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59 novels you can play in the browser right now, and fork into the editor to make your own.
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.
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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Ranked by listed or estimated play time — the authored figure where a listing gives one, otherwise word count at 220 words per minute. Not paid placement, and not a popularity ranking.
The Tally Room
~200 min · 7 endings
The Second Shift
~198 min · 7 endings
Assignment
~195 min · 7 endings
The Cold Archive
~195 min · 7 endings
The Hollow Below
~195 min · 7 endings
The Rain Tithe
~195 min · 7 endings
The Annona
~190 min · 7 endings
Sixty-one children, forty adults on Thursdays, and a building she does not own.
Placeholder in-game art · licensed music
One field chest, no laudanum since January, and four hundred names by July.
Placeholder in-game art · licensed music
Two hundred and eleven camels, eleven wells, and an army that has never been thirsty here.
Placeholder in-game art · licensed music
Six hours a night, three currencies, no passport.
Placeholder in-game art · licensed music
Eleven cabarets in four blocks, and one of them reopens.
Placeholder in-game art · licensed music
Four thousand three hundred glass negatives, and every sleeve in her own handwriting.
Placeholder in-game art · licensed music
He translates for the men who might shoot him by mistake.
If this is close to home: findahelpline.com lists free crisis lines by country.
Placeholder in-game art · licensed music
The city has three months of water and four caliphs a year.
Placeholder in-game art · licensed music