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.
Adult fiction
The Netwrck library novels are adult fiction: violence, addiction, the drug trade, psychiatric care, sex work adjacent coercion and infidelity. Sex scenes cut away at the door. Each entry shows the content notice its author wrote, which may be empty for an author-published novel.
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The dead took their jobs. Nobody asked the dead.
~198 min
33941 words
14 branch points
7 endings
3 plays
industrial fantasy political drama romance tragedy Kesselgrad, Republic of Veyra, Smeltmonth 219 After Concord
industrial fantasy adult drama labour struggle necromantic industry love triangle strike institutional rot grief body politics slow burn working class tragedy
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
4 plays
literary fantasy political drama romance tragedy Sarranth highlands and Beruz, 318 Basin Reckoning; second-world canal age
second world climate fantasy adult drama water politics love triangle class war institutional rot family betrayal famine slow burn tragedy
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
An army can conquer a market. First it has to count it.
~188 min
29686 words
13 branch points
7 endings
3 plays
historical political drama romance tragedy Tlatelolco and Tenochtitlan, 1473 CE
mexica tlatelolco historical drama adult romance love triangle merchant spies market law war tribute slow burn institutional tragedy political 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
The Locomotive Works
No cover art yet
She certifies what the works can do. The sale decides what those words mean.
~180 min
12392 words
9 branch points
5 endings
3 plays
literary fiction industrial drama political drama Veyra, Republic of Orsava, January to October 1997
adult drama industrial drama political fiction workplace privatisation labour moral ambiguity post-socialist slow burn economic coercion literary fiction
Content notice (8)
economic coercion and wage theft unemployment and threatened poverty political and corporate corruption labour conflict and strikebreaking a nonfatal industrial crush injury alcohol and tobacco use sexual content implied, cuts away class prejudice and xenophobia shown through behaviour; no slurs written out
Placeholder in-game art · licensed music
Every ruling is defensible. Together they choose a member of parliament.
~200 min
31412 words
14 branch points
7 endings
3 plays
literary fiction political drama romance procedural tragedy the Division of Carrigan Bight, four days of September, present day
political drama adult drama procedural electoral fraud small town estranged siblings second chance romance institutional rot slow burn moral ambiguity class literary fiction
Content notice (10)
political corruption and clientelism workplace prosecution and public disgrace estrangement and family rupture poverty, unemployment and rationed healthcare a death from a delayed medical procedure, recalled alcohol use intimidation and doxxing of an official sexual content implied, cuts away violence where earned bigotry shown through behaviour and consequence; no slurs written out
Placeholder in-game art · licensed music
In Naples, every ruined house is worth something to the wrong person.
~190 min
36467 words
14 branch points
7 endings
3 plays
historical crime romance political drama tragedy Naples, February to July 1982
naples 1980s historical drama crime political corruption adult romance love triangle family betrayal earthquake aftermath institutional rot slow burn tragedy
Content notice (10)
earthquake trauma and child deaths referenced building collapse and graphic injury organized crime and intimidation heroin addiction, overdose, and withdrawal domestic coercion institutional corruption arson and death sexual content implied, cuts away religious conflict forced displacement and witness exile
Placeholder in-game art · licensed music
