Five Nights at Freddy's 3

Five Nights at Freddy's 3

Worth it · Action · 2015

Steam Deck Verified

The verdict

BUY IT.

Winter Sale 2026 Dec 17
cut in 0 of 8 sales

Worth it at $7.99.

Cost per hour▼
$3.33/hr
ReviewsA
90% of 11,431
Critics
68 players 22 higher
Genre rank
Top 2% Action

Holding it back: Cost per hour

Why
No price makes it a BANGER.
Watch this gameOne alert at a price you pick.

Time and effort

Main story
2.4h
To 100%
5.2h 2.2x the story

Price and sales

Sales
16 on record
Typical cut
50% off
Steam low
$1.99 October 2017
Sale every
84d last June 2020
Lowest now on Steamall-time low $1.99 on IsThereAnyDeal

Players and genre

Online
10 now
Recent reviews
85% 30 days
Cheaper than
38% of its genre
Better reviewed
96% of its genre
Price and player charts
The value story

The value story

It has been discounted 16 times in the 12 years tracked here. The median cut across all of them is 50 percent, about 12 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended about 330 weeks ago.

Its score sits in the top 2 percent of its genre. It is pricier than 62 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 96 percent. 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).

More about Five Nights at Freddy's 3

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; 12 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written March 2021 to November 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 88 percent of the 4,355 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.

Buy now or wait

Buy now or wait

Not discounted in any of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last discount ended 2313 days ago.

Next sale
Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4

Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.

What drives the score

Grades: S best, D weakest

S is the best grade and D the weakest, judged as a buyer. ▲ raises the score, ▼ lowers it, ? is an input we do not have, • is a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work

Raising the score
Reviews
Gates the score. Weak reviews cap it, and nothing reaches BANGER without strong ones
MonetizationNone
Checked: no in-game purchases or loot boxes. That earns a small credit unless Steam lists in-app purchases
Holding it back
Cost per hour$3.33/hr
Price per hour of game. It moves the score inside the ceiling reviews set
For context
Refunds12 of 800 reviews
Steam-purchase reviews sampled whose writer refunded the game. Nothing is docked
AI contentNone disclosed
From the developer's own Steam disclosure. No disclosure is not proof of none, so it does not move the score

What players say

after 100% the game i gotta say its probably the least repetitive and the most entertaining fnaf game out of 1-4, this game has many strategies and different techniques that players can use to beat the nights, like individually conserving your Camera, Audio Lure and ventilation system, how to prevent foxy from spawning, and countering all of the phantom animatronics in diff ways, and knowing how to handle springtrap...
A Steam playerRecommendedafter 2.7h2 found this helpfulRead on Steam
2 more reviews
Fun but it's quite RNG based, but it does have some skill to it, it isn't awful like people say, play this Frebby game
A Steam playerRecommendedafter 7.0h2 found this helpfulRead on Steam
Five Night's at Freddys 3 is an interesting game in the franchise as it is mainly rng on later nights. It's cool that you get to use the cameras more by luring Springtrap, but there is some glaring issues in the game. I personally like the game up until night 6, others might have a different opinion. I beat the Bad ending and the Good ending and have some good fun. Only buy if you have played the first 2, and want...
A Steam playerRecommendedafter 3.4h1 found this helpfulRead on Steam

Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.

About the game

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
Description from the Steam store page.
Minimum specs

Minimum on the Steam store: 1 GB of memory, 1 GB, 246 MB of storage. Windows only.

No data upstream: achievement curve (Steam global achievements).

Cite this score

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Five Nights at Freddy's 3 scores 73/100 on the BANG Score (worth it) as of Nov 8, 2026. 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-3
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Reviews set the ceiling, and price against real length moves the BANG Score inside it. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Oct 31, price as of Nov 8. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.

Critics vs players+22
Critics68
Players90
Player favorite. The critics underrated it.
Metacritic critics · 11,431 Steam player reviews

Details

DeveloperScott Cawthon
PublisherScott Cawthon
GenreAction
Released2015
Players750Kowners, SteamSpy estimate