r/ARG

I don't want to necessarily just shout out "interesting thing must be an arg" but if you've been seeing the financial account "The Kumar Method", the newer videos seem to be signs of the start of an ARG (to me atleast)

For context if you don't know the Kumar method videos on Instagram, he sparked the recent trend of over edited videos introducing people to their accounts, most of which are jokes about how they will be the #1 gooner or something of the like.

The main thing to me that screams ARG is that all the descriptions of his videos are gibberish (maybe a cypher? Haven't checked yet), except the most recent one saying. "Kumar is gone. The council is coming."

The other thing is in his most recent post was a message from "the council" with the glitched text saying "the lies of Kumar started with his name"

None of the IG comments seem to really care about any of it and I see a lot of comments talking about the fact he might be A.I or something, which i don't really know about.

Either way I haven't seen any discussion or theories about it, and I don't know if that's because people already know something I don't, like its just a scheme to sell a course or something, but I just kinda wanted to talk about it.

Go Dean! Stage 9 The Hypogeum

I think it's LARG. Anye better suggestions?
LARG: Lore Alternate Reality Game

Liminal spaces. Empty office corridors. Vacant hotel hallways. That uncanny, inexplicable dread you feel in mundane places stripped of life. Backrooms horror taps into something primal, the feeling that reality itself has glitched. But what happens when you take that aesthetic and weaponize it with something real? This is LARG. LARG stands for Lore Alternate Reality Game, fundamentally different from traditional ARGs. ARGs create fictional worlds that feel real. LARGs embed actually real content inside fictional game structures. The lore isn't invented. The debates aren't scripted. The community witness isn't manufactured. The clues are in the comments.

Go Dean! Made by Earthling Official, this is the first LARG, a vegan game-documentary where real debates between Earthling and Dean Withers are embedded as in-game content. Real YouTube comments become puzzle clues. Real moral arguments become gameplay. Players experience cognitive dissonance: witnessing actual philosophical arguments while trapped in a nightmare. What makes LARG revolutionary:

1. The lore is verifiable. Watch the actual debates on YouTube. The arguments are real. The stakes are real.
2. The community IS the game. Not hidden Easter eggs, genuine crowdsourced meaning-making around real content.
3. Discomfort educates. The horror doesn't entertain. It forces you to associate liminal dread with systemic exploitation.
4. Reality collapses into fiction. You can't separate what's "game" from what's "real." That ambiguity mirrors how exploitation hides in plain sight.
5. New stages created regularly as the debates and public discourse with high profile figures unfolds. You could be part of the lore. You could get stuck in the Backrooms with yourself. Real debate. Real community. Real ideology weaponized inside horror game mechanics to create genuine moral discomfort.

Hello !

I'm curious and kind of looking for an RPG (any form) with a good story, etc...

Anyway, if you have any recommendations, feel free to share!

thanks :)

So me and these people i'm working with are missing someone who either develop a game (On Scratch or something not anything major) or a video for our ARG. Thank you for taking your time reading this and have a great day.

Hi there i'm looking for someone who wants to make an ARG. I am personally not good at making stories I am better at making the Ciphers and the small details.

For those who played Satoshi's Treasure or similar ARGs, did you burn out? What would have made it better?

Also, what is the biggest reason you avoid real-money puzzle games? Is it because they feel rigged, or because they take too long?

https://youtu.be/jzVWVcXva\_o?si=dSxRkev6UEe2nVDi

(The ARG is in russian, and I don't know if there is or will be an official English version)

This is an animated ARG. It feels similar to the amazing digital circus in vibe, but has a different story. The story right now to me looks like a bunch o very weird f concepts that I can't connect, though. But even though it's nonsense for me (at least right now), it's a very fascinating nonsense. What I know for sure is that the characters are stuck in an afterlife where they are imprisoned by someone who says it's for their own good, and whom they for some reason consider their "landlord". Also, in the city where they live, there are many other Yokai. And one of the characters feels like their lives have become stagnant, and want to go back to the real world (another digital circus parallel I can draw), and somehow in order to do so, they enter their tv screen and get into some another weird, dystopian city, where the citizens are haunted (or at least they believe they are haunted) by some obscure creatures named "shadows", and also citizens of that city have shared dreams of the same creature.

As far as the ciphers go, there's not a lot of what I noticed apart from an a1z26 and a Morse code.

But the two main concepts that drew me in are:

1. In addition to solving ciphers, there's an actual viewer participation involved, where the events of the next episode are dictated only by what decision the audience makes at the end of a previous one.

2). There's also a metanarative where, it's basically an ARG inside an ARG, since your job is to solve both the story of the ARG, but also the in-universe story of the ARGs creators.

Oh, another weird concept is that one of the in-universe authors of the ARG is a sentient program on the other creator's channel.

Also, one of the story's motieves is that there's a conflict behind the creators, where one wants the project to be just an unfiction story where the audience chooses their own adventure, but doesn't need to solve any ciphers,as well as keeping the story more light-hearted, and dthe other wants it to be puzzle, with the story turning into more of a slasher with the characters dying one by one.

If you do decide to go on, be prepared for it's weirdness. Also, there's some yaoi anime monolog from one of the characters, though nothing explicit is shown in the project, so be aware of it if it makes you uncomfortable for any reason.

Ok so I love ciphers and I would love to tell some short stories where the motifs essentially critique some elements of our society/explore a few different themes. If anyone has any tips on how to actually do that effectively for someone who's never done that before, it would be greatly appreciated

Hello, all! I'm currently in the brainstorming phase for Rorschach's Rainbow Official Fan Discord, which is a discord-based ARG. It's an eldritch horror ARG with metafictional elements and a theme of blurring the boundaries between fiction and reality.

I plan on using the discord format extensively, with information and puzzles being hidden in things such as roles and custom emotes, but it's very important to me that the ARG never "breaks character" for the sake of a puzzle. As far as the creative team is concerned, this is an entirely real fanserver and should be run like one.

If you're interested in helping out, let me know! Feel free to ask any questions.

I have an ARG / OSINT game in development. Looking for people to have a look for feedback. Themes around haunting and hacking.

My idea is that it’s about a kid whos nickname is Pots(real name is William Holten) and he wakes up and feels that something is wrong. His mother‘s face feels forced and his brother acts way more nicer than usual so he skips breakfast and says he’s going to his friends house and once he’s there his friend feels fake too. He realizes that he’s been kidnapped and basically was put into something like a Truman show but instead of broadcasting his life a company named Q Inc was studying it. It turns out that he has the power to rewrite history and once he escapes he realizes that his life is just a mystery on the internet and breaks the 4th wall all the time. At the end he doesn’t change or go through any character arcs and realizes that he can’t change no matter what he’ll always have the same interests, personality, and even his face and age. Hoping I could put in websites for Q Inc and some videos on different accounts on YouTub.

For those who believe they can descend into the gnostic and ancient depths of their own mind, illuminating the black box hidden beneath layers of symbols, myths, and forgotten truths:
DO•LOON•AI EXPRESS is now departing. Explore your mind and unconsciousness to explore universe.

A Shadow Work ARG for those willing to walk beyond the veil.

Only for those who possess the courage to face their own darkness. (21+)

For what waits in the unconscious is often far more unsettling than one imagines.

Free Play: https://lunarisbahal.github.io/the-mind-experiment/

not sure if this is the right sub, but i watched marble hornets a couple years back and really enjoyed it. wondering if anyone here had any recs. i'm not picky, would prefer they were on youtube. send your personal favs!

I’m thinking about creating an ARG, if anyone wants to help please dm me for my discord and we can discuss it there or you can tell me what part you want to play in the ARG aka editor, actor, and or etc.

Discord: reedthesurvivor

Www.random.website

I have no idea what this is, I was going to post this to r/Internetmysteries but the rules there said no ARGs and I'm not quite sure if this is an arg or not.

I stumbled onto it on accident trying to get onto one of those random site redirectors.

It's an old computer that if you click it will take you to pong.

I am on mobile right now so I couldn't try out everything but I couldn't find anything about the site so I decided to post it here.

Hi guys, I love digital investigations and pattern recognition. We all know about the big cases, but what are some lesser-known internet mysteries, ARG puzzles, or forgotten historical locations that were completely cracked open by everyday people using open-source intelligence? I’m looking for deep rabbit holes to dive into tonight. Drop your favorites! 💻🔍