Freddy in Space 3: Chica in Space was shadowdropped on October 18, 2023, with Scott Cawthon announcing the game's existance on Reddit. However, he claimed that the game was actually a tie-in game to the upcoming Five Nights at Freddy's movie, even going as far as to claim that "it basically gives away the plot of the whole movie" and having the game titled "FNAF: The Movie: The Game".

In the level "NSFW Island," there are several enemies that are references to different suggestive media as well as suggestive fan creations from the Five Nights at Freddy's fan community, including:

• Flying Freddy Fazbear heads with helicopter propellers, but their faces are replaced with the Lenny Face emoticon: "( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)"
• Giant spinning blocks reading "RULE 34"
• A take on Toy Chica that makes her more suggestive with heart eyes, commonly known as "Love Taste Toy Chica."
• A feminine Toy Bonnie, which is a reference to the fangame series "Five Nights in Anime" originally made by Mairusu Paua, that took the animatronics and gave them feminine features.
• A take on Freddy, depicted with a more muscular physique, pink shorts and a small black top hat. This appears to be a reference to a teaser poster released for Freddy in Space 2 that depicted Freddy as being extremely muscular and having a pronounced bulge. Soon after this teaser's reveal, series creator Scott Cawthon took it down and posted an apology on Reddit for it being "over-the-top".
• The level's boss fight "Foxy Coming for your Booty", a reference to an early meme within the community about Foxy running down the hall in the first Five Nights at Freddy's game with the caption "Swiggity Swooty - I'm coming for your booty."

The background music for the "Merch Cemetery" stage has the filename "97 115 99 105 105 10", which when converted into ASCII spells "asciiLF". It is not known what this title means.

The boss Buff Helpy is a reference to an infamous moment from YouTuber Dawko's video "FNAF MEME REVIEW 2.0".