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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 Silver Bath

The Silver Bath

Four thousand three hundred glass negatives, and every sleeve in her own handwriting.

  • ~90 min
  • 17663 words
  • 5 branch points
  • 5 endings
  • 3 plays

historicaldramaromancepolitical thrillertragedyOttoman Constantinople, Pera, 1896

ottoman empire1890sphotographyhistoricallove trianglequeer romancecensorshipsurveillancearchivetragedy

Content notice (7)
  • ethnic persecution and mass violence (reported, one scene depicted at distance)
  • state surveillance and arrests
  • torture referenced
  • sexual content implied, cuts away
  • chemical hazard and one injury
  • grief
  • destruction of records

Placeholder in-game art · licensed music

Cover art for The Debt of Air

The Debt of Air

Miss three payments and they don't evict you. They make the station smaller.

  • ~95 min
  • 14906 words
  • 5 branch points
  • 5 endings
  • 2 plays

science fictiondramaromancetragedythrillerNear future, 2094, cislunar orbital habitat

near futurehard science fictionorbital habitatgriefmarriagelove trianglequeer romancedebtsabotagetragedy

Content notice (7)
  • terminal illness and medical decline
  • asphyxiation and industrial death, graphic
  • suicide
  • medical rationing
  • sexual content implied, cuts away
  • grief and anticipatory grief
  • workplace injury caused by the protagonist

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Cover art for Petrol Hymn

Petrol Hymn

Eleven musicians, one biscuit tin, and fourteen minutes about the cement ships.

  • ~90 min
  • 16555 words
  • 5 branch points
  • 5 endings
  • 3 plays

historicaldramamusicromancepolitical thrillerNigeria, Lagos, February to December 1976

1970slagosnigeriamusicpolitical thrillerlove trianglequeer romancecoupbetrayalafrobeat

Content notice (8)
  • state violence, detention and executions
  • political persecution and censorship
  • sexual content implied, cuts away
  • queer relationship under legal threat
  • alcohol and cannabis use
  • police brutality
  • infidelity
  • grief

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Cover art for The Coral Bell

The Coral Bell

He translates for the men who might shoot him by mistake.

  • ~100 min
  • 16447 words
  • 5 branch points
  • 5 endings
  • 3 plays

historicalwardramaromancetragedyPacific War, Saipan, June to August 1944

world war twopacific theatrehistoricalmilitarylove trianglequeer romancemoral compromisetranslationtragedyjapanese american

Content notice (8)
  • graphic combat violence and burn injuries
  • mass civilian death including suicide (depicted at a distance, not instructional)
  • racism against Japanese Americans, internment
  • prisoner interrogation
  • sexual content implied, cuts away
  • suicide
  • PTSD, dissociation
  • alcohol use

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Cover art for Small Mercies

Small Mercies

Eighty seats, six nights a week, and a file in a policeman's own handwriting.

  • ~100 min
  • 16688 words
  • 5 branch points
  • 5 endings
  • 3 plays

historicalnoirdramaromancetragedyWeimar Germany, Berlin-Neukölln, winter 1931 to summer 1932

weimarcabaretberlinaddictionpolitical thrillerlove triangle1930snoirtragedyclass struggle

Content notice (8)
  • opioid addiction and withdrawal, non-instructional
  • street violence and murder, graphic
  • political extremism and fascist violence
  • police surveillance and betrayal
  • sex work referenced
  • sexual content implied, cuts away
  • suicide
  • antisemitic and political persecution depicted through behaviour

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Cover art for The Water Clock

The Water Clock

The city has three months of water and four caliphs a year.

  • ~95 min
  • 20234 words
  • 5 branch points
  • 5 endings
  • 3 plays

historicaldramaromancewartragedyAl-Andalus, Córdoba, 1013 CE during the fitna

al-andalusislamic golden agesiegehistoricallove triangleengineeringbetrayaloccupationtragedypoetry

Content notice (7)
  • siege warfare, graphic violence
  • massacre of civilians (offscreen and reported)
  • sexual content implied, cuts away
  • religious persecution
  • torture referenced
  • destruction of libraries and cultural property
  • thirst and dehydration

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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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Cover art for Understory

Understory

Illegal logging, a forestry co-op, a road that should not exist.

  • ~34 min
  • 7567 words
  • 10 branch points (script estimate)
  • 7 endings (script estimate)
  • 3 plays
Content notice (8)
  • Illegal logging and regulatory fraud
  • Economic coercion and family pressure
  • Job loss and rural precarity
  • Environmental destruction (old-growth clearcut)
  • Physical intimidation and implied violence
  • Grief over place and livelihood
  • Betrayal within family
  • Sex cuts away at the door (desire/aftermath only if present; none required)

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Cover art for Cold Open

Cold Open

Late-night local news in a city that is losing its industry.

  • ~43 min
  • 9467 words
  • 9 branch points (script estimate)
  • 10 endings (script estimate)
  • 3 plays
Content notice (9)
  • Immigration enforcement and deportation threat
  • Workplace exploitation and coercion
  • Bribery and municipal corruption
  • Career destruction and public shaming
  • Guilt, complicity, and moral injury
  • Alcohol dependence under stress
  • Intimate relationship strained by professional betrayal
  • Sex cuts away at the door
  • Graphic verbal violence in newsroom confrontations (no instructional crime detail)

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Cover art for The Understudy

The Understudy

A repertory theatre with three months of funding left.

  • ~46 min
  • 10276 words
  • 6 branch points (script estimate)
  • 5 endings (script estimate)
  • 3 plays
Content notice (9)
  • Career sabotage and workplace coercion
  • Physical injury (broken wrist; fall down stairs)
  • Suspicion, isolation, and reputation collapse
  • Grief over a failing art institution
  • Ambiguous guilt and self-deception
  • Emotional manipulation in a power imbalance (director/actor)
  • Alcohol as coping
  • Sex cuts away at the door (desire, aftermath, and consequence only)
  • No instructional detail for causing harm

Placeholder in-game art · licensed music · play time estimated from word count

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
  • 3 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 Repossession

Repossession

Repo work in a county where everyone is behind on something.

  • ~31 min
  • 6878 words
  • 13 branch points (script estimate)
  • 6 endings (script estimate)
  • 3 plays
Content notice (8)
  • Economic desperation and predatory lending
  • Community ostracism and reputation violence
  • Coercion and workplace pressure
  • Grief and family collapse under debt
  • Implied domestic strain
  • Alcohol misuse
  • Physical confrontation / non-instructional violence
  • Sex cuts away at the door (desire, aftermath, consequence only)

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Cover art for The Blue Hours

The Blue Hours

Night shift at a suicide-prevention line, told across one year of calls.

  • ~19 min
  • 4319 words
  • 2 branch points (script estimate)
  • 1 endings (script estimate)
  • 3 plays
Content notice (8)
  • Suicide, suicidal ideation, and crisis-line work (non-instructional; no methods detail)
  • Grief, isolation, and professional secondary trauma
  • Burnout, self-neglect, and reluctance to seek help
  • Boundary violations between helper and helped
  • Coercion pressure within care systems / performance metrics
  • Alcohol as coping
  • Sex cuts away at the door
  • Resources listed on title screen (local emergency services, IASP, etc.)

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Cover art for Foreign Object

Foreign Object

Professional wrestling, a regional promotion, a worked feud that stops being worked.

  • ~49 min
  • 10825 words
  • 6 branch points (script estimate)
  • 5 endings (script estimate)
  • 3 plays
Content notice (8)
  • Homophobia and locker-room bigotry (shown through behaviour, no slurs written out)
  • Workplace coercion and economic precarity
  • Graphic ring violence and lasting injury
  • Emotional abuse framed as “for the business”
  • Closeted relationship under threat of outing
  • Addiction to painkillers / working hurt
  • Grief and career death
  • Sex cuts away at the door (desire, aftermath, consequence only)

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Cover art for The Quiet Part

The Quiet Part

Small-town politics and a well that is poisoning people.

  • ~42 min
  • 9444 words
  • 10 branch points (script estimate)
  • 8 endings (script estimate)
  • 3 plays
Content notice (8)
  • Environmental poisoning of children and adults
  • Political corruption and evidence suppression
  • Terminal / chronic illness diagnosis
  • Grief and parental loss
  • Economic coercion and small-town collapse anxiety
  • Alcohol dependence under stress
  • Class resentment and moral injury
  • Sex cuts away at the door (desire and aftermath only)

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Cover art for Skin in the Game

Skin in the Game

Esports, a mid-tier team, a match-fixing offer.

  • ~42 min
  • 9364 words
  • 9 branch points (script estimate)
  • 6 endings (script estimate)
  • 2 plays
Content notice (8)
  • Match-fixing / sports fraud
  • Financial coercion and poverty pressure
  • Betrayal by a close partner
  • Workplace surveillance and false accusation
  • Verbal abuse in competitive spaces (no slurs written out)
  • Family medical/debt stress
  • Panic, dissociation under performance pressure
  • Sex cuts away at the door (desire/aftermath only if present; none required)

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Cover art for Two Weeks' Notice at the End of the World

Two Weeks' Notice at the End of the World

Corporate office, ordinary week, an unspecified catastrophe on the news.

  • ~27 min
  • 6095 words
  • 8 branch points (script estimate)
  • 1 endings (script estimate)
  • 2 plays
Content notice (8)
  • Societal collapse / mass disappearance (unspecified catastrophe; news as ambient dread)
  • Denial, dissociation, and professional performance under existential threat
  • Grief and anticipatory loss
  • Abandonment and workplace coercion-by-normalcy
  • Suicide ideation (implied, not instructional; one character’s dark joke path)
  • Sex (cuts away at the door; desire, aftermath, and consequence in full)
  • Mild workplace bigotry-by-erasure (management treating human absence as “attrition”)
  • Violence only as distant news / aftermath, not playable combat

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Cover art for Devotion Trial

Devotion Trial

A wellness group that is a cult, told from inside, sympathetically.

  • ~49 min
  • 10842 words
  • 19 branch points (script estimate)
  • 7 endings (script estimate)
  • 3 plays
Content notice (10)
  • Cult dynamics / high-control group
  • Coercive belonging and love-bombing
  • Financial exploitation / progressive tithing
  • Social isolation and engineered dependency
  • Grief, loneliness, and depression
  • Emotional manipulation framed as care
  • Quotas and institutional pressure on members
  • Brief suicidal ideation (passive; no method detail)
  • Sex cuts away at the door (desire, aftermath, consequence only)
  • No instructional detail for real-world coercion tactics beyond dramatic implication

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Cover art for Vacancy

Vacancy

A motel on a highway that got bypassed.

  • ~20 min
  • 4504 words
  • 9 branch points (script estimate)
  • 1 endings (script estimate)
  • 3 plays
Content notice (9)
  • Coercion and quiet blackmail
  • Fugitive status / obstruction of justice
  • Grief and abandoned waiting
  • Economic precarity and exploitation of labor
  • Addiction (alcohol; past opioid dependence referenced)
  • Domestic violence in backstory (not on-screen)
  • Suicide ideation (referenced; not enacted on-screen)
  • Bigotry shown through behaviour (small-town suspicion; slurs not written out)
  • Sex cuts away at the door (desire, negotiation, and aftermath only)

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Cover art for Notes on a Ceasefire

Notes on a Ceasefire

Two interpreters on opposite sides of a negotiated pause in a war neither started.

  • ~20 min
  • 4515 words
  • 5 branch points (script estimate)
  • 4 endings (script estimate)
  • 3 plays
Content notice (9)
  • War and negotiated ceasefire under constant breach pressure
  • Civilian casualties as direct consequence of translation choices
  • Coercion, diplomatic blackmail, and institutional gaslighting
  • Grief, survivor guilt, and moral injury
  • Extramarital/secret intimacy under surveillance
  • Addiction (stimulants, alcohol) used to stay functional in talks
  • Bigotry shown through behaviour and consequence (no slurs written out)
  • Suicide ideation (referenced, not instructional)
  • Sex cuts away at the door; desire, aftermath, and consequence remain in full

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Cover art for The Long Con Is Patience

The Long Con Is Patience

Art forgery, three cities, eleven years.

  • ~40 min
  • 8963 words
  • 14 branch points (script estimate)
  • 2 endings (script estimate)
  • 2 plays
Content notice (8)
  • Art fraud and long-term criminal conspiracy
  • Coercion, blackmail, and institutional corruption
  • Emotional manipulation within intimate and mentor relationships
  • Grief, identity erasure, and professional annihilation
  • Implied violence and threat (non-instructional)
  • Alcohol dependence under pressure
  • Sex cuts away at the door (desire, aftermath, and consequence only)
  • No slurs; bigotry shown through gatekeeping and class contempt

Placeholder in-game art · licensed music · play time estimated from word count

Cover art for Hollow Ridge

Hollow Ridge

Folk horror, a hill farm, a bad winter.

  • ~21 min
  • 4825 words
  • 4 branch points (script estimate)
  • 1 endings (script estimate)
  • 3 plays
Content notice (9)
  • Folk horror / communal ritual violence
  • Coercion and social pressure
  • Grief and parental loss
  • Implied child endangerment (off-page; stakes only)
  • Marital betrayal and moral complicity
  • Isolation, winter hardship, animal slaughter
  • Blood and body horror (ritual aftermath)
  • Sex cuts away at the door (desire, aftermath, consequence only)
  • No clean escape endings

Placeholder in-game art · licensed music · play time estimated from word count

Cover art for Salt and Rust

Salt and Rust

Commercial fishing, a dying harbour town.

  • ~63 min
  • 13922 words
  • 20 branch points (script estimate)
  • 7 endings (script estimate)
  • 3 plays
Content notice (9)
  • Grief and parental alcoholism (aftermath)
  • Economic coercion and harbour corruption
  • Workplace loyalty conflicts / betrayal
  • Violence at sea and dockside (graphic where earned)
  • Sex work adjacent pressure (harbour economy); sex cuts away at the door
  • Coercion, blackmail, and institutional capture
  • Suicide ideation (implied, not instructional)
  • Addiction (alcohol; consequences, not how-to)
  • Bigotry shown through behaviour (class, “townie” contempt), 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
  • 3 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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