Neurocracy
Solve a murder in a near future world by diving into the Wikipedia of that world.
Have you ever lost yourself in a Wikipedia rabbit hole? Imagine doing that for the Wikipedia of the year 2049. This is Neurocracy, an interactive narrative experience that offers an anthology of compelling sci-fi stories inside and between the hyperlinked articles of an online encyclopedia. It is both a single-player alternate reality game and an epistolary hypertext novel, opening with a high-profile assassination that you must investigate and solve.
Playing out entirely on a website with no download required, Neurocracy invites you to go it alone or join forces with others to piece together what has happened, and what is happening, in the world of 2049. Using the narrative power of your imagination, chase implications and interpretations by reading between the lines and arranging a story from a deeper pool of potential stories. Find clues, draw connections, compare notes, and ultimately solve a murder.
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DeveloperPlaythroughline
ReleasedJuly 14, 2021
StatusReleased
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About This Game
Neurocracy tells its story across ten consecutive days in the year 2049, formatted entirely as a Wikipedia-style encyclopedia. Each day, new articles appear and existing ones update, simulating the rapid editing that follows a major world event: an assassination whose global fallout shapes everything the player reads. The world of 2049 is built on the intersection of surveillance capitalism, consumer-grade neural implant technology, and biosecurity systems, extrapolated from current real-world science. Following any article opens threads into the people, organizations, technologies, and events surrounding the assassination. The Random Article option is a valid way in.