Poppy Playtime 5 Gets a Release Date and a New Name: Poppy Playtime: Chapter 5 — Broken Things

We finally have a release date for Poppy Playtime: Chapter 5 — February 18, 2026. We've got a subtitle too, making the full, official name of the latest instalment: Poppy Playtime: Chapter 5 — Broken Things. And going on the latest trailer, the name seems quite fitting. Yikes.

With just a month to go, developer Mod Entertainment also shared a new cinematic teaser that brings us ever closer to the terrifying — and terrifyingly huge — Experiment 1006, or The Prototype, as we've come to know it.

Although Poppy Playtime is available on a plethora of platforms, right now, the new episode is only coming to PC, with the team stating "a full console release will follow in the months ahead."

"Deep within the vacant halls of the Playtime Co. lab, The Prototype stalks its unfinished work… the tattered, lifeless remains of toys that once were," the developer teases. "Broken things."

The episodic game kicked off way back in 2021, and the latest instalment, Poppy Playtime: Chapter 4, released at the end of January 2025, which means we've had a fair old wait to find out what happened after the events of Chapter 4. With the studio promising "stomach-churning terror" in this "chilling new layer," though, it should be worth the wait.

Chapter 5 will see us face off against the "deadly puppetmaster behind the horrifying events of Playtime Co’s dark past," solve puzzles, overcome obstacles, and "traverse this new realm of shadows in a fight for survival (and the truth)." Oh, and the delightful Huggy Wuggy is back, of course.

In news unlikely to surprise any horror mascot fan, developer Mob Entertainment has partnered with Legendary Entertainment to create a film based on its toy-factory horror hit. It's just the latest in a long line of horror games to receive an adaptation, with others including Five Nights at Freddy’s, Until Dawn, Dredge, Martha Is Dead, and the genre-defining Phasmophobia.

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