<P> 8 - bit minigames are made available randomly after death, which are thought to portray the restaurants' past and the several murders that occurred on site . An entity portrayed as a purple sprite is also introduced, who is speculated to be the culpable murderer who murdered the children . </P> <P> In January 2015, a new image was uploaded to Cawthon's website, teasing a third entry in the series . Various teaser images followed, before a trailer was released on January 26, 2015 . On February 15, 2015, Cawthon made a post on Steam stating that Five Nights at Freddy's 3 had been cancelled after a hacker supposedly leaked the game . This was later discovered to be a joke, as the "leaked" download link lead to a humorous clone of Scott's previous game, There is No Pause Button! . Five Nights at Freddy's 3 was legitimately released for Microsoft Windows on March 3, 2015, with Android and iOS ports following on March 7, 2015 and March 12, 2015 . </P> <P> Set thirty years after the events of the first game, the main character (who remains unnamed) works at "Fazbear's Fright", a horror attraction based off the long - gone Freddy Fazbear's Pizza . The player must defend themselves from a deteriorated animatronic - costume hybrid known as "Springtrap", which was the sole animatronic the attraction workers were able to discover . Burnt and tattered hallucinations of previous games' animatronics also appear, but cannot directly kill the player, and instead hinder ventilation, sound, and camera systems, which may also fail by other means . Failure to maintain these systems can create many issues for the player, including dysfunctional cameras, and the inability to play audio in order to lure away the animatronic . The player receives guidance from a founder of the horror attraction for the first couple of nights, but also listens to old tape recordings discovered by the attraction workers related to the backstory of previous locations . </P> <P> The game has two endings, a good ending and a bad ending . The good ending can only be achieved by completing secret minigames, in which various animatronic characters bring a cake to what seems to be a sorrowful child's soul . This ending is thought to imply that the souls of the murdered children have been set free, although connoted meanings are disputed . </P>

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