
I really like the ambience of this one in particular but it falls flat on the horror aspect after a few nights. Also, this game has A LOT of RNG in it, way more than the other FNAF games. There literally is not a single strategy for this game that consistently beats Aggressive Nightmare mode minus the TAS only / temporary stalling cheese strat that I forgot the name of and I don't think I'd deem cheesing the game a...
I love this game however I've yet to complete Aggressive Nightmare mode and in the process I've managed to lose not only my mind but the custody of my children as well. Sandra, if you see this, I'm sorry for dedicating more time into this game instead of our family. Please forgive me. Also ♥♥♥♥ nightmare foxy
Player reviews from Steam: the most helpful all-time, plus the newest that clear the same quality bar, with the hours each player had put in when they wrote it. The mix of Recommended and Not recommended follows the game's Steam ratio. Rotates daily. Opinions are theirs.
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Five Nights at Freddy's 3 scores 73/100 on the BANG Score (worth it). The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/354140/five-nights-at-freddy-s-3The BANG Score is one number for value, 0 to 100: price against how it reviews and how long it was built to be. It answers the money question and stops there; whether the game is for you is still your call.
Reviews set the ceiling and price moves you inside it, so a cheap game that reviews badly cannot climb. Ratings from few reviewers are shrunk toward the middle, so 100 percent from nine people does not outrank 96 percent from ninety thousand. Length comes from HowLongToBeat where it can be matched, measured against a per-genre floor so a five-hour narrative game is judged against other narrative games rather than against a sixty-hour RPG. Where no verified length exists the score says so and carries a dock, because the biggest input is then a guess. The full method, including where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Jul 30, price as of Sep 24.
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