Puppet Pals: The Game is an theoretically upcoming creator action-adventure open-world game created by Caleb Taylor. It was made as a “what if” scenario involving the Puppets.

Gameplay

Unlike the episodes of the Puppet Pals 2 web series, the game is set in 3D. The syle of the gameplay mixes the assets and textures with a 3D environment. The player plays as one of the six main characters, and the game is played from a third person perspective by default, but can switch it to first-person. The player moves around the enviroment, and has the ability to make their own stories using a “transcription” tool that utilizes either a microphone or written speech, and can optionally use a ChatGPT-like “plot generator” to turn their ideas into games. Players can also go to various worlds and use vehicles in the game. There is also a main story in the game centering on Little Boy buying a Switch game, which sets the game’s events in motion.

Premise

The game opens with Little Boy headed back to the Klinsky residence with The Sheriff, who are in a yellow taxi. Little Boy is excited to set up a new Nintendo Switch he bought for extremely cheap. Once they arrive, Little Boy takes the Switch out of his trunk and a game he bought with it, and he and Sheriff go up to his room to hook it up to his TV. He inserts the game he bought, a game cart mysterious labeled as “Game.” Once he finishes setting up the Switch and adding his user, The Sheriff points out that the game Little Boy inserted has no splash screen, just a question mark icon. Intrigued, they start the game up, which shows a title screen as “Puppet Pals 2: The Game.” Confused, Little Boy starts the game, and the TV suddenly becomes a bright light, sucking everyone into it like a vortex and creating an alternate Puppet Pals 2 universe. However, after everyone gets sucked up, the intro plays again, and they just continually get sucked into the game, while the title screen plays over and over with each loop until the player presses a button to step away from the TV, at which point Little Boy snaps out of a trance-like state and explores the Alternate Universe. Initially, Little Boy thinks nothing has happened, but as he steps outside, he sees that the Cowboy Town has merged seamlessly with New York, and everyone has lost some of their memories. A disoriented Sheriff and Shakespeare approach Little Boy, with The Sheriff partially recalling the events of the intro. They decide to head to the Coliseum, and after turning its electricity back on, discover an elevator amidst the wreckage. Little Boy uses it to access the B1 and B2 floors, triggering memories for Sheriff and Shakespeare of the episodePuppet Pals In Big Trouble, and then they go deeper, to B3, where Little Boy suffers a hallucination of the Puppet Pals In Plotagon episode, specifically when Ali vanished after trying to use the malfunctioning portal. Going to B4 and B5, the pressure causes the elevator to start to collapse in on itself, triggering a sequence where The Sheriff and Shakespeare have to use cybernetic implants obtained from B4 to stop the elevator from imploding. Finally, Little Boy goes to the lowest of the floors, mysteriously marked as “The Root.” Upon pressing the Root’s elevator button, the elevator is filled with a bright light, and the doors suddenly open. Shakespeare reads a map of the Coliseum, and discovers that the elevator shaft seems to get thinner every time they go lower, culminating in the Root, which resembles a room with a fireplace. Little Boy explores the room, and the elevator door disappears. Out of panic, the characters plead for a way to get back, and suddenly, the Root Room transforms, restoring the elevator. Little Boy wishes for something else, causing the room to resemble his house. Little Boy realizes the room can be manipulated simply by thinking of something, and using this, he wills his other friends into the room, then wills a yellow cab into existence. The yellow cab is shown to contain another Little Boy and The Sheriff, creating a closed time loop. Eventually, these versions of Little Boy and the Sheriff make their way to the Root, and the original Little Boy wills all of them back into reality by creating a portal, similar to how the Switch game did.