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The station needs two engineers. The contract recognizes one woman.
- ~65 min
- 5215 words
- 12 branch points
- 4 endings
- 40 plays
dark science fictionadult dramaworkplace thrillerromanceSevern Repair Station in orbit around the fictional gas giant Ananke, June 2168
dark science fictionspace stationadult dramaidentitylabourqueer romancecloningworkplacebranchingmoral ambiguity
Content notice (9)
- duplicate identity and threatened decommissioning
- bodily autonomy
- industrial space accident
- sleep deprivation
- workplace coercion
- adult relationship tension
- sex implied and cuts away
- no instructional reactor detail
- no slurs written out
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Nine workers, one unsigned deed, seventy-two hours before the seal.
- ~65 min
- 6841 words
- 12 branch points
- 4 endings
- 45 plays
adult dramaworkplace dramaromancelegal dramaLydon, an invented port city, May 2027
adult dramasex workworker cooperativequeer romancepropertyprivacyworkplacebranchingmoral ambiguitysecond chance
Content notice (9)
- legal adult sex work discussed
- economic precarity
- licensing pressure
- client privacy
- death and inheritance
- adult relationship tension
- sex implied and cuts away
- no sexual acts depicted
- no slurs written out
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The fire saint's contract expired. Forty thousand homes did not.
- ~60 min
- 5479 words
- 11 branch points
- 4 endings
- 37 plays
literary fantasyadult dramapolitical dramaromanceAnselm, an invented second-world river city, winter 2027
fantasyadult dramamunicipal fantasylabourqueer romancewinterfire saintpoliticsbranchingmoral ambiguity
Content notice (8)
- coerced magical labour
- cold exposure and threatened deaths
- class inequality
- institutional deception
- strike conflict
- adult relationship tension
- sex implied and cuts away
- no slurs written out
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Seven dead workers have valid bookings. Checkout is at eight.
- ~55 min
- 6450 words
- 10 branch points
- 4 endings
- 45 plays
spookyfolk horroradult dramaromancemysteryVeyr, an invented coastal city, 17-18 February 2027
spookyghost storyadult dramahaunted hotelworkplacequeer romancegriefinstitutional cover-upwinterbranching
Content notice (8)
- death in an industrial accident
- ghosts and supernatural cold
- institutional cover-up
- grief and family guilt
- medical distress from cold
- adult relationship tension
- sex implied and cuts away
- no slurs written out
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Two origins. Twelve dead. One paragraph with a nineteen-year-old's name in it.
- ~180 min
- 9850 words
- 28 branch points
- 5 endings
- 48 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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The state mark is hers. So are the eleven cases attached to it.
- ~180 min
- 12613 words
- 14 branch points
- 5 endings
- 50 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
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A perfect joint can carry a lie.
- ~190 min
- 9147 words
- 18 branch points
- 5 endings
- 54 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
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Every ruling is defensible. Together they choose a member of parliament.
- ~200 min
- 31412 words
- 14 branch points
- 7 endings
- 51 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
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They only get paid if the ocean is dead.
- ~195 min
- 31875 words
- 17 branch points
- 7 endings
- 48 plays
literary science fictionromancesurvival dramapolitical tragedyEuropa, Jovian system, October-November 2117
hard science fictionEuropaadult dramaplanetary protectiondebt bondagescience fraudlove triangleworkplace tragedyinstitutional rotslow burnsurvivalfirst 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
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The dead took their jobs. Nobody asked the dead.
- ~198 min
- 33941 words
- 14 branch points
- 7 endings
- 45 plays
industrial fantasypolitical dramaromancetragedyKesselgrad, Republic of Veyra, Smeltmonth 219 After Concord
industrial fantasyadult dramalabour strugglenecromantic industrylove trianglestrikeinstitutional rotgriefbody politicsslow burnworking classtragedy
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
- 47 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
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Every promise leaves a mark. Hers was hidden for twenty years.
- ~190 min
- 32025 words
- 13 branch points
- 7 endings
- 43 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
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The ground remembers every year they removed.
- ~195 min
- 32861 words
- 12 branch points
- 7 endings
- 52 plays
literary dramaromanceclimate fictionpolitical tragedySvalbard, October 2026–May 2027
svalbardcontemporary dramaresearch fraudclimate fictionbisexual protagonistlove trianglecoal towntreaty lawinstitutional rotslow burntragedyarctic
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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In Naples, every ruined house is worth something to the wrong person.
- ~190 min
- 36467 words
- 14 branch points
- 7 endings
- 43 plays
historicalcrimeromancepolitical dramatragedyNaples, February to July 1982
naples1980shistorical dramacrimepolitical corruptionadult romancelove trianglefamily betrayalearthquake aftermathinstitutional rotslow burntragedy
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
- 42 plays
historicalliterary dramaromancecrimetragedyVan Diemen's Land, August–December 1832
van diemens landhistorical dramaconvict assignmentbisexual protagonistlove trianglepenal labourinstitutional rotbushrangingcolonialismslow burnbetrayalliterary 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
- 43 plays
historicalliterary dramaromancepolitical tragedyMurshidabad and Kasimbazar, Bengal, February–September 1770
bengalhistorical dramafaminecolonialismbisexual protagonistlove triangleeconomic crimeweavinginstitutional rottragedyslow burnmoral 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 mountain takes the body. The book decides whether it ever lived.
- ~188 min
- 31721 words
- 12 branch points
- 6 endings
- 43 plays
historicaldramaromancetragedypoliticalPotosí, Upper Peru, August–November 1585
historical dramacolonial AndesPotosíforced labourqueer romancelove triangleinstitutional corruptionminingtragedyadult protagonistmoral compromiseslow 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
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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
- 49 plays
historicalromancedramapolitical thrillertragedyBergen, Norway, summer to Michaelmas 1427
historical dramamedieval NorwayHanseatic Leagueadult romancelove triangleeconomic intriguepiratesslow burnqueer romanceinstitutional rottragedystockfish
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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An army can conquer a market. First it has to count it.
- ~188 min
- 29686 words
- 13 branch points
- 7 endings
- 44 plays
historicalpolitical dramaromancetragedyTlatelolco and Tenochtitlan, 1473 CE
mexicatlatelolcohistorical dramaadult romancelove trianglemerchant spiesmarket lawwartributeslow burninstitutional tragedypolitical 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
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Rome eats because somebody signs for the missing grain.
- ~190 min
- 29117 words
- 15 branch points
- 7 endings
- 39 plays
historicaldramaromancecrimepolitical thrillertragedyOstia and Portus, Roman Italy, spring to autumn 62 CE
ancient romehistorical dramapolitical thrillerbisexual protagonistlove trianglefreedwomanport cityinstitutional corruptionslow burnclasscrimetragedy
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
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Forty thousand kilometres, three minutes of arithmetic, four seconds of shooting.
- ~95 min
- 12929 words
- 5 branch points
- 5 endings
- 34 plays
science fictionwardramaromancetragedyNear future, 2103, cislunar space
hard science fictionmilitaryspace combatnear futurelove trianglequeer romancewar crimesmoral compromisetragedyorbital mechanics
Content notice (7)
- graphic combat death, vacuum and burn injury
- mass civilian death threatened and depicted at distance
- war crimes and their legal justification
- sexual content implied, cuts away
- PTSD, insomnia, stimulant use
- suicide
- court martial and imprisonment
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Every word she carries for the dead costs her a memory of them.
- ~90 min
- 14586 words
- 5 branch points
- 5 endings
- 31 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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Eleven cabarets in four blocks, and one of them reopens.
- ~90 min
- 13175 words
- 5 branch points
- 5 endings
- 41 plays
historicaldramamusicromancetragedyArgentina, Buenos Aires, 1917
1910sbuenos airestangomusichistoricallove trianglequeer romanceclasspatronagetragedy
Content notice (7)
- knife violence, graphic
- sex work and coercion in the cabaret trade
- sexual content implied, cuts away
- queer relationship under legal and social threat
- police corruption
- poverty and debt
- grief
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The animal comes to the voice. Then it knows the voice forever.
- ~100 min
- 14352 words
- 5 branch points
- 5 endings
- 35 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
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