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Games Like Poppy Playtime: Mascot and Toy Horror

Poppy Playtime turns a toy company's smiling mascots into hunters stalking an abandoned factory. These games share that idea of mascot horror: cartoon characters, toys and theme-park hosts that were made to be loved and now want you dead, mixed with puzzles, chases and hiding.

The games

  1. Bendy and the Ink Machine key art: the ink machine hangs from chains in amber light as black ink splashes in front of it EscapeBendy and the Ink MachineAn abandoned cartoon studio flooded with ink, where the drawings have become monsters and puzzles open the way.
  2. Indigo Park key art: Rambley the cartoon raccoon in a red scarf waving in front of a dark doorway on a blue-tinted street with boxes and a bench Puzzle horrorIndigo Park: Chapter 1Free: an abandoned theme park, a cartoon host on the screens and a mascot that comes after you.
  3. Amanda the Adventurer key art: Wooly the Sheep, wide-eyed and frightened, his hands raised, behind purple VHS scanlines Multiple endingsAmanda the AdventurerA children's cartoon on old VHS tapes whose cheerful host talks to you through the screen, with escape-room puzzles in the attic.
  4. Bendy and the Dark Revival key art: the grinning cartoon Bendy with ink dripping from his eyes, arms spread between lit candles in a dark studio SurvivalBendy and the Dark RevivalThe larger sequel, sneaking past ink monsters and hiding from the Ink Demon.
  5. Five Nights at Freddy's: Security Breach art: Glamrock Chica, Freddy, Montgomery Gator and Roxanne Wolf under pink and blue neon lasers SurvivalFive Nights at Freddy's: Security BreachRoam the Mega Pizzaplex all night while its animatronics hunt you.
  6. Tattletail key art: the purple, furry Tattletail toy with big blue eyes and a heart-shaped nose beside its red box, in front of a lit Christmas tree, with a large figure with glowing red eyes behind Multiple endingsTattletailA talking 90s toy to keep quiet before its recalled mother finds you.
  7. Five Nights at Freddy's: Secret of the Mimic key art: a grinning clown animatronic with glowing yellow eyes in the dark SurvivalFive Nights at Freddy's: Secret of the MimicAn inventor's costume workshop and an endoskeleton that can become any character.
  8. Five Nights at Freddy's: Into the Pit key art: a worn yellow rabbit animatronic with glowing blue eyes rising from a ball pit SurvivalFive Nights at Freddy's: Into the PitA 2D FNAF adventure: dive into a ball pit, wake in the past and hide from a yellow rabbit animatronic while you solve puzzles.
  9. 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 puppets of a cancelled children's TV show come alive in their studio, in classic survival horror with scarce ammunition.
  10. Twisted Tower key art: a man in a bloodied shirt holding a mallet before a dark carnival tower, a ferris wheel and two grinning bear mascots Action horrorTwisted TowerA shooter through an abandoned 1950s resort of corrupted fairy-tale mascots.
  11. Dark Deception key art: a frightened man grabbed by a crowd of monsters, including a giant grinning bear, a duck, a clown, a doll-like girl and nurses EscapeDark DeceptionFree arcade-style maze chases from monsters you cannot kill.
  12. Mr. Hopp's Playhouse key art: a pixel-art girl with a frightened face against dark pink damask wallpaper 2D horrorMr. Hopp's PlayhouseFree pixel-art horror about a handmade rabbit toy that has left its corner.
  13. Bonnie's Bakery key art: Bonnie, a smiling girl with a red bow, pink top and green skirt, beside the pastel title on a chocolate drip, on pink EscapeBonnie's BakeryFree in the browser: a pastel cooking game as Bonnie the baker that turns into a night hiding from her in the basement.
  14. Hungry Lamu key art: rounded yellow title letters beside a close-up of Lamu the llama's wide-eyed, grinning face against a fence and grass PsychologicalHungry LamuFree in the browser: feed a grinning cartoon llama in a bright forest until the cheerful world turns to gore.
  15. Mr. Hopp's Playhouse 2 key art: Esther, a girl with a lavender headband, glances anxiously aside in a dim wallpapered hallway that ends in darkness SurvivalMr. Hopp's Playhouse 2The prequel: an orphanage, three donated toys and two friends who vanish after they arrive.
  16. 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 HouseEscape-room puzzles in a dead ventriloquist's mansion while his stage puppet, woken by a ritual, hunts you.
  17. Baldi's Basics Plus art: Baldi, a bald teacher in a green shirt, smiles and holds up a wooden ruler on a white background EscapeBaldi's Basics PlusA cheerful edutainment teacher turned hunter in a randomly built schoolhouse.
  18. Garten of Banban 8: Anti Devil key art: the title beside a grinning blue bearded mascot with big lashed eyes on a pink background Mascot horrorGarten of Banban 8: Anti DevilA kindergarten whose mascots have turned on you, in the series most often named beside Poppy Playtime.
  19. Happy's Humble Burger Farm key art: the smiling cow mascot holds up a tray of glowing burgers before a red-lit restaurant, with monstrous mascot faces in the mist Mascot horrorHappy's Humble Burger FarmA fast food chain's cow mascot turns on you when the night shift goes wrong.
  20. KinitoPET key art: pink axolotl Kinito leaning on a green surfboard, a gloved hand holding a globe, before a glossy pink and cyan disc on a checkerboard floor under clouds PsychologicalKinitoPETA cheerful early 2000s desktop assistant that wants to be your friend, and becomes capable of things no assistant should be.
  21. Mr. TomatoS key art: a crudely drawn smiling red tomato with half-closed eyes beside the yellow title on a cyan background PsychologicalMr. TomatoSA cheerful cartoon tomato on one screen who must be fed, and grows angrier with every mistake; about half an hour, pay what you want.
  22. Ms. LemonS key art: the smiling cartoon lemon in blue glasses beside the hand-lettered white title on dark navy PsychologicalMs. LemonSThe same makers' lemon teacher, setting blackboard tasks for stars while her irritation climbs.
  23. Baby Blues Nightmares key art: the crayon-style title over black ink splatter in a dim child's bedroom with blue cloud-painted walls and a wooden wardrobe SurvivalBaby Blues NightmaresA toddler hides from fanged plush monsters in dark playrooms while searching for lost toys.
  24. Venge key art: a row of grotesque monsters on a purple ledge in blue light, above red neon writing that says Hello again Multiple endingsVengeThe cartoon characters of a vanished movie studio turned into toothy monsters in a flipped dimension.
  25. Hello Puppets! key art: a frightened stitched doll in a pink glow surrounded by puppet monsters, among them a top-hatted old man, a woman with a saw and a giant fanged dog EscapeHello Puppets! VRIn VR: the burnt-out studio of a cancelled 1980s puppet show, where the hand puppets have come alive and want you.
  26. Dollmare key art: a dirty baby doll with amber eyes and a clean one with blue eyes, both in blue cloud pajamas, at either end of a black banner under red light PsychologicalDollmareA night job inspecting dolls on a factory line, where some of them do things dolls should not do.
  27. Duck Season key art: a boy with a light gun faces a giant glowing TV showing a duck hunt in a dim 1980s living room, a dog lurking in the doorway Multiple endingsDuck SeasonA rented 1988 duck-hunting cartridge whose cheerful dog mascot can leave the screen, in VR or on a flat screen.
  28. Fredbear and Friends: Reboot key art: a shadowy bear animatronic looms beside a lone street lamp on a dark street, with the title at upper left FNAFFredbear and Friends: RebootFree and free-roaming: four teenagers explore an old mascot restaurant and find its animatronics still waiting.

Bendy and the Ink Machine is the closest in spirit and came first: a retired animator returns to an abandoned studio flooded with ink, where the cartoons he drew have become monsters, and you solve puzzles and hide from the Ink Demon. Its sequel, Bendy and the Dark Revival, is larger and leans more on stealth and fighting through an ink-soaked copy of the studio.

Indigo Park: Chapter 1 is the free pick and the most like Poppy Playtime's first chapter. A cartoon raccoon host guides you through an abandoned amusement park, restoring power and picking up collectables, until one of the park's mascots comes after you. Twisted Tower goes louder: a first-person shooter through an abandoned 1950s resort full of corrupted fairy-tale mascots, fought with a toy arsenal.

Five Nights at Freddy's is the series that made mascot horror popular. Security Breach lets you roam the Mega Pizzaplex all night while the animatronics hunt you, Secret of the Mimic sends you into an inventor's costume workshop with an endoskeleton that can become any character, and Into the Pit is a 2D pixel-art adventure in which a boy dives into a run-down pizzeria's ball pit, wakes in the past and hides from a yellow rabbit animatronic, closer to Poppy Playtime's puzzles and hiding than the classic night-shift games.

Amanda the Adventurer takes the cheerful mascot onto old VHS tapes: in your late aunt's attic you play episodes of a children's cartoon whose host, Amanda, and her sheep Wooly start talking to you through the screen, and the attic's escape-room puzzles hide their clues in the tapes. Its two sequels continue the story.

My Friendly Neighborhood brings the idea to a cancelled Saturday morning puppet show: a handyman sent to switch off its old station finds the puppets alive and hungry, in a survival horror game of scarce ammunition and puzzles in the style of the classic Resident Evil games.

Garten of Banban is the series most often named beside Poppy Playtime: a kindergarten whose mascot characters have turned into the things hunting you. Its eighth chapter, Anti Devil, is the best-reviewed on Steam so far, sending you alone into the deepest levels to find your missing child. Happy's Humble Burger Farm turns a fast food chain's cow mascot into the threat: get three orders wrong on the night shift and Happy is not friendly, and after work you search a strange city for a way out of the Barnyard Buds' fever-dream.

For toys rather than mascots, Tattletail has you keep a talking 90s toy quiet so that its recalled mother doesn't find you, Mr. Hopp's Playhouse is a free pixel-art game about a handmade rabbit toy that has left its corner, and its prequel, Mr. Hopp's Playhouse 2, follows an orphan through Blacklands Manor after three donated toys arrive and her friends start to vanish. Puppet House puts a detective in a dead ventriloquist's mansion, solving escape-room puzzles while the stage puppet, woken by a ritual, hunts anyone inside. Dark Deception mixes arcade-style chases through mazes with monsters you cannot kill, and Baldi's Basics turns a cheerful edutainment teacher into the thing hunting you through the school.

Venge drops you into the flipped dimension of Rotnic, a movie studio that vanished, where its cartoon characters have become grinning, toothy monsters with bosses to escape. KinitoPET takes the friendly mascot onto your desktop: a cheerful early 2000s virtual assistant that wants to be your friend and slowly becomes something else. Hello Puppets! VR puts you in the burnt-out studio of a cancelled 1980s puppet show whose hand puppets have come alive, and Dollmare gives you a night job inspecting dolls on a factory line where some of them should not move.

Duck Season puts the mascot on an old games cartridge: on a summer day in 1988 you play a rented duck-hunting game with a light gun, and its cheerful hunting dog turns out to be able to leave the screen; it was made for VR, and Duck Season PC plays without a headset. Fredbear and Friends: Reboot is a free, fully free-roaming fan game in which four teenagers explore a restaurant closed for 26 years and find its animatronics still there.

OXTORD games' two creepypasta-style games put the grinning mascot on a single screen made to look like an old flash game. In Mr. TomatoS you feed a cheerful cartoon tomato with food, a blender and items from his shop while his anger climbs at every mistake, and in Ms. LemonS a lemon teacher sets you blackboard tasks; each takes about half an hour, can be finished only once and is pay what you want on itch.io. Baby Blues Nightmares makes the toys the monsters: a toddler searches dark playrooms for lost toys while fanged plush creatures listen for every sound.

Two small games do the same in miniature, and both are free in the browser. Bonnie's Bakery opens as a pastel cooking game where you serve the town's animals as Bonnie the baker and insists that is all it is, until a night in her basement has you hiding from her while you find the notes and keycode to escape. Hungry Lamu has you help a grinning cartoon llama find food in a bright forest, and the cheerful world gives way to gore; run from Lamu, and Lamu will get you.

If you only try one, play Bendy and the Ink Machine for the closest mix of puzzles and dread, or Indigo Park if you want something free. For every game of the kind, see the full list of mascot horror games.

Questions

What is mascot horror?

Horror built around cartoon mascots, toys or theme-park characters that were meant to be friendly and turn sinister, as in Poppy Playtime, Bendy and Five Nights at Freddy's.

Are there free games like Poppy Playtime?

Yes: Indigo Park: Chapter 1, Dark Deception and Mr. Hopp's Playhouse are free downloads, and Bonnie's Bakery and Hungry Lamu play free in the browser. Poppy Playtime's first chapter is free too.

What is the closest game to Poppy Playtime?

Bendy and the Ink Machine, a first-person puzzle horror game in an abandoned cartoon studio, Indigo Park, a free mascot horror game in an abandoned theme park, and Amanda the Adventurer, which puts a sinister cartoon host on VHS tapes.

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