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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 Second Shift

The Second Shift

The dead took their jobs. Nobody asked the dead.

  • ~198 min
  • 33941 words
  • 14 branch points
  • 7 endings
  • 3 plays

industrial fantasypolitical dramaromancetragedyKesselgrad, Republic of Veyra, Smeltmonth 219 After Concord

industrial fantasyadult dramalabour strugglenecromantic industrylove trianglestrikeinstitutional rotgriefbody politicsslow burnworking classtragedy

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

Cover art for The Widow's Bridge

The Widow's Bridge

Every word she carries for the dead costs her a memory of them.

  • ~90 min
  • 14586 words
  • 5 branch points
  • 5 endings
  • 3 plays

fantasydramaromancetragedySecond-world river town, pre-industrial

fantasygriefromanceghost storyhard magic systemmemorysmall townlove triangletragedysecond world

Content notice (7)
  • grief and bereavement throughout
  • memory loss depicted as loss of self
  • drowning, murder, and a concealed cause of death
  • suicide
  • sexual content implied, cuts away
  • domestic violence in the past
  • child death (a delivered word, offscreen)

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Cover art for Aftertaste

Aftertaste

Nine weeks of harvest, eleven hectares, and a winemaker who cannot smell her own cellar.

  • ~90 min
  • 18358 words
  • 5 branch points
  • 5 endings
  • 3 plays

dramaromanceliterarytragedyPresent day, one harvest, Marlborough, New Zealand

contemporarynew zealandwinegriefterminal illnesslove trianglequeer romancemulti-povdisabilityfamily business

Content notice (7)
  • terminal illness and end-of-life decisions
  • assisted dying discussed
  • disability and sensory loss
  • financial precarity and bank foreclosure
  • sexual content implied, cuts away
  • alcohol use around a trade that runs on it
  • grief and anticipatory grief

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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Placeholder in-game art · licensed music

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