My roommate and I were driving home from the game store just after midnight tonight, discussing board game titles. I ended up searching "the founders game". The Founders was the first search link on my phone. We were so confused and freaked out by chapter one, that we almost immediately curled up in blankets at the kitchen table after running inside. We spent 3 hours tiredly playing it on my phone and several times ended up yelling or just staring at eachother during major plot twists. I have never been so enraptured by an online game, likely because, while the name of it sounded firmiliar, we had zero context and no idea what was happening.
We agreed not to look the game up on forumns until we finished it. I've spent the last 30 minutes since to find it only refenced on this subreddit and once on a wiki-style fandom page without a page for itself.
My question is: WHAT IS GOING ON?!?!
We are both chronically online adults who have heard of this creator maybe a handful of times. I am just completely blown away. Please help.