Poppy Playtime is a horror, puzzle, adventure game set inside an abandoned toy factory. The first chapter in Poppy Playtime is called A Tight Squeeze. The chapter asks the player to explore an old toy factory, examine what happened inside the building, and then attempt to escape the massive toy monster at the end.
To complete this chapter, everyone needs to go through the entrance and assembly area of the factory while being chased by the monster. To make completing this first chapter easier, let’s learn how to play chapter 1 of Poppy Playtime – A Tight Squeeze.
Start a new game
When you’re ready to start playing Poppy Playtime, tap the Start button on the main menu. Select New Game to start the first chapter. This chapter has the following description:
“As an ex-employee of Playtime co., you finally return to the factory many years after everybody within disappeared.”
Next to this description is the monster that will chase everyone throughout the first chapter. If you follow the instructions below, players can complete the chapter in about 30 minutes to 1 hour.
Steps to complete chapter 1 Poppy Playtime
Blue Tape (Optional)
After watching the opening video of Poppy Playtime, the player will have control over his character. Go to the front desk and take the blue tape off the table using the interactive button. Pass the tape over the TV and the Green VCR to the right of the desk. Put the tape in the VCR and watch the video.
Unlock the security door puzzle
Once you’ve watched the video, move to the right and enter the Gift Shop. Inside the Gift Shop, look up at the ceiling to see a train running on suspended rails. Record the colors seen on board.
Then leave the store and return to the reception area to enter Security. Here everyone will find a locked door with a color keyboard. Click the colors on the train to open the door. The color order to open the door is green > pink > yellow > red. When entering the colors listed above, the door will be unlocked. Go through the door to the Security Office.
Location of green tape and green GrabPack
Go into the Security Office and go to the desk. Grab the blue tape by interacting with it and place it in the nearby Blue VCR. Watch the video, the tape introduces how to use the hand (GrabPack) that the player will get. These GrabPacks are important because they are used to solve most of the puzzles encountered in chapter 1.
When the video ends, the green GrabPack container will open. Reach and interact with it to equip your character.
Enter the lobby
Once you have the green GrabPack, head back to the reception area. Jump through the front desk turn to the door with the blue hand above it. Shoot the blue GrabPack at the switch to open the door. This door leads to the factory and begins the scary part of the game.
Playtime factory lobby
Inside the lobby, players will see a few interesting things. First and foremost, is a large toy creature named Huggy Wuggy in the center of the room. Huggy Wuggy is the toy that chases the player throughout this chapter. The second thing is the 7 doors in this room. These doors lead to different areas of the factory.
Before going through any door, grab the yellow key of the electric room dangling from the giant toy hand with the green GrabPack. To do this, shoot the blue door to the left. The door won’t open because there’s no electricity. When doing this, the yellow key will drop, use your hand to grab it.
Once you have the yellow key, go to the door labeled Power. Go through the door and into the electric room. Inside this room, the player needs to get the power back up and running.
Turn on the power again
In the Power room, go to the end to find a covered outlet. Use the green GrabPack to open this cover on the socket. Once the socket is open, shoot the green GrabPack into the open socket. Grab the green GrabPack there and go around the two conductive poles in the room leading out to the front. Doing this properly will turn the power back on.
When the power is on, return to the lobby area. The player will see that Huggy Wuggy has disappeared. From this point on, the player will encounter the monster while exploring other rooms of the building.
The next stop is through the blue door that I tried to open earlier but there was no electricity. Open it now and go through it. Head down the hallway, through the door on the left, and down the dark hallway into the next area.
Find the red GrabPack
Go down the hallway until you see a room with the number 05. This area requires going up the stairs and seeing a crane with a control panel to operate it. The only problem was that the fuses were gone.
People need to find those fuses. Players will see a blue fuse next to the control panel, a red fuse on the floor. The yellow and green ones are hiding in some boxes further down the area.
Once all 4 fuses are present, go back and power the console. The player can now use the crane to pull the glass box onto the conveyor. After completing, the player will have a red GrabPack in his hand.
Yellow tape (Optional)
If you want to get all the VHS tapes, there is 1 roll in the room with the red GrabPack. The yellow tape can be found on the second shelf near the door. Go behind the first shelf to get it.
After you get hold of the red GrabPack and the VHS tape, leave the factory area. If you try to go back to the lobby, it won’t work.
Instead, players need to use the red GrabPack to be unlocked. Use both hands to open the door on the conveyor belt, then go down until it slides down to the area below.
Complete the circuit puzzle of the conveyor belt
At the bottom of the carousel, people will be trapped. To enhance it, gamers need to complete a circuit.
Right at the landing, turn right and follow the carousel until you reach a ramp leading up.
Go up this ramp and look to the right to see 1 socket. Use one hand to shoot into the socket (keep the connection intact). Turn around and walk down the ramp to get around the pole.
Return to the entrance and head towards the door. Look left and shoot at the socket there to complete the circuit. You will automatically move forward along the belt. Step on the belt until you reach the last room.
Friends room
This room will not function until the power is restored. To do this, go up the stairs to the catwalk above and use one hand to pull it towards you, to cover the gap.
Pink ribbon (Optional)
Once the distance to the catwalk is covered, the player can walk across it to an outlet. Before doing that, if you look to the right of the wall, you will see a pink VHS tape painted in blue. Grab the tape if you want and use the Pink VCR to watch it.
Complete the catwalk electrical circuit puzzle
Walk forward to the outlet, skip it and head towards the middle of the catwalk. Turn right to see another stretch of the catwalk that can be dragged.
Pull the catwalk towards you to create a shortcut to the pole. Go back to the socket and connect to it. Walk to the right towards the outlet to be connected. Use your other hand to pull the catwalk to create a new shortcut. Wrap around both poles as shown above and attach to socket to complete the puzzle.
Make friends and Huggy Wuggy starts chasing
With the power back on, return to the stairs. Now the machine below is running. Press the button Make A Friend on the console in the middle of the room.
When this button is pressed, the machinery of the room comes to life. Look to the left of the control panel and pull the 3 levers and wait for the puzzle pieces to move. Take the toy and put it on the scale next to the door with the sign “Nobody leaves without making a toy” and this door will open.
Go through the open door and prepare yourself. From this point on, Huggy Wuggy will start chasing people. Go to the front of the dark hallway. This creature will appear from the shadows when you get closer to it. Immediately turn around and run to the end of the carousel where Make A Friend is. Run through the vent while the door is open.
At the end of the chase, everyone would end up on the catwalk with nowhere to go. Above the catwalk is a yellow crate. Use both hands to pull it down. Huggy Wuggy will appear and the crate will fall on it.
Catwalk and end game
On the catwalk, walk towards the door with flowers around without worrying about any threats.
Gray tape (Optional)
Along the main path on the catwalk, players will find the gray tape, located at the last junction that needs to be taken to reach the flower door.
Go through the flower door, along the corridors until you reach the last room. Here, you will see a doll in the center, which is Poppy.
Location of all VHS tapes in Poppy Playtime
One of the achievements in Poppy Playtime is finding all the VHS tapes. If you have trouble finding them, go to the following locations:
- Green VHS tape: on the protective desk at the beginning, on the right side of the computer screen.
- Blue VHS Tape: After completing the first puzzle, go into the next room and find an office desk on the left.
- Yellow VHS tape: Enter the room filled with shelves, go to the wall with the yellow poster. Then go through the first bookshelf, the next one will have the tape.
- Pink VHS Tape: After having both GrabPacks, gamers will need to get a toy. Go to the top of the stairs, where there is a gap. Look to the right of the empty space and use the blue hand to grab it.
- Gray VHS tape: This tape is at the end of the chapter and the VHS player is on the right nearby.
How to escape Huggy Wuggy – boss in chapter 1 of Poppy Playtime
As soon as the toy is done, Poppy Playtime says the player can now exit. However, Huggy Wuggy will not let this happen so easily. People won’t be able to fight it, so here’s how to escape.
Turn and run to the carousel where the red GrabPack is found. Everyone will see an entrance, run down until you reach the intersection. Since Huggy Wuggy will come from the other end, the player needs to turn right.
A carousel will appear soon but it is not possible to climb it. To the left is a hole where people can fall. Then to the new area of the factory, but broken machinery will stand in the way. Turn right, go straight and find a small entrance on the left.
After crouching at the entrance, run until you see a door. Wait a moment and the door lifts. Now it’s time to run as fast as you can to some cardboard boxes.
When I turned around, I looked up and there was a block with some hands painted in different colors. Use both hands to quickly pat it down to the floor. When it does, it will defeat Huggy Wuggy, leaving the player free to escape.