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[TheRedSnifit]

Platform: PC (Steam)
Genre: Survival Horror
Release Date: October 7th, 2016
Developer: Scott Cawthon



System Requirements

Minimum

• OS: Win XP, 7, 8, Vista, 10
• Processor: 2 GHz Intel Pentium 4 or AMD Athlon or equivalent
• Minne: 1 GB RAM
• Graphics: 1 GB
• Storage: 1 GB available space

Recommended

• OS: Win XP, 7, 8, Vista, 10
• Processor: 2 GHz Intel Pentium 4 or AMD Athlon or equivalent
• Minne: 2 GB RAM
• Graphics: 2 GB
• Storage: 2 GB available space

Welcome to Circus Baby's Pizza World! Your new job as our after-hours technician will be a piece of cake - simply patrol through our state-of-the-art entertainment center and make sure nothing goes wrong with our expensive machinery. Oh, the animatronics? Well, contrary to certain rumors you may have heard about that other pizza place, our animatronics are perfectly safe.

Spoiler

Fazbear Entertainment Circus Baby's Pizza World is not responsible for death or dismemberment.

Sister Location is the fifth entry in Scott Cawthon's best-selling indie series Five Nights at Freddy's. This time, instead of being restricted to a single room, you have free roam of the venue, and you must proactively maintain the various high-tech attractions and machinery featured in Circus Baby's Pizza World while avoiding the hostile robots lurking the halls.

REVIEWS

Destructoid - 6/10

As someone who has stuck with the series from the start, I'm torn on what to make of Sister Location. In some ways, it represents a real step forward for the series, offering new and interesting takes on Freddy's brand of horror and some interestingly creative risks. But, it also suffers from horrendous pacing issues, a confused tone, and commits many of the same sins as previous entries in the series, made more grievous by repetition.

GameCrate - 7.5/10

Sister Location is a fantastic horror game, even if it doesn’t particularly feel like the rest of the FNAF series.

TechRaptor - 9.0/10

Genuinely terrifying, great storytelling, creepy designs - if it could find the right balance between varying mechanics, then it would have it all.

 

[Sesha]

We made it! Less than three hours until the show starts.

 

[Dimitri LH]

Ah was wondering when you would make the OT. Thanks again. Now to wait my next paycheck to buy or watch markiplier suffer.

 

[Mifec]

Top tier OT title.

 

[Triggerhappytel]

So his thing about delaying the game because it was too dark was bullshit?

 

[Dimitri LH]

So his thing about delaying the game because it was too dark was bullshit?

Yeah was just a joke it seems.

 

[NCR Redslayer]

Ah was wondering when you would make the OT. Thanks again. Now to wait my next paycheck to buy or watch markiplier suffer.

There should be a halloween bundle for all the games by now. If not the developer is seriously missing out and I'll settle with Mark. Mark never did play FNAF World right?

So his thing about delaying the game because it was too dark was bullshit?

It was a prank bro.

 

[nintendoman58]

So his thing about delaying the game because it was too dark was bullshit?

Yep. He trolled everybody.

He even said that he'd upload the game as it is to gamejolt in parts as a "non-canon" thing while the real game would come out in two months, but all he uploaded was a reskin of one of his older games.

 

[iosefe]

The only title that mattered


I can't wait for my nieces to bug me about this

 

[Candescence]

So his thing about delaying the game because it was too dark was bullshit?

Yeah, Scott was just trolling everyone again.

I'm gonna enjoy seeing what the actual gameplay is like. Apparently it's actually pseudo-free roam this time around.

 

[evilromero]

So moving freely sounds to me like one of those fan game takes where the animatronics are stomping around and you run from one hiding spot to another, which I thought was very cool. Hope that's the case here.

 

[TheRedSnifit]

We made it! Less than three hours until the show starts.

This gif is killing me, lol.

 

[Sephzilla]

We made it! Less than three hours until the show starts.

this gif is hypnotizing

 

[red731]

That gif is me in 30 when work ends.
Friday yall!

 

[Dimitri LH]

There should be a halloween bundle for all the games by now. If not the developer is seriously missing out and I'll settle with Mark. Mark never did play FNAF World right?

Nah Mark did not play it, and having played it myself, I can kinda understand why. It gets stale watching it quick and he cant make many jokes/quips out of it. Nice game but, eh, not "Lets Play on youtube" enjoyable.

 

[Daffy Duck]

The only title that mattered


I can't wait for my nieces to bug me about this

Same, my son sis obsessed with FNAF, h's going to be all over this.

Question: I don't know much about this series, but can I buy it/a complete pack on Steam for my son?

 

[TheRedSnifit]

Same, my son sis obsessed with FNAF, h's going to be all over this.

Question: I don't know much about this series, but can I buy it/a complete pack on Steam for my son?

You can get the first four for $12 right now. Deal ends in a little over an hour.

http://store.steampowered.com/sub/80443/

 

[Cth]

Another parent checking in..

I knew kids her age were into Minecraft, but had no idea they were into FNAF that intently as well.

Ended up buying all the plushies (almost, still need the Hot Topic exclusive) for her.. I'll end up buying this one tonight as well.

 

[Fury451]

Those new designs are pretty eerie.

 

[TheRedSnifit]

 

[Dusk Golem]

Another parent checking in..

I knew kids her age were into Minecraft, but had no idea they were into FNAF that intently as well.

Ended up buying all the plushies (almost, still need the Hot Topic exclusive) for her.. I'll end up buying this one tonight as well.

The bright side about the Five Nights games is while they're scary, they're not actually that gruesome or crude, and are on a topic children may be familiar/terrified with. I know some people were asking in a previous Five Nights thread why so many allow their children to play things like FNaF, but to be honest the content in the games aren't really that graphic and the game doesn't utilize strong language or anything either, so actually Five Nights might be one of the most kid-friendly horror games out there.

I'm talking strictly about content and not about the moral question of if a kid/parent wants the kid to be around something scary. That's up to each parent and child of course, but I find that angle of the series interesting. It might come from Scott's religious roots and the fact he has some children of his own.

Anyways, I find the new designs eerie and the voicing I've seen good, so I'll buy it and play it eventually.

 

[nintendoman58]

I think the most interesting part of this game is the fact that the description has you as a technician, not a night guard. So I imagine you'll not only have to run from room to room avoiding the animatronics, but also have to fiddle with machines, wires, or other technical stuff to keep the building under control (or from them killing you).

It would make sense. In one teaser Scott released the backstory which involves the grand opening of the place being shut down due to apparent gas leaks (though people think something else is amiss).

So perhaps not only will the animatronics try to hunt you down, but maybe they'll also be purposefully breaking machines that could cause an explosion, or make it easier for them to kill you.

This is all speculation of course, but if it's true it'd be a real interesting change to the typical formula.

 

[Dimitri LH]

The bright side about the Five Nights games is while they're scary, they're not actually that gruesome or crude, and are on a topic children may be familiar/terrified with. I know some people were asking in a previous Five Nights thread why so many allow their children to play things like FNaF, but to be honest the content in the games aren't really that graphic and the game doesn't utilize strong language or anything either, so actually Five Nights might be one of the most kid-friendly horror games out there.

I'm talking strictly about content and not about the morale question of if a kid/parent wants the kid to be around something scary. That's up to each parent and child of course, but I find that angle of the series interesting. It might come from Scott's religious roots and the fact he has some children of his own.

Yep, if you look at just the gameplay, its all kid friendly, basically just a haunted house (er....kid restaurant in this case). It only goes dark when you go deep into the lore which I doubt most kids will understand.

 

[Seven4sses]

Oh yeah I'm ready to soil my undies again. Just gotta wait 'til I get home now.

 

[Demoli]

We made it! Less than three hours until the show starts.

Where is this from?

 

[Dusk Golem]

Game just came out now (but wait a second for the discount to kick in).

 

[TheRedSnifit]

Aaaaand bought.

Of course, my laptop's broken so I won't be able to play it until Monday. Hold me, GAF.

 

[Compsiox]

Their faces are going to open like doors and it's going to be terrifying.

 

[daTRUballin]

So........the game is out, but there's no hype for it here at all? Anybody played this yet? I'm about to buy it myself here very soon.

 

[KojiKnight]

So........the game is out, but there's no hype for it here at all? Anybody played this yet? I'm about to buy it myself here very soon.

It's been too long, have to wait till the youtubers get the hype going again.

 

[SDBurton]

Looking forward to watching playthroughs of it.

 

[Puruzi]

Looking forward to watching playthroughs of it.

This. And matpat's theory

 

[Dragoshi1]

It's definitely scary. And difficult.

Also the VA work is GOOD. And terrifying.

 

[TheRedSnifit]

It's definitely scary. And difficult.

Also the VA work is GOOD. And terrifying.

What's the gameplay like?

 

[Mask]

I can give a few thoughts on it.

The gameplay is completely different. Nights are no longer repetitive. Instead, every night has a few different tasks you need to do, and they're not as long as normal nights since there isn't a set time limit like before. I like the change, especially after 4 games of the same basic premise of surviving for a certain number of hours.

I'm only up to near the end of the third night, but so far, the story is just as dark as before, possibly even has the potential to be darker. What I can tell so far, spoilers btw,

Spoiler

Baby was pulled from the stage because she crushed a child in her ice cream maker chest cavity..

Also, mini-games after losing are back in, and I've already sussed out that it seems like there are hidden ways to mess with mini-games again, ala FNAF3.

 

[Sesha]

Aight. Let the show begin. Let's go, FNAF-GAF!

Where is this from?

Don't remember who made it or when I first found it, but I re-located by searching for "five nights at freddy's gif" in Google.

 

[Dragoshi1]

What's the gameplay like?

Nothing like the first 4 games, like, at all. It seems you spend time in every room over the nights.

I've been following Dawko to see how the game is, he's streaming now; Dawko's Sister Location Stream

He's stuck on Night 4 right now. FYI, Night 4's gameplay is NOTHING like the first 3 so far.

 

[daTRUballin]

Bought this game a few minutes ago and waiting for it to download. Not going to read this thread until after I'm done playing to not spoil myself on the game.

 

[Kalentan]

Can't wait to watch Markiplier's video on this. I will admit to being one of those people who like to watch the games but don't play them myself.

 

[KojiKnight]

Watching a stream, not sure what day this is... Lots more voice acting it looks like.

 

[Mask]

I'm hoping that we don't get repeated segments from each night later on in the game, because some of em are very frustrating..

In particular, spoilers of course,

Spoiler

sneaking through the Funtime Auditorium using the flash beacon, which seems kinda random on if you'll get jumped or not, and the Funtime Freddy maintenance, because the Bonnie Puppet is a slippery fucker to catch..

It's a lot of fun, but I'm thinking I might wait for others to find the lore stuff since that's mainly what I'm in for and I wanna save some of the gameplay for streaming to friends.

 

[daTRUballin]

Man, after playing about an hour, I have to say Scott has certainly outdone himself. This is something totally different than what we're usually used to from FNAF. It's WAY more of a drastic change in gameplay than something like FNAF 4. This is something really interesting.

 

[Nepenthe]

Lack of time limits and unique tasks every night had me even more hyped than before, and I'm someone who would've been fine with the straight traditional mechanics. Definitely planning on getting this today, but not sure if I want to do so before or after Markiplier's video later.

 

[Rhomega Beta]

On Night 2.

Spoiler

How do you keep the Circus Baby from opening the desk door? I was able to do it the first time, but not the second.

 

[TheJollyCorner]

Can't wait to watch Markiplier's video on this. I will admit to being one of those people who like to watch the games but don't play them myself.

Same.
I love horror games, but the gameplay style of these just isn't my bag.

Basically:

-Markiplier for the inevitably thorough play-through (and his reactions)
+
-Game Theorist for the lore goodness

Really makes the FNAF releases my most anticipated "will not play these games" games.

 

[Crayolan]

I know nothing about this game but I just wanna give nod to the thread title. lol

 

[T.O.P]

Ready for Harshly Critical playthrough

 

[BassForever]

Tag for lore and reactions

 

[Illucio]

Just trying to get the lore here.... It's so spoopy that I can't study it.

 

[Landford]

I cant really say how different it is from the others, but its really, really well made.

Spoiler

"Theres someone inside.....