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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 Ice Saints

The Ice Saints

One field chest, no laudanum since January, and four hundred names by July.

  • ~95 min
  • 14437 words
  • 5 branch points
  • 5 endings
  • 3 plays

historicalwardramaromancetragedyGreat Northern War, Ukraine, winter 1708 to July 1709

18th centurygreat northern warmilitary surgeryhistoricallove trianglequeer romanceoccupationfaminewintertragedy

Content notice (8)
  • graphic surgical and battle injury
  • amputation without anaesthesia
  • frostbite and death by exposure
  • military requisition and induced famine
  • execution of a deserter
  • sexual content implied, cuts away
  • grief
  • sexual coercion referenced within an occupying army

Placeholder in-game art · licensed music

Cover art for The Salt Road

The Salt Road

Two hundred and eleven camels, eleven wells, and an army that has never been thirsty here.

  • ~95 min
  • 21370 words
  • 5 branch points
  • 5 endings
  • 3 plays

historicaladventuredramawartragedySonghai empire and Saadi conquest, 1591 CE

16th centurywest africasonghaisaharahistoricalcaravanoccupationmarriagebookstragedy

Content notice (7)
  • battle violence, graphic
  • slavery and the slave trade depicted as the era's commerce
  • thirst, dehydration and death by exposure
  • occupation, deportation of scholars
  • sexual content implied, cuts away
  • grief
  • execution

Placeholder in-game art · licensed music

Cover art for The Water Clock

The Water Clock

The city has three months of water and four caliphs a year.

  • ~95 min
  • 20234 words
  • 5 branch points
  • 5 endings
  • 3 plays

historicaldramaromancewartragedyAl-Andalus, Córdoba, 1013 CE during the fitna

al-andalusislamic golden agesiegehistoricallove triangleengineeringbetrayaloccupationtragedypoetry

Content notice (7)
  • siege warfare, graphic violence
  • massacre of civilians (offscreen and reported)
  • sexual content implied, cuts away
  • religious persecution
  • torture referenced
  • destruction of libraries and cultural property
  • thirst and dehydration

Placeholder in-game art · licensed music

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