Poppy Playtime and the Ever-Growing Problem with Horror Games for Kids
I decided to try something new, and what’s newer than going over a popular video game genre that has recently been marred in controversy. Poppy Playtime has gotten in quite some heat, and when researching for that video I became super interested in Five Night’s at Freddy’s, Hello Neighbor, and this whole horror games for kids genre in general and decided to add a bit more to this. What started off with humble beginnings to make the best horror game possible soon turned its own massive video game horror genre in of itself, and now that genre seems to be testing its limits as Poppy Playtime hasn’t exactly been the best example to lead by. Today we will go over the horror games for kids video game genre, starting from the very beginning all the way until now, and see why there is a problem slowly building up the past few months.
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00:00 – Intro
00:48 – A Small History of Horror Games
02:41 – Lets Play Slender
09:37 – Five Nights at Freddy’s Sets the Standard
14:23 – Horror Games for Kids Blow Up
20:31 – Hello Neighbor Stumbles
26:40 – Poppy Playtime, Enchantedmob, and Shady Practices
38:38 – The Ever-Growing Problem with Horror Games for Kids
Foxy power
07.06.2022What Walmart you go to bro
Boats are bigger bowls
03.06.2022tbh whenever I think about games like FNAF SB and Poppy Playtime, I just feel…. emotionally tired? Like thinking about the cutesy and bright colors in a horror game just kinda takes the energy away
Though I will admit, I think it can be done well like Doki Doki Literature Club
Zoro is Lost
03.06.2022My favorite horror game is doki doki literature club. Mainly cuz it starts off innocent and takes a dark turn, It threw me off (cuz I skipped the warning). It didn’t need any jump scare imo, it did good of the eerie feeling.
Corina García
03.06.2022I agree with you lately I feel that independent horror games have fallen a lot for horror and now I see many main characters of those games just to sell stuffed animals and marketing of these The first fnaf games were great but even though I like security breach I wouldn't consider it a horror game it's hardly scary neither the characters nor the jumpscare on the other hand hello neighbor fell because tinybuild focused more on the commercial than on its own game to the point that they released a game of poor quality And poppy playtime i feel like the creators can improve though i still think this game was made to make money on youtube as i see little kids talking about huggy wuggy everyday besides their nfts I think there are some good indie horror games out there like omori ddlc oh limbo But it's sad that these games are going through this decline just for money
lainabells
03.06.2022FNAF is literally about child murders, what about that is kid friendly? Yeah it got popular amongst (pre)teens mainly but that doesn’t mean it was intended for kids.
Meat Clown
03.06.2022What I find most interesting about this trend is that 90% of the kids these games are aimed at won’t even buy or play any of these games, their only interaction with them will be either watching someone play them or just engaging with the fandom on sites they’re probably too young to be on. It boggles me that a property’s target demographic won’t be the one providing sales, but I suppose the profit made off of them comes in the form of them stealing their parents’ credit card to buy merch and such
Macayla Cayton
03.06.2022slender? for kids? what is this? bizarro world? last time I heard slender and kids in the same context was in the case of the 2 kids who almost killed their friend because of slender. technically the poppy NFTs only had lore that they were going to announce later so how were NFTs a required purchase?
Beff-annial
03.06.2022I'm surprised that NO ONE is making a vid on how P.T. has made a BIG impact not just in indie horror but horror games in general. Still waiting.
jake english
03.06.2022Interesting that you diddnt mention bendy and the ink machine…. same story…same mess…
Jazlyn Martinez
03.06.2022The thing is these games are NOT made for kids.
Bottom line.
Their aesthetic might be kid like but I feel like it's for the gamer to feel nostalgic and safe but it's a horror game so you're idea of safe and cute, are then messed up. That's all it is. Kids get ahold of it from YouTube on accident and then fall down a rabbit hole of kid looking scary games, then yes they are drawn to it because of the kid like features . Your vide and title especially are very misleading. No one made these game for kids. It's not the creator's fault that everyone let's their kids on YouTube with no supervision/ ALLOWS them to play these games.
You're misleading entirely.
Springaty-Sproo
03.06.2022the fact EMob announced a fucking Poppy Playtime movie before the release of the second chapter just shows how greedy these guys are
kira203
01.06.2022Poppy playtime is not a game for kids since it has blood, when you create a product towards children you can't add blood, this is just a game that just happens to be popular among children in it and please stop milking the controversy already it is getting annoying
Spooky Paladin
01.06.2022I genuinely want to support Isaac and Poppy Playtime as it is such a promising title. But I'd never give a penny to EnchantedMob. They're as gross as it gets.
GrumpyAsshole
01.06.2022Most kids horror have to tone down the scare factor to make it more kid friendly, so no grotesque scenes, blood, and other stuff. And since kids are stupid, no puzzles and boss fights.
HWI Mystic
01.06.2022My problem with horror games for kids is the quality. Security Breach, Hello Neighbor, and Poppy Playtime are just bad in quality and focus more on insane and blown out lore (I'm mostly pissed at SB cuz they replaced Bonnie with a Loona ripoff). I don't care about expansive lore, I just want a good game that isn't buggy, glitchy, or incomplete….and heavily reliant on jumpscares. But it's horror for kids. I don't expect them to care about quality as long as the game tells more about dead people possessing inanimate objects.
Poppy Playtime is more like Bendy and the Ink Machine than it is to FNAF, and BATIM also bombed in quality (I despise the ending with a passion). When MOB Games released NFTs to hide bs lore, that's when it was a mix of FNAF and Hello Neighbor. They want senpai Matt to notice them and make a Game Theory vid to boost their recognition. Hello Neighbor did it and no doubt Poppy Playtime is doing it.
I will give credit. Poppy Playtime does have more puzzles that aren't insanely stupid and difficult like Hello Neighbor, and more challenging than BATIM.
Ghost Dragon
01.06.2022But they aren’t for kids. People are jsut stupid abs think it’s made for kids. That’s why people got mad about huggy being out on the YouTube kids channel.
sugar smile
01.06.2022You didn't mentioned bendy or kindly beast because that company replicated the events of BATIM in real life
Pink Cowie
01.06.2022wow – great video. i've been in the content rabbit hole of indie horror, poppy playtime, etc. gaming YT for so long now lol, im glad this got recommended. it's nice to see a longer one with clearly a lot of research and thought put into it – definitely feels like a several hundred K view vid, you know?
im curious if you didn't have the time to cover Bendy and the Ink Machine in the video or if you think it falls into this same trap of "horror games for kids with shoehorned lore." i feel like the company really bungled a stellar product with that buggy chapter 5, trying to outsmart the youtubers and never giving a satisfying answer to the lore, and then of course the failed Showtime Bandit and the awful firings…
Oof Oof
01.06.2022These were not made for children. The problem is parents do not want to raise their children anymore. They’d rather let everyone/everything else do it for them.
Ass Kancer
01.06.2022reposting my comment from a video by daggz on the same exact topic
hate to sound like a boomer but this modern shit really do be frying childrens brains. goosebumps books, folk stories of monsters and old horror b movies are in no goddamn way comparable to the brainrotting elsagate tier sewer sludge kids have been consuming daily for the past couple decades. i had almost unsupervised internet access since i was barely old enough to read and count to 100, saw and read so much horrid shit on sites like creepypasta forums, newgrounds and 4chan that im a grown ass man still tryna sort my shit out mentally to this day. if your kids are under the age of 16 you should never allow them on the internet without supervision period, and even then you should teach them about how much fucked up shit is out there before releasing them out into the wild
also, and this applies to everything not just the internet, you should for real be more serious about monitoring what kind of shit your kids watch, read or hear about from their friends, not by helicopter parenting nd reaching into every aspect of their lives with zero privacy or mutual respect but so that you understand and connect with each other
AgapeForgotten
01.06.2022Great video! Kinda forgot Bendy and the ink machine but that is another huge rabbit hole of mistakes and people harmed by bad choices. It may have dulled your message I guess I think? Anyway, I still appreciate how well the video was made.
THEEJERVEE HOE
31.05.2022Get off poppy playtime meat y’all do too much🙄
Lozof Spielereien
31.05.2022As good as "theft king" did with his first two videos – and even criticizing the game before that – in his third video, which was made after he had a chat with "the man behind it all", makes a complete 180. It's talking about the "difficulties" they had with their business to appear smpathetic. It ignores each and every controversy and ends with "He's sorry and waiting for Ecto to forgive him and that's something they should settle in private." There goes the person that made the controversy blow up.
Klis Son
31.05.2022Pretty good video, but calling all creepypasta terrible is kinda a sweeping generalization. There was a lot of bad, but also some good ones here and there.
Galaxy artist
31.05.2022What about bendy?
InkDemonStephen
31.05.2022Remember how Telltale's Walking Dead game is very incredible masterpiece game for YouTubers like PewDiePie and Jacksepticeye, These people are playing Walking Dead seasons from Telltale games, For the first time ever that Walking Dead is very incredibly popular game right from the very beginning, The notable main protagonist character name is Lee, A hero saving little girl name is Clementine from zombie apocalypse when the main story begin is most difficult challenge for zombie apocalypse, Then is Left 4 Dead 1 and 2 is my two favorite games from Valve games along with Half Life 2, Portal and Team Fortress 2, Then one of the biggest earliest horror game from 2007 name is Bioshock, Bioshock is my favorite masterpiece game which is published by 2K Games, Of course when the Bioshock franchise stop being horror turn into the thriller and drama, Yeah that's where Bioshock used to horror genre right from the start when the game is became violent and blood. After Bioshock franchise ended, Now the copycat of Bioshock is Bendy and the Ink Machine, One of the first indie horror game from Bioshock in 2017, It was created by Mike Mood and TheMeatly, Two creators of Bendy and the Ink Machine create a great masterpiece for teenagers obsessed with Bendy, But unfortunately there's a lot of problems with Bendy and the Ink Machine community is fill of controversies, Nearly 50 employees got fired, Making new indie horror game called "Showdown Bandit", Merchandise and other more, This controversy event took place in Canada where Kindly Beast Studios is spinning out of control, This is why Mike Mood as the controversial figure of BATIM Franchise, He is genuine desensitizing Bendy and the Ink Machine for the franchise that people are massively love Bendy, But unfortunately it didn't age well, Bendy and the Dark Revival trailer from June 2019 was delayed after nearly 50 employees got fired by Mike Mood himself as the worst figure ever seen in my eyes, One of the distinctive of rivalries started to betrayed Mike Mood as the worst CEO of Kindly Beast Studios ruining the repetition of Bendy and the Dark Revival game development, This is why Mike Mood doesn't belong here, He needs to lock up in jail for what he did is criminalize victims as remorse and People was feared that TheMeatly start to cancelled Bendy and the Ink Machine franchise altogether because of failure game for all cause all this, At the end of the day, Bendy and the Ink Machine is just copycat of Bioshock making unique styles such as 1930's rubber hose made out of ink and the stylish of the old golden era cartoons is wonderful concept for the game, Which is NOT mark for kids and people feared that Bendy and the Ink Machine is slowly to turn itself as kids content. It's fucking sucks to see what Bendy franchise used to Bioshock copycat back in 2017.
Five Nights At Freddy's is a perfect concept to change horror games into the kids horror game, This is the time of indie horror genre became a skyrocketing into the Roman Empire of Indie Horror games with Julius Caesar, Incredibly concept of indie horror games is become the empire of indie horror video games with consoles and computer games, I know the time of indie horror games already have history or horror genres right from the very beginning, Silent Hill to Fear to Resident Evil to Left 4 Dead franchise to Dead Space to Slenderman, Now i think about this is bring up horror games brought to life in Modern World of Horror games, I feel regrets about the horror games that i used to like it is gonna be bad, I feel bad about horror games that i used to play Bioshock franchise that it stop being horror, God ever time what happen to Indie Horror games is going downfall and no one playing Indie Horror games or AAA Horror games anymore, It's gone too shit, Alpha Generations can do anything they want but Indie Horror franchises is going to be mark for kids, All of them, I am really sad for what Bendy and the Ink Machine used to be phenomenon and I can't stand with the game. It's tragic downfall of indie horror games and there will be self-destruction to change their lives forever including Poppy Playtime, That game was published by EnchantedMob aka Minecraft Animator to make animation into the Minecraft style for all kids, It's fucking sucks now that Minecraft used to survival game from the past, Oh we used to play Minecraft for survival game and moved to Fortnite to make our kids dance and dabbing for all generations, This is fuck up world we live in, This is why people already left Indie Horror games and move on with their lives, This is compelling repetition machine of indie horror games, I'm sorry but people decide to let everything go, Let all Alpha Generations do anything they want that Alpha Generation doesn't allow to play older games which is fucked up and people as adults decide to play older games instead of Alpha Generation of Indie Horror games for kids, They already done with them. It's too cringe, dumb, idiot and put on the dunce hat on.
I am ready to retired from Bendy and the Ink Machine game very soon that it is already abandoned and my heart is broken, I wanna move on with my life and do something else to do right now before everything is coming to end. I wanna do something else right now that i wanna play Far Cry 5 that game is totally better than Indie Horror games for Gen Alpha and Gen Zs, I am millennial now so, I don't wanna apart of Poppy Playtime or other indie horror games for kids in 2023 to 2026. I need to do something about it right now.
Volcanic Torchlight
31.05.2022I feel like channels who have child audience plays a huge role
Vanille
31.05.2022In the middle of the video right now, but I don't think these games are "made" for kids, but rather they're made for (pre)teens to adults. The easily accessible nature of Youtube just means that kids access and play with it more, despite whatever audience it might be aimed towards. Same thing with GTA, CoD, Fortnite, etc. I'll edit this later if I have anymore thoughts, but these games were made for teens and adults but got popular with kids, same way that MLP got popular with adults despite being made for kids.
kip
31.05.202224:40 📮
drunk games
31.05.2022The old fnaf games and the today's books where/are scary
Fnaf sb whas just a reimagination that got wrong becuz of various things like bugs
But i admit,this game whas really weak but i still like it a bit differently for a certain bad moddeled blue ugly hype/cash grabber stupid trash silly game!
Brandon Lewis
31.05.2022I have a question. Whats the slender clone you showed that had that seemed to have giant lady in it called?
SaucedFox
30.05.2022You should have jus used hello neighbor, bendy and the ink machine an poppy playtime. Those 3 were 100% made for kids but fnaf wasn't and it's comical that you used it in this vid along with slender. Those games weren't for kids ever. The were made in spite of kids lmao
Creepypastas also werent for kids as you showed with how it influenced kids into almost killing their friend. The slender game was also never marketed towards kids.
Kids also take over everything so your point becomes moot imo. Fnaf for sure was taken up by kids an was never made for them. The new one is only so kid friendly because Scott was forced to retire early because of Twitter.
I don't think you actually know what 'made for kids' actually means lmao
Gracie-Chan
30.05.2022“Ramps it up to eleven in creepiness”
Me who was scared of the animatronics the whole time: You missed some zeros
Che TheLion
30.05.2022Who said it was for kids? Only horror game for kids is meeting Enderman in Minecraft. Stop lying.
Creepycreature
30.05.2022Holy shit this is horrible
H Dobbs
30.05.2022I remember this game called White Noise that was an indie game on the Xbox 360. I miss that game dearly 😔😔
Kaiju Slayer333
30.05.202212:13 Fun fact: This on camera event is actually impossible to occur without manipulation of the game. All 3 animatronics staring at the camera doesn’t actually appear ingame and only exists as a seemingly scrapped image within the files. Hence why any image you’ll see from it lacks the camera interface and stuff.
G P
30.05.2022The game/concept got incredibly stale following the third game and the lack of variation along with the insufferable childish fan base basically set this game up for failure the moment it gained traction. Having this overly toxic/ecstatic fanbase scares others off. It’s like yes, you’re allowed to be passionate about your interests but leave the sexualised robots, forced fan canons and all that out of it. Why can’t you just keep a fun idea horror game as it is? The moment you introduce all these deeper meanings which undoubtedly don’t suit this type game leaves so much room for error.
StashioMK3
30.05.2022Chapter One is free now last I checked
Paine
30.05.2022ITS NOT FOR KIDS ITS FOR ADULTS ITS JUST BASED ON KIDS STUFF TO MAKE IT MORE CREEPY/SCARY
galaktische imperiale Deutsche ODST
30.05.2022I mean its the American marketing system of course it's going to go for and prey on kids
PrincessKristan
29.05.2022I watched the Theft King videos and I find it funny how the creator was anti Poppy Playtime and anti EnchantedMob, but after the 3rd video, which there really wasn't a interview, they turned around and was on their side and was playing the game that was being critiqued and it was like they now support the company behind it imo
•RF Production•
29.05.2022I love FNAF! Although It just happened that my channel got skyrocketed because of my favorite Poppy Playtime characters
BUT I DON'T SUPPORT MOB GAMES SHADY ATTITUDES
FNAF, ALTHOUGH IT LOST IT'S CHARM NOW, STILL A BIG HIT!! I REMEMBER PLAYING IT OK 2015!!
Chinst
29.05.2022for everyone arguing that poppy playtime and such aren't for kids explain why they have a minecraft animation channel clearly meant for kids advertising the game in all the videos and explain all of they're side channels that do the exact same thing all with bright colors and minecraft to draw in kids it's clearly meant for kids
Anna Bella
29.05.2022I wouldn’t say FnaF was aimed at children, it just aligned perfectly to catch their attention.
The lack of any visual on-screen violence, gore or alike meant that people running YouTube channels could easily show game footage without any need to snip or blur bits of footage. The use of lore and secret hunting made it easy to create videos about theory crafting, and the simple mechanics made it easy to access. You didn’t have to even play the game to dig into the story, so it was got big.
With the likes of Hello Neighbour there’s a case for both sides, and I think that it became a kiddie horror game with each update. The focus went less from hiding from the pursuer to cryptic puzzles you’d need a guide to figure out, lots of lore that’s up for interpretation and no risk of being demonetised on YouTube. That’s not even going into the spin-offs that are aimed at kids, or the plead for MatPat to look at the sequel.
And you get to something like Poppy’s Playtime, and it’s pretty obvious it’s aimed at YouTubers and the children watching their…with the hopes of selling them merchandise. It’s a mascot horror game, with lots of questions left wide open and no real answers so that people can keep talking about it, with episodic releases to keep a steady drip feed of content. There’s nothing that’ll get you demonetised on YouTube, and it’s age rating isn’t too high. And it’s got simple gameplay, which can be watched on YouTube channels over the course of an hour or so if you don’t want to or can’t actually play it.
There’s nothing wrong with it, but let’s all admit the devs behind Poppy’s Playtime aren’t trying to sell a game, they want to sell a franchise and they’ve been brewing a prefect storm. It’s why I see those plush toys in market stalls, why they’ve got a movie deal and why I don’t even need to be looking for it to find it popping up in my recommendations.
Hyxna
29.05.2022I’m pretty sure there’s only going to be 4-5 chapters in Poppy Playtime
0denki
29.05.2022People thought horror games are for kids? Americans.
VirtualSinner
29.05.2022Horror but cringe 🧐
RAINBOW SPONGEBOB COOL
29.05.2022They aren’t for kids it’s just kids like them
zachary_651
29.05.2022Finally someone is talking about the cringy fanbase. And the game also