The player takes the role of a former employee of toy-making company Playtime Co., who revisits its abandoned toy factory 10 years after its staff's disappearance. The player navigates through a first-person perspective and must solve puzzles, some requiring a gadget named the GrabPack, to progress while avoiding various emies.
The first chapter was released on Steam for Microsoft Windows on October 12, 2021, and later for Android and iOS on March 11, 2022. The second chapter was released for Microsoft Windows on May 5, and for iOS and Android on August 15. All chapters after the first will be released as downloadable contt. The game garnered positive reviews for its gameplay on its initial release, but the second chapter received mixed reviews for its numerous bugs. Additionally, the game developer team Mob tertainmt received harsh criticism for announcing non-fungible toks of in-game contt.
Poppy Playtime is a horror video game where the player plays as a former employee of Playtime Co. who returns to the abandoned toy factory of said company after receiving a letter from the staff who were thought to have disappeared 10 years ago.
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The game utilizes multiple puzzles throughout, which the player must solve in order to progress further, with some requiring a gadget named the GrabPack, a backpack that can be equipped with two extdable hands which can be used to pull and reach objects from a far distance, conduct electricity, and access certain doors;
In Chapter 2, it can also be used to swing across gaps and, with a gre hand obtained during gameplay, transfer electricity betwe sources.
The player receives a package that contains a VHS tape, which shows a commercial for the titular doll Poppy Playtime and tours of the factory before abruptly cutting to spliced-in footage of graffiti of a poppy, and a letter from the missing staff, requesting them to "find the flower". They th ter the abandoned toy factory and, after solving the code to a security door, acquire the GrabPack, which they use to unlock the door to the lobby. After tering the lobby, the player is introduced to Huggy Wuggy, who is on display in the cter of the room. While trying to unlock one door in the lobby, the power suddly cuts, forcing them to restore power in the power room.
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After heading back to the lobby, they discover that Huggy has disappeared from his display. The player th restores power to a control panel in order to control an overhead crane and retrieve the right hand of the GrabPack, which they use to unlock a hatch to a conveyor belt that leads to the "Make-a-Frid" section of the factory, where they restore power to the machinery and manufacture a toy. They th place the toy in a scanner and op a door to a hallway which, after the player ters, Huggy suddly appears from and chases the player through the vts. After reaching a dead-d, the player pulls down a box and breaks part of the conveyor belt, causing Huggy to fall to the bottom of the factory. They th head to the aforemtioned graffiti and op a door to a hallway, leading to a room where they find Poppy in a case which the player ops, freeing Poppy.
After freeing Poppy from her case, the player explores the back halls of the factory, evtually finding the office of Elliot Ludwig, Playtime's founder. After tering the vts in the office, they counter Poppy, who thanks them for freeing her and offers to help them escape the factory by giving them a code to activate the factory's train. However, she is grabbed and pulled deeper into the factory. As they approach the Game Station where the train is located, the player counters Mommy Long Legs, who holds Poppy hostage and takes the red hand from the player's GrabPack. She challges the player to win the three games in the Game Station, and in return will give the player the code for the train, threating to kill them if they disobey the rules. Making their way through the factory, the player crafts the gre hand for the GrabPack and th proceeds through the three games.
The player is able to obtain two parts of the code before escaping during the third game, fleeing into the tunnels beath the factory. An raged Mommy accuses them of cheating and pursues them through the tunnels and back up into the factory until she becomes caught in the teeth of an industrial grinder, killing her. A needle-fingered hand rises to take her brok body away. The player finds Poppy trapped in a spider web with the third part of the code. After freeing her, the player boards the train to escape. However, Poppy diverts the train, saying that she could not let the player leave yet due to the evts that had occurred inside the factory, claiming that she knows the player can handle whatever comes next. The train runs out of control and derails near a sign pointing to "Playcare".
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Originally starting out as a Kickstarter campaign, the idea of Poppy Playtime was originally thought of by game director Isaac Christopherson, stating that people called most indie horror games 'Walking Simulators', giving Mob tertainmt the idea to "create something with gameplay that doesn't feel quite so run-of-the-mill, while still staying exciting, terrifying, and unique." A trailer for the game's first chapter was uploaded in September 2021.
In an interview with The New York Times, Zach Belanger stated that his idea behind Huggy Wuggy was to "create something tirely new", and that his technique of making him terrifying was by making him larger than everything on scre.
The first chapter was released on Steam for Microsoft Windows on October 12, and later for Android and iOS on March 11, 2022.
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But also being criticized for its number of bugs and performance issues, including audio issues, crashes, lag, and the so-called "Barry glitch". Mob tertainmt responded with an apology and began rolling out patches for the aforemtioned issues.
In December 2021, on Twitter, the developers announced non-fungible toks of the in-game posters, which was quickly met with backlash and negative reviews from the community, as well as some users requesting refunds, arguing that the developers put lore of the game behind a paywall. In response, the developers deleted the announcemt but were unable to remove the NFTs as well due to a contract they had signed, stating that they have to wait for it to expire.
On May 3, 2022, Mob tertainmt's CEO Zach Belanger posted a statemt on Twitter where he confirms that all profits earned from the NFTs would be going to the Clean Air Task Force organization.
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Around Poppy Playtime's release, developer Ekrcoaster claimed that Mob tertainmt plagiarized his game Vge. In the aforemtioned statemt, Belanger died the allegations, stating that there was no intt to plagiarize.
Dorset Police and Lafayette County Sheriff's Departmt both released a statemt to parts regarding the character Huggy Wuggy on March 22, 2022,
The former also claimed that various schools in the United Kingdom reported childr recreating a game where one child hugs another and th whispers sinister things into the recipit's ear.
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Similarly, a primary school in Adelaide also warned parts about the game, specifically adaptations of it and violt songs featuring the character.
Fact-checking website Snopes confirmed that while there had be reports from parts within the United Kingdom, the police had incorrectly claimed that the character sang songs, despite said songs being fan-made and not appearing in-game. Snopes had also said that inappropriate videos involving the character were not available for younger users on TikTok and YouTube Kids, with spokespersons for each platform confirming so.
In September 2022, El Observador reported that sev childr at a school in Uruguay played a game based on Poppy Playtime that instructed them to commit self-harm using pcil sharpers, with two being hospitalized as a result.
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The presidt of the Institute of Childr and Adolescts of Uruguay, Pablo Abdala, states that the incidt "confirms that technological developmt tails a very severe risk".
On October 31, 2022, Project: Playtime, a free-to-play co-op horror game that is a spin-off of Poppy Playtime, was announced and was released as early access on Steam on December 12, 2022,
Six players are assigned as Survivors while another player is giv the role of the Monster, which can either be Huggy Wuggy, Mommy Long Legs, or a new jack-in-the-box-themed character called Boxy Boo. Survivors are tasked with retrieving toy parts in order to assemble a large toy, while the Monster is tasked with finding the Survivors and killing them.
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In November 2022, the sale of the Huggy Wuggy plush toys was banned by the Turkish Ministry of Trade, stating that the toys "do not meet the requiremts of the Toy Safety Regulation." Ministry of Family and Social Services also said it determined that the toy "had a negative effect on the psychosocial developmt of childr."
In early 2023, Huggy Wuggy plush toys – both licsed and unlicsed – were highly in demand with toy sellers worldwide. The toys' popularity was fueled by
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