Hey!!! I'm back with another guide, this time for FNaJ 3!
Let's start from simple

Night gameplay

First of all, let's see what we have ( I'll be talking about what we have after full game completion! )
We have JoaCo panel ( with 3 places you can send animatronic )

Cameras

there you have Charge reload and Flash buttons, used for other enemy. On our right, we have a doorway, a hole near it

on the left we have Shock button(after Leandro appears)

And in the middle we have a lamp, that can be turned on and off.

Turning it off will disable JoaCo panel and Camera buttons, however, you can shock someone. That seems like a lot of functions, but in reality, you get used to them really fast.

Now, let's get to enemies

On first night, the only active enemy is Ghost JoaCo.

First of all, every move they make is followed by their laugh, like Freddy from FNaF 1 and himself from PJ 1. They will go from stage, to your left, after that, they will walk in your window

Flashing your flashlight before he disappears will force it off, which is annoying sometimes(can kill you on last nights). After they move once more, they will appear in the hole on your right, requiring you to flash him, and then send to any of the rooms on JoaCo panel

You have 3 rooms you can send him to: Part N' Service room, Dinning room and Stage. After you click any of them, Ghost JoaCo will be sent to the respective room. For advice, i can say that you should aim for dinning room, since if you overshoot, it will be only better, and if you don't, Ghost JoaCo will be sent to a nice room.

After that night, we get minigame, where you have to find Mother. She will be at the very bottom, aka Office room from PJ 1

Night 2 introduces us to Ghost Lucas.

They will be in their cove, getting out of it after some time. When he attacks, you will hear "metal pipe being hit with another metal pipe" sound, that Dis_pop proclaims as Footsteps. They will be getting louder, with last 3 being same volume. To defend against him, you have to turn off lights.

You can flash your flashlight though, he won't kill you ( for some reason :/ ). For tip: listen.

Also, sometimes Shad will appear in Lucas Cove, but i didnt screenshot it

This night minigame requires us to go up and right to find children, though avoid... whatever those things are, you will have to redo everything. just know that they have spriteboxes

Night 3 gives us 2 new threats: Ghost Tisi and Ghost Gaston. Let's start from Tisi.

They will advance through the building to your left. After they reach it, they will laugh and run into office, giving you a few second of life, before killing you.

To prevent this, you can charge flash and use it on him, pushing him back 1 cam. After first charge and using it, you will have a random amount left, best being a bit over 50%.

The tip is simply: be fast and don't waste charge, since your life DEPENDS on it

Now let's get to Ghost Gaston.

They will go from main stage to your right door. His path is really small though. Being Stage -> Dining room -> Broken Cam -> Doorway. Once they are here, you have to flash them, get to stage cam and use shock button there.

It will temporarily disable the cam, though dealing with Gaston. There is no tip i can give to you, mainly due to him being countered in under 2 seconds with fine aim.

The minigame is going near office, and going to the right, instead of left this time, to get spidy.

Fourth night throws Ghost Leandro to the roster.

They will go from BackRoom to your right doorway. Once they are there, they will show their hands there, with loud sound, that you can easily mistake for "metal pipe being hit by metal pipe" sound, requiring you to NOT FLASH AT ALL and hold shock button.

Shocking will emit a lot of noise and flashbang you, making it hard to deal with Ghost Lucas if he is attacking.

(screenshot after you shock)

The tip is too remember what noise he makes, to not mistake it for any other one.

The minigame after this night is just going to the right.

I recommend you to play the game up to this point, and only then continue reading guide!

Night 5 gives us 2 most important guys in the whole game: Ghost Mister and Ghost children. Mister will be sitting at BackRoom, with his sanity bar from PJ 2 making a return

You have to watch them for it to refill. If it reaches 0, he will move a stage, out of 3 he has: 2 in BackRoom, 1 in office. If he is in the office, you have to flash your left window, instead of watching BackRoom cam. After him moving from last phase, he will give you around 10-15 seconds, after that, killing you. Only switch cams, once you are sure Tisi has moved, to flash him.

Ghost children, however, will make you either stop watching at Mister

or stop being in office

If they appear in cams, you have 2 options: switch cam, pull camra system down - if they are in the office, you have to pull monitor up. You can, IN THEORY, reset JoaCo or shock Leandro, but even i can't do the first one, so i won't recommend doing it

However, unlike Phantom Balloon Boy from UCN, if you switch camera and they appear again, you MUST pull cameras down, since their kill timer is NOT reset. The tips are simple: for Mister it's just staying on his cam as much as possible, while dealing with enemies ASAP, if he is in the office, flash left window, for Ghost children, it's just be careful.

HUGE SPOILER ALERT, GET HERE BY YOURSELF, TO NOT RUIN EMOTIONS

Night 6 is really different from previous nights. First, instead of our normal hour UI, due to us technically defending at morning, we have a bar, where we can see out friend going to us. It kinda makes it easier to play, since you can see how much its left from night. Now, we get 2 more animatronics to defend against: Shadow JoaCo and Mother. This is the moment you might actually want a guide for. Mother mechanic is described SUPER DUPER HYPER poorly. Like, what do you mean by: "She no need to appear on cameras"? Well, let's start from SJ first anyway, because i love him better.

They have 2 attacks: window(shown above) and office

If he makes a window attack, you will hear a noise of a dash, panned to the side he is. You have to flash him, until your battery runs out, so if you turn off flashlight and restore it, you will have to flash him longer. It might seem as a bad attack, but you can just flash JoaCo really fast once you deal with him, this also stops him from attacking for quite a while. If you missed the side he is on or, for some reason, you dont want to flash any window, you can flash middle, he will trigger anyway. If you get lucky for office attack however, which is really hard understand when it starts, you will have to keep your cursor at the center of the screen. If your cursor is too far away, the needed rectangle will be flashed for you.

From my experience, this attack happens, when you pull down cams, on a specific interval, for around 5 seconds after it hits, and his movement opportunity is succeeded, while also him rolling out the office attack, instead of window one. For duration of it, SJ can't make window attack, however he can make it immediately after you pull up cams, and have just dealt with him, meaning you WILL lose to either Mister or Tisi eventually, since you miss 1-2 cycles. If you pull up monitor or JoaCo panel, you will die SUPER quick, barely having time to pull them down. Thanks god, it seems that everyone's movement is really slowed down, and Mister progresses a lot longer. The tip is: when he does window attack, don't immediately go deal with him. He gives enough time to get one charge for flash, flash Tisi, deal with Gaston, deal with JoaCo and refill Mister to a good amount of Sanity. This is a really important thing to know, since sometimes your life WILL depend on if you charged flash or not, as well as if you have dealt with JoaCo.

Mother on the other hand is WAY easier.

Once she starts to rise from bottom of the screen, you will have to find a cam, where she doesn't show up, and look at it for some time

Example of what you don't want to see
After she laughs, you can do whatever you want. She gives you a lot of time, to the point you only deal with her 2-3 times in max mode, if you deal with her correctly, which is waiting for almost last point(shown on screenshot). The tip is simple: before her top hat is fully visible, don't even bother dealing with her, after that, find cam she isnt on, then deal with her, when her body appears.

Strategies

I will only talk about actually difficult things, like saturday here.

First off, Night 6(which is morning actually)

The strategy is simple: be fast. Everyone seems to be on high ai, but due to it not being max, they will have some rng in them, but after some time, they will move any way(at least it looks like that). The main problem here(and in Max mode) is Tisi. Due to enemies being able to make sudden combos, you might not get time to recharge flash. I would say, that you can't counter them taking your time. The other problem you might find - background music is too loud to notice Lucas before last 3 hits. Don't tell anyone, but press CTRL + S to mute all sounds, don't forget to press them again, or else you will stay with no sounds, until you press them, but i'm sure you won't need it, since he can't move, if you: are being attacked by JoaCo, being attacked by Gaston, being attacked by Shadow JoaCo, just flashed Tisi, just shocked Leandro, being attacked by Mother, being attacked by Leandro, opened cams(he ownt move for 1 second or so), checked him(you slowed him). So yeah, everything. He really attacked me once in Night 6, and around 0 times on Max mode.

Max mode time

Max mode can be an insane challenge for most of people ( including me ) , but you can make it really easy. First of all, we remember everything i told about Lucas just now, and we see that he can't really progress. Second, Slow Battle(music during max mode) is super loud, so we use CTRL + S and we don't hear it now. Third, stall mother and JoaCo. These are 2 characters that take long to kill you, and are dealt with really fast. I also must mention that its still super RNG dependant, how, since everyone is guaranteed to move? Ghost children. I didn't mention it, but if you flash Shadow JoaCo, office kid vanishes, making it easier to deal with him, but you can't deal with JoaCo, when one is here, since they kill you really fast. We also know what will happen if you get unlucky on multiple ghosts on camera in a row, and here it makes everything. If at the start, you are unable to fully charge flash, before Shadow JoaCo's first attack, you are screwed in most cases. The only way you can fail this, is if ghost child will appear on Mister cam. If you are super fast however, you can survive, without flash charged before first Shadow JoaCo attack, but you are still are mostly screwed, if this happens. Other than that, just keep doing Night 6 strategy to survive.

Achievements

Easy difficulty achievements

LOG INNN!!!!!!! - Log in using GameJolt

The first Night - Beat night 1

Too slow my old friend! - Beat night 2

Gumball - they have a chance to appear every time you flip down cams, but as i noticed, he doesnt appear at max mode and Survival segment.

JUST DIE!! - Die once

¡With The family Again! - Beat all post-night minigames

¿You know what you're doing, don't you? - Win a night, when not moving mouse at all.

Medium difficulty achievements

Two more - Beat night 3

Harder, Nah! - Beat night 4

Information obtained! - Beat night 5

I'm a professional survivor! - Survive 20 minutes in Survival mode.

Hard or lore achievements

Consumed by fire.. - Beat night 6

No one can stop me! - Beat all presets in Custom night

..Real ending.. - Beat Max mode

1984/12/06 - Similar to PJ 2, you have to put it as a code in custom night ( JoaCo 1, Lucas 9, Tisi 8, Gaston 4, Leandro 1, Children 2, Mister 0, SJ and Mother 6 ) . After pressing start, you will see yourself in presumably Mister costume, with someone distorted looking at you.

A bit of why i wasn't making this guide

I have a life. bye