Five Nights at Freddy's: Sister Location

Five Nights at Freddy's: Sister Location is a 2016 point-and-click

Five Nights at Freddy's:
survival horror video game developed and published by Scott
Sister Location
Cawthon. It is the fifth main installment in the Five Nights at
Freddy's series and the sixth game overall. It was released on
Steam on October 7, 2016. Ports have also been released for
Android, iOS, Nintendo Switch, Xbox One, and PlayStation 4.

As the title implies, the game does not take place at one of the
Freddy Fazbear's Pizza restaurants featured in previous Steam storefront header
installments, but instead at a sister location called Circus Baby's Developer(s) Scott Cawthon
Entertainment and Rental, which features its own set of Publisher(s) Scott Cawthon (PC)
animatronic characters, central to which is the titular Circus Baby. Clickteam LLC USA
Players control a new employee who must perform maintenance (Console and Mobile)
work at the facility where the animatronics are stored while
Composer(s) Leon Riskin
defending themselves from the animatronics, which become mobile
and homicidal at night. The gameplay in Sister Location is Series Five Nights at
drastically different from previous Five Nights at Freddy's games, Freddy's

as it allows players to move between rooms and requires different Engine Clickteam Fusion
objectives to be carried out from night to night. 2.5
Platform(s) Windows
Five Nights at Freddy's: Sister Location received mixed reviews,
Android
with praise for its plot and voice performances, and criticism for
some aspects of its gameplay. A sequel, Freddy Fazbear's Pizzeria iOS
Simulator, was released on December 4, 2017. Nintendo Switch
Xbox One
Gameplay PlayStation 4

Five Nights at Freddy's: Sister Location is a survival horror video Release Windows
game where the player takes the role of a late-night technician who WW: October 7,
must survive against murderous animatronics each shift.[1] Unlike 2016
previous Five Nights at Freddy's games, the player can crawl Android
between different rooms and the objective changes between each WW: December 22,
of the five nights.[2] 2016
iOS
The occasional post-death minigames return from Five Nights at
WW: January 3,
Freddy's 2; when a game ends, the player may be given a chance
2017
to play an 8-bit mini-game where they control Circus Baby and
Nintendo Switch
must deliver cupcakes to children. At the end of the minigame, the
NA: June 18, 2020
player has to deliver an ice cream cone to a little girl, ending in the
girl's death. Completing this minigame grants access to the Night 5 EU: July 10, 2020
secret level; a near-recreation of the gameplay in the original Five Xbox One
Nights at Freddy's, bringing back survival gameplay. WW: July 10, 2020
Completing all five nights unlocks extra features: pictures and PlayStation 4
blueprints of the game's animatronics, their making-of, a map of the EU: July 21, 2020
facility, and menu access to Circus Baby's cupcake minigame. As NA: July 22, 2020
of the December 1, 2016 update, clearing all nights also unlocks
Genre(s) Survival horror,
the non-canon Custom Night mode, which is set in a modified
point-and-click
version of the Night 5 secret room. The player can choose from
several modes and difficulty settings, facing new animatronics, and Mode(s) Single-player
must conserve both power and oxygen supplies to survive.
Completing these modes allows the player to view a series of
cutscenes that have been declared as part of the series canon; all
except the last scene are in 8-bit resolution.

An achievement system exists in the form of four stars, obtained by

unlocking both of the game's endings, completing the Circus Baby
minigame, and completing the hardest difficulty on each custom A screenshot showcasing the
night preset. Completing each custom night preset on each mode Primary Control Module
grants its star in the specific custom night mode.

Like in all Five Nights at Freddy's games, failure to defend oneself from the hostile animatronic characters
will result in a jumpscare.

Plot
Mike is hired by Circus Baby's Entertainment and Rental, an underground facility where various
animatronics are stored and are rented out to children's birthday parties. The animatronics originate from
Circus Baby's Pizza World, a sister location of Freddy Fazbear's Pizza which shut down due to supposed
gas leaks. Every night, Mike is assigned maintenance tasks by the facility's partially malfunctioning artificial
intelligence HandUnit. These tasks typically make up an entire "night" of gameplay, with the game
featuring five nights similar to its predecessors.[3]

On the second night, the power goes out and the animatronics come to life. Circus Baby begins to
communicate with Mike, warning that the other animatronics will kill him if they catch him, and gives
instructions to help Mike survive as he goes to reset the circuit breakers. The following night, Mike is
ambushed by the animatronic Funtime Foxy and hidden in a springlock suit overnight by Circus Baby.
Mike is left to repel the tiny Minireenas from crawling into the suit before freeing himself. On the fifth
night, Mike finds two hanged technicians where the animatronics should be, which prevents HandUnit
from noticing they are missing. Circus Baby instructs Mike to destroy her empty body by going to the
Scooping Room, where endoskeletons are violently "scooped" out of the animatronics' exterior shells, to
"save what is good so the rest can be destroyed". She soon tells him that he is being followed by the
animatronic Ballora, who intends to kill him.

Between nights, Mike watches an animated sitcom at home. Elizabeth, William’s daughter, is heard begging
him to play with Circus Baby, despite her father's insistence that she must stay away.

Endings
If the player follows Circus Baby's instructions, they will find that all of the animatronics, including Ballora,
had actually already been "scooped". Circus Baby's voice is revealed to be Ennard, an amalgamation of the
animatronics, who uses the Scooper to eviscerate him and disguise itself in Mike’s skin to live among
people.

An alternate ending can be unlocked by playing an 8-bit minigame which occasionally appears after a game
over, where the player controls Circus Baby. If the minigame is completed a certain way, Circus Baby is
shown extending a claw from her stomach and pulling a little girl into it. This girl is implied to be Elizabeth,
whose soul now possesses the animatronic. The player is then able to disobey Circus Baby's instructions
and enter a private room, where they must fend off Ennard (who is upset that the player ignored its
instructions) until 6 AM, similar to the first game in the series. An easter egg accessible in this area shows
camera footage of the house featured in Five Nights at Freddy's 4, which belonged to William Afton and his
family. After successfully surviving the night, Mike returns home, where Ennard is revealed to have
followed him.

A series of 8-bit cutscenes plays if the player completes each mode of Custom Night on the hardest
difficulty. Ennard eventually abandons Mike's decomposed body, but as Circus Baby's voice repeatedly
says "You won't die", Mike somehow reanimates. In a final cutscene, Mike is revealed to be the son of
William Afton, the mysterious murderer mentioned in the first game and represented by a purple figure in
the last three games. He mentioned that he is now "living in shadows" due to his disfigurement. He reveals
that William had instructed him to head to the underground facility to find and free "her", which he did, and
that the animatronics mistook him for William, which is why they attacked him. With nowhere else to go,
Mike resolves to find his father. The camera then pans over to the burned remains of Fazbear's Fright, from
which Springtrap emerges.

Development and release

Five Nights at Freddy's (FNaF) developer Scott Cawthon stated that Five Nights at Freddy's 4 (2015)
would be the final game in the series. However, he announced Five Nights at Freddy's: Sister Location on
his website in April 2016 with the tagline, "There was never just one."[4] A trailer was uploaded online on
May 21.[5][6] The release date was later confirmed to be October 7. In October, Cawthon announced he
was delaying the game to make certain dark plot elements more "kid-friendly"; this was revealed to be
trolling.[7]

Sister Location was first released on Steam. Shortly after, a patch was released that eased the difficulty of
the fourth night, which many players had complained about.[8] It was the first FNaF game to feature
professional voice acting. The development of Sister Location was the longest in the series yet: the previous
four were all released within a year. Rock Paper Shotgun believed that Cawthon was being more cautious
after spin-off FNaF World (2016) was panned as "rushed"; retrospectively, The A.V. Club opined that "the
extra time and care Cawthon put into both the game’s writing, and its production values" led to a "more
ambitious sequel".[4][9]

Downloadable content was later added for a non-canon Custom Night.[10] Sister Location was also ported
to Android. On January 3, 2017, a mobile port for iOS devices was released on the App Store.[11] In March
2020, Clickteam released a remastered version of the iOS port closer to the Steam version, as they had done
with previous games.[12] They also released a Nintendo Switch port on June 18.[13] Ports for Xbox One
and PlayStation 4 were released respectively on July 10 and July 21, while Maximum Games included the
first five games in the Five Nights at Freddy’s: Core Collection, which was released for the Xbox One, PS4
and Switch on January 12, 2021.[14]

Reception
Reception
Review scores
Publication Score

Destructoid PC: 6/10[15]

Gamezebo [16]
MOB:

GameCrate PC: 7.50/10[17]

Five Nights at Freddy's: Sister Location received mixed reviews. Critics praised the voice acting,[17][15]
with The A.V. Club praising Heather Masters' performance as Circus Baby in a retrospective piece on the
Five Nights at Freddy's franchise.[9] GameCrate and Kotaku praised the use of humor in addition to horror
in the script—the latter noted an early scene where HandUnit glitches out and misinterprets the character's
name as "Eggs Benedict".[17][18]

Destructoid rated the game 6/10,[15] while GameCrate rated it 7.50/10.[17] Rob Rich of Gamezebo gave
the mobile version a decent review, giving the game 3 out of 5 stars, saying, "I don't necessarily think Sister
Location is the worst mobile iteration of the FNaF series, but it's certainly not the best despite the overall
improved visuals."[16]

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