7 Strangest Unsolved ARGs in Video Games

Add Once Human to your wishlist here for more odd surprises.
#oncehuman

Sometimes you find an ARG in a game that deeply unsettles you…this is why we’re looking at the 7 strangest unsolved ARGs in video games.

Discord:

Patreon:

Twitter:

Reddit:

Thank you to my friend and YouTuber Slippy Slides for helping get the footage for this video. Subscribe to his channel here:

Games Featured

Buckshot Roulette
People Playground
Hell Pie
Rusty’s Retirement
Black Mesa
Sam and Max: The Devil’s Playhouse
Half-Life 2

Clips and References

People Playground

Hell Pie

Black Mesa

Half-Life 2

Fan art by Yukkichan_115

Thumbnail art by Goiaba.

Assistant producer: Mrs Odd

Special thanks to Slippy Slides, Vanesh, Bobby the Bob, The Easter Egg Archive, Krissy, taleah, Maximilian Mackinnon, Rene, PCBCat, Kasio, Renato, kousis_, lonewalker, Ember The Flareon, Randall, Frankie, Jake, yeetin8tor, yessiest, and Gavin Orris for their contributions to this video.

#oddheader

Music From Oddheader:

[oddheader]

Add Once Human to your wishlist here for more odd surprises.

[ltjoann]

Now I want a list of solved ARG, this unsolved args feels like watching a movie and stop watching just before the climax

[japes]

It would be really fitting for the Sam & Max game to set up an ARG only for it to lead to absolutely nothing

[pilcrow]

The fact that Odd Header has a folder on his desktop named "Allan please add details" is an awesome little Easter Egg.

[voicechats]

imagine ppg players being like "i found this datamatrix and it gave me this code" and then they realize its their own ip

[damix]

hello german here the easter egg in 8:00 is probably referring to one of the developers nicknamed utz since "utzseinefresse" pretty much means utz's face and utzseinemusik means "utz's music" i hope you see this comment

[nubbyderg]

I think people don't realize that Buckshot Roulette is linked to several other games by the same creator. Perhaps the date appears in one of the older games.
Also, going to XCCR, the changing numbers are now changed to a 100 minute countdown again

[JunkyardBashSteve]

Okay but the HL2 sign is Cyrillic and does not say XCCR, it's more like HSSG. I feel like that's a huge detail being overlooked

[StripeyShima]

You misspelled "secret" in the Wayback Machine part of the Sam and Max entry. It'd be pretty funny if there's actually something there and that's the only reason you didn't see it.

Edit: Sadly it didn't seem to really matter, but it would've been super funny if it did.

[FluidityContents]

Waiting for the day you throw that couch out the window for a bit

[rorysparshott]

I dont think XCCR actually has anything to do with Valve, especially as its actually ХССГ, or KhSSG

[ISirSmoke]

that "XCCR" is written in cyrillic, and means "HSSG"

[noyes.]

I feel XCCR got bought by someone else.

The different register and IP is totally normal since it’s been offline for a while. Those changes doesn’t necessarily mean different owners.

[Aegxs]

Mike Klubnika games are fascinating, shotgun roulette exploding was great for him. I wonder if this ARG has anything to do with his previous projects

[Juzu]

When you said that XCCR came back I was like "Man, it better not be some crypto or NFT scam just using the site" and then it linked to a Bitcoin walled. Goddammit SHIT.

[HughMungusXD]

In that people playground one CAMERA03 hints that there's more cameras that exist, or maybe to find, or more login's to find them or such in the future.

[SIXminWHISTLE]

Epic tried to start an ARG early on in the popularity of Fortnite's BR mode. The Durr Burger sign "appeared" in the desert, and they were handing out clues to people IRL. I think most of the visitors were kids so they seemed to abadon the plan as we stopped hearing much after a couple days.

[rees]

Patarei vangla is a museum, I could drop by it's like walking distance from me this feels weird lol

[VanagloriaVT]

"UtzSeine Fresse" Translates to "UtzHis face", its German, and UtzSeine Musik translates to His music, no clue what the ARG is about but I loved Ben & Ed

[jonathannovak]

In case it inspires someone -- XCCR's "Are you him?" could also be a Lost reference. Not to the iconic numbers, but rather the character Desmond asking the question to folks he assumed to be his replacement in the hatch. It was accompanied by the riddle "What did one snowman say to the other snowman?" and the passphrase "Smells like carrots." The doors and keys at 18:00 might match up to those? Though that would be wild considering those episodes aired after 2004