RE: https://hachyderm.io/@jalefkowit/117567683281229193
As one of the very few people who had a paid subscription to Majestic during its extremely brief life, I have spent the last 25 years trying and failing to convince anyone else that it was a real thing that actually existed and not just something I hallucinated
“The most fascinating ephemeral game is Majestic, an experimental, X-Files-inspired alternate reality game about the chaos of the information age that ran for less than a year before its publisher pulled the plug. Majestic still stands as one of the most ambitious interactive entertainment projects ever undertaken. Intended as a personalized ongoing event for adult audiences that didn’t enjoy gaming’s typical epic-sized power fantasies, the game might have heralded a new direction for the entire medium had it succeeded. Instead, it imploded almost immediately.
“We can’t play Majestic now, so from a slew of articles and anecdotes, I’ve tried to assemble its history and offer a glimpse of what it was, why it failed, and what it could have been.”
@jalefkowit From what I have read about it, it sounds like (the fictional) Wirrâl Untethered from Disco Elysium.