Poppy Playtime shares the survival horror genre and the theme of animatronics gone wrong with Five Nights at Freddy's, a popular video game series that also features a toy factory setting in one of its installments.
Poppy Playtime has a similar art style and atmosphere to Bendy and the Ink Machine, another indie horror game that involves exploring a cartoon studio and facing off against ink-based creatures.
Bendy and the Ink Machine
Poppy Playtime features a gadget called the GrabPack, which allows the player to manipulate objects and swing across gaps using a pair of retractable claws. This mechanic is reminiscent of the portal gun in Portal, a puzzle-platformer game that also involves testing under the supervision of a malicious AI.
Poppy Playtime's GrabPack is also influenced by the gravity gun in Half-Life 2, a first-person shooter game that allows the player to pick up and hurl objects using a futuristic device.
Poppy Playtime draws inspiration from the Toy Story franchise, a series of animated films that depict the adventures of sentient toys. The game's protagonist is a fan of the toy line based on the show Poppy and Friends, which is similar to the Woody's Roundup show in Toy Story 2.
