Summary
The hidden VHS tapes are a key part of storytelling and world-building inPoppy Playtime Chapter 4, but they are so easy to miss. Quite often, getting them involves dying or spendinga huge amount of timescouring every corner of the game. To make matters worse, players will not always be able to return to a tape they’ve missed, as areas become inaccessible in this linear game.
However, it is worth the effort to track these tapes down. There are18 VHS tapes in Chapter 4 in total. Some are impossible to miss, and others are in some seriously strange places and during stages of the game in which players are more likely to be panicking than looking around them.
18Doey Commercial And The Death Of Jack
Introduction Video - Plays Automatically
It is followed by a home video of a young boy named Jack receiving Doey and a tour of the Playtime Factory. It then cuts to security footage of that same boy accidently falling into a vat at the factory. There is screaming and shouting before the camera cuts, and the action then picks back up where Chapter 3 left off.
17Flare Hand Safety Video
Office Checkpoint 1A
The Flare Hand Safety Video is a tape that can be found as the player heads through the hallways of the offices in the caves underneath Playcare on the way to the prison doors. It is next to the yellow door with the rope wrapped around it.
It is in the style of the guide tapes seen in previous chapters and gives a refresher on how to use the flare gun attachment for the grab pack. The video also reiterates that some objects are flammable, including the rope that holds the yellow door shut.
16Break Time
Locked Office At Cell Transport Checkpoint
The Break Time tape can be found in the locked guard room near the cell transportation station. This door needs to be unlocked in order for players to progress, so the tape is hard to miss.
The video features two guards named Cole and Norm attempting to take a break and discussing the different security levels of their respective jobs. One talks about the terrible things that they hear in the factory, and players get a glimpse intowhat was happening in the prison.
15Warden’s Office 03-06-2025
Warden’s Office In Prison
The Warden’s Office tape can be found in the warden’s office behind the security desk in the prison. The office is accessible by placing the correct disk onto a shield above the door. Both the tape and the tape player are in this room.
The Warden is talking to the Doctor during “The Hour of Joy.” The Warden is panicked, and the Doctor offers to get him out of the factory if he gives him the Omni-Hand, which allows the Doctor unfettered access to the facility. After some convincing, the Warden concedes.
14The Doctor
Server Room Just Outside The Vents From Yarnaby’s Cell
The gray tape marked “The Doctor” can be found in the server room as the player exits the vents. Yarnaby is stalking this area, but it is pretty well concealed from his field of vision. The tape features a conversation between Leith Pierre, Stella Geyber, and Eddie Ritterman about Doctor Sawyer.
Their concern is that he has become a liability, but they cannot fire him because he is the only one who knows how to run the bespoke tech for the Bigger Bodies Initiative. Ritterman begins to imply that there is a way to get the Doctor out of a position of power in the factory but still have his brain at their disposal.
13Stella Greyber Project Audit
In The File Room Near Pianosaurus Cut Out
TheStella Greyber Project Audit VHS tapecan be found on a shelf in the main file room, and the green player can be found in an office nearby. Players should turn right at the Pianosaurus cut out and head towards the yellow door; the tape is on a metal shelf to the right.
On this tape, Stella Greyber discusses her conflicted feelings about the experiments with Leith Pierre. While she expresses horror at the means by which the experiments are occurring, she cites a higher purpose for the experiments that will help people in the future.
12'93 Theater Incident
Offices Near The Interrogation Rooms
The ’93 Theater Incident VHS tape is in the offices next to the observation/interrogation cells. It’s accessible by moving boxes and climbing through holes in the wall. Players should check every room in this area, as it is a bit of a maze. The tape and the player are also in separate rooms.
This tape is a recording of the efforts to clean up after the ’93 theater incident that killed over 70 guests and researchers at the factory. There are discussions of a cover-up andan investigator who is trying to uncover the truth. All the workers seem to agree that one person is likely responsible. From what players know so far, this refers to Doctor Sawyer.
11Ollie
Right Before Safe Haven
The Ollie VHS tape is in the showers in the outer hallway of the shower block at Safe Haven as the player enters with Poppy and Kissy Missy. It is very easy to miss, and the tape player is in a room on the other side of Safe Haven, through the infirmary.
This tape features a discussion between Poppy and Ollie in which Ollie tries to relate to Poppy, who is beside herself in pain and distress. It establishes that Ollie wants Poppy to trust him and that the procedures that were conducted on her were extremely invasive and painful.
10Construction Plans: The Shelf
Infirmary At Safe Haven
The orange Construction Plans tape can be found inthe infirmary under a hospital bed. The torch attachment is helpful when looking for this one. The tape player is on the other side of the infirmary aisle.
This tape contains a conversation between Warrenbach, a contractor, and Eddie Ritterman. The contractor, who has been blindly undertaking suspicious construction jobs for the factory, has become concerned with his most recent contract with Playtime Co. He questions Ritterman about the construction of the prison, who threatens him and reminds him of his contractual obligations.
91322 Report: Kevin
Dough Production Room
The green 1322 Report VHS tape can be found on a shelf on the right side of the dough production room (as the player enters). The tape player is to the left of the control desk. There isno time pressure in this room, so players have time to poke around a bit.
On this tape are the observational notes by a researcher about a child named Kevin. Kevin is being considered for integration with Doey, but the researcher is expressing concerns regarding his behavioral instability.
