PROJECT: PLAYTIME
Moderate overall intensityWhat's in it
Free-to-play with a real-money store offering cosmetic items and characters plus a seasonal battle pass.
A monstrous toy creature (controlled by one player) hunts and kills the six survivors; deaths are quick and stylized with minimal blood and no dismemberment.
The backstory involves a toy company's unethical human experiments (the 'Bigger Bodies Initiative') and many people going missing or dead inside the factory, giving the setting a grim, disturbing tone.
Players are stalked through a dark, industrial factory by a monstrous toy, with chase sequences, tension, and jump-scare moments.
The backstory centers on a company that subjected people to cruel experiments, transforming them into living toy creatures.
Battle-pass and store purchases are optional and not required to play.
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What it is
PROJECT: PLAYTIME is a free-to-play asymmetric multiplayer horror game set in a derelict toy factory. Six players cooperate to assemble a giant toy while a seventh player controls a roaming monster whose only goal is to hunt and kill them. Matches are tense chase-and-survival rounds with a dark backstory about a company that ran cruel experiments turning people into living toy creatures. The core content is stylized horror violence — a creature stalking and killing human survivors — without gore or graphic dismemberment. It is played online with strangers using voice and text chat, and it offers real-money cosmetics, characters, and a battle pass.
How it's framed
The game frames its violence through the lens of a hide-and-survive horror match: the monster player is rewarded for finding and killing survivors, while survivors win by escaping or completing the toy. The disturbing lore about human experimentation and bodily transformation sits in the background as atmosphere and world-building rather than something the player carries out, and the tone leans on suspense and creepy toy imagery rather than realism or graphic detail.
Details
- Developer
- Mob Entertainment
- Publisher
- Mob Entertainment
- Released
- Dec 12, 2022
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