Five Nights at Freddy's: Sister Location's game type is survival horror.

Players take on the role of someone who comes to work at Circus Baby's Rentals and Entertainment at night and is guided by an intelligent system called "Handle" to In each room to "control the electric shock" will be abnormal activity of the robot puppet back to the appropriate stage. Later, another voice cuts in, telling the player character that he needs to disobey the instructions of the "handle" at the right time, and hide the dolls in different forms ready to attack, and try to successfully repair the things that break from time to time. In different choices, the player character will be in front of a wonderful trap, or a long-awaited reunion.

Players take a first-person perspective and follow the instructions of the intelligent system "Handle" or "Circus Babe" to complete tasks. The difference with the previous works is that the player can visit different rooms in each night, no longer just stay in a fixed point to click. The map is divided into the initial location of the elevator (Elevator), the central control room (Primary Control Module), the Funtime Auditorium (Funtime Auditorium), the accessories and service room (Parts & Service), the private room (Private Room), the scooping room ( Scooping Room), Circus Control Room, Circus Baby's Auditorium, Ballora Gallery, and Breaker Room. In addition, the game time depends entirely on the speed of the plot progress, in other words, the play time each night has a long and short. Although the vast majority of the time, the player needs to follow instructions, but occasionally there is room for disobedience, different choices can trigger a different plot, and even lead to a very different ending.

After the update, completing all the endings will unlock a custom night. The level is based on a private room set-piece survival game and lets players choose different combinations of 10 characters and difficulty levels. Completing the highest difficulty for a given combination will reveal the story immediately following the true ending. Each completion of the specified conditions is certified with a star on the title screen, including completion of the true ending, completion of the hidden mini-game, completion of the false ending, and all custom nights (very hard difficulty) of the level (four in total)