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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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Four thousand three hundred glass negatives, and every sleeve in her own handwriting.
- ~90 min
- 17663 words
- 5 branch points
- 5 endings
- 28 plays
historicaldramaromancepolitical thrillertragedyOttoman Constantinople, Pera, 1896
ottoman empire1890sphotographyhistoricallove trianglequeer romancecensorshipsurveillancearchivetragedy
Content notice (7)
- ethnic persecution and mass violence (reported, one scene depicted at distance)
- state surveillance and arrests
- torture referenced
- sexual content implied, cuts away
- chemical hazard and one injury
- grief
- destruction of records
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One field chest, no laudanum since January, and four hundred names by July.
- ~95 min
- 16727 words
- 5 branch points
- 5 endings
- 39 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
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Nine weeks of harvest, eleven hectares, and a winemaker who cannot smell her own cellar.
- ~90 min
- 18358 words
- 5 branch points
- 5 endings
- 32 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
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The striker throws it. The drummer pays for it.
- ~105 min
- 18444 words
- 6 branch points
- 5 endings
- 36 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
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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
- 35 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
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Everything you can do, you owe. Someone else is paying it.
- ~105 min
- 22266 words
- 6 branch points
- 5 endings
- 34 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
- 36 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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Eleven musicians, one biscuit tin, and fourteen minutes about the cement ships.
- ~90 min
- 16555 words
- 5 branch points
- 5 endings
- 34 plays
historicaldramamusicromancepolitical thrillerNigeria, Lagos, February to December 1976
1970slagosnigeriamusicpolitical thrillerlove trianglequeer romancecoupbetrayalafrobeat
Content notice (8)
- state violence, detention and executions
- political persecution and censorship
- sexual content implied, cuts away
- queer relationship under legal threat
- alcohol and cannabis use
- police brutality
- infidelity
- grief
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He translates for the men who might shoot him by mistake.
- ~100 min
- 16447 words
- 5 branch points
- 5 endings
- 35 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
- 33 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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Six hours a night, three currencies, no passport.
- ~100 min
- 16957 words
- 5 branch points
- 5 endings
- 37 plays
historicalnoirromancepolitical thrillertragedyShanghai, International Settlement and French Concession, January to April 1927
1920s shanghaihistoricallove trianglequeer romancegangstersrevolutionstateless refugeebetrayaltragedyjazz age
Content notice (8)
- massacre and political mass killing, graphic
- opium trade and addiction
- sex work and coercion
- sexual content implied, cuts away
- police corruption and surveillance
- racism and colonial hierarchy depicted through behaviour
- torture referenced
- grief and displacement
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Eighty seats, six nights a week, and a file in a policeman's own handwriting.
- ~100 min
- 16688 words
- 5 branch points
- 5 endings
- 33 plays
historicalnoirdramaromancetragedyWeimar Germany, Berlin-Neukölln, winter 1931 to summer 1932
weimarcabaretberlinaddictionpolitical thrillerlove triangle1930snoirtragedyclass struggle
Content notice (8)
- opioid addiction and withdrawal, non-instructional
- street violence and murder, graphic
- political extremism and fascist violence
- police surveillance and betrayal
- sex work referenced
- sexual content implied, cuts away
- suicide
- antisemitic and political persecution depicted through behaviour
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The city has three months of water and four caliphs a year.
- ~95 min
- 20234 words
- 5 branch points
- 5 endings
- 38 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
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You can only learn a technique from someone trying to kill you with it.
- ~100 min
- 23021 words
- 6 branch points
- 5 endings
- 29 plays
actionfantasytragedyromanceSecond-world river city, an industrial-adjacent duelling age
battle shounenswordfightingsecond world fantasyrivalryhard power systemtragedyromanceduellingmentor betrayaltournament
Content notice (7)
- graphic violence and permanent injury
- amputation
- character death including a lover
- alcohol abuse
- sexual content implied, cuts away
- self-destructive behaviour
- grief
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Eleven weeks of poisonings, ninety days of grain, one woman allowed to look at the bodies.
- ~105 min
- 22301 words
- 6 branch points
- 5 endings
- 40 plays
historicalmysterythrillerromancetragedyNorthern Song China, Kaifeng, winter 1126 to spring 1127
song dynastyhistorical mysterysiegeforensicslove trianglebetrayalfaminepolitical thrillertragedywomen's work
Content notice (8)
- detailed autopsy description
- poisoning deaths
- famine, starvation and one implied instance of survival cannibalism (offscreen)
- siege violence, graphic
- sexual content implied, cuts away
- coercive marriage law
- child endangerment (a son's fate, offscreen)
- torture referenced, not depicted
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She wrote the letters. Someone else got the woman.
- ~95 min
- 18739 words
- 6 branch points
- 5 endings
- 30 plays
historicalromancedramatragedyHeian Japan, autumn 1004 CE
heianhistorical romancelove trianglecourt intrigueletterstragedyjoseislow burnclasspoetry
Content notice (7)
- grief
- coerced marriage and concubinage
- class and gender subjugation
- suicide (offscreen, discussed)
- sexual content implied, cuts away
- violence (a beating, an execution ordered)
- infant mortality referenced
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Illegal logging, a forestry co-op, a road that should not exist.
- ~34 min
- 7567 words
- 10 branch points (script estimate)
- 7 endings (script estimate)
- 26 plays
Content notice (8)
- Illegal logging and regulatory fraud
- Economic coercion and family pressure
- Job loss and rural precarity
- Environmental destruction (old-growth clearcut)
- Physical intimidation and implied violence
- Grief over place and livelihood
- Betrayal within family
- Sex cuts away at the door (desire/aftermath only if present; none required)
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Repo work in a county where everyone is behind on something.
- ~31 min
- 6878 words
- 13 branch points (script estimate)
- 6 endings (script estimate)
- 27 plays
Content notice (8)
- Economic desperation and predatory lending
- Community ostracism and reputation violence
- Coercion and workplace pressure
- Grief and family collapse under debt
- Implied domestic strain
- Alcohol misuse
- Physical confrontation / non-instructional violence
- Sex cuts away at the door (desire, aftermath, consequence only)
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Night shift at a suicide-prevention line, told across one year of calls.
- ~19 min
- 4319 words
- 2 branch points (script estimate)
- 1 endings (script estimate)
- 34 plays
Content notice (8)
- Suicide, suicidal ideation, and crisis-line work (non-instructional; no methods detail)
- Grief, isolation, and professional secondary trauma
- Burnout, self-neglect, and reluctance to seek help
- Boundary violations between helper and helped
- Coercion pressure within care systems / performance metrics
- Alcohol as coping
- Sex cuts away at the door
- Resources listed on title screen (local emergency services, IASP, etc.)
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