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
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They only get paid if the ocean is dead.
~195 min
31875 words
17 branch points
7 endings
3 plays
literary science fiction romance survival drama political tragedy Europa, Jovian system, October-November 2117
hard science fiction Europa adult drama planetary protection debt bondage science fraud love triangle workplace tragedy institutional rot slow burn survival first 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 If this is close to home: findahelpline.com lists free crisis lines by country.
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Every promise leaves a mark. Hers was hidden for twenty years.
~190 min
32025 words
13 branch points
7 endings
3 plays
literary fantasy legal drama romance political tragedy Cauldmere, 712 After Anchor; early mercantile-industrial second world
second world legal fantasy adult drama labor strike body horror debt bondage love triangle institutional rot slow burn mercantile republic tragedy
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
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The Clearance
No cover art yet
A white stake is an argument. A signature lets people walk.
~150 min
15159 words
18 branch points
5 endings
3 plays
literary fiction adult drama procedural tragedy post-war political drama the Kestrel Valley in the fictional Republic of Drenava, 1-14 October 2026, eleven years after the armistice
adult drama procedural humanitarian demining post-war workplace moral injury institutional pressure small community disability slow burn moral ambiguity literary fiction
Content notice (10)
landmines and explosive remnants of war a demining accident graphic traumatic injury and amputation blood and medical aftermath wartime detention and disappearance discussed institutional pressure and workplace investigation hearing loss and disability grief and survivor guilt no instructional ordnance detail no slurs written out
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The Fire Line
No cover art yet
Two origins. Twelve dead. One paragraph with a nineteen-year-old's name in it.
~180 min
9850 words
28 branch points
5 endings
3 plays
literary fiction procedural drama romance legal drama Madrone County, Caldera; October and November 2026
adult drama wildfire procedural moral ambiguity corporate negligence insurance criminal investigation slow burn romance small town institutional pressure literary fiction multiple 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 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
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The Quota Line
No cover art yet
The state mark is hers. So are the eleven cases attached to it.
~180 min
12613 words
14 branch points
5 endings
3 plays
literary fiction workplace drama procedural thriller romance Bellwether, Harrow County, five days in July 2027
adult drama procedural industrial food safety small town workplace moral ambiguity slow burn class immigration labour literary 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
The Shot List
No cover art yet
One signature closes the road. One weak layer outlasts every good result.
~160 min
11348 words
13 branch points
5 endings
3 plays
literary fiction workplace drama procedural tragedy Calder and Ardent Ridge, one winter from November 2026 to April 2027
adult drama avalanche ski resort small town workplace tragedy procedural coroner's inquest moral ambiguity class institutional pressure winter literary fiction
Content notice (8)
avalanche burial and death recovery and attempted resuscitation grief and survivor guilt public blame and workplace pressure economic precarity and threatened homes professional explosive avalanche control discussed non-instructionally alcohol use sexual intimacy implied; cuts away
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Holding Tension
No cover art yet
A perfect joint can carry a lie.
~190 min
9147 words
18 branch points
5 endings
3 plays
literary fiction maritime drama procedural thriller romance the Mediterranean, six weeks in May and June 2027
adult drama maritime procedural submarine cables infrastructure corporate cover-up moral ambiguity workplace drama slow burn island second chance literary 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
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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
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