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Chapter 3: Deep Sleep

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“ Welcome to Playcare, where dreams come true... ”
— Tagline


Poppy Playtime: Chapter 3 – Deep Sleep, also known as Chapter 3: Deep Sleep, or simply Chapter 3, is the third installment of Poppy Playtime. It was released on January 30, 2024.

The plot of the chapter continues after the end of Chapter 2: Fly in a Web, where The Player is stranded alone after the train crash. Alongside a new ally, The Player must travel within Playcare to try and restore power to the Gas Production Zone.

Synopses[]

Game[]

"In the aftermath of the train crash, you now find yourself stranded in the depths with a new goal in your sights."

Steam/Epic Games/Consoles/Mobile[]

"A decrepit orphanage known as Playcare sits beneath the once magical toy factory. You must make your way through this haunted place, solving new puzzles and avoiding the nightmares that lurk within the dark. Answers lie between the blood-stained bed sheets and screaming echoes... If you can survive."

Description[]

A decrepit orphanage known as Playcare sits beneath the once magical toy factory. You must make your way through this haunted place, solving new puzzles and avoiding the nightmares that lurk within the dark. Answers lie between the blood-stained bedsheets and screaming echoes... If you can survive.

This is Poppy Playtime's biggest and most terrifying chapter yet. More lies ahead than you might expect...

  • New monsters await, and they're much more than just simple toys. (Steam)
  • Playcare is Playtime's own massive, fantastical orphanage. And you get to explore it.
  • The GrabPack gets an upgrade!
  • New hands permit new and creative ways to explore.
  • A Gas Mask is the only way to safely explore through the red smoke that fills the air.
  • Answers will finally be revealed. Lies can only stay buried for so long...

There is so much more to see, with further details coming very soon.

Much awaits you in the chapter ahead... a bit of playtime never hurt anyone, right?

Plot[]

Press Expand to reveal this chapter's plot. Spoilers will be present in this section.

Crash Landing[]

The chapter starts with the CatNap Recall tape before the gameplay begins. After the Train crash, The Player wakes up and is thrown down into a trash compactor by a cat-like experiment named CatNap. After escaping, The Player makes their way through a series of maintenance tunnels and rooms, finding a Blue VHS Tape and hearing a telephone ringing in the distance during the process of escaping.

The Player discovers a ringing telephone.

The Player discovers a ringing telephone.

Finding and answering the phone, The Player finds themselves communicating with an unknown character who claims his name is Ollie. Through this newfound phone, still working despite being unused for a decade, Ollie promises to guide The Player while explaining the ongoing situation. He then tells The Player to head to Playcare, the home of CatNap. The Player returns to the Train crash site and proceeds to enter The Dome through Elliot's Express, where they hear a speech by Elliot Ludwig that introduces his ideology and thoughts during the creation of Playcare.

The Player enters Playcare.

The Player enters Playcare.

Upon arriving at Playcare, Ollie gives The Player a key to the Gas Production Zone, which is where a gas is produced named "The Red Smoke". After watching a tutorial for it, they soon obtain an enhanced version of the GrabPack named the GrabPack 2.0, which lets The Player jump high via Purple Hand-powered Jump Pads. Although they activate the console and briefly divert the Red Smoke, the power cuts out. Ollie tasks The Player to reactivate the power and use backup generators from all of Playcare's locations to power the Gas Production Zone and ultimately reach The Prototype. Ollie directs them to enter Home Sweet Home first, the abandoned residence for all of the orphan children.

Welcome Home[]

After entering Home Sweet Home, The Player inhales the Red Smoke, falling into a nightmare. They make their way through a maze of seemingly endless corridors, some even crossing over themselves, while also coming across audio recordings of Playtime Co. News Coverage, claiming that a dead child had been found on Elliot Ludwig's estate. Throughout it all, CatNap stalks The Player, watching them from the shadows and disappearing when spotted. At last, The Player reaches the end of the corridors, where they watch a Welcome To Playtime VHS tape, welcoming employees to the Playtime Co. factory. The tape then becomes more and more disturbing, beginning to call out The Player specifically for returning and telling them of the "incomprehensible horrors" that now inhabit the factory.

The Player sees Nightmare Huggy Wuggy crawling out of the television.

The Player sees Nightmare Huggy Wuggy crawling out of the television.

The Player is forced to look at the screen until a distorted and a nightmarish version of Huggy Wuggy crawls out of the television. The Player in a futile attempt, tries to run away, but is soon caught and “eaten”. They then wake up in the real Home Sweet Home, discovering a Gas Mask soon after to help them navigate through areas filled with Red Smoke.

Poppy explains the situation to The Player.

Poppy explains the situation to The Player.

The Player navigates through Home Sweet Home to find batteries, while uncovering some VHS Tapes along the way. They eventually manage to power its generator and leave, but as they do so, Kissy Missy attacks and pins down The Player until she is stopped by Poppy. A determined yet regretful Poppy explains to The Player she cannot just let them leave and needs to get rid of the ones who tormented them, warning them that the Prototype will kill The Player if they try to escape and that he needs to be destroyed.

Today's Lesson: Survival[]

Soon after, Ollie tells The Player that Poppy has explained everything to them now, then tells them to go to the School to restore power to it. While trying to locate and turn on the generator there, The Player encounters Miss Delight, the only remaining teacher of the School, who is revealed to have eaten her sisters due to insatiable hunger in various notes that The Player picks up throughout the building. A tape that The Player discovers also reveals a past conversation between CatNap and the deranged teacher. Miss Delight continuously warns and threatens The Player, trying to get them to leave while speaking through the School's PA system, but they ignore her warnings.

The Player kills Miss Delight.

The Player kills Miss Delight.

After they turn the generator back on, she damages it by smashing it with her weapon Barb before chasing The Player through various corridors and classrooms, only moving when they look away. As The Player nears the School's maintenance exit, Miss Delight abandons her movement rule and charges at The Player, who brings a gate down which instantly crushes and kills her.

The Player obtains the Flare Hand and makes their way into the caverns of Playcare. There, after completing several puzzles and playing an Orange VHS Tape, they see CatNap worshipping a shrine for The Prototype. CatNap does not notice The Player and vanishes after they look away. The Player then enters the Playhouse through the caves, where they're met with a horde of Ruined Critters who they fend off via the Flare Hand. It's also in this area that they stumble upon a Purple VHS Tape about CatNap.

The Player encounters DogDay.

The Player encounters DogDay.

On their way out, they discover a cell where they encounter a locked-up, tortured and legless DogDay, who explains that the entirety of Playcare is CatNap's personal territory. DogDay also explains that CatNap takes orders from The Prototype, worshipping him and killing anyone who goes against him. Shortly before his monologue ends, the Ruined Critters infest DogDay before hijacking his body and chasing The Player with it. The Player escapes the possessed DogDay, vaguely hearing his screams before taking a slide out of the Playhouse.

Need Counseling[]

Ollie then sends The Player to the Counselor's Office as their final objective, where they find and watch an emergency tape of a warning issued to Playtime Co. employees on August 8, 1995, warning them of a hostile force and instructing them to evacuate. The tape is cut short and a new message ominously appears: "Open the doors now. The Hour of Joy has arrived". The Player briefly returns to the caverns, solving puzzles and finding a Pink VHS Tape as they make their way through the Counselor's Office.

The Player in their nightmare.

The Player in their nightmare.

As they enter a Red Smoke-filled area while trying to power the building, The Player is ambushed by CatNap, who knocks the Gas Mask off their face, making them inhale the gas once more and sending them into a dream state in which Poppy asks The Player rhetorical questions as The Players sees various visions of shadow children in Playcare. The Player eventually comes to a vision in which they see Huggy Wuggy standing motionless in the distance and hear Poppy saying "No, you don't", as a response to her previous question regarding The Player knowing or not knowing what's real. Then, The Player finds themselves surrounded by the sounds of people screaming in the Lobby during the toys' massacre. The Prototype's hand reaches out towards The Player as they helplessly stand completely still.

Then they wake up, with CatNap warning them to leave Playcare over Ollie's telephone. After re-routing the Counselor's Office backup power to the statue, Ollie gives The Player the final battery required to power the Gas Production Zone. They return to the zone, but CatNap ambushes them, filling the room with Red Smoke and chasing The Player into an elevator.

A Safe Room...?[]

The Player enters a Safe Room where they locate a Black VHS Tape and are required to fend off CatNap for three minutes. However, the room is filled with Red Smoke, which causes them to consistently hallucinate fake CatNaps. As he makes his way toward The Player, A Green GrabPack Hand receiver eventually overcharges and The Player utilizes this to eliminate CatNap, destroying the Green hand in the process.

CatNap gets burned alive.

CatNap gets burned alive.

CatNap is electrocuted and lit on fire after exhaling the Red Smoke. The Prototype's arm emerges from the ceiling and CatNap seemingly offers himself to his leader, just before The Prototype stabs him through the mouth, taking his life. The Prototype then takes CatNap's lifeless corpse away.

Returning to the Gas Production Zone, The Player uses the battery to power the console, eventually diverting the gas and powering the area. The Player reunites with Poppy, who shows them a tape containing CCTV footage of what happened to the company’s staff, an incident the toys call "The Hour of Joy".

The Player watching the Hour of Joy VHS Tape.

The Player watching the Hour of Joy VHS Tape.

The tape shows the toys, under the Prototype's orders and influence, indiscriminately attacking and killing everyone present in the factory at the time. Poppy then explains that she heard everything that happened and has since been distraught by the needless slaughter of so many lives, including those who were innocent, on that day. Therefore, she has vowed to put an end to The Prototype for what he has done.

The Player with Poppy on the elevator.

The Player with Poppy on the elevator.

Poppy and The Player take an elevator deeper into the factory, while Kissy Missy stays behind to activate it. As the elevator lowers into the ground, however, Kissy is attacked by an unknown entity, and Poppy and The Player turn the elevator up to save her. But the door concealing the elevator closes, stranding them in the deeper levels of the factory and leaving Kissy's fate uncertain - at least for now...

Characters[]

Walkthrough[]

Poppy_Playtime_Chapter_3-_"Deep_Sleep"_-_Full_Game_Walkthrough_(No_Commentary)

Poppy Playtime Chapter 3- "Deep Sleep" - Full Game Walkthrough (No Commentary)

Soundtrack[]

Main article: Poppy Playtime Ch. 3 (soundtrack)

The official soundtrack was released on the same day that the chapter was released, on January 30, 2024.

Trivia[]

  • During a Developer Q&A for PROJECT: PLAYTIME on the Mob Entertainment YouTube channel, developers Ben Pavlovits and Mitch revealed that new, complicated mechanics were to be featured in Chapter 3.[2]
    • During a Developer Podcast on the Poppy Playtime Discord server, developers implied that new GrabPack hands would be introduced in this chapter.[3] These features were later revealed to be the Purple GrabPack Hand and the Flare Gun.
  • Chapter 3 features an updated menu and models like the GrabPack and the Train, but Chapter 1 and 2 still have the old/outdated models.
  • Originally, Chapter 3 was supposed to release on October 12, 2023, but it was delayed to enhance and polish the rest of the game.[4] It was delayed again from December 2023 to January 30, 2024.
  • It was revealed on the Poppy Playtime Discord Server that this chapter and the following ones would be using Unreal Engine 5.
  • On the Discord Server, Miss Delight was teased via hints calling back to a specific character from Doctor Who. This character was later revealed to be the Weeping Angels.
  • Chapter 3 is the first chapter in Poppy Playtime to prominently feature religious themes, such as CatNap worshipping the Prototype as a god and a savior, DogDay referring to The Player as an angel, and those who defy the Prototype being labelled as heretics.
    • However, it is not the first chapter to reference religion. Chapter 1 has a stairway "to Hell", and Chapter 2's Elliot Ludwig Biography tape features an angel at a cemetery.
  • The name of the chapter might be a reference to what the news reporter says.
    • "Deep Sleep" is also the name of a track for Chapter 1.
  • There was a Game Theory Tribute Easter egg that included some sort of picture frame with the saying "A clap and a half to you/we'll miss you."
    • This was in reference to MatPat's retirement, which he announced on January 9, just a few weeks before the release of this chapter.
  • Near the Counselor's Office, a CatNap plushie can be seen near a radio. The song "Sleep Well" by CG5 can be heard playing.
  • This chapter takes 3+ hours to beat, but can be speedran normally in under an hour. However, using glitches, the game can currently be completed in under nine minutes.
  • Unused content reveals that CatNap's name early in development was Nappy Cat as well as Kuddle Kitty, something that was also later confirmed by an ex-developer.
  • Chapter 3 is, so far, the only chapter which does not end with the Player being knocked unconscious.
  • This chapter didn't initially have objective prompts - these were added in a later update,

References[]

  1. ↑ In Brazil.
  2. ↑ "Umm, yeah, definitely. We learned a lot about our recent releases including the release that just came out this December. But I really think the reason why there weren't Portal Level Puzzles in the original games because of the lack of resources? (...) We are putting our resources right back into the game, and we really have some interesting puzzles and mechanics... New exciting mechanics lined up for Chapter 3." -Ben Pavlovits and Mitch (Timestamp 35:17)
  3. ↑ New GrabPack hands and mechanics were implied to be featured in Chapter 3 in the Poppy Playtime Discord Podcast. No recording cited as it is against the servers rules.
  4. ↑ "We originally wanted to release chapter 3 on [October 12], but decided to delay to make it better and more polished." -Zach Belanger (Discord)

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Franchise Poppy Playtime
Poppy Playtime (game) Chapter 1: A Tight Squeeze • Chapter 2: Fly in a Web • Chapter 3: Deep Sleep • Chapter 4: Safe Haven • Chapter 5: Broken Things
Spin-offs PROJECT: PLAYTIME • Poppy Playtime Forever • Poppy Playtime Survive
Soundtracks Poppy Playtime Ch. 1 • Poppy Playtime Ch. 2 • Poppy Playtime: Secret Soundtrack • Poppy Playtime Collaboration Soundtracks • Project Playtime • Poppy Playtime Ch. 3 • Poppy Playtime Ch. 4 Character Jingles • Poppy Playtime Ch. 4
Main Collaborations Monsters & Mortals DLC: Poppy Playtime • Poppy Playtime x Gamejolt • Poppy Playtime x Youtooz • Sleep Well • Poppy Playtime x G FUEL • Poppy Playtime Ch. 4 Character Jingles • Safe Haven • Poppy Playtime x Spark Universe • Poppy Playtime x Fortnite • Poppy Playtime x Rocket League • Poppy Playtime x Theoryverse
ARGs Chapter 2 Virtual Leak ARG • Project: Playtime Unlockable ARG • Chapter 3 Interactable ARG • Chapter 4 Icepick ARG
Books Orientation Notebook • Poppy Playtime YA #1
Miscellaneous Update Patch Logs (Chapter 1 • Chapter 2 • Chapter 3 • Chapter 4 • PROJECT: PLAYTIME) • Unused Content • Merchandise • Movie • Digital Collectibles • Playtime Profiles • One year. • Playtime's Contacts • 10 LOST SECRETS in Poppy Playtime Chapter 2 • Factory Frenzy • Poppy Playtime Yule Log
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