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Play Overview
Poppy Playtime (2021) is a horror puzzle adventure game where you are pursued by vengeful toys in an abandoned factory. Amidst the disturbing music and jump scares you hack electrical circuits and collect useful items. Along with the unusual horror setting, your two extendable arms create novel interactions and extend the horrific clown aesthetic. The level of horror and violence varies significantly for each of the separately downloadable chapters.
You used to work at the toy factory and return a decode later after the staff seemingly disappeared. Play involves exploring each area and using your extendable hands to find clues, make electrical connections and solve the mystery. As you do this though, you are hunted by Huggy Wuggy, Cat-Bee, Mommy Long Legs and Poppy Playtime toys.
There is controversy around the game similar to the Momo Challenge moral panic. Because of the popularity of the game TikTok and YouTube creators have made scary fan videos about the Huggy Wuggy with lyrics that include "hug until your last breath together" and "sink my teeth in and you're consumed". This was misconstrued as being an encouragement to harmful actions in the game and led to warnings from head teachers and Police. While the game content is edgy, it's rated suitable for 12-13 year olds and doesn't include any encouragements for self harm.
The game is released in chapters, each of which have different levels of violence and often vary in age rating:
It's a game about the thrill of dread. Drawing on games like Five Nights at Freddies and films like Child’s Play, it creates terrifying monsters from innocent playthings. Huggy Wuggy, for instance starts looking like a 10 foot tall cuddly toy but soon reveals its sharp teeth. The challenge is solving the obscure puzzles, often with the help of the wider player community.
Our examiner, Jo Robertson, first checked Poppy Playtime 3 years ago. It was re-examined by Thom Robertson and updated 5 weeks ago.
You used to work at the toy factory and return a decode later after the staff seemingly disappeared. Play involves exploring each area and using your extendable hands to find clues, make electrical connections and solve the mystery. As you do this though, you are hunted by Huggy Wuggy, Cat-Bee, Mommy Long Legs and Poppy Playtime toys.
There is controversy around the game similar to the Momo Challenge moral panic. Because of the popularity of the game TikTok and YouTube creators have made scary fan videos about the Huggy Wuggy with lyrics that include "hug until your last breath together" and "sink my teeth in and you're consumed". This was misconstrued as being an encouragement to harmful actions in the game and led to warnings from head teachers and Police. While the game content is edgy, it's rated suitable for 12-13 year olds and doesn't include any encouragements for self harm.
The game is released in chapters, each of which have different levels of violence and often vary in age rating:
- Poppy Playtime Chapter 1 (2021)
- Poppy Playtime Chapter 2 (2022)
It's a game about the thrill of dread. Drawing on games like Five Nights at Freddies and films like Child’s Play, it creates terrifying monsters from innocent playthings. Huggy Wuggy, for instance starts looking like a 10 foot tall cuddly toy but soon reveals its sharp teeth. The challenge is solving the obscure puzzles, often with the help of the wider player community.
Our examiner, Jo Robertson, first checked Poppy Playtime 3 years ago. It was re-examined by Thom Robertson and updated 5 weeks ago.
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Play Style
This is an Adventure game with Puzzle, Stealth and Traversal elements. This is a single-player game.
You can play this game in the following styles:
Duration
Play Time: This game will take between 1 hour and 2 and a half hours to complete. Each chapter last an hour or two, depending on how determined you are to find everything.
Benefits
This game is good if you want to:
Age Ratings
Content Rating
Rated for younger players in the US. Rated ESRB TEEN for Blood, Mild Language, Violence. Players investigate an abandoned toy factory, solve puzzles, watch surveillance footage, and flee from monstrous toys. As players use robotic arms to interact with the environment, they can be surprised by dramatic jump scares. Monsters/toys are killed by various means: a monster crushed under a falling gate; a toy caught in a grinding machine, screaming while slowly crushed; a toy electrocuted, resulting in toxic gas and burning. Blood-splatter effects accompany monster/toy deaths, and several environments are stained/splattered with blood. Some black-and-white surveillance footage depicts human characters killed by toys, with corpses strewn on the ground. The words “p*ssed off” appear in the game.
Rated 12+ on Apple App Store for Infrequent/Mild Mature/Suggestive Themes, Mild Realistic Violence, Intense Horror/Fear Themes, Cartoon or Fantasy Violence, Profanity or Crude Humor.
Chapter 1: There's no gore but there are some splatters of blood on factory walls. As highlighted by official ratings, the horror nature of the game makes it likely to upset younger players.
Chapter 2: There's a scene where a character is pulled into a meat grinder and then explodes with a splash of blood.
Parents should also note that copy-cat games are available on Roblox, such as Poppy Playtime Morphs. Because these are user generated experiences they fall outside any rating criteria.
Costs
Poppy Playtime usually costs £2.19 to £7.99.
There are no additional in-game purchases, loot boxes, adverts or subscription costs.
You can purchase chapters for the game individually:
You can also play a version of the game on Roblox.
Poppy Playtime
 | Xbox X|S | £4.19 | – | – |
| Xbox One | £4.19 | – | – |
 | Switch | £4.09 | – | – |
 | PC | £7.99 | – | – |
 | PS5 | £3.69 | – | – |
| PS4 | £3.69 | – | – |
 | Android | £2.19 | – | – |
 | iOS | £2.99 | – | – |
You can purchase chapters for the game individually:
- Chapter 1: A Tight Squeeze
- Chapter 2: Fly in a Web
- Chapter 3: Deep Sleep
You can also play a version of the game on Roblox.
Game Details
Release Date: 12/10/2021, updated in 2023
Out Now: Android, PC, PS4, PS5, Switch, Xbox One, Xbox X|S and iOS
Players: 1
Genres: Adventure (Puzzle, Stealth and Traversal)
Accessibility: 0 features documented (Tweet Developer )
Components: 3D Third-Person
Developer: Mob Games Studios (@MobGamesStudios)
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