Netwrck

Visual Novels on Netwrck

Choose a world. Change what happens.

branching novels. Play instantly.

Find a story Open editor Quickstart

Play freeSave locallyFork and rewrite

Find your next story

Browse by mood, setting or length, then start reading instantly.

What is in the library

Netwrck library novels are complete, playable scripts at different stages of production: all 64 library novels have generated cover art; 57 novels play licensed music credited in the build and the other 7 are silent. Fork one and the art, music and voice tools in the editor fill in the rest. Author-published novels carry whatever their author gave them, and each card states its own art, audio and content notice below.

Filtered to tag famine. Clear filters

Sorted by newest first.

Settle in for a long read

Ranked by listed or estimated play time — the authored figure where a listing gives one, otherwise word count at 220 words per minute. Not paid placement, and not a popularity ranking.

Cover art for The Rain Tithe

The Rain Tithe

Every green field has a drought with a name.

~195 min
37183 words
14 branch points
7 endings
47 plays

literary fantasy political drama romance tragedy Sarranth highlands and Beruz, 318 Basin Reckoning; second-world canal age

second world climate fantasy adult drama water politics love triangle class war institutional rot family betrayal famine slow burn tragedy

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

listing.json listing · licensed music

Play Details

Cover art for The Price of Rice

The Price of Rice

The famine has an account. Her name is at the bottom.

~190 min
33127 words
11 branch points
7 endings
43 plays

historical literary drama romance political tragedy Murshidabad and Kasimbazar, Bengal, February–September 1770

bengal historical drama famine colonialism bisexual protagonist love triangle economic crime weaving institutional rot tragedy slow burn moral 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

listing.json listing · licensed music

Play Details

Cover art for The Ice Saints

The Ice Saints

One field chest, no laudanum since January, and four hundred names by July.

~95 min
16727 words
5 branch points
5 endings
39 plays

historical war drama romance tragedy Great Northern War, Ukraine, winter 1708 to July 1709

18th century great northern war military surgery historical love triangle queer romance occupation famine winter tragedy

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

listing.json listing · no audio

Play Details

Cover art for The Cinnabar Ledger

The Cinnabar Ledger

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

historical mystery thriller romance tragedy Northern Song China, Kaifeng, winter 1126 to spring 1127

song dynasty historical mystery siege forensics love triangle betrayal famine political thriller tragedy women'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

listing.json listing · licensed music

Play Details