#DYSTOPIAN_FUTURETHING

A dark reimagining of the original game by Stuart Candy and Jeff Watson. Digitally brought to you by your friends at radical✦.

About.

A dark reimagining of the original game by Stuart Candy and Jeff Watson. The Thing from the Future is an award-winning ideation and imagination game created by the folks at the Situation Lab and designed to get players to dream up and describe artefacts from a wide range of possible futures. You can learn more about the full game (this is a radically slimmed-down version) and the Situation Lab here.

Every time you visit this page, we'll give you a prompt (almost like a future-focused Mad Libs) that will push you to imagine something that exists in a unique — and possibly uniquely weird — and uniquely dystopian future. Think of this as the halloween-version of the original game…

Trigger Warning: Some of the randomly generated “things” might trigger you and can be quite dark. Please use caution!

→ The original (and non-dystopian) version of the game can be found here.

Your Thing.

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Game Design and Content (non-dystopian version) © 2015 CC-BY-NC-SA by situationlab.org | @sitlab
Image by Rick Guidice, courtesy of NASA Ames Research Center and New Museum Los Gatos
Application © 2025 MIT License by be radical Group LLC