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Puppet horror games on PlayStation

In these games the threat has strings, felt or a painted wooden face. You wind a music box to keep a marionette in its box, wake alone in a musty theatre after the puppet show, or hide from the puppets of a children's TV studio. What frightens is a toy made to look alive that moves when it should not, and the hand you cannot see working it.

The top 10 of 10 puppet horror games on PlayStation, ranked by player and critic scores

The 10 best on PlayStation

  1. Smile For Me key art: a dark figure in a top hat with glowing eyes and a wide glowing grin looms over silhouettes of the Habitat's residents amid swirling vines and flowers PsychologicalSmile For MeDoctor Habit appears in cutscenes as a live-action puppet, and the store promises alarming puppetry. 98% on Steam (1,887 reviews)about 4 hPaidPC, Mac, Switch, PlayStation, Xbox
  2. Five Nights at Freddy's: Help Wanted 2 key art: a cluster of animatronic heads with Funtime Freddy at the centre, Circus Baby and Ballora beside him and the Sun daycare attendant above FNAFFive Nights at Freddy's: Help Wanted 2Funtime Freddy carries Bon-Bon, a blue bunny hand puppet, in the Sister Location levels. 95% on Steam (5,413 reviews)about 8 hPaidPC, PlayStation, Xbox, Switch, VR
  3. My Friendly Neighborhood key art: grinning puppets, among them a spiky-haired boy, a green-haired puppet with a hoop earring and a red-mouthed monster, peer between red curtains on a night street SurvivalMy Friendly NeighborhoodThe enemies are the felt puppets of a cancelled children's TV show, come alive in their studio. 95% on Steam (3,467 reviews)about 5.5 hPaidPC, PlayStation, Xbox
  4. Five Nights at Freddy's 2 key art: a close-up of the battered brown Freddy Fazbear's face beside a red number 2 FNAFFive Nights at Freddy's 2The Puppet, a new character, is held back only by a music box that you wind through the camera feed. 94% on Google Play (121,000 ratings)about 1.5 hPaidPC, PlayStation, Xbox, Switch, iPhone, Android
  5. Puppet House key art: the wooden puppet seen from behind, holding a knife, sitting in a pool of blood at the foot of the mansion's staircase EscapePuppet HouseThe killer is an old ventriloquist's puppet that a freak ritual brought to life as a demonic killer. 86% on the PlayStation Store (650 ratings)about 2.5 hPaidPC, PlayStation, Xbox
  6. The Coma 3: Bloodlines art: a wide-eyed girl in close-up beside a wall of organic growths, with black spiky shapes between them, in dark blue SurvivalThe Coma 3: BloodlinesHideous puppets hunt you through the Coma while you run and hide 86% on Steam (369 reviews)about 8 hPaidPC, PlayStation, Xbox, Switch
  7. Crisol: Theater of Idols key art: a weeping, crowned statue of a woman with a skeletal ribcage, framed by blades, candles and iron gates in red and black SurvivalCrisol: Theater of IdolsThe living statues move like puppets, and one screenshot shows a bull-masked puppet crawling across a dockside yard. 85% on Steam (4,585 reviews)11 h or morePaidPC, PlayStation, Xbox
  8. Emily Wants to Play art: a ventriloquist dummy, Emily in a torn white dress, a pale black-haired doll and a grinning clown in a top hat in a dark corridor HauntedEmily Wants to PlayA ventriloquist dummy in a suit is one of the dolls. 80% on the App Store (6,248 ratings)about 1 hPaidPC, Mac, VR, iPhone, PlayStation, Xbox
  9. Martha Is Dead key art: the upside-down face of a young woman with a pearl necklace, as if seen through dark water PsychologicalMartha Is DeadPuppet-theatre sequences, where you move marionettes in order, bring back Giulia's repressed memories. 79% on Steam (3,986 reviews)about 6 hPaidPC, PlayStation, Xbox
  10. Ad Infinitum key art: a black-and-white screaming skeleton in a German steel helmet, barbed wire around its spine, against a pale grey background PsychologicalAd InfinitumThe store warns of hideous disjointed puppets that move in the dark. 78% on Steam (1,885 reviews)about 7 hPaidPC, PlayStation, Xbox

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