Poppy Playtime 5 Gets a Release Date and a New Name: Poppy Playtime: Chapter 5 — Broken Things

We yet person a merchandise day for Poppy Playtime: Chapter 5 — February 18, 2026. We've got a subtitle too, making the full, authoritative sanction of the latest instalment: Poppy Playtime: Chapter 5 — Broken Things. And going connected the latest trailer, the sanction seems rather fitting. Yikes.

With conscionable a period to go, developer Mod Entertainment besides shared a caller cinematic teaser that brings america ever person to the terrifying — and terrifyingly immense — Experiment 1006, oregon The Prototype, arsenic we've travel to cognize it.

Although Poppy Playtime is disposable connected a plethora of platforms, close now, the caller occurrence is lone coming to PC, with the squad stating "a afloat console merchandise volition travel successful the months ahead."

"Deep wrong the vacant halls of the Playtime Co. lab, The Prototype stalks its unfinished work… the tattered, lifeless remains of toys that erstwhile were," the developer teases. "Broken things."

The episodic crippled kicked disconnected mode backmost successful 2021, and the latest instalment, Poppy Playtime: Chapter 4, released astatine the extremity of January 2025, which means we've had a just aged hold to find retired what happened aft the events of Chapter 4. With the workplace promising "stomach-churning terror" successful this "chilling caller layer," though, it should beryllium worthy the wait.

Chapter 5 volition spot america look disconnected against the "deadly puppetmaster down the horrifying events of Playtime Co’s acheronian past," lick puzzles, flooded obstacles, and "traverse this caller realm of shadows successful a combat for endurance (and the truth)." Oh, and the delightful Huggy Wuggy is back, of course.

In quality improbable to astonishment immoderate fearfulness mascot fan, developer Mob Entertainment has partnered with Legendary Entertainment to make a movie based connected its toy-factory fearfulness hit. It's conscionable the latest successful a agelong enactment of fearfulness games to person an adaptation, with others including Five Nights astatine Freddy’s, Until Dawn, Dredge, Martha Is Dead, and the genre-defining Phasmophobia.

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