Poppy Playtime Chapter 4 includes a lot of content when it comes to lore. While it raises new questions, it finally reveals some answers, even if those answers also lead to additional questions. Playtime Co. has a twisted history, and it's tough to piece events together when it feels like no character can be completely trusted to tell the truth. Now, Chapter 4 reinforces that the player can't trust anybody in the factory to tell them the truth without omissions or twists.

[Warning: This article contains spoilers for Poppy Playtime Chapter 4]

With the Doctor as the main villain and a Safe Haven filled with non-hostile toys, the player manages to pick up more information about what went down at Playtime Co. than in previous chapters. Additionally, new information changes what was previously revealed or implied. Going into Chapter 5, it's difficult to tell who will be able to survive to the end of the game, and whose ideals are right, if any are.

10 Kissy Missy Survives The End Of Chapter 3

Poppy Playtime Chapter 3 ends with the player and Poppy on an elevator going down to the prison, but they hear Kissy Missy crying out in the background. She was left behind to close the elevator door behind them to block what was likely the Prototype from following them, sacrificing herself to save her friend, Poppy. At the beginning of Chapter 4, Poppy tells the player to continue going forward while she goes back for Kissy.

Once the player is close to the Safe Haven, Poppy and Kissy reappear, saving the player during a chase sequence. They go into the Safe Haven together to get Kissy as much treatment for her injuries as they can, but the most they can do is wrap up her injuries and let her rest. Even with these injuries, Kissy's heroism doesn't end when she enters Safe Haven, and she continues to prove that she's a true friend.

9 Riley Tried To Save Others From The Prison

Riley has likely been dead for years by the time this chapter takes place, but the player is able to find several pages from her journal around the guards' bodies and the station for the train that leads into the prison. These pages are meant to guide the player to the key they need to start the train and travel into the prison properly. However, they also tell the story of a girl who did what she could to try to save others from sharing her fate as a toy.

After the Hour of Joy, Riley decided she wouldn't eat the bodies left behind even though she was hungry. She also knew that the conductor had the train key, and he was dead, so she took it and hid it to prevent anybody else from using the train to take others to the prison. In her journal, she says that she wanted her life to matter to someone, and she just wanted to know she made life a little better for somebody before she ed her parents in death.

8 Contractors Were Concerned About Building A Prison

The player can find a VHS tape in Chapter 4 that features a conversation between Eddie Ritterman and the contractor who was hired to build the Playcare previously. This time, Eddie is instructing the contractor about the next project Playtime Co. wants them to build, which is the prison where this chapter takes place. Naturally, the contractor is concerned and wants Eddie to give him a reason as to why a toy company needs a prison.

When the contractor raises his concerns, Eddie reminds him about the contract he signed and that it includes a part where he builds what he's told to build without questions. Although he doesn't say it outright, Eddie threatens the contractor that he'll be removed if he doesn't comply and build the prison. Since the prison was built in the end, it seems like the contractor fulfilled his contract.

7 The Hour Of Joy Wasn't The First Time Visitors Were Killed

While the Hour of Joy had the highest number of casualties among both employees and visitors, it wasn't the first time that more than a handful of visitors were killed by toys. The player can find a VHS tape that includes of a team tasked with cleaning up the bodies when these incidents happen. During this recording, the team is cleaning up after the latest incident, counting the bodies as they work to track the extent of the damage.

This isn't the most surprising lore update in the chapter, but it shows that issues with the toys and experiments were building before the Hour of Joy

This isn't the most surprising lore update in the chapter, but it shows that issues with the toys and experiments were building before the Hour of Joy. The team knows that Sawyer is behind these incidents, and they believe that once the higher-ups in the company realize it, then Sawyer will be in trouble. However, it's clear that they know not to question events at Playtime Co. and to just keep doing what they're told in the meantime.

6 Doey Contains Three Consciousnesses

Doey is the toy that receives a lot of the spotlight in this chapter, even being the toy featured in the Playtime Co. ad that plays at the beginning. Doey's an ally to the player, helping them get to the Safe Haven and solve some puzzles along the way. While he makes it clear that he doesn't trust the player completely, he says that Ollie's trust in them is what has him helping at all. Throughout the chapter, there are VHS tapes and notes that reveal interesting information about Doey.

Unlike other toys, Doey had three human consciousnesses in him. One was described as a hostile child in the notes, but Doey seems to be controlled by one of the more docile kids for the most part, caring more about taking care of the other toys than getting revenge. Unfortunately, events at the end of the chapter allow the hostile consciousness to take over, explaining his series of mood swings that flip between distressed and murderous.

5 The Toys Feel Betrayed By Poppy

Poppy has been a mystery from the first time that players free her from her cage, and each chapter leaves them uncertain about Poppy's goal and how much she can be trusted. In the past chapters, only Kissy Missy seemed to be on good with Poppy, but most toys were overall hostile. Chapter 4 adds a new perspective to this situation, as the player sees other toys who aren't hostile and can listen to their conversations and what they think about Poppy.

Doey and the other toys around the Safe Haven feel betrayed by Poppy. In a VHS tape, Doey says that they used to rely on her to lead them, and she always knew what to do. However, she vanished, and the toys left behind didn't know why or where she went. Doey thought she might've run away, and he resisted the temptation to do the same, because the other toys relied on him and wouldn't be able to follow him to the exit.

4 Poppy Knew The Hour Of Joy Would Happen

This piece of information is revealed by the Doctor, which makes it difficult to take at face value. However, he would know if this was the case, since he's allied with the Prototype and is connected to the technology of the factory. The Doctor says that Poppy knew that the Hour of Joy would happen ahead of time, but that she didn't tell the player because it would go against her interest in using their trust in her to keep going through the factory.

If this is true, then it adds an interesting layer to Poppy's behavior when she showed the player the tape about the Hour of Joy and talked about that day. She seemed genuinely upset about the event, but if she knew about it and wanted to stop it, she could've told the employees or tried to do something to at least mitigate the damage. However, it's also possible that she was placed in the glass case before the event, preventing her from participating or hindering it.

3 Huggy Wuggy Returns In One Piece

It looks like Huggy Wuggy is meant to be a security guard, and it's possible that the one that appears at the end of the chapter isn't the same as the Huggy from the first chapter. However, he does have a few injuries, particularly a missing spot on his head, so it could be the same Huggy. Prior to this point, it was assumed that Huggy was dead and made part of the Prototype, since that was what Mommy Long Legs feared would happen to her.

It's possible that Huggy Wuggy is more useful to the Prototype as a separate entity. He doesn't seem to have the same level of independent thought as other toys, and he instead acts more like a security guard with one purpose. If that's the case, keeping him in his role is likely more beneficial to the Prototype, especially when it comes to keeping intruders from getting too close to the depths of the factory.

2 Leith Pierre Betrayed Harley Sawyer

This isn't the most surprising lore reveal, but it's one of the most important. Sawyer played a key role in the Bigger Bodies Initiative and in conducting experiments at Playtime Co., but he also could be messy, and his experiments caused multiple incidents that had to be covered up. As a result, Leith was left in a difficult position where letting Sawyer continue was detrimental to the company, but they needed his intelligence and couldn't fire him either, since he knew too much.

Betraying Sawyer and using the same process that the Bigger Bodies Initiative used to connect him to the lab's technology was the best solution that Leith had as an option. This let him keep Sawyer on hand to help other researchers continue his work, and it put checks on him so that he couldn't keep causing incidents. In the end, this event shows that Playtime Co. would go to any lengths to keep their projects going, and eliminate threats to their reputation.

1 Ollie Was The Prototype

This was a theory that some players in the community had, and the ending of Chapter 4 proved it correct. When speaking with Poppy over the walkie-talkie, the Prototype reveals that he'd been Ollie this entire time, and that the Ollie who was once real died a long time ago. The implications of this are huge, since Ollie had been guiding the player since Chapter 3, and it seemed like Poppy was using his communication as a guide as well.

The Prototype raises more questions about Poppy's real identity during this conversation by saying that it was time for her to return home. In the meantime, Kissy Missy is visibly distressed at this revelation. Kissy Missy has been an obstacle to the Prototype before, so it doesn't seem like he has a personal vendetta against her. However, he clearly wants Poppy in his grasp for reasons that remain unknown at this point.

The latest chapter was a goldmine for information about Poppy Playtime, but the cliffhanger and reveal at the end create a new set of questions. Now, it's clear that Poppy thought she was doing the right thing and wanted to help everybody left behind. However, like many others, Poppy was betrayed, which seems to be a main theme for Poppy Playtime Chapter 4.