Branching novels that play in the browser with no account. Netwrck library novels are complete, playable scripts at different stages of production: 53 of the 59 novels have generated cover art; 59 novels play licensed music credited in the build; in-game backgrounds and character art are still generated placeholders throughout. Fork one and the art, music and voice tools in the editor fill in the rest. Author-published novels carry whatever their author gave them, and each card states its own art, audio and content notice below.
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Everything you can do, you owe. Someone else is paying it.
- ~105 min
- 22266 words
- 6 branch points
- 5 endings
- 2 plays
actionfantasyromancetragedySecond-world coal-and-iron industrial city
battle shounendark fantasysecond worldhard power systemrivalryqueer romanceterminal illnessdebttragedyduelling
Content notice (7)
- graphic violence and severe injury
- terminal illness and assisted death
- chronic illness of a family member
- self-destruction
- sexual content implied, cuts away
- grief
- institutional exploitation of the poor
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Placeholder in-game art · licensed music
Sixty-one children, forty adults on Thursdays, and a building she does not own.
- ~95 min
- 19236 words
- 5 branch points
- 5 endings
- 2 plays
historicaldramaromancepolitical thrillertragedyReconstruction-era Louisiana, spring to autumn 1873
reconstructionamerican southhistoricalqueer romancelove trianglepolitical violenceeducation1870stragedyvoting rights
Content notice (8)
- racist mass violence and massacre, graphic
- lynching referenced
- slavery aftermath and its ongoing coercion
- sexual content implied, cuts away
- queer relationship under lethal social threat
- child endangerment
- arson
- grief
Placeholder in-game art · licensed music
Illegal street racing at the bottom end: no supercars, no crews with names.
- ~48 min
- 10700 words
- 14 branch points (script estimate)
- 6 endings (script estimate)
- 2 plays
Content notice (9)
- Illegal street racing and organized low-end crime
- Medical debt and disability care precarity
- Coercion through “reasonable” financial dependence
- Police heat, arrest risk, and carceral threat
- Grief, guilt, and sibling obligation
- Physical injury risk from crashes
- Emotional manipulation in intimate relationships
- Class pressure and dead-end labor
- Sex cuts away at the door (desire, aftermath, and consequence only)
Placeholder in-game art · licensed music · play time estimated from word count
The dead took their jobs. Nobody asked the dead.
- ~198 min
- 33941 words
- 14 branch points
- 7 endings
- 2 plays
industrial fantasypolitical dramaromancetragedyKesselgrad, Republic of Veyra, Smeltmonth 219 After Concord
industrial fantasyadult dramalabour strugglenecromantic industrylove trianglestrikeinstitutional rotgriefbody politicsslow burnworking classtragedy
Content notice (9)
- industrial disaster and graphic injury
- death, corpses and coerced postmortem labour
- body desecration and loss of bodily autonomy
- grief and death of a spouse
- exploitative contracts, poverty and institutional corruption
- addiction to pain medicine shown through consequence
- sexual content implied, cuts away
- violence may be graphic where earned
- bigotry by class and legal status shown through behaviour; no slurs written out
Placeholder in-game art · licensed music
Every green field has a drought with a name.
- ~195 min
- 37183 words
- 14 branch points
- 7 endings
- 2 plays
literary fantasypolitical dramaromancetragedySarranth highlands and Beruz, 318 Basin Reckoning; second-world canal age
second worldclimate fantasyadult dramawater politicslove triangleclass warinstitutional rotfamily betrayalfamineslow burntragedy
Content notice (12)
- engineered drought and famine
- class violence and forced migration
- graphic riot injury
- death from magical overwork
- hearing loss and fever
- dependence and withdrawal involving a fictional fever tincture
- institutional corruption
- imprisonment and coerced informing
- sexual content implied, cuts away
- family betrayal
- food insecurity
- bigotry shown through behavior and consequence; no slurs written out
Placeholder in-game art · licensed music
The ground remembers every year they removed.
- ~195 min
- 32861 words
- 12 branch points
- 7 endings
- 2 plays
literary dramaromanceclimate fictionpolitical tragedySvalbard, October 2026–May 2027
svalbardcontemporary dramaresearch fraudclimate fictionbisexual protagonistlove trianglecoal towntreaty lawinstitutional rotslow burntragedyarctic
Content notice (12)
- fatal avalanche and disaster aftermath
- terminal occupational lung disease
- alcohol dependence
- research fraud and institutional coercion
- job loss and company-controlled housing
- Russia's war in Ukraine and sanctions referenced
- grief and corpses
- graphic violence where earned
- sexual content implied, cuts away
- no slurs written out
- bigotry shown through behaviour and consequence
- no instructional weapon, drug synthesis, or intrusion detail
Placeholder in-game art · licensed music
The mountain takes the body. The book decides whether it ever lived.
- ~188 min
- 31721 words
- 12 branch points
- 6 endings
- 2 plays
historicaldramaromancetragedypoliticalPotosí, Upper Peru, August–November 1585
historical dramacolonial AndesPotosíforced labourqueer romancelove triangleinstitutional corruptionminingtragedyadult protagonistmoral compromiseslow burn
Content notice (8)
- forced labour and colonial racial hierarchy
- graphic mine-collapse injury and death
- mercury poisoning and chronic illness
- coercion, wage theft, debt, and imprisonment
- religious discipline and institutional betrayal
- grief, burial, and falsified death records
- sexual content implied, cuts away
- bigotry shown through behaviour and consequence; no slurs written out
Placeholder in-game art · licensed music
An army can conquer a market. First it has to count it.
- ~188 min
- 29686 words
- 13 branch points
- 7 endings
- 2 plays
historicalpolitical dramaromancetragedyTlatelolco and Tenochtitlan, 1473 CE
mexicatlatelolcohistorical dramaadult romancelove trianglemerchant spiesmarket lawwartributeslow burninstitutional tragedypolitical intrigue
Content notice (10)
- war and civic conquest
- graphic violence and battlefield injury
- human sacrifice as state ritual
- death of a spouse discussed
- debt-slavery and threatened sale
- coercion, blackmail and institutional corruption
- sexual content implied, cuts away
- grief and survivor guilt
- food insecurity
- bigotry by class and city shown through behaviour; no slurs written out
Placeholder in-game art · licensed music
Restaurant kitchen, family-owned, second generation.
- ~26 min
- 5774 words
- 5 branch points (script estimate)
- 3 endings (script estimate)
- 2 plays
Content notice (9)
- Debt coercion and loan-shark violence
- Family death / inheritance grief
- Workplace exploitation
- Class pressure and gentrification buyouts
- Betrayal within chosen family
- Implied sexual relationship (sex cuts away at the door; desire, aftermath, and consequence remain)
- Alcohol as coping
- Threats against livelihood and body
- No instructional crime detail
Placeholder in-game art · licensed music · play time estimated from word count
Near-future courier work, memory implants, no cyberpunk neon.
- ~30 min
- 6625 words
- 11 branch points (script estimate)
- 1 endings (script estimate)
- 2 plays
Content notice (10)
- Memory theft and non-consensual recollection
- Identity erosion / self-loss
- Grief and death of a partner (off-page, residual)
- Coercion and blackmail via implanted debt
- Corporate-legal exploitation of the poor
- Violence (brief, physical; earned, not instructional)
- Addiction framing around memory playback
- Sex work adjacent economy (memory escorting); sex cuts away at the door
- Suicide ideation (discussed, not instructional)
- Class bigotry shown through behaviour, not slurs
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Placeholder in-game art · licensed music · play time estimated from word count
They only get paid if the ocean is dead.
- ~195 min
- 31875 words
- 17 branch points
- 7 endings
- 2 plays
literary science fictionromancesurvival dramapolitical tragedyEuropa, Jovian system, October-November 2117
hard science fictionEuropaadult dramaplanetary protectiondebt bondagescience fraudlove triangleworkplace tragedyinstitutional rotslow burnsurvivalfirst contact
Content notice (10)
- suicide and its aftermath
- debt bondage and financial coercion
- graphic injury during a hull breach
- radiation exposure and chronic illness
- bone loss and medical trauma
- institutional abandonment
- grief and body recovery
- sexual content implied, cuts away
- violence where earned
- bigotry shown through behaviour and consequence; no slurs written out
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Placeholder in-game art · licensed music
Every promise leaves a mark. Hers was hidden for twenty years.
- ~190 min
- 32025 words
- 13 branch points
- 7 endings
- 2 plays
literary fantasylegal dramaromancepolitical tragedyCauldmere, 712 After Anchor; early mercantile-industrial second world
second worldlegal fantasyadult dramalabor strikebody horrordebt bondagelove triangleinstitutional rotslow burnmercantile republictragedy
Content notice (11)
- debt bondage and coerced labor
- graphic injury and amputation
- medical trauma
- euthanasia
- addiction and withdrawal
- institutional violence
- pregnancy and an offscreen newborn as stakes
- food insecurity
- sexual content implied, cuts away
- death and grief
- bigotry shown through behavior and consequence; no slurs written out
Placeholder in-game art · licensed music
Every word she carries for the dead costs her a memory of them.
- ~90 min
- 14586 words
- 5 branch points
- 5 endings
- 2 plays
fantasydramaromancetragedySecond-world river town, pre-industrial
fantasygriefromanceghost storyhard magic systemmemorysmall townlove triangletragedysecond world
Content notice (7)
- grief and bereavement throughout
- memory loss depicted as loss of self
- drowning, murder, and a concealed cause of death
- suicide
- sexual content implied, cuts away
- domestic violence in the past
- child death (a delivered word, offscreen)
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Placeholder in-game art · licensed music
One field chest, no laudanum since January, and four hundred names by July.
- ~95 min
- 14437 words
- 5 branch points
- 5 endings
- 2 plays
historicalwardramaromancetragedyGreat Northern War, Ukraine, winter 1708 to July 1709
18th centurygreat northern warmilitary surgeryhistoricallove trianglequeer romanceoccupationfaminewintertragedy
Content notice (8)
- graphic surgical and battle injury
- amputation without anaesthesia
- frostbite and death by exposure
- military requisition and induced famine
- execution of a deserter
- sexual content implied, cuts away
- grief
- sexual coercion referenced within an occupying army
Placeholder in-game art · licensed music
Nine weeks of harvest, eleven hectares, and a winemaker who cannot smell her own cellar.
- ~90 min
- 18358 words
- 5 branch points
- 5 endings
- 2 plays
dramaromanceliterarytragedyPresent day, one harvest, Marlborough, New Zealand
contemporarynew zealandwinegriefterminal illnesslove trianglequeer romancemulti-povdisabilityfamily business
Content notice (7)
- terminal illness and end-of-life decisions
- assisted dying discussed
- disability and sensory loss
- financial precarity and bank foreclosure
- sexual content implied, cuts away
- alcohol use around a trade that runs on it
- grief and anticipatory grief
Placeholder in-game art · licensed music
The striker throws it. The drummer pays for it.
- ~105 min
- 18444 words
- 6 branch points
- 5 endings
- 2 plays
actionfantasyromancetragedysportSecond-world monsoon delta city
battle shounentournamentsecond world fantasymusicrivalryqueer romancehard power systemterminal illnesstragedyhub structure
Content notice (7)
- graphic fighting violence and lasting injury
- progressive disability and cardiac decline
- assisted death
- exploitation by contract
- sexual content implied, cuts away
- grief
- gambling
Placeholder in-game art · licensed music
Two hundred and eleven camels, eleven wells, and an army that has never been thirsty here.
- ~95 min
- 21370 words
- 5 branch points
- 5 endings
- 2 plays
historicaladventuredramawartragedySonghai empire and Saadi conquest, 1591 CE
16th centurywest africasonghaisaharahistoricalcaravanoccupationmarriagebookstragedy
Content notice (7)
- battle violence, graphic
- slavery and the slave trade depicted as the era's commerce
- thirst, dehydration and death by exposure
- occupation, deportation of scholars
- sexual content implied, cuts away
- grief
- execution
Placeholder in-game art · licensed music
Six hours a night, three currencies, no passport.
- ~100 min
- 16957 words
- 5 branch points
- 5 endings
- 2 plays
historicalnoirromancepolitical thrillertragedyShanghai, International Settlement and French Concession, January to April 1927
1920s shanghaihistoricallove trianglequeer romancegangstersrevolutionstateless refugeebetrayaltragedyjazz age
Content notice (8)
- massacre and political mass killing, graphic
- opium trade and addiction
- sex work and coercion
- sexual content implied, cuts away
- police corruption and surveillance
- racism and colonial hierarchy depicted through behaviour
- torture referenced
- grief and displacement
Placeholder in-game art · licensed music
You can only learn a technique from someone trying to kill you with it.
- ~100 min
- 23021 words
- 6 branch points
- 5 endings
- 2 plays
actionfantasytragedyromanceSecond-world river city, an industrial-adjacent duelling age
battle shounenswordfightingsecond world fantasyrivalryhard power systemtragedyromanceduellingmentor betrayaltournament
Content notice (7)
- graphic violence and permanent injury
- amputation
- character death including a lover
- alcohol abuse
- sexual content implied, cuts away
- self-destructive behaviour
- grief
Placeholder in-game art · licensed music
Eleven weeks of poisonings, ninety days of grain, one woman allowed to look at the bodies.
- ~105 min
- 22301 words
- 6 branch points
- 5 endings
- 2 plays
historicalmysterythrillerromancetragedyNorthern Song China, Kaifeng, winter 1126 to spring 1127
song dynastyhistorical mysterysiegeforensicslove trianglebetrayalfaminepolitical thrillertragedywomen's work
Content notice (8)
- detailed autopsy description
- poisoning deaths
- famine, starvation and one implied instance of survival cannibalism (offscreen)
- siege violence, graphic
- sexual content implied, cuts away
- coercive marriage law
- child endangerment (a son's fate, offscreen)
- torture referenced, not depicted
Placeholder in-game art · licensed music
Medical, an organ transplant list, a small city.
- ~43 min
- 9495 words
- 10 branch points (script estimate)
- 6 endings (script estimate)
- 2 plays
Content notice (8)
- Organ-list fraud and institutional cover-up
- Terminal heart failure and ICU death
- Grief, anticipatory mourning, and family coercion
- Romantic entanglement under false pretenses
- Medical ethics breach, whistleblowing, career destruction
- Class and access inequality in care
- Sex cuts away at the door (desire, aftermath, consequence only)
- No instructional medical or fraud detail beyond story implication
Placeholder in-game art · licensed music · play time estimated from word count
Psychiatric inpatient unit.
- ~44 min
- 9752 words
- 15 branch points (script estimate)
- 2 endings (script estimate)
- 2 plays
Content notice (10)
- Suicide attempt and suicidal ideation (no method depicted)
- Psychiatric hospitalization, involuntary hold, unit restrictions
- Depression, anxiety, self-harm history (no instructional detail)
- Medication side effects, sleep disruption, body autonomy in care
- Family pressure and strained sibling relationship
- Patient–patient romance under power imbalance and shared crisis (bad idea, treated honestly)
- Coercion-adjacent care (searches, observation levels, privilege levels)
- Grief, shame, institutional boredom
- Mild substance history discussion (no synthesis or how-to)
- Sex cuts away at the door; desire, negotiation, and aftermath may be present
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Placeholder in-game art · licensed music · play time estimated from word count
Forty thousand kilometres, three minutes of arithmetic, four seconds of shooting.
- ~95 min
- 12929 words
- 5 branch points
- 5 endings
- 2 plays
science fictionwardramaromancetragedyNear future, 2103, cislunar space
hard science fictionmilitaryspace combatnear futurelove trianglequeer romancewar crimesmoral compromisetragedyorbital mechanics
Content notice (7)
- graphic combat death, vacuum and burn injury
- mass civilian death threatened and depicted at distance
- war crimes and their legal justification
- sexual content implied, cuts away
- PTSD, insomnia, stimulant use
- suicide
- court martial and imprisonment
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Placeholder in-game art · licensed music
Eleven cabarets in four blocks, and one of them reopens.
- ~90 min
- 13175 words
- 5 branch points
- 5 endings
- 2 plays
historicaldramamusicromancetragedyArgentina, Buenos Aires, 1917
1910sbuenos airestangomusichistoricallove trianglequeer romanceclasspatronagetragedy
Content notice (7)
- knife violence, graphic
- sex work and coercion in the cabaret trade
- sexual content implied, cuts away
- queer relationship under legal and social threat
- police corruption
- poverty and debt
- grief
Placeholder in-game art · licensed music
The Tally Room
~200 min · 7 endings
Assignment
~195 min · 7 endings
The Annona
~190 min · 7 endings