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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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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

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The Price of Rice

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

• ~190 min
• 33127 words
• 11 branch points
• 7 endings
• 2 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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