A Satirical Interactive Fiction Commemorating 2020

Was 2020 a Simulation?

An interactive fiction to uncover the truth and laugh (maybe)

Andrew Cheng
2 min readJan 3, 2021

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Photo by Joshua Sortino on Unsplash

You’re on the internet, and the pandemic is still raging outside your window.

You come across an article on Medium. It asks:

Was 2020 A Simulation?

You frown. Something is unsettling about this article. The headline seems to be a bit too clickbaity.

You lean back, wondering if you are going to read on.

You read on.

You scoff, temporarily disgusted that you’ve fallen for such a trivial formatting trick. This is starting to feel like a sick joke.

The article assures you it’s not a joke, although parts of it can be funny. The author says he only wants to show you the truth.

What truth? You wonder.

That your concept of the year 2020 is nothing more than a simulation program designed to conceal an even darker reality.

What? There’s a version of reality even darker than this?

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Andrew Cheng

3x top writer, most recently in fiction. Author of God the Programmer. An atheist nostalgic for his Christian days. Slava Ukraini!