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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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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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