The popular indie horror game; Poppy Playtime is circulating everyone’s feed again after Chapter Four was recently teased by the game’s creator, Mob Entertainment.
Poppy Playtime is a first-person horror game that brings in its audience with disturbing imagery, jump scares, incredibly deep lore, and the inclusion of real-life actors.
Players have been eagerly awaiting the next chapter after many fan theories were confirmed with the release of Chapter Three earlier this year.
But a vital question remains: Who is The Player?
Let’s talk about it.
The Player’s Elusive Identity
The plot of Poppy Playtime has us playing as the identity-unknown main character, The Player. What we do know is that The Player has been invited back to their former place of employment.
The Player used to work at Playtime Co., a once-thriving toy factory whose employees vanished without a trace ten years earlier.
The Player gets a letter in the mail inviting them back to the factory under the pretense that the employees are still there somewhere.
This is where we begin in the game. As players, our goal is to navigate through the eerie factory and solve the mystery of what happened to the factory workers—and who sent the letter.
Later in the game, we discover that the large, sentient, murderous toys are actually children who were experimented on. (On a side note: If this reminds you of Five Nights At Freddy’s, you wouldn’t be the only one.)
So far, three chapters of Poppy Playtime have been released, each one unraveling a fragment of the twisted mystery within Playtime Co. With every chapter, more secrets surface.
Chapter One introduces us to the Playtime Co. factory and that the large, scary toys in it can and will chase us.
Chapter Two has us following The Player as they meet Poppy, the flagship mascot of Playtime Co., and try to escape the factory.
But it’s in Chapter Three that things really begin to take a dark turn.
For context, in Chapter One, we fight Huggy Wuggy, a large, blue creature with long limbs. Chapter Two has us face to face with Mommy Long Legs, a pink spider-like toy.
Chapter Three, however, has us being stalked and hunted by the fearsome CatNap, a huge purple cat with the ability to cause hallucinations and put you to sleep. CatNap is loyal to the main antagonist of the game: The Prototype.
The Prototype was introduced to us in Chapter Two. All we know about it for sure is that it can mimic voices. It most likely is also a child that was experimented on—and CatNap worships it like a diety.
Of course, we defeat each of the major villains, including CatNap, which brings us here.
Fan Theories
We get a lot of information out of Chapter Three, including what happened to the workers. (Spoilers ahead.)
We find out that the Bigger Body Toys violently wiped out the factory’s workforce in a chilling rebellion during an event ironically called The Hour of Joy. Despite that big reveal, we don’t get to know who The Player is.
Kind of.
We do get some clues about The Player’s identity, however. We understand that they are driven by guilt, though we don’t know why.
Some players speculate that The Player is a scientist who experimented on the children who ended up being in the Bigger Body Initiative, turning them into toys.
Another theory points to The Player being one of the children who could have been turned into a toy, but managed to escape. However, some evidence contradicts this because its confirmed that The Player is a former employee of Playtime Co.
The guilt that The Player feels could either be because of survivor’s guilt for not being there during The Hour Of Joy or because they were partially responsible for what has transpired at Playtime Co.
As the developers begin to tease Chapter Four, fans look forward to getting the answers to their pressing, unanswered questions.
Poppy Playtime is available on Stream.
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