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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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Cover art for The Cold Archive

The Cold Archive

The ground remembers every year they removed.

  • ~195 min
  • 32861 words
  • 12 branch points
  • 7 endings
  • 4 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

Cover art for The Hollow Below

The Hollow Below

They only get paid if the ocean is dead.

  • ~195 min
  • 31875 words
  • 17 branch points
  • 7 endings
  • 3 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

Cover art for The Binding House

The Binding House

Every promise leaves a mark. Hers was hidden for twenty years.

  • ~190 min
  • 32025 words
  • 13 branch points
  • 7 endings
  • 3 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

Cover art for The Price of Rice

The Price of Rice

The famine has an account. Her name is at the bottom.

  • ~190 min
  • 33127 words
  • 11 branch points
  • 7 endings
  • 3 plays

historicalliterary dramaromancepolitical tragedyMurshidabad and Kasimbazar, Bengal, February–September 1770

bengalhistorical dramafaminecolonialismbisexual protagonistlove triangleeconomic crimeweavinginstitutional rottragedyslow burnmoral choices

Content notice (12)
  • famine and starvation
  • mass death and corpses
  • colonial and caste oppression
  • debt bondage and seizure of livelihoods
  • cholera-like epidemic illness
  • smallpox referenced
  • graphic violence where earned
  • opium dependence
  • fraud, hoarding, and institutional corruption
  • sexual content implied, cuts away
  • bereavement
  • no slurs written out

Placeholder in-game art · licensed music

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