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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 Borrowed Strength

Borrowed Strength

Everything you can do, you owe. Someone else is paying it.

  • ~105 min
  • 22266 words
  • 6 branch points
  • 5 endings
  • 3 plays

actionfantasyromancetragedySecond-world coal-and-iron industrial city

battle shounendark fantasysecond worldhard power systemrivalryqueer romanceterminal illnessdebttragedyduelling

Content notice (7)
  • graphic violence and severe injury
  • terminal illness and assisted death
  • chronic illness of a family member
  • self-destruction
  • sexual content implied, cuts away
  • grief
  • institutional exploitation of the poor

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Placeholder in-game art · licensed music

Cover art for The Rain Tithe

The Rain Tithe

Every green field has a drought with a name.

  • ~195 min
  • 37183 words
  • 14 branch points
  • 7 endings
  • 3 plays

literary fantasypolitical dramaromancetragedySarranth highlands and Beruz, 318 Basin Reckoning; second-world canal age

second worldclimate fantasyadult dramawater politicslove triangleclass warinstitutional rotfamily betrayalfamineslow burntragedy

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

Placeholder in-game art · licensed music

Cover art for The Binding House

The Binding House

Every promise leaves a mark. Hers was hidden for twenty years.

  • ~190 min
  • 32025 words
  • 13 branch points
  • 7 endings
  • 3 plays

literary fantasylegal dramaromancepolitical tragedyCauldmere, 712 After Anchor; early mercantile-industrial second world

second worldlegal fantasyadult dramalabor strikebody horrordebt bondagelove triangleinstitutional rotslow burnmercantile republictragedy

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

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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Placeholder in-game art · licensed music

Cover art for Leviathan Line

Leviathan Line

The animal comes to the voice. Then it knows the voice forever.

  • ~100 min
  • 14352 words
  • 5 branch points
  • 5 endings
  • 3 plays

actionfantasyadventureromancetragedySecond-world archipelago, an industrial whaling-adjacent age

battle actionmonster huntingsecond worldhard power systemqueer romancecrew storyecologycorporate exploitationrivalrytragedy

Content notice (7)
  • graphic violence, drowning and crush injury
  • animal death rendered with weight
  • character death including crewmates
  • sexual content implied, cuts away
  • corporate exploitation and indentured labour
  • grief
  • a faked death

Placeholder in-game art · licensed music

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