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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
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Six adults, one free weekend, one working flashlight each, and a chain on the gate that somebody put there from the outside.
- ~600 min
- 111596 words
- 39 branch points
- 5 endings
- 63 plays
slasheradult horrortragedytrue crimeSutter County, California, 12-16 June 2026
adult horrorslashersummer campsurvivor guilttrue crimestalkinglakeexplicittragedymoral ambiguity
Content notice (12)
- all characters are adults, with stated ages
- graphic violence, a massacre, and blood
- a nine-year-old camper killed in 2011 and named as dead
- human remains recovered from a burned cabin in April 2015
- a service weapon discharged inside a house
- explicit sexual content between adults
- consent spoken aloud by both, and one stop honoured
- sex that is written and is never a reward
- a knife
- stalking, restraint, and a woman held still in a reservoir at night
- bigotry shown through behaviour and consequence
- no slurs are written out
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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.
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The court hears only what you say it heard.
- ~165 min
- 27431 words
- 13 branch points
- 7 endings
- 40 plays
literarylegal dramatragedypolitical thrillerContemporary — eleven years after the Vaskaran clearances
courtroominterpreterwar crimeslanguagemoral injurybetrayalbranchingliterary
Content notice (8)
- All characters are adults.
- Mass atrocity, forced displacement and drowning described in survivor testimony
- Institutional coercion; a witness pressured about her own language
- Graphic recollection of injury and corpse recovery, where earned
- Moral injury, complicity and professional ruin
- Alcohol misuse under strain; insomnia
- Desire and an old obligation between unequal parties; sex cuts away at the door
- No instructional detail for weapons or intrusion. 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
- 122 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
Every green field has a drought with a name.
- ~195 min
- 37183 words
- 14 branch points
- 7 endings
- 123 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
In Naples, every ruined house is worth something to the wrong person.
- ~190 min
- 36467 words
- 14 branch points
- 7 endings
- 117 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
Her sentence belongs to the Crown. Her hours belong to a man.
- ~195 min
- 38388 words
- 10 branch points
- 7 endings
- 105 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
The mountain takes the body. The book decides whether it ever lived.
- ~188 min
- 31721 words
- 12 branch points
- 6 endings
- 111 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
The fish belongs to a dead man. The hunger belongs to everyone.
- ~190 min
- 29053 words
- 12 branch points
- 7 endings
- 128 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
An army can conquer a market. First it has to count it.
- ~188 min
- 29686 words
- 13 branch points
- 7 endings
- 109 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
Rome eats because somebody signs for the missing grain.
- ~190 min
- 29117 words
- 15 branch points
- 7 endings
- 98 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
Forty thousand kilometres, three minutes of arithmetic, four seconds of shooting.
- ~95 min
- 12929 words
- 5 branch points
- 5 endings
- 86 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
- 87 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
- 95 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
The animal comes to the voice. Then it knows the voice forever.
- ~100 min
- 14352 words
- 5 branch points
- 5 endings
- 84 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
Nine weeks of harvest, eleven hectares, and a winemaker who cannot smell her own cellar.
- ~90 min
- 18358 words
- 5 branch points
- 5 endings
- 81 plays
dramaromanceliterarytragedyPresent day, one harvest, Marlborough, New Zealand
contemporarynew zealandwinegriefterminal illnesslove trianglequeer romancemulti-povdisabilityfamily business
Content notice (7)
- terminal illness and end-of-life decisions
- assisted dying discussed
- disability and sensory loss
- financial precarity and bank foreclosure
- sexual content implied, cuts away
- alcohol use around a trade that runs on it
- grief and anticipatory grief
The striker throws it. The drummer pays for it.
- ~105 min
- 18444 words
- 6 branch points
- 5 endings
- 96 plays
actionfantasyromancetragedysportSecond-world monsoon delta city
battle shounentournamentsecond world fantasymusicrivalryqueer romancehard power systemterminal illnesstragedyhub structure
Content notice (7)
- graphic fighting violence and lasting injury
- progressive disability and cardiac decline
- assisted death
- exploitation by contract
- sexual content implied, cuts away
- grief
- gambling
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
- 93 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
Everything you can do, you owe. Someone else is paying it.
- ~105 min
- 22266 words
- 6 branch points
- 5 endings
- 89 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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Miss three payments and they don't evict you. They make the station smaller.
- ~95 min
- 14906 words
- 5 branch points
- 5 endings
- 89 plays
science fictiondramaromancetragedythrillerNear future, 2094, cislunar orbital habitat
near futurehard science fictionorbital habitatgriefmarriagelove trianglequeer romancedebtsabotagetragedy
Content notice (7)
- terminal illness and medical decline
- asphyxiation and industrial death, graphic
- suicide
- medical rationing
- sexual content implied, cuts away
- grief and anticipatory grief
- workplace injury caused by the protagonist
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He translates for the men who might shoot him by mistake.
- ~100 min
- 16447 words
- 5 branch points
- 5 endings
- 87 plays
historicalwardramaromancetragedyPacific War, Saipan, June to August 1944
world war twopacific theatrehistoricalmilitarylove trianglequeer romancemoral compromisetranslationtragedyjapanese american
Content notice (8)
- graphic combat violence and burn injuries
- mass civilian death including suicide (depicted at a distance, not instructional)
- racism against Japanese Americans, internment
- prisoner interrogation
- sexual content implied, cuts away
- suicide
- PTSD, dissociation
- alcohol use
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Sixty-one children, forty adults on Thursdays, and a building she does not own.
- ~95 min
- 19236 words
- 5 branch points
- 5 endings
- 101 plays
historicaldramaromancepolitical thrillertragedyReconstruction-era Louisiana, spring to autumn 1873
reconstructionamerican southhistoricalqueer romancelove trianglepolitical violenceeducation1870stragedyvoting rights
Content notice (8)
- racist mass violence and massacre, graphic
- lynching referenced
- slavery aftermath and its ongoing coercion
- sexual content implied, cuts away
- queer relationship under lethal social threat
- child endangerment
- arson
- grief
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