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 mountain takes the body. The book decides whether it ever lived.
~188 min
31721 words
12 branch points
6 endings
3 plays
historical drama romance tragedy political Potosí, Upper Peru, August–November 1585
historical drama colonial Andes Potosí forced labour queer romance love triangle institutional corruption mining tragedy adult protagonist moral compromise slow burn
Content notice (8)
forced labour and colonial racial hierarchy graphic mine-collapse injury and death mercury poisoning and chronic illness coercion, wage theft, debt, and imprisonment religious discipline and institutional betrayal grief, burial, and falsified death records sexual content implied, cuts away bigotry shown through behaviour and consequence; no slurs written out
Placeholder in-game art · licensed music
An army can conquer a market. First it has to count it.
~188 min
29686 words
13 branch points
7 endings
3 plays
historical political drama romance tragedy Tlatelolco and Tenochtitlan, 1473 CE
mexica tlatelolco historical drama adult romance love triangle merchant spies market law war tribute slow burn institutional tragedy political intrigue
Content notice (10)
war and civic conquest graphic violence and battlefield injury human sacrifice as state ritual death of a spouse discussed debt-slavery and threatened sale coercion, blackmail and institutional corruption sexual content implied, cuts away grief and survivor guilt food insecurity bigotry by class and city shown through behaviour; no slurs written out
Placeholder in-game art · licensed music
Rome eats because somebody signs for the missing grain.
~190 min
29117 words
15 branch points
7 endings
4 plays
historical drama romance crime political thriller tragedy Ostia and Portus, Roman Italy, spring to autumn 62 CE
ancient rome historical drama political thriller bisexual protagonist love triangle freedwoman port city institutional corruption slow burn class crime tragedy
Content notice (10)
slavery and coerced labour institutional hunger and poverty financial exploitation and debt graphic fire injuries and death assault and custodial violence alcohol misuse sexual content implied, cuts away class and gender subjugation corpse recovery and drowning aftermath bigotry shown through behaviour; no slurs written out
Placeholder in-game art · licensed music
In Naples, every ruined house is worth something to the wrong person.
~190 min
36467 words
14 branch points
7 endings
3 plays
historical crime romance political drama tragedy Naples, February to July 1982
naples 1980s historical drama crime political corruption adult romance love triangle family betrayal earthquake aftermath institutional rot slow burn tragedy
Content notice (10)
earthquake trauma and child deaths referenced building collapse and graphic injury organized crime and intimidation heroin addiction, overdose, and withdrawal domestic coercion institutional corruption arson and death sexual content implied, cuts away religious conflict forced displacement and witness exile
Placeholder in-game art · licensed music
Her sentence belongs to the Crown. Her hours belong to a man.
~195 min
38388 words
10 branch points
7 endings
3 plays
historical literary drama romance crime tragedy Van Diemen's Land, August–December 1832
van diemens land historical drama convict assignment bisexual protagonist love triangle penal labour institutional rot bushranging colonialism slow burn betrayal literary 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
The famine has an account. Her name is at the bottom.
~190 min
33127 words
11 branch points
7 endings
2 plays
historical literary drama romance political tragedy Murshidabad and Kasimbazar, Bengal, February–September 1770
bengal historical drama famine colonialism bisexual protagonist love triangle economic crime weaving institutional rot tragedy slow burn moral 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
The fish belongs to a dead man. The hunger belongs to everyone.
~190 min
29053 words
12 branch points
7 endings
3 plays
historical romance drama political thriller tragedy Bergen, Norway, summer to Michaelmas 1427
historical drama medieval Norway Hanseatic League adult romance love triangle economic intrigue pirates slow burn queer romance institutional rot tragedy stockfish
Content notice (10)
famine and food deprivation widowhood and grief institutional misogyny and xenophobia coercive debt and threatened homelessness graphic fire injuries and violent death workplace assault and brutal apprentice initiation alcohol misuse sexual content implied, cuts away betrayal by a dependent and business partner no slurs written out; bigotry shown through behaviour and consequence
Placeholder in-game art · licensed music
