Poppy Playtime

Poppy Playtime is a survival horror video game created by indie developer MOB Games. The first chapter was released on Steam on October 12, 2021, and the second chapter released on May 5, 2022.[1][2]

Poppy Playtime
Developer(s)MOB Games
Publisher(s)MOB Games
Director(s)Isaac Christopherson
Producer(s)Zach Belanger
Designer(s)Dana Willoughby
Programmer(s)Achebe Spencer
Composer(s)Zachary Preciado
EngineUnreal Engine 5
Platform(s)Microsoft Windows
Release
  • Chapter 1
  • October 12, 2021
  • Chapter 2
  • May 5, 2022
Genre(s)Survival horror
Mode(s)Single-player

The player plays as a former employee who is going in an abandoned toy factory that used to be owned by the game's company Playtime Co. 10 years after the staff have vanished. In the game, the player goes through a first-person mode and must solve puzzles.[3][4]

When the first chapter was released, it had many positive reviews.[5][6]

Synopsis

You play as an ex-employee for Playtime Co., a company that produced popular toys. You can listen to VHS tapes throughout the game hinting to the game’s plot. When you leave the welcome center, you enter a room with a giant statue of Playtime Co.’s most famous toy, Huggy Wuggy. You then need to distribute power to the facility but when you are done with that and head back to Huggy’s room. He is gone, you then enter the innovation wing and find your other grabpack hand. You then go through the conveyor belt to reach the make a friend station. When you distribute power to the station, you are then attacked by Huggy Wuggy and chased through the conveyor belts by him. You then enter a giant poppy flower painted on the wall, leading to a toy named Poppy. You open its case, the screen goes black, and chapter 1 ends.

Music[7]

There are lots of songs in Chapter 1, the most popular one being No More Hugs, the song that plays when Huggy chases you. Poppy Playtime can be installed on Steam and other websites.

VHS tapes

The first tape is called Leith Pierre closing and it is about trespassing and the security system. The second is about an interview with a worker at Playtime Co. The third is about people not knowing what they are doing. The fourth is called experiment 1006 and is about Huggy Wuggy's attacks on the workers. All of these tapes have different locations.

References

  1. mobgamesstudios. "Mommy doesn't like guests... #PoppyPlaytimeChapter2" (Tweet). {{cite web}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |dead-url= (help) Missing or empty |date= (help)
  2. Pérez, Cristina (November 1, 2021). "Poppy Playtime muestra el primer tráiler de su segundo capítulo" [Poppy Playtime shows the first trailer of its second chapter]. Vandal (in Spanish). Retrieved November 1, 2021.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: unrecognized language (link)
  3. Livingston, Christopher (October 19, 2021). "This horror game set in an abandoned toy factory isn't playing around". PC Gamer. Retrieved October 26, 2021.
  4. Freidly, Damien (October 26, 2021). "Poppy Playtime: How To Solve The Security Door Code". Screen Rant. Retrieved October 26, 2021.
  5. Sant, Sam (October 14, 2021). "Is there a Poppy Playtime PS5, PS4, Xbox, and Nintendo Switch release date?". GameRevolution. Retrieved October 28, 2021.
  6. Fillari, Alessandro (October 27, 2021). "The 13 best horror games to play during Halloween". CNET. Retrieved October 28, 2021.
  7. Tom, Levis (2021-04-27). "Co-Operative Games". 101 Playground Games. Second edition. | Abingdon, Oxon; New York, NY: Routledge, 2021.: Junior. pp. 137–150. doi:10.4324/9780429322396-9. ISBN 9780429322396. S2CID 262337892. {{cite book}}: Check |s2cid= value (help)CS1 maint: date and year (link) CS1 maint: location (link)