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The Borrowed Platform
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The platform is the address, and the address is the only thing they cannot take.
- ~35 min
- 3951 words
- 4 branch points
- 3 endings
- 50 plays
adult dramacivic romanceworkplace dramaliterary fictionThe winter of 1979, in the invented river city of Ashlade
adult dramarailwaycivic architectureromanceconsenthousingpublic recordsinstitutional neglectsecond chancebranching
Content notice (11)
- adult-only confirmation at the start
- housing loss and displacement
- institutional neglect by a city works department
- separation and renegotiation of an adult marriage
- grief over a parent and an inherited obligation
- adult relationship tension
- gentle adult intimacy that cuts away
- no explicit content of any kind
- no unclothed characters
- no one under eighteen is depicted
- no voice or likeness taken from any real individual
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Dr Imani Cole, 38, a reconstructive surgeon who does not enjoy her work, takes the night elective at Casa Vell on a private island: one perfect change, €84,000, nine nights, a face built from a cast of your own.
- ~210 min
- 30651 words
- 9 branch points
- 5 endings
- 47 plays
literary fictionbody horroradult dramaclinical gothictragedyVell, an uninhabited Aegean island, 12 to 16 June 2026
adult dramabody horrorclinical gothicmedical horrorethical horrorsurgical horrorconsensual adult intimacypsychological horrorisland isolationliterary fictionmoral ambiguity
Content notice (11)
- graphic surgical and medical imagery
- facial reconstruction
- bilateral orbital surgery
- compliant anaesthetic
- self-cast without a mirror
- professional erasure and a scrubbed record
- a patient left alive but permanently unrecognised to everyone who loved him
- coercive employment and an unpayable fee
- body horror in which recognition is the harvested thing
- explicit sexual content between consenting adults
- negotiated stop partway through
· art review pending
Somebody would remember. That is the whole of it.
- ~210 min
- 40270 words
- 16 branch points
- 6 endings
- 51 plays
erotic noiradult dramapsychological thrillerliterary fictionCallis, 4 to 15 October 2026
adult dramaerotic noirmurder mysterytheatreconsentjealousyprofessional ruinpolice proceduralliterary fictionmoral ambiguity
Content notice (10)
- murder and a graphic death scene
- blood and a wound to the head
- explicit sexual content between consenting adults
- a director's coercive sexual conduct with cast members
- jealousy and a lie told to protect somebody
- police investigation and interrogation
- professional and criminal accusation
- racism shown as institutional sidelining
- death of a colleague and grief
- the destruction of a career
· art review pending
The Second Hut on Chkhutnieri
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A valley stayed alive on a number nobody wrote down. She is the only one who can end it.
- ~190 min
- 56884 words
- 19 branch points
- 5 endings
- 51 plays
literary fictionadult dramaproceduraltragedyUpper Svaneti, Georgia, August to November 2026
adult dramaliterary fictionrural proceduralconsentdocuments and recordsinherited arrangementland rightsgriefmoral ambiguity
Content notice (7)
- livestock mortality on a mountain pass, one animal described going over an edge
- official documents, a public meeting, land deregistration and a named criminal complaint
- a woman under institutional pressure to sign a number
- consensual adult intimacy written on the page, with the consent spoken aloud
- an envelope of unlabelled money received and never spent
- prejudice against a family whose name is not on a register
- an animal named and counted as a person is mourned
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The Overrun
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The counter is always right. So something came in that nobody received.
- ~180 min
- 32639 words
- 16 branch points
- 5 endings
- 51 plays
literary fictionadult dramaindustrialtragedyBury, November to December 2025
adult dramaindustrial workplaceproceduralliterary fictionslow-burn romanceinstitutional failurefinancial collapseredundancymoral ambiguitytragedyconsentworkplace drama
Content notice (3)
- Financial loss, redundancy, institutional complicity in a purchase, and the sale of a working life at a bad price.
- Alcohol, and two decades of not saying a thing.
- No slurs are written out. Bigotry shows through behaviour and consequence.
The Warm Sheet
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He certifies the entry. The dead are somebody else's department.
- ~180 min
- 11270 words
- 20 branch points
- 5 endings
- 43 plays
literary fictionprocedural tragedyadult dramaVey Port, 7-11 December 2026
adult dramaproceduralliterary fictioncoronermortuaryinstitutional corruptionsiblingsmoral ambiguityfalse identitygriefport cityslow burn
Content notice (9)
- death and mortuary settings
- body misidentification and cremated remains
- domestic abuse and coercive control recalled
- fraud, wage theft and gambling debt
- exploitation of undocumented workers
- family estrangement and grief
- alcohol use
- implied sexual history, cuts away
- bigotry shown through behaviour and consequence; no slurs written out
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The Atlas With The Missing Streets
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The Common Atlas of Calder lists 4,912 streets.
- ~107 min
- 23680 words
- 5 branch points
- 4 endings
- 27 plays
adult craft ensemblelow-stakes speculativeliterary fictionchoice drivenMonday 1 to Friday 5 June 2026; an atlas reading room above a central library, a municipal survey office, a retail stree
Content notice (4)
- two streets in Calder have been removed from the register in the last six years, one of them discussed by name
- a market founder who died in 2021, referred to only as a fact about a market and never depicted
- the last irreversible act in the story is administrative: a clerk closing a five-year-old register entry on a date
- a language rule that decides which names can be carried into an official description and which cannot
· play time estimated from word count
The Vault
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The seed is alive. The accession cannot be proved.
- ~170 min
- 11665 words
- 18 branch points
- 5 endings
- 41 plays
literary fictionadult dramaprocedural tragedyGreyfen, four days in October 2026
adult dramaliterary fictionproceduralseed bankfamily betrayalinstitutional pressureclimate anxietymoral ambiguitymother and daughterslow burnworkplace drama
Content notice (8)
- irreversible extinction of biological heritage
- institutional coercion and financial precarity
- professional misconduct and falsified custody records
- family grief, betrayal and estrangement
- alcohol misuse
- off-page destruction of biological material
- no instructional pathology or modification detail
- all characters are adults
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The Placement
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The only family that said yes locked the door.
- ~170 min
- 13326 words
- 13 branch points
- 5 endings
- 42 plays
literary fictionprocedural dramafamily tragedyEast Barlow, Northbridge, seven weeks in summer 2027
adult dramasocial careproceduralfoster carefamily courtinstitutional failuremoral ambiguitycare leaverliterary fictiontragedy
Content notice (10)
- institutional abuse and coercive restraint
- falsification of care records
- failed adoption and family separation
- addiction recovery
- housing insecurity
- fatal house fire
- burns and smoke injury
- a body seen after death
- old missing-person grief
- no sexual content
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What the Interpreter Said
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His sentence lasted eleven seconds. Hers became the record.
- ~180 min
- 12858 words
- 10 branch points
- 5 endings
- 45 plays
literary fictionlegal dramaprocedural tragedyBellweather, April 2026 to January 2027
legal dramaadult dramacourtroom proceduralwrongful convictioninterpretersfamilyinstitutional betrayalmoral ambiguitylanguageliterary fiction
Content notice (8)
- wrongful conviction and imprisonment
- permanent injury and aftermath of workplace violence
- coercive institutions and professional misconduct
- destruction of evidence
- family rupture and language loss
- suicide referenced without depiction
- alcohol referenced
- 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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Ninth Floor
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A building can be empty on every form and still have someone inside.
- ~180 min
- 11604 words
- 12 branch points
- 5 endings
- 44 plays
literary fictionadult dramaprocedural tragedyNorthbridge, England; eleven weeks in autumn 2026
adult dramaliterary fictionhousingproceduralfamily secretsinstitutional failuremoral ambiguityworking classslow burntragedy
Content notice (10)
- housing insecurity and homelessness
- coercive control and confinement recalled
- sexual coercion referenced without depiction
- addiction and pregnancy discussed
- school-place fraud
- institutional pressure and falsified safety records
- death and human remains
- family estrangement
- violence and injury where earned
- all speaking characters are adults
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The White List
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Seventeen numbers. Two false identities. One signature that cannot be taken back.
- ~175 min
- 11311 words
- 16 branch points
- 5 endings
- 38 plays
literary fictionprocedural tragedyadult dramaCalder Vale, 8-9 October 2026
adult dramaproceduralrural tragedyveterinary medicinemoral ambiguityworkplace dramafarmingbetrayalinstitutional pressureliterary fiction
Content notice (7)
- animal death and livestock disease control
- graphic aftermath without instructional killing detail
- professional coercion and false certification
- financial distress and loss of a family farm
- betrayal by a trusted colleague
- alcohol use and grief
- no explicit sex; all characters are adults
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A white stake is an argument. A signature lets people walk.
- ~150 min
- 15159 words
- 18 branch points
- 5 endings
- 138 plays
literary fictionadult dramaprocedural tragedypost-war political dramathe Kestrel Valley in the fictional Republic of Drenava, 1-14 October 2026, eleven years after the armistice
adult dramaproceduralhumanitarian deminingpost-warworkplacemoral injuryinstitutional pressuresmall communitydisabilityslow burnmoral ambiguityliterary fiction
Content notice (10)
- landmines and explosive remnants of war
- a demining accident
- graphic traumatic injury and amputation
- blood and medical aftermath
- wartime detention and disappearance discussed
- institutional pressure and workplace investigation
- hearing loss and disability
- grief and survivor guilt
- no instructional ordnance detail
- no slurs written out
She certifies what the works can do. The sale decides what those words mean.
- ~180 min
- 12392 words
- 9 branch points
- 5 endings
- 128 plays
literary fictionindustrial dramapolitical dramaVeyra, Republic of Orsava, January to October 1997
adult dramaindustrial dramapolitical fictionworkplaceprivatisationlabourmoral ambiguitypost-socialistslow burneconomic coercionliterary fiction
Content notice (8)
- economic coercion and wage theft
- unemployment and threatened poverty
- political and corporate corruption
- labour conflict and strikebreaking
- a nonfatal industrial crush injury
- alcohol and tobacco use
- sexual content implied, cuts away
- class prejudice and xenophobia shown through behaviour; no slurs written out
The state mark is hers. So are the eleven cases attached to it.
- ~180 min
- 12613 words
- 14 branch points
- 5 endings
- 130 plays
literary fictionworkplace dramaprocedural thrillerromanceBellwether, Harrow County, five days in July 2027
adult dramaproceduralindustrialfood safetysmall townworkplacemoral ambiguityslow burnclassimmigrationlabourliterary fiction
Content notice (11)
- industrial animal slaughter and carcass inspection
- foodborne illness and hospitalisation
- repetitive-strain injury and disability
- worker compensation
- employer-tied visas and immigration enforcement
- identity-document scrutiny
- mass layoff and plant closure
- poverty and institutional pressure
- alcohol use
- sexual content implied, cuts away
- bigotry shown through behaviour and consequence; no slurs written out
One signature closes the road. One weak layer outlasts every good result.
- ~160 min
- 11348 words
- 13 branch points
- 5 endings
- 117 plays
literary fictionworkplace dramaprocedural tragedyCalder and Ardent Ridge, one winter from November 2026 to April 2027
adult dramaavalancheski resortsmall townworkplace tragedyproceduralcoroner's inquestmoral ambiguityclassinstitutional pressurewinterliterary fiction
Content notice (8)
- avalanche burial and death
- recovery and attempted resuscitation
- grief and survivor guilt
- public blame and workplace pressure
- economic precarity and threatened homes
- professional explosive avalanche control discussed non-instructionally
- alcohol use
- sexual intimacy implied; cuts away
A perfect joint can carry a lie.
- ~190 min
- 9147 words
- 18 branch points
- 5 endings
- 126 plays
literary fictionmaritime dramaprocedural thrillerromancethe Mediterranean, six weeks in May and June 2027
adult dramamaritimeproceduralsubmarine cablesinfrastructurecorporate cover-upmoral ambiguityworkplace dramaslow burnislandsecond chanceliterary fiction
Content notice (10)
- infrastructure failure and communications deprivation
- medical jeopardy
- a death from delayed emergency care, recalled
- corporate negligence and coercion
- evidence concealment and professional misconduct
- dangerous maritime work and a hand injury
- storm peril
- alcohol use
- sexual content implied, cuts away
- bigotry shown through behaviour and consequence; no slurs written out
Every ruling is defensible. Together they choose a member of parliament.
- ~200 min
- 31412 words
- 14 branch points
- 7 endings
- 128 plays
literary fictionpolitical dramaromanceprocedural tragedythe Division of Carrigan Bight, four days of September, present day
political dramaadult dramaproceduralelectoral fraudsmall townestranged siblingssecond chance romanceinstitutional rotslow burnmoral ambiguityclassliterary 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
Two origins. Twelve dead. One paragraph with a nineteen-year-old's name in it.
- ~180 min
- 11438 words
- 28 branch points
- 5 endings
- 117 plays
literary fictionprocedural dramaromancelegal dramaMadrone County, Caldera; October and November 2026
adult dramawildfireproceduralmoral ambiguitycorporate negligenceinsurancecriminal investigationslow burn romancesmall towninstitutional pressureliterary fictionmultiple endings
Content notice (10)
- fatal wildfire and burned homes
- graphic post-fire remains
- grief and survivor guilt
- insurance non-renewal and threatened homelessness
- corporate and government negligence
- criminal jeopardy for a nineteen-year-old adult
- alcohol use
- sexual intimacy implied, cuts away
- violence discussed without instructional detail
- bigotry shown only through behaviour and consequence; no slurs written out
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