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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
- 86 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
- 96 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
You can only learn a technique from someone trying to kill you with it.
- ~100 min
- 23021 words
- 6 branch points
- 5 endings
- 82 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
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
- 93 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
She wrote the letters. Someone else got the woman.
- ~95 min
- 18739 words
- 6 branch points
- 5 endings
- 79 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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Four Quarters at Bellwether
No cover art yet
One bout left in a rink that is being sold, and nine thousand dollars with a name on it.
- ~76 min
- 27842 words
- 6 branch points
- 5 endings
- 39 plays
sports dramedyadult contemporarycontact sportensemble dramaworking-class fictionContemporary
roller derbycontact sportconsentchronic paininjuryrent arrearssponsorshipcommunity sportworking adultsteam tacticschronic injuryneighbourhood lossa Zamboni named Bernicefour quarterstext onlyno minors
Content notice (4)
- Adults only; all eight named characters are 26 or older and no minor appears anywhere in the story.
- Concussion and brain injury referenced once through an adult who is not present; never depicted.
- Financial distress: rent arrears, a building sale, a sponsorship's price, a debt and a refund.
- No sexual content. No violence outside the sport. No death in the story.
The Previous Sheet
No cover art yet
One driving test, forty minutes, a bald tyre, and a remark in pencil that says the fault is not where the cross is.
- ~52 min
- 18369 words
- 6 branch points
- 7 endings
- 48 plays
procedural dramaadult contemporaryroadworkplacecharacter studyContemporary, one Saturday in early November, from six forty-four to about eight.
driving testsecond attemptmarksheetrecords officereasons boxadult contemporaryprocedural dramaworkfamilyone morningtext only
Content notice (3)
- Adults only. Everyone named is 26 or older. No minor appears in any role, memory, photograph, joke, or future reference.
- Institutional themes: what a record is for, who reads it, and the difference between a measurement and a description.
- No sexual content, no violence, no substance use, no flashing light, no strobe, no image, no music and no voice.
36-the-silver-bath
No cover art yet
- ~80 min
- 17663 words
- 11 branch points (script estimate)
- 5 endings (script estimate)
- 65 plays
Content notice (0)
· audio review pending · play time estimated from word count
35-the-ice-saints
No cover art yet
- ~76 min
- 16727 words
- 11 branch points (script estimate)
- 5 endings (script estimate)
- 76 plays
Content notice (0)
· audio review pending · play time estimated from word count
Hold the gate. Share the price. Ring the first bell at moonset.
- ~36 min
- 8063 words
- 9 branch points
- 2 endings
- 39 plays
dark fantasyromancedemon-slayingOne dusk to moonset in an ash-valley village
mageswitchesdemonslove trianglegriefsacrifice
Content notice (4)
- stylized fantasy combat and injury
- grief and terminal illness
- consensual adult romance, fade-to-black
- coercive demonic bargains
· audio review pending
The Ninth Minute
No cover art yet
Everyone gets nine minutes after death. The city sells them by the second.
- ~20 min
- 4416 words
- 16 branch points
- 5 endings
- 49 plays
speculative noirinteractive dramaromanceNear future Vesper City, one rainy night until dawn
grief noirnear futurememory marketcorporate thrillersibling lossethical horrorslow-burn romanceurban fantasy
Content notice (5)
- bereavement and death
- corporate exploitation of the dead
- emotional manipulation
- references to a fatal transit accident
- non-graphic peril
Night goes on strike at dawn.
- ~20 min
- 4392 words
- 8 branch points
- 4 endings
- 114 plays
surreal comedyspeculative fictionworkplace dramaA city rooftop, 2:13 a.m. until dawn
surreal comedyweird fictionlabormoonwitch accountantghost satellitenight shiftspeculative romance
Content notice (4)
- workplace coercion
- threatened ecological disruption
- insomnia references
- surreal astronomical peril
· audio review pending
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
A Thousand Kites Above Nacre
No cover art yet
A kitewright and her estranged navigator must stop a treaty that would turn one island's homes into another fleet's altitude.
- ~150 min
- 19120 words
- 15 branch points
- 5 endings
- 46 plays
romantic fantasyskyship adventurepolitical fantasyrelationship dramathirty-six hours before the crossing dawn
skyshipsliving kitesromanceestrangementcivic fantasyenvironmental politicsmultiple endings
Content notice (8)
- adult fantasy romance
- estrangement
- relationship strain
- political coercion
- displacement
- high-altitude peril
- storm injury
- consensual intimacy and fade-to-black
· art review pending · audio review pending
The Blackout Conservatory
No cover art yet
The city calls their dreams weather until the weather starts asking for names.
- ~32 min
- 4862 words
- 4 branch points
- 3 endings
- 53 plays
adult fantasycivic science fictionpolitical dramaromanceThe eclipse winter of 2187, in the invented glass city of Serein
adult fantasyeclipse cityglass conservatorydream infrastructureclimatemoral ambiguityromanceconsentpublic recordsbranching
Content notice (10)
- adult-only confirmation
- involuntary use of dreams and private memory
- coercive civic infrastructure
- public power-allocation pressure
- tense adult romance
- implied intimacy cuts away
- no explicit sexual content
- no nudity
- no minors
- no real-person likeness or voice
· art review pending
The Nine Courts of Mercury
No cover art yet
At the opening ceremony, the citywide mirror shows Prince-Archivist Oren Vale, 34, accepting a crown he never claimed.
- ~190 min
- 18806 words
- 10 branch points
- 5 endings
- 39 plays
adult political fantasymemory mysterycourt intriguerelationship storythree nights from the wet-season Mirror Trial to dawn at the Mercury Ring
tidal citynine courtsglass architecturetreaty interpretermemory alterationsuccession politicspublic truthadult relationshipsfade-to-black intimacymultiple endings
Content notice (6)
- adult political fantasy and memory mystery
- coercive authority and institutional secrecy
- memory alteration and manipulated public history
- succession politics, grief, and civic harm
- difficult choices about public truth
- consensual adult intimacy and fade-to-black treatment
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