Poppy Playtime Chapter 3 is a first-person horror game with extremely scary settings and makes players feel like real with many realistic details.
Chapter 3 takes players to an orphanage called Playcare. This orphanage is quite large and has many strange things happening deep below the abandoned Playtime Co. toy factory. After the horrific events in Chapter 2, players continue their journey to discover the dark secrets hidden here, looking for answers to what happened ten years ago.
In this chapter, players will have to face a villain named CatNap, who is a giant purple cat creature with the ability to create hallucinogenic red smoke. CatNap was once an orphan named Theodore Grambell, but was transformed into a monster by Playtime Co. through cruel experiments.
Chapter 3 takes you to a completely new area that is much larger than the toy factory in previous chapters. Playcare is an underground orphanage, consisting of many diverse areas such as a gas production area, a school, a puppet theater, a sleeping area, and a maze of hallways.
You can interact with many objects in the environment, from opening doors, pulling levers, picking up important items, to watching scattered VHS tapes to gather information about the plot and the dark past of Playtime Co.
To survive, you need to search for items such as keys, circuit breakers, machine parts, or even notes that reveal clues. Playcare contains many secret areas and hidden dialogues that you can discover if you are diligent in searching.
The puzzles are quite diverse, combining the use of GrabPack, environmental observation, and logical reasoning. You may have to arrange objects, activate complex mechanisms, find codes, or use collected items at the right time and place.
The GrabPack backpack continues to be the central tool for solving puzzles. With the two new hands (purple and green), you can perform more complex actions such as connecting different power sources, pulling two distant objects at the same time, or using them as a temporary bridge.
The gas mask will be very effective in helping you survive in red smoke. In addition, you can take advantage of it to decode some puzzles, such as observing the environment through its special filter. The puzzles will become increasingly difficult, requiring you to always be logical and creative to be able to decode.
CatNap often appears in cutscenes and in various areas of Playcare. He moves quite fast and has the ability to detect you by smell. CatNap can create thick red smoke that can poison the player. When you inhale this smoke, your vision will be severely limited, scary illusions will appear, and your movement speed may be slowed down. This creates a tense atmosphere and makes it more difficult to hide.
You need to take advantage of obstacles, darkness, crawl into vents, or hide behind large objects to avoid being detected by CatNap. You should never think of confronting CatNap because it is meaningless. Try to hide and find a way to escape safely; that is the smart choice. If you are detected by CatNap, you will be chased, and at this point, it will be very difficult for you to escape because it runs very fast.
