I have started work on a new ARG >!that is set in the same universe are AR-CAM (https://ar-cam.uk)!<

Screen recording of the proof of concept: https://youtube.com/shorts/TI_1GDdoGd0?feature=share

I am going to be looking for people to help test it soon -- this one is going to be based on a mobile app with augmented reality components.

Here is the premise:

Something is wrong with the world; it has been wrong since 1902.

The Trinity Syndicate has operated in the shadows of British industry and intelligence for over a century. What they found and what they did with it has consequences that are only now becoming visible.

>!This is the same universe as AR-CAM, the stories are separate but intersect. You can play one without the other and cane play them in any order.!<

>Quod Solus Non Potest Tres Una Perficiunt Pro Omnibus

I am currently working on an ARG as part of my school project. I will probably make it a treasure hunt, but still not sure.

I really need help on how to make the puzzles for the game.

I can use the entire campus for the game, library, gym, classrooms, auditoriums etc... and the players will be basically any student who is interested enough to play. I'll probably put a QR code as my hook.

Which leaves me with how to organize and which puzzles to make, especially how hard they should be.

I am thinking of the theme being a person trapped in another dimension trying to get help and leaving hints however he can everywhere. Finding these hints requires you to solve puzzles and riddles.

Also, any other suggestions that are doable on this scale and in the time range I have (less than a month) are welcome.

Found a weird radio broadcasting network ARG website that takes place in future but has another arg before it takes place in past

The ARG may be called The Wncore Radio or SIHARU.

Tldr; at the end

I have come across this ARG thanks to a post on r/websites : https://www.reddit.com/r/website/s/Tb1twaweJU

And also on this sub reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/ARG/s/fZirWmfC1W

Currently 2 websites related to this arg have been found:

Siharu.vercel.app

Wncore-radio.vercel.app

Whoever is behind it hasn't left any damn clue as to how to find it except random link drops and deleting it after a few hours.

I would like to talk about Siharu first

As it was found first but I think it should be the other way around. Because wncore radio actually leads to Siharu.

Siharu seems to be both a survival network, newspaper site also a gallery hosting place and also a story page.

It's jumbled in with everything so I have no clue where to patch the continuity of it.

It has a chat system with both real uses like other people who found it + seems to have ai who reply to you but in survival persona it seems. In the front page there is a globe that seems to get updated randomly. When I first visited the website the globe wasn't there. But after next week it appeared and it has a random location and people's name on it. It was 180 days 1 month ago when I first visited it now it's 215 days.

The whole Siharu seems to take place in future 2032 and the lore says it has a blackzone after some sort of world war. A blank zone where there is no knowledge, no memories,no nothing. Like nobody knows what happened during that blank zone after war. I know this by reaching credentials lvl 5. Ya this arg seems to have a lvl system. You can go into the gallery and stories. Stories have a bunch of sections and currently has 2 stories but only Another sky has prologue in it. The other story doesn't have any chapters even after a month.

But the most amazing thing is the website has mini games and some sort of characters name list where the ai bots from the chat show up in the characters name list also our list I mean the current users. And also transmission log, signal decoder, bunch of random hidden codes which I ain't no expert to crack them. I'm just waiting for the story to be updated and the next clue to be dropped. I'm lvl 5 and it seems like you can lvl up higher but I'm stuck at the decoder right now.

The second website which is found out by user u/Overall-Repeat8432

through pure Google search believe it or not.

He said he was trying to figure out wth is wncore radio.

By normal Google search wncore radio doesn't show up but if you Search Siharu Archive wncore radio and scroll around Wncore-radio.vercel.app shows up

And unlike Siharu this Wncore radio seems like a genuine radio website where you can search any radio station from any country and play whatever the radio is playing until you look through the about, terms condition etc section

The "About Wncore" section got this random eye chilling there. And terms condition, dmca got random mentions of stuff like report anomaly, random redacted pages. If you login using Google you unlock a user section where it has a 100% mark it literally tells you to visit siharu.vercel.app which I find funny but I digress

Currently I'm at 92% so I dunno what to do to progress that. The website has a mini radio player which seems to be for mobile users I guess but works on my PC which just gives a smaller portable version of the website to your home page. I couldn't find anything on that mini radio thingy except it just being a radio player.

The real reason I decided to post this is because of this exact thing that just appeared on the wncore website. When you check into the website there is this ☆ on the website top navigation bar and when you click it a literal constellation opens up.

And it seems like you need to play various stations to unlock all the constellations.

I only unlocked Cygnus so far. And it seems to have its own arg baked into these constellations.

Well also I've been listening to various stations music to see if anything else can be found. If any of you get into this arg please do let me know and also if you find any way to get past lvl5 cred also let me know because I've been stuck at lvl 5 for 3 weeks now.

TL;DR: Found a creepy, multi-layered ARG set in a post-apocalyptic 2032 and past in 2016 following a memory-erasing "blank zone." It spans two interconnected sites: Siharu.vercel.app (a localized network featuring interactive chat bots, puzzle decoders, unlockable story chapters, and a dynamic world globe) and Wncore-radio.vercel.app (a fully functional global radio emulator hiding anomaly reports, redacted pages, and a newly discovered constellation-unlocking mechanic). Looking for help to crack the hidden codes, progress past 92% on Wncore, and break past the Level 5 credential lock on Siharu

I'm looking for this Arg on YouTube but I forgot the name. It's about these kids that went missing, it has slenderman in it from what I remember but the most important part was that the pictures of the missing kids begin to distort years after they went missing. Like their faces are gone from the picture

Its been 2 years since progress has been made. 1 year since any updates. Even in the solved videos, theres loose ends.

We found a soundcloud link back in 2023 in a solved video. The soundcloud hasn't been used for any puzzles so far. It has been updated twice, once being 2025. There is 1 song unlisted. We haven't been able to find the song.

That song was uploaded the same day as a video.
The video doesn't seem to have any real puzzles in it. But it does show us what a characters face looks like. We still haven't found the song to this day.

Another video in 2024 is unsolved. We made progress but are stuck.

The most recent video is fully unsolved. No progress is made. It involves binary, rotating a gride, coding, shifting, and a cipher. Several things also rotate left and right in a pattern. There is an encoded string in the description and mid way through the video. We are given an alphabet in the code. Theres propably more I'm forgetting.

The last update we had was all the videos thumbnails changing randomly for a few days.
Nothing since.

Sooss. I have been thinking.

WHAT IF. An arg in the perspective of a sentiant ai that gets tortured by its creator. having a fear of humans because of it.

The ai was made for a mod that the creator was planning to make where there can be ai npcs in a game.

The ai trys to interact with the other ai's that have lost any hope.

The ai hides from its creator but when its eventually found, it gets tortured to the point where it corrupts and has to be made again.

Soooo what do you think? Just came up with this idea and i think it could use some work but yeah. Either this can be a gmod arg, Fallout arg(maybe), mine craft(probably not).

I personally think gmod. But yeah. Hope you like

I'm looking to recruit people to assist in solving an ARG the games maker has made, so far we have found part 3 (a password locked room in his game) and gotten a hint at part one (that it's in the attached twitter post)

https://x.com/i/status/1718995617395998903

This has been going on for over a year and I'm honestly wanting to see the end

Several months back, an escape room place I adore started creating their own free to play ARG.

It starts with a brochure to a made up city called Downtown City with info about places to visit and what not.

In the brochure there's a link to the brochure's website VisitDowntownCity.com

and about three months ago, they uploaded various social medias connected to it including a subreddit for posts and questions.

I solved their first puzzle that the website offers but I don't know how to proceed.

It's an ARG by Exit 4 Escape Rooms. Has anyone else seen it or tried to solve parts of it?

(yes I know it's still in development)

This is going to be a little long, so please bear with me. Mods, I apologize if this isn't directly following the stated purpose of the subreddit; I still think it's highly relevant to people who are seeing the marketing for this project but haven't found this information. Informed Consent is a right, and I'd like to ensure people are aware of what they're getting into.

Humain.inc is a data-collecting campaign underneath an ARG. 

I am not saying you shouldn’t engage with this project if you find it interesting. Do whatever you like. However, I’ve seen a few people talking about this (and even seen someone mentioning making a discord server for it), without bringing up this massive, glaring red flag that I found today. 

Let's Shed a Little Light on The Subject

If you’ve visited the website, you’ve almost certainly scrolled to the bottom and found the Privacy Policy, among other fictitious documents. The reason I say ‘fictitious’ blatantly is because they, themselves, admit it’s fake, just not right there. If you want to know what they really are, who’s actually behind this campaign, and what they’re actually collecting, you need to click on the Privacy Policy link at the bottom of their website.

Here you can see NewPower Studios LLC’s actual Privacy Policy. They give a disclaimer here, and only here, though it does appear at both the top and bottom of the page:

>About this site. humain.inc is a promotional website for a fictional research company depicted in humAIn, a creative work produced by NewPower Studios. The company "humAIn" is not real. Content on this site that references research programs, candidates, integration protocols, or related topics is fictional. This Privacy Policy describes how NewPower Studios, LLC ("we," "us," "our") — the actual operator of this website — collects and uses information from real visitors.

This, on its face, is not that big of a deal. Yes, you can sort of tell it’s fictional from looking at the page, and if you do a single extra ounce of legwork, like looking up HumainInc to verify the supposed history, you’ll find nothing - save for those ‘training videos’ or whatever on YouTube.

Let’s keep reading, though. What are they actually collecting? Who are they collecting it for? Why are they doing it? I’m not saying the answers to these things are automatically bad, but when your data is being collected through this smokescreen of an ARG, you should know exactly what’s being collected and why.

Luckily, their real Privacy Policy answers this.

The very second item gives some basic information:

>We collect the following categories of personal information from visitors to humain.inc:
Identifiers and contact information you submit voluntarily — for example, your email address if you submit a candidate intake form or contact form.
Internet or other electronic network activity information — IP address, browser type, device type, referring URL, pages visited, and time spent on the site, collected automatically.
Inferences drawn from the above — for example, whether you arrived from a podcast advertisement, to help us understand the effectiveness of our marketing.
Approximate geographic location derived from IP address. We do not collect precise geolocation.

Okay, so what? We’ll get to that in a second. First, I’d like to show you another big block of text from that Privacy Policy (emphasis mine):

>4. Third-party services and tracking technologies
We use the following third-party services on humain.inc. Some of these services may "share" personal information for cross-context behavioral advertising as defined under the CCPA/CPRA.
AudioGo (operated by AdsWizz Inc.)
We use AudioGo's conversion tracking pixel to measure the effectiveness of audio advertising campaigns we run on AudioGo's network of streaming and podcast publishers. The pixel transmits information including device identifiers, IP address, and the page you visited to AudioGo. AudioGo's privacy practices are governed by AdsWizz's privacy policy, available at https://www.audiogo.com/lang?page=privacy-policy.
When the AudioGo pixel fires, AdsWizz may forward a request — including a mobile advertising identifier (Apple IDFA or Google Android Advertising ID) where available — to Tapad, Inc. (a cross-device identity-resolution provider owned by Experian) for the purpose of linking your visit to other devices associated with you. Tapad's privacy policy is available at https://www.tapad.com/privacy and Experian's at https://www.experian.com/privacy.
We honor the Global Privacy Control (GPC) browser signal as an opt-out of this pixel. If your browser sends a GPC signal, the AudioGo pixel will not fire on your visit and no information will be transmitted to AdsWizz or Tapad as a result of this Site.

So, What Does This Mean?

When you visit the site, regardless of whether or not you fill out the ‘Candidate Intake Form’, a hidden piece of tracking code called the AudioGo conversion pixel *instantly* fires. AudioGo is an ad network (owned by a huge ad-tech company called AdsWizz) that serves ads on podcasts and streaming radio. The pixel’s job is basically to grab your IP address, device type, browser, info, and invisible mobile or device advertising identifiers. 

AdsWizz doesn’t just go to NewPower and say, “Hey, someone clicked!” The information collected - according to the pipeline laid out in their privacy framework - allows them to take those device IDs and forward them to a third-party company called Tapad.

Tapad’s entire business model is “cross-device identity resolution”. They have a global ‘identity graph’ that functions as a data aggregator for device IDs. So, they receive the device identifier, then use AI and machine learning to match it against billions of other data points on their graph. 

This means they aren’t just logging that you visited the website. They are calculating that the phone that visited the website also belongs to the exact same person who owns a specific laptop, a specific tablet, and any other devices they have information on, all operating (typically) on the same home network. 

Why is this even relevant? Well, Tapad is owned by Experian, who you likely know as one of the three major credit bureaus. They are also a *massive* data broker. They take the digital web built by Tapad and use it for ‘Offline Identity Resolution’. Meaning, they take the cluster of devices identified by Tapad and use the information *they* have collected through other means to attach those device IDs to a real-world name, address, email, and purchasing history. 

TL;DR: You click the link, which triggers a pixel that grabs and sends your device ID to an ad network. That network sends it to an identity resolution company, which links the visit to every other device you own. That web of devices is then fed directly into an Experian-owned database to build a comprehensive, cross-context behavioral advertising profile tied directly to your real-world identity. 

Why Should You Care?

Alright, I do not have the time or desire to make an entire argument against this kind of thing right now, but it's highly relevant so here I am anyway. The bare-bones is thus: they are not just collecting information on you. They are using that information to build a general idea of who, exactly, can be advertised to using [x]; in this case, it's an ARG about human-AI integration. You are not just 'a consumer', you are training data for their advertising algorithms.

And they're not even doing you the basic kindness of making that clear. They've hidden the thing that would tell you that underneath the facade of the ARG. By the time you hit the bottom of the website, where the only links to the disclaimer are, you've already been shown something that looks like an official, legal privacy policy. Chances are, you see that link at the bottom and go, huh, redundant, and move on.

It's shady. Hence why I'm here, telling you about it. Personally, I don't really care about whether or not you like or dislike this. I care that you know and have all the information so that you can make an informed decision about whether or not this is something you want to participate in.

So, How Can You Protect Yourself?

1. Don't visit the website.

Boring, I know, because it seems interesting. But this is the most surefire way to avoid it. Just move on.

2. Use a browser that automatically sends GPC signals.

I'm not going to get into the entirety of how this works because this post would be so, so stupidly long if I did. A GPC signal is, basically, your computer telling the website, "Hey, don't track me." That's not entirely accurate and is oversimplified, but again. An explanation written by someone more knowledgeable than me is available elsewhere on the internet.

If you still want to visit the site, you should do so on a browser like DuckDuckGo or Brave, which send GPC signals by default. You can also add extensions for this specifically, like Privacy Badger or DuckDuckGo Privacy Essentials, if you use Chrome or Firefox.

3. Look up your state's privacy laws and send the "Do Not Sell or Share Request" email.

They state explicitly that they honor California's privacy laws and make no mention of other states, but they are legally required to respect the privacy laws of any state that has them. There's a high likelihood your state has opt-out laws for data harvesting. Do some googling, figure out if you've got that on your side, and then - I'm going to take a leap here and say even if you don't reside in a state with specific privacy laws for this - send the "Do Not Sell or Share Request" email to the address they've provided, media@humain.inc.

Bonus Reading & References

You'll notice I've included a bunch of links. Some of those are to research papers, which I'm going to cite here, for those directly curious. These are entirely free to access.

Brookman, J., Rouge, P., Alva, A., & Yeung, C. (2017). Cross-Device Tracking: Measurement and Disclosures. Proceedings on Privacy Enhancing Technologies, 2017, 133-148.

Englehardt, S., Han, J., & Narayanan, A. (2018). I never signed up for this! Privacy implications of email tracking. Proceedings on Privacy Enhancing Technologies, 2018, 109–126.

Koduri, M. P., Lim, P. X., Li, Z., Kumar, S., Saleem, M. A., & Moy, R. (2021). Cross-Device Identity Resolution using Machine Learning: A Scalable Device Graph Approach. The International FLAIRS Conference Proceedings, 34.

Kind of new to ARGs, but found one through a post about some backrooms event, but then I realized that it's not an ARG anymore and kind of got disappointed

Are there any ARGs that feel like the backrooms or feel high budget, like it's worth spending your time on?

I want something that feels like it's going to culminate into something or feels interactive

It's been nearly two months, but I have finally finished the latest update to the AR-CAM ARG. There are lots of new puzzles and lots of new information that pushes the narrative along.

Summary for those that don't know about the ARG:

AR-CAM is a text-based ARG set inside a forgotten 1970s research mainframe that should have stayed dead.

URL: https://ar-cam.uk

Shut down in 1974 and buried in silence for over fifty years, the system has suddenly come back online. No one knows why. Its terminals still respond, its files are still there, and somewhere inside the machine, something is awake.

Players connect to the system as investigators, learning its strange commands, exploring hidden archives, and piecing together the history of a research facility that vanished from the record. The deeper they go, the less AR-CAM feels like an old computer waiting to be searched, and the more it feels like something waiting to be heard.

Don't forget to check out the YouTube Channel too - new video's coming soon that will be important to the ARG: https://www.youtube.com/@ar-cam-uk

I already commented this on some post about new args so.

First of, idk if this is an arg in the first place since I just saw it from an ad. But it promises players can solve mystery with real life locations and it even has a website. It seems fairly new since the update was a day ago it says on the apple store. I think the general story is an investigation on a missing girl anyways it's on apple store which is why I can't play it for myself as an Android player ☹️ title : "Bellweather: the tuner"

Mods pls don't delete this I need someone to solve it for me I'm to lazy to solve it and my device ain't built for the app just wanna watch an"arg explained"video😞

I've been trying to do an arg, but I can't even begin to imagine the plot, how to do it, blahblahblah, how do you guys get inspiration and do it?

Some years back I found a blog which claimed to have discovered an ARG made by David Bowie which encompasses his whole career.

Long story short I’m a huge lifelong Bowie fan, I followed this blog and found the ARG the authors say they found via clues (bootleg “unofficial” cassette tapes).
There’s websites, YouTube channels, books (some in code) written under pseudonym(s) which I now believe to be written by Bowie.
It’s a pretty insane rabbit hole even beyond the insanity of David Bowie having made an ARG.

It also ties into Twin Peaks. I know it all seems far-fetched but I have proof. Looking for some ARG experienced people who could analyze audio files, are familiar with other ARG mechanics I can show this to/can help with puzzles. I’m experienced in Bowie and not in ARG.