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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 Tenth Month

The Tenth Month

She wrote the letters. Someone else got the woman.

  • ~95 min
  • 18739 words
  • 6 branch points
  • 5 endings
  • 3 plays

historicalromancedramatragedyHeian Japan, autumn 1004 CE

heianhistorical romancelove trianglecourt intrigueletterstragedyjoseislow burnclasspoetry

Content notice (7)
  • grief
  • coerced marriage and concubinage
  • class and gender subjugation
  • suicide (offscreen, discussed)
  • sexual content implied, cuts away
  • violence (a beating, an execution ordered)
  • infant mortality referenced

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Placeholder in-game art · licensed music

Cover art for The Annona

The Annona

Rome eats because somebody signs for the missing grain.

  • ~190 min
  • 29117 words
  • 15 branch points
  • 7 endings
  • 4 plays

historicaldramaromancecrimepolitical thrillertragedyOstia and Portus, Roman Italy, spring to autumn 62 CE

ancient romehistorical dramapolitical thrillerbisexual protagonistlove trianglefreedwomanport cityinstitutional corruptionslow burnclasscrimetragedy

Content notice (10)
  • slavery and coerced labour
  • institutional hunger and poverty
  • financial exploitation and debt
  • graphic fire injuries and death
  • assault and custodial violence
  • alcohol misuse
  • sexual content implied, cuts away
  • class and gender subjugation
  • corpse recovery and drowning aftermath
  • bigotry shown through behaviour; no slurs written out

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Cover art for Leviathan Line

Leviathan Line

The animal comes to the voice. Then it knows the voice forever.

  • ~100 min
  • 14352 words
  • 5 branch points
  • 5 endings
  • 4 plays

actionfantasyadventureromancetragedySecond-world archipelago, an industrial whaling-adjacent age

battle actionmonster huntingsecond worldhard power systemqueer romancecrew storyecologycorporate exploitationrivalrytragedy

Content notice (7)
  • graphic violence, drowning and crush injury
  • animal death rendered with weight
  • character death including crewmates
  • sexual content implied, cuts away
  • corporate exploitation and indentured labour
  • grief
  • a faked death

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The Fire Line No cover art yet

The Fire Line

Two origins. Twelve dead. One paragraph with a nineteen-year-old's name in it.

  • ~180 min
  • 9850 words
  • 28 branch points
  • 5 endings
  • 5 plays

literary fictionprocedural dramaromancelegal dramaMadrone County, Caldera; October and November 2026

adult dramawildfireproceduralmoral ambiguitycorporate negligenceinsurancecriminal investigationslow burn romancesmall towninstitutional pressureliterary fictionmultiple endings

Content notice (10)
  • fatal wildfire and burned homes
  • graphic post-fire remains
  • grief and survivor guilt
  • insurance non-renewal and threatened homelessness
  • corporate and government negligence
  • criminal jeopardy for a nineteen-year-old adult
  • alcohol use
  • sexual intimacy implied, cuts away
  • violence discussed without instructional detail
  • bigotry shown only through behaviour and consequence; no slurs written out

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The Quota Line No cover art yet

The Quota Line

The state mark is hers. So are the eleven cases attached to it.

  • ~180 min
  • 12613 words
  • 14 branch points
  • 5 endings
  • 4 plays

literary fictionworkplace dramaprocedural thrillerromanceBellwether, Harrow County, five days in July 2027

adult dramaproceduralindustrialfood safetysmall townworkplacemoral ambiguityslow burnclassimmigrationlabourliterary fiction

Content notice (11)
  • industrial animal slaughter and carcass inspection
  • foodborne illness and hospitalisation
  • repetitive-strain injury and disability
  • worker compensation
  • employer-tied visas and immigration enforcement
  • identity-document scrutiny
  • mass layoff and plant closure
  • poverty and institutional pressure
  • alcohol use
  • sexual content implied, cuts away
  • bigotry shown through behaviour and consequence; no slurs written out

Placeholder in-game art · licensed music

Holding Tension No cover art yet

Holding Tension

A perfect joint can carry a lie.

  • ~190 min
  • 9147 words
  • 18 branch points
  • 5 endings
  • 3 plays

literary fictionmaritime dramaprocedural thrillerromancethe Mediterranean, six weeks in May and June 2027

adult dramamaritimeproceduralsubmarine cablesinfrastructurecorporate cover-upmoral ambiguityworkplace dramaslow burnislandsecond chanceliterary fiction

Content notice (10)
  • infrastructure failure and communications deprivation
  • medical jeopardy
  • a death from delayed emergency care, recalled
  • corporate negligence and coercion
  • evidence concealment and professional misconduct
  • dangerous maritime work and a hand injury
  • storm peril
  • alcohol use
  • sexual content implied, cuts away
  • bigotry shown through behaviour and consequence; no slurs written out

Placeholder in-game art · licensed music

Cover art for The Tally Room

The Tally Room

Every ruling is defensible. Together they choose a member of parliament.

  • ~200 min
  • 31412 words
  • 14 branch points
  • 7 endings
  • 3 plays

literary fictionpolitical dramaromanceprocedural tragedythe Division of Carrigan Bight, four days of September, present day

political dramaadult dramaproceduralelectoral fraudsmall townestranged siblingssecond chance romanceinstitutional rotslow burnmoral ambiguityclassliterary 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

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Cover art for The Reconstruction

The Reconstruction

In Naples, every ruined house is worth something to the wrong person.

  • ~190 min
  • 36467 words
  • 14 branch points
  • 7 endings
  • 3 plays

historicalcrimeromancepolitical dramatragedyNaples, February to July 1982

naples1980shistorical dramacrimepolitical corruptionadult romancelove trianglefamily betrayalearthquake aftermathinstitutional rotslow burntragedy

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

Cover art for Assignment

Assignment

Her sentence belongs to the Crown. Her hours belong to a man.

  • ~195 min
  • 38388 words
  • 10 branch points
  • 7 endings
  • 3 plays

historicalliterary dramaromancecrimetragedyVan Diemen's Land, August–December 1832

van diemens landhistorical dramaconvict assignmentbisexual protagonistlove trianglepenal labourinstitutional rotbushrangingcolonialismslow burnbetrayalliterary tragedy

Content notice (12)
  • convict labour and enslavement-like coercion
  • colonial dispossession of palawa people
  • pregnancy under custodial coercion
  • graphic corporal punishment where earned
  • sexual coercion discussed
  • imprisonment and solitary confinement
  • bushranging and violent death
  • institutional corruption
  • pregnancy loss discussed
  • alcohol dependence
  • sexual content implied, cuts away
  • 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

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Cover art for The German Wharf

The German Wharf

The fish belongs to a dead man. The hunger belongs to everyone.

  • ~190 min
  • 29053 words
  • 12 branch points
  • 7 endings
  • 3 plays

historicalromancedramapolitical thrillertragedyBergen, Norway, summer to Michaelmas 1427

historical dramamedieval NorwayHanseatic Leagueadult romancelove triangleeconomic intriguepiratesslow burnqueer romanceinstitutional rottragedystockfish

Content notice (10)
  • famine and food deprivation
  • widowhood and grief
  • institutional misogyny and xenophobia
  • coercive debt and threatened homelessness
  • graphic fire injuries and violent death
  • workplace assault and brutal apprentice initiation
  • alcohol misuse
  • sexual content implied, cuts away
  • betrayal by a dependent and business partner
  • no slurs written out; bigotry shown through behaviour and consequence

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