NEUROCRACY

Details

Playtime Not Played
Last Activity Never
Added 7/31/2026 20:44:07
Modified 7/31/2026 20:47:59
Completion Status Not Played
Library Itch.io
Source itch.io
Platform PC (Windows)
Release Date 7/12/2023
Community Score
Critic Score
User Score
Genre
Developer Playthroughline
Publisher
Feature
Links Itch
Official Website
Tag Experimental
Interactive Fiction
Mystery
Narrative
omnipedia
Sci-fi
Tabletop role-playing game
User Interface (UI)
wikipedia

Description

Solve a murder in the future
by diving into its Wikipedia


Have you ever lost yourself in a wiki 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 connected across an online encyclopedia. It is both a crowdsourced alternate reality game and an epistolary hypertext novel, opening with a high-profile assassination for you to investigate.

Visionary Sci-Fi


Neurocracy builds a speculative world directly on top of our own, exploring the fascinating and terrifying car crash of technology and humanity. The diverse articles on Omnipedia depict an all-too-near future where networked brain implants are as commonplace as smartphones, and equally abused for mass surveillance. In this neurometric panopticon, your mind can betray you, but there are ways around that.

Wiki-Based Mystery


The story of Neurocracy is episodic and unfolds across ten consecutive days in the year 2049, starting on October 1st. Each episode represents a snapshot of a single day, with new articles added and existing ones updated to simulate bouts of frantic editing that reflect the global fallout of the assassination. Find clues, draw connections, compare notes with other sleuths, and ultimately solve the murder.

Player Manipulation Interaction


Neurocracy offers an array of tools and resources to empower your investigation: a dynamic conspiracy board that draws information directly from Omnipedia, and a community forum where you can roleplay as editors to discuss clues and theories with other players. Using these tools enables you to leverage your collective imaginations and play an active role in building the world of Neurocracy.

Reception


"Ambitious, confident writing | part experimental game, part murder-mystery novella, part postmodern exploration of how we take in stories"
-- The Guardian

"A brilliant futurist mystery of truth and technology | absolutely confident in the richly detailed and subtle world they're constructing"
-- Eurogamer

"A compelling exercise in collaborative, online sleuthing | perfectly nails the feeling of losing yourself in a Wikipedia rabbit hole"
-- Waypoint

"A multifaceted mystery that cries out for a conspiracy board | the project has cultivated a tight-knit community that eagerly shares theories"
-- The Verge

Notes


Neurocracy is entirely self-published by a fully remote team of contributors without any use of generative AI.

When you purchase a copy of Neurocracy, you'll receive an app that functions as both a custom interface to browse Omnipedia and a tool for making your own conspiracy board. Omnipedia remains freely accessible as a website on any browser, but using the app enables you to directly feed all of Omnipedia's content into your conspiracy board.

Disclaimer: the app is designed specifically to browse the Omnipedia website. We cannot guarantee its safety when using it to browse other sites!