alternate reality game

noun

An interactive networked narrative that uses the real world as a platform and employs various media to deliver a story that may be altered by players' ideas or actions.

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Meanings

nounalternate reality game (plural alternate reality games)

plural alternate reality games

  1. An interactive networked narrative that uses the real world as a platform and employs various media to deliver a story that may be altered by players' ideas or actions.

    Which is what gave Hon the shock of recognition: QAnon was behaving precisely like an alternate-reality game, or ARG.

    2020 September 22, Clive Thompson, “QAnon Is Like a Game—a Most Dangerous Game”, in WIRED, →ISSN, archived from the original on 20 Feb 2021

    Synonyms: ARG, unfiction

Synonyms & antonyms

nounAn interactive networked narrative that uses the real world as a platform and employs various media to deliver a story that may be altered by players' ideas or actions.

Similar
ARGunfiction
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unfiction

Translations

French ARG, jeu vidéo à réalité intégrée
  • ARGTranslations
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Japanese ARG (ē-āru-jī)
  • ARG (ē-āru-jī)Translations
Portuguese jogo de realidade alternativa, ARG
  • jogo de realidade alternativaTranslations
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Spanish juego de realidad alternativa
  • juego de realidad alternativaTranslations
Cite this entry
APA

alternate reality game. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 5, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/alternate%20reality%20game

MLA

“alternate reality game.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/alternate%20reality%20game. Accessed November 5, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “alternate reality game,” accessed November 5, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/alternate%20reality%20game.

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