Five Nights at Candy's 3

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Five Nights at Candy's 3, commonly abbreviated as FNaC 3, is an indie point-and-click survival horror video game developed by Emil Macko. It is the third installment in the Five Nights at Candy's series. The game initially released on March 3, 2017.

Following the announcement of Scott Cawthon's Fazbear Fanverse Initiative in August 2020, FNaC 3 was endorsed and officialized into the Five Nights at Freddy's franchise as a spin-off game. The Fazbear Fanverse release of the game is planned to release on Steam by publisher Clickteam LLC under Five Nights at Candy's 3 DX and receive substantial updates, gameplay rebalancing, and quality-of-life improvements by Emil.

The game chronologically takes place 25 years before the events of Five Nights at Candy's and 45 years before Five Nights at Candy's 2.

Summary[]

"I've always liked it when it rains...
the rain makes the silence go away,
it feels comfy and relaxing.
I don't like the silence
the silence means they're hiding
if they're hiding, they're coming closer
and if they come closer
they'll hurt me, for what I did- didn't do...
for what I couldn't do"

Gameplay[]

Like Five Nights at Freddy's 4, the gameplay of Five Nights at Candy's 3 is a departure from previous installments. The primary gameplay takes place in a bedroom, where a girl must ward off monsters.

The only tools given to the player are a flashlight and a tape recorder. Throughout the night, several monsters will attempt to reach the player's bed in order to attack them. Monster Rat (or Monster Vinnie on Night 6) will appear in either the closet, wardrobe, or hallway door. Once he reaches one of these locations, he will produce a sound cue that notifies the player of his position. In order to ward him off, the player must shine their flashlight into his eyes, which will drive him back temporarily.

After the player either fails to ward the monster off or is forced to engage them after successfully warding them off a few times, a standoff will begin. The monster will appear in the room and stare at the player as a purple ring appears around the screen. In order to prevent them from attacking, the player must aim their flashlight at the monster's eyes and follow their movement while they move sporadically in an attempt to evade the flashlight. After enough time has passed, the monster will hide under the bed. In order to ward them off, the player must look under both sides of the bed to determine where the monster currently is before looking to the opposite side of the bed. The monster will eventually peek out from under the bed, allowing the player to turn around and force them to flee.

Unlike Monster Rat and Monster Vinnie, Monster Cat only appears at the ends of the bed, gradually rising over time. In order to ward him off, the player must shine their flashlight in his eyes.

The player's tape recorder allows them to speed up the night by playing music, which helps them sleep. It has three working functions: a play button, a pause button, and a rewind button. The play button plays whatever music is currently on the recorder, the pause button pauses any music, and the rewind button allows the player to reset the tape recorder after they fully play it.

Development[]

At the end of a secret minigame in Five Nights at Candy's 2, the third game would be teased.

On March 4, 2016, Emil officially announced Five Nights at Candy's 3 along with a Game Jolt page and a teaser of the Monster Rat and Origami Cat with the text "a story can't end without a beginning." When the teaser is brightened, the text "i will find you" is revealed.^[1]

On April 14, 2016, Emil posted the second teaser of the bedroom from under the bed with the text "will you find me?". When brightened, the text "or will i find you" will be revealed.^[2]

On May 15, 2016, Emil posted the third teaser of Monster Rat looking into the bedroom from the door. When brightened, the year 1962 will be revealed.^[3]

On May 28, 2016, Emil made an update post on Game Jolt.^[4]

On June 19, 2016, the trailer for Five Nights at Candy's 3 was uploaded.^[5]

On July 10, 2016, Emil made a post on Game Jolt announcing the game would be delayed at least a month, guessing it would be out by the end of August.^[6]

On July 18, 2016, Emil posted the fourth teaser revealing Monster Cat.^[7]

On August 17, 2016, Emil made an update post, saying he won't have the free time he used to due to taking the offer for a year of school. He added that he estimated that the game would release in September.^[8]

On September 22, 2016, Emil revealed that a demo for Five Nights at Candy's 3 was in the works.^[9]

On October 2, 2016, the demo was released.^[10]

On October 10, 2016, the demo was updated to version 1.1.0.^[11]

On October 29, 2016, Emil uploaded a few tracks on Game Jolt and made an update on the game's development.^[12]

On December 11, 2016, Emil made one last update on the game, saying that the game is 90% done and that he is aiming to release the game before the end of the year.^[13]

On December 30, 2016, Emil released a minigame teaser trailer.^[14]

On January 5, 2017, the demo was updated to version 1.1.0.^[15]

On March 3, 2017, Five Nights at Candy's 3 was released.

On March 5, 2017, the game was updated to version 1.0.2, and later, version 1.0.3.^[16]^[17]

On August 22, 2020, Emil Macko made a post on the Five Nights at Candy's 4 Game Jolt page. With the creation of the Fazbear Fanverse, Emil Macko announced that Five Nights at Candy's Remastered, Five Nights at Candy's 2, and Five Nights at Candy's 3 are going to be updated. He went on to say that FNaC 2 and FNaC 3 "will receive updates that will change a few visuals, upgrade the gameplay experience to be more fair and balanced, and most importantly, the updates will (hopefully) eliminate bugs and glitches."

On August 25, 2023, Emil posted a meme of Monster Rat and artist StupidButterfly's OC approaching the camera in the FNaC 3 bedroom. When the image is brightened, new props for the Fazbear Fanverse update can be seen.^[18]

On October 21, 2023, Emil released a status update for all existing Five Nights at Candy's games. It was revealed that the original three games are planned to get substantial updated releases on Steam, while FNAC Fur and Five Nights at Candy's 4 received their own status updates.^[19]

On March 2, 2025, Emil shared an update post on Game Jolt about both himself and the Five Nights at Candy's series. In it, he announced FNaC 3, along with the other 3 games, would be recoded from the ground up in the GameMaker engine to make the definitive versions of the games. With this, the first three games were given new logos and the suffix DX (Deluxe) to distinguish the recodes from the original games.^[20]

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Teasers[]

Deluxe[]

Trivia[]

Five Nights at Candy's 3 is the only main Five Nights at Candy's game to not feature physical animatronics as threats. Instead, they are all hallucinations born from Mary Schmidt's trauma.
Five Nights at Candy's 3 was teased at the end of Five Nights at Candy's 2 with a animation of a 3 forming.

Five Nights at Candy's 3 Media

Media Content	Five Nights at Candy's 3 (Demo) • Achievements • Easter Eggs • Cinematics • Jumpscares • Soundtrack • Unused and Removed Content
Category Navigation	Characters • Bots • Locations • Objects • Levels

Fazbear Fanverse Games

Five Nights at Candy's	Five Nights at Candy's • 2 • 3 • 4 • FNAC FUR
POPGOES	POPGOES Arcade ("The Machinist" Expansion • "Fighting Chance" Update) • myPOPGOES ("New and Improved!" Update) • POPGOES Evergreen
The Joy of Creation	THE JOY OF CREATION
One Night at Flumpty's	One Night at Flumpty's • 2 • 3
Canceled Games	Five Nights at Freddy's Plus • The Joy of Creation: Ignited Collection (Classic • Reborn • Story Mode)
Demos	Five Nights at Candy's 3 Demo • POPGOES Arcade Dawko Demo • Five Nights at Freddy's Plus: Exclusive Demo • FNAC FUR Legacy Demo • THE JOY OF CREATION: Office Demo
Collections and Bundles	One Night at Flumpty's: The Egg Collection • POPGOES Archives

[1] ttps://gamejolt.com/p/five-nights-at-candy-s-3-official-announcement-g6eauwu9

[2] ttps://x.com/Emilmacko/status/720703177025306628

[3] ttps://x.com/Emilmacko/status/731962822389702657

[4] ttps://gamejolt.com/p/update-because-it-s-been-a-while-eccpsvq6

[5] ttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j3VZfSwEAFY

[6] ttps://gamejolt.com/p/it-s-going-to-take-a-little-more-time-x92exspx

[7] ttps://x.com/Emilmacko/status/755085947906162688

[8] ttps://gamejolt.com/p/another-update-2vfm42f7

[9] ttps://gamejolt.com/p/a-fnac-3-demo-is-in-the-works-eetmfpjk

[10] ttps://gamejolt.com/p/fnac-3-demo-release-vvcsxv2n

[11] ttps://gamejolt.com/p/fnac-3-demo-update-1-1-s6dmptrd

[12] ttps://gamejolt.com/p/ost-teasers-how-the-development-is-going-szxveer6

[13] ttps://gamejolt.com/p/last-fnac-3-update-ygwa3ecb

[14] ttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CqUPsHqh85I

[15] ttps://gamejolt.com/p/fnac-3-demo-update-1-3-this-fixes-that-silly-bug-where-the-monster-eap6gxui

[16] ttps://gamejolt.com/p/fnac-3-version-1-0-2-qebhjzvs

[17] ttps://gamejolt.com/p/version-1-0-3-clickteam-was-douchy-and-didn-t-turn-off-debug-mod-k74raqyk

[18] ttps://twitter.com/Emilmacko/status/1562851844246106112

[19] ttps://gamejolt.com/p/the-fnac-series-mtivyvm6

[20] ttps://gamejolt.com/p/fnac-and-the-state-of-things-tfxjbrmr

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