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
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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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The ground remembers every year they removed.
~195 min
32861 words
12 branch points
7 endings
4 plays
literary drama romance climate fiction political tragedy Svalbard, October 2026–May 2027
svalbard contemporary drama research fraud climate fiction bisexual protagonist love triangle coal town treaty law institutional rot slow burn tragedy arctic
Content notice (12)
fatal avalanche and disaster aftermath terminal occupational lung disease alcohol dependence research fraud and institutional coercion job loss and company-controlled housing Russia's war in Ukraine and sanctions referenced grief and corpses graphic violence where earned sexual content implied, cuts away no slurs written out bigotry shown through behaviour and consequence no instructional weapon, drug synthesis, or intrusion detail
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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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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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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
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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
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
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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
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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
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