The Mobile Game

Puppetmaster's Judgement ~Our Reason for Living~ (人形遣いの審査 〜僕たちの生きた理由〜 Ningyōtsukai no Shinsa ~Bokutachi no Ikita Riyuu~) is a clicker mobile game developed by Nobollel Inc. to promote the comic in 2016. The game has since then been discontinued but can still be downloaded and played from certain sources. The in-App Purchases no longer work, but the game is still fully playable. It is only available in Japanese language
== Story ==
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== Gameplay ==
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The game has very simple gameplay. The player is given the role of the Puppetmaster and is tasked to send out puppets to hunt down students inside different areas of the school. To do that, the player has to wait a few seconds for puppets to gather on the screen and then tap or swipe them so they leave. Initially, the player starts with only up to 5 puppets being able to gather on the screen, but the more they progress the more they can unlock for a total of up to 25 using their Puppet Points, which can be earned by claiming a daily reward at midnight, by doing the challenge gacha, or formerly by purchasing PP with real money. The in-App Purchases for the game no longer work, so only the other 2 means of earning PP are valid. PP can also be used to unlock new challenges, which can then give the player more PP. Once every 30 minutes, the Puppetmaster can charge what is known as Fever Mode. It makes the Puppetmaster glow with a yellow color once he is tapped if there is a speech bubble above him, then summons a massive number of puppets at once for a few seconds and the player can swipe freely for about 10 seconds until the effect is over. Very loud rock music plays during Fever Mode 
There are 5 types of challenges; Easy Challenge, which gives the player +30PP and has a high starting success rate. Normal Challenge, which gives the player +40PP and has a decent success rate. Medium Challenge, which gives the player +50PP and has an average success rate. Hard Challenge, which gives +110PP and has a quite low success rate. And finally, Death Challenge, which gives the player +300PP but has an extremely low success rate. Should the player survive a challenge, they will see a CG of Akira, Chinatsu and Heike blocking a door, then earn the challenge's corresponding PP and some XP to go along with it (Higher XP for the harder challenges). But should the player fail a specific challenge, they will be brought back to the start of the game and receive a prestige bonus (They get to keep their PP and purchased items like doll count, unlocked challenges and doll types) which raises the success rate of that specific challenge bit by bit until it reaches a maximum of 99% success rate and gives them some PP. The challenge system works like a gacha and the player gets to roll once every hour without knowing what challenge they will get, for a stack of up to 3 rolls at once. To accelerate rolls, the player could previously buy a roll with real money or watch an ad, but both of those options are now obsolete. The player can also cancel their roll, but that wastes it so it's not recommended to do that. Better get a low amount of PP or a prestige bonus than get nothing at all 
Another way to get a prestige bonus is getting caught by dolls. Every type of doll has a chance of catching the player (who is represented as Akira, despite the 'true' player being the Puppetmaster). When tapping or swiping the dolls on the screen, any of them has a chance of shaking and making the screen a bit darker for a few seconds. It's completely random and most of the time it doesn't do anything, but in the small chance the player does get caught, they get to see a CG depicting how they got caught by the corresponding doll. There are 10 total CGs to see, 1 for each doll type and the first time the player gets caught by any of the dolls, they unlock an achievement for that specific doll. The number of PP received for getting caught depends on which doll the player was caught by, with Normal Doll giving the least and Cat Doll giving the most 
== Areas ==
Every time the player fills up the XP bar at the top, they are taken to a new Stage which is represented by a specific area from the series
File:Stage1.png|Stage 1 (Classroom)
File:Stage2.png|Stage 2 (Rooftop)
File:Stage3.png|Stage 3 (Library)
File:Stage4.png|Stage 4 (The Clocktower)
File:Stage5.png|Stage 5 (The Gym)
File:Stage6.png|Stage 6 (The Mansion)
Each area takes more XP to progress, with Classroom being the easiest and The Mansion requiring the most XP to beat the game
== Doll Types ==
The player can purchase different types of dolls from the store using their PP (Puppet Points). Each new doll costs more than the last, but also gives much more experience points than the previous doll. There are 10 kinds of unlockable dolls in the game. Some dolls trigger special dialogue for certain characters
====== Normal Doll ======
The Normal Doll is the main doll you begin the game with. It's already unlocked, so it cannot be purchased from the store. It gives you only 1 experience point. Its appearance is quite ordinary, it's a blank doll with humanoid features
====== Small Doll ======
The Small Doll is the 1st doll you can purchase from the store. The unlock cost is 110 Puppet Points and it gives you 2 experience points. The Small Doll is a blank doll with humanoid features. It resembles the Normal Doll but is much smaller in size. It has shorter limbs and is said to likes to jump on people's faces or cling to their legs 
The Small Doll has special dialogue from Yashiro, making him say; "This little thing.. It's trying to cling to my leg! Get it off!.." 
====== Hanging Doll ======
The Hanging Doll is the 2nd doll you can purchase from the store. The unlock cost is 220 Puppet Points and it gives you 4 experience points. The Hanging Doll is a blank doll with humanoid features that seems to be entangled in a bunch of strings and hanging upside down from the ceiling 
The Hanging Doll has special dialogue from Akira, making him say; "I don't want to look at this thing.. It's hanging just like Himeno..." 
====== Macho Doll ======
The Macho Doll is the 3rd doll you can purchase from the store. The unlock cost is 600 Puppet Points and it gives you 7 experience points. The Macho Doll is a large doll with humanoid features. It has a buff physique with a wide chest and resembles a wrestler 
The Macho Doll has special dialogue from Taiga, making him say; "Grr.. Is this a jab? Is that masked bastard making fun of me?"
====== Crawling Doll ======
The Crawling Doll is the 4th doll you can purchase from the store. The unlock cost is 1200 Puppet Points and it gives you 11 experience points. The Crawling Doll is a regular doll, except it's crawling on the ground and is covered in what appears to be oil, presumably from Stage 4's machineworks. It tends to grab people's legs and not let them go 
====== Fat Doll ======
The Fat Doll is the 5th doll you can purchase from the store. The unlock cost is 3200 Puppet Points and it gives you 16 experience points. The Fat Doll is as its name suggests, a doll resembling an obese person. Its belly is very large and its face has chubby cheeks. It also has a funny walk animation, making it bounce off the ground using its butt 
The Fat Doll has special dialogue from Miyao, making him say; "No!! You can't do this do me! Don't ruin my type like this.."
====== Dog Doll ======
The Tangesazen/Dog Doll is the 6th doll you can purchase from the store. The unlock cost is 6500 Puppet Points and it gives you 25 experience points. The Dog Doll is a doll that resembles a medium-sized dog. Despite the doll not lacking one of its legs, it is indeed supposed to be Mikami's dog, Tangesazen, or at least a copy of it 
The Dog Doll has special dialogue from Saotome, making her say; "Damn!.. I've always hated dogs.."
====== Hair Doll ======
The Hair Doll is the 7th doll you can purchase from the store. The unlock cost is 11000 Puppet Points and it gives you 40 experience points. The Hair Doll is a doll that crawls on the ground on all fours and has extremely long black hair dangling in front of its face. It bears a striking resemblance to Sadako from The Ring 
====== Tall Doll ======
The Tall Doll is the 8th doll you can purchase from the store. The unlock cost is 23000 Puppet Points and it gives you 55 experience points. It looks a bit like the Normal Doll, but has a very visibly elongated torso and a longer head. Its walking animation makes it flail its arms and upper body forward with some jittery movements 
The Tall Doll has special dialogue from Kine, making him say; "Would ya look at that! This guy's almost as tall as I am."
====== Cat Doll ======
The Cat Doll is the 9th, final doll you can purchase from the store for a total of 10 doll types. The unlock cost is 40000 Puppet Points, making it it the most expensive doll you can buy and it gives you 70 experience points. The cat doll is simply a doll that resembles a hairless cat, but it has whiskers. It playfully jumps around as its walking animation 
The Cat Doll has special dialogue from Ryūsei, making him say; "Even cats aren't safe? Come on, that's my favorite animal.."
File:Normal.png|Normal Doll sprite
File:Small.png|Small Doll sprite
File:Hanging.png|Hanging Doll sprite
File:Macho2.png|Macho Doll sprite
File:Crawling.png|Crawling Doll sprite
File:Fat.png|Fat Doll sprite
File:Dog.png|Dog Doll sprite
File:Hair.png|Hair Doll sprite
File:Tall.png|Tall Doll sprite
File:Cat.png|Cat Doll sprite
== Achievements ==
By completing certain milestones like unlocking dolls, stages, reaching endings, getting caught by dolls, failing challenges or tapping doll types 100 times the player can earn achievements in a small album for 100% game completion. There is 49 achievements total;
File:Card picture 01.png|Review the App
File:Card picture 03.png|Get the Bad Ending
File:Card picture 04.png|Get the Good Ending
File:Card picture 05.png|Reach Stage 1 (Unlocked by Default)
File:Card picture 06.png|Reach Stage 2
File:Card picture 07.png|Reach Stage 3
File:Card picture 08.png|Reach Stage 4
File:Card picture 09.png|Reach Stage 5
File:Card picture 10.png|Reach Stage 6
File:Card picture 11.png|Unlock the Normal Doll (Unlocked by Default)
File:Card picture 12.png|Unlock the Small Doll
File:Card picture 13.png|Unlock the Hanging Doll
File:Card picture 14.png|Unlock the Macho Doll
File:Card picture 15.png|Unlock the Crawling Doll
File:Card picture 16.png|Unlock the Fat Doll
File:Card picture 17.png|Unlock the Dog Doll
File:Card picture 18.png|Unlock the Hair Doll
File:Card picture 19.png|Unlock the Tall Doll
File:Card picture 20.png|Unlock the Cat Doll
File:01 normal.png|Get Caught by a Normal Doll
File:02 small.png|Get Caught by a Small Doll
File:03 hanging.png|Get Caught by a Hanging Doll
File:04 macho.png|Get Caught by a Macho Doll
File:05 crawling.png|Get Caught by a Crawling Doll
File:06 fat.png|Get Caught by a Fat Doll
File:07 dog.png|Get Caught by a Dog Doll
File:08 hair.png|Get Caught by a Hair Doll
File:09 tall.png|Get Caught by a Tall Doll
File:10 cat.png|Get Caught by a Cat Doll
File:01 Shiren.png|Fail the Easy Challenge
File:02 Shiren.png|Fail the Normal Challenge
File:03 Shiren.png|Fail the Medium Challenge
File:04Shiren.png|Fail the Hard Challenge
File:05 Shiren.png|Fail the Death Challenge
File:Card picture 51.png|MAX Dolls on Screen: 5
File:Card picture 52.png|MAX Dolls on Screen: 10
File:Card picture 53.png|MAX Dolls on Screen: 15
File:Card picture 54.png|MAX Dolls on Screen: 20
File:Card picture 55.png|MAX Dolls on Screen: 25
File:Card picture 56.png|Tap 100 Normal Dolls
File:Card picture 57.png|Tap 100 Small Dolls
File:Card picture 58.png|Tap 100 Hanging Dolls
File:Card picture 59.png|Tap 100 Macho Dolls
File:Card picture 60.png|Tap 100 Crawling Dolls
File:Card picture 61.png|Tap 100 Fat Dolls
File:Card picture 62.png|Tap 100 Dog Dolls
File:Card picture 63.png|Tap 100 Hair Dolls
File:Card picture 64.png|Tap 100 Tall Dolls
File:Card picture 65.png|Tap 100 Cat Dolls
== Trivia ==
* Shimon Ichigaya is the only character who doesn't appear in the game
* The Normal Doll, The Crawling Doll and The Hair Doll are the only dolls that don't trigger special dialogue for any characters
* The game originally had only one ending, the Bad one where Akira becomes a puppet. Players were disappointed, so a Good ending was made
* A lot of the character dialog sprites in the game, mainly ones where the students are dolls are unused and can only be seen through data extraction
** Some students don't even have any story dialog and only appear as dolls like Keigo and Ayumi
* The app will send you notifications for Fever Mode refills, but you can also get random ones that say "Congratulations" and "Time's up" sometimes, which are two iconic lines the Puppetmaster says. They are mainly a reminder to open the game
* The Hard Challenge's CG depicts Mii Sasaki, but for some reason has her scarf color is wrong, making it seem like it's her sister Miu in the image
** A similar error can be seen in the Normal Challenge's CG, it shows Yashiro with a green sweater instead of his yellow one and he is missing his red jacket. And for some reason Sakura's colors are completely wrong, as she is all red instead of having blue hair and a purple dress.
== Soundtrack ==
The game uses royalty-free music and features 6 tracks
 (Plays during Stages 1 & 2)
 (Plays during Stages 3 & 4)
 (Plays during Stage 5)
 (Plays during Stage 6)
 (Plays when advancing the Story)
 (Plays during Fever Mode)
== Gallery ==
File:MGameAD.png|Game Ad 1
File:MGameAD2.png|Game Ad 2
File:MGameAD3.png|Game Ad 3
File:Loading.png|Loading Screen
File:Wallpaper2.png|Unlockable Wallpaper 1
File:Wallpaper3.png|Unlockable Wallpaper 2
File:Wallpaper1.png|Unlockable Wallpaper 3
File:Pm 1.png|Puppetmaster's Sprite
File:Class 2.png|Image of Class 2 from the Story Mode
File:BokuRiyu Game Sprites.png|All Student Dialog Portraits (Normal + Doll)
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