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The Cartographer's Sleeper
No cover art yet
The new route only appears on the maps of people who have stopped planning to leave.
- ~35 min
- 3985 words
- 4 branch points
- 3 endings
- 87 plays
adult fantasyworkplace dramaromancefolk mysteryThe autumn of 1964, in the invented border March of Ordale
adult fantasycartographyborderlandsworkplace dramaromanceconsentpublic recordsmoral ambiguitybranchingsecond chance
Content notice (10)
- adult-only confirmation
- career displacement
- fear of permanence
- family obligation
- coercive licensing rules
- adult relationship tension
- implied intimacy cuts away
- no explicit sexual content
- no nudity
- no real-person likeness
· art review pending · audio review pending
The Tunnel of Borrowed Light
No cover art yet
The tunnel stays bright only while the dark belongs to someone else.
- ~35 min
- 4268 words
- 4 branch points
- 3 endings
- 91 plays
adult fantasyworkplace dramaromancefolk mysteryThe winter of 1981, in the invented coastal road tunnel district of Ander Senn
adult fantasyroad tunnelworkplace dramaromanceconsentdebtpublic recordslabor exploitationmoral ambiguitybranchingsecond chance
Content notice (10)
- adult-only confirmation
- coercive bargains
- grief
- labor exploitation
- surveillance through surrendered shadows
- adult relationship tension
- implied intimacy cuts away
- no explicit sexual content
- no nudity
- no real-person likeness
· art review pending · audio review pending
The Clockmaker's Platform
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Every clock in the terminal agrees. None of them is honest.
- ~32 min
- 2924 words
- 4 branch points
- 3 endings
- 90 plays
adult fantasyworkplace dramaromancecivic mysteryThe autumn timetable change of 1979, in the invented rail city of Tolbury
adult fantasycivic infrastructurerailway stationworkplace dramaromanceconsentevidencepublic recordsmoral ambiguitybranchingsecond chance
Content notice (10)
- adult-only confirmation
- coerced departures and legal pressure
- institutional surveillance of commuters
- relationship mistrust and a deliberate lie
- tense adult romance
- implied intimacy cuts away
- no explicit sexual content
- no nudity
- no minors
- no real-person likeness or voice
· art review pending · audio review pending
The Nightwatch Locomotive
No cover art yet
Aid first, record after, and nothing promised that was not asked for.
- ~35 min
- 3165 words
- 4 branch points
- 3 endings
- 91 plays
adult fantasyworkplace dramaromancefolk mysteryThe winter of 1981, on the fictional Cairn line in the invented mountain district of Sarrow Vale
adult fantasymountain railwayworkplace dramaromanceconsentmutual aidpublic recordsmoral ambiguitybranchingsecond chance
Content notice (9)
- adult-only confirmation
- injury aftermath without graphic detail
- grief
- emergency scarcity
- adult relationship tension
- implied intimacy cuts away
- no explicit sexual content
- no nudity
- no real-person likeness
· art review pending · audio review pending
The Copper Warning
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The message is in her own hand, and it is dated eleven days from tonight.
- ~35 min
- 2976 words
- 4 branch points
- 3 endings
- 46 plays
adult contemporaryworkplace dramaromancelight speculative mysteryThe autumn rains of 1961, in the invented industrial river city of Ansel Water
adult contemporaryindustrial cityworkplace dramaromanceconsentfatepublic recordsmoral ambiguitybranchingsecond chance
Content notice (10)
- adult-only confirmation
- accident threat, implied not depicted
- workplace blame
- institutional cover-up
- fate imagery
- adult relationship tension
- implied intimacy cuts away
- no explicit sexual content
- no nudity
- no real-person likeness
· art review pending · audio review pending
The Glassmaker's Passenger
No cover art yet
The line belongs to the district only when every name in it can say yes.
- ~35 min
- 3446 words
- 4 branch points
- 3 endings
- 51 plays
adult fantasyindustrial dramaromancefolk mysteryThe winter of 1981, in the invented enclosed glassworks district of Annis Furnace
adult fantasyglassworks districtindustrial dramaromanceconsenttestimonycooperative ownershipmoral ambiguitybranchingsecond chance
Content notice (9)
- adult-only confirmation
- industrial exploitation
- coercive surveillance
- workplace injury and entrapment
- adult relationship tension
- implied intimacy cuts away
- no explicit sexual content
- no nudity
- no real-person likeness
· art review pending · audio review pending
The Quarry of Borrowed Names
No cover art yet
The line reopens only when no worker pays with their name.
- ~35 min
- 2510 words
- 4 branch points
- 3 endings
- 56 plays
adult fantasyworkplace dramaromancefolk mysteryThe winter of 1978, in the invented northern quarry district of Veyr
adult fantasywinter railwayworkplace dramaromanceconsentevidencepublic recordsmoral ambiguitybranchingsecond chance
Content notice (9)
- adult-only confirmation
- coercive institutions
- threatened name-transfer
- workplace danger
- adult relationship tension
- implied intimacy cuts away
- no explicit sexual content
- no nudity
- no real-person likeness
· art review pending
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
- 46 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
· art review pending
Somebody would remember. That is the whole of it.
- ~210 min
- 40270 words
- 16 branch points
- 6 endings
- 50 plays
erotic noiradult dramapsychological thrillerliterary fictionCallis, 4 to 15 October 2026
adult dramaerotic noirmurder mysterytheatreconsentjealousyprofessional ruinpolice proceduralliterary fictionmoral ambiguity
Content notice (10)
- murder and a graphic death scene
- blood and a wound to the head
- explicit sexual content between consenting adults
- a director's coercive sexual conduct with cast members
- jealousy and a lie told to protect somebody
- police investigation and interrogation
- professional and criminal accusation
- racism shown as institutional sidelining
- death of a colleague and grief
- the destruction of a career
· art review pending
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
- 62 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
· art review pending
The Second Hut on Chkhutnieri
No cover art yet
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
- 50 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
- 50 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.
The Warm Sheet
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He certifies the entry. The dead are somebody else's department.
- ~180 min
- 11270 words
- 20 branch points
- 5 endings
- 42 plays
literary fictionprocedural tragedyadult dramaVey Port, 7-11 December 2026
adult dramaproceduralliterary fictioncoronermortuaryinstitutional corruptionsiblingsmoral ambiguityfalse identitygriefport cityslow burn
Content notice (9)
- death and mortuary settings
- body misidentification and cremated remains
- domestic abuse and coercive control recalled
- fraud, wage theft and gambling debt
- exploitation of undocumented workers
- family estrangement and grief
- alcohol use
- implied sexual history, cuts away
- bigotry shown through behaviour and consequence; no slurs written out
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The Vault
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The seed is alive. The accession cannot be proved.
- ~170 min
- 11665 words
- 18 branch points
- 5 endings
- 40 plays
literary fictionadult dramaprocedural tragedyGreyfen, four days in October 2026
adult dramaliterary fictionproceduralseed bankfamily betrayalinstitutional pressureclimate anxietymoral ambiguitymother and daughterslow burnworkplace drama
Content notice (8)
- irreversible extinction of biological heritage
- institutional coercion and financial precarity
- professional misconduct and falsified custody records
- family grief, betrayal and estrangement
- alcohol misuse
- off-page destruction of biological material
- no instructional pathology or modification detail
- all characters are adults
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The Placement
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The only family that said yes locked the door.
- ~170 min
- 13326 words
- 13 branch points
- 5 endings
- 41 plays
literary fictionprocedural dramafamily tragedyEast Barlow, Northbridge, seven weeks in summer 2027
adult dramasocial careproceduralfoster carefamily courtinstitutional failuremoral ambiguitycare leaverliterary fictiontragedy
Content notice (10)
- institutional abuse and coercive restraint
- falsification of care records
- failed adoption and family separation
- addiction recovery
- housing insecurity
- fatal house fire
- burns and smoke injury
- a body seen after death
- old missing-person grief
- no sexual content
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What the Interpreter Said
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His sentence lasted eleven seconds. Hers became the record.
- ~180 min
- 12858 words
- 10 branch points
- 5 endings
- 44 plays
literary fictionlegal dramaprocedural tragedyBellweather, April 2026 to January 2027
legal dramaadult dramacourtroom proceduralwrongful convictioninterpretersfamilyinstitutional betrayalmoral ambiguitylanguageliterary fiction
Content notice (8)
- wrongful conviction and imprisonment
- permanent injury and aftermath of workplace violence
- coercive institutions and professional misconduct
- destruction of evidence
- family rupture and language loss
- suicide referenced without depiction
- alcohol referenced
- bigotry shown through behaviour and consequence; no slurs written out
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Ninth Floor
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A building can be empty on every form and still have someone inside.
- ~180 min
- 11604 words
- 12 branch points
- 5 endings
- 43 plays
literary fictionadult dramaprocedural tragedyNorthbridge, England; eleven weeks in autumn 2026
adult dramaliterary fictionhousingproceduralfamily secretsinstitutional failuremoral ambiguityworking classslow burntragedy
Content notice (10)
- housing insecurity and homelessness
- coercive control and confinement recalled
- sexual coercion referenced without depiction
- addiction and pregnancy discussed
- school-place fraud
- institutional pressure and falsified safety records
- death and human remains
- family estrangement
- violence and injury where earned
- all speaking characters are adults
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The White List
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Seventeen numbers. Two false identities. One signature that cannot be taken back.
- ~175 min
- 11311 words
- 16 branch points
- 5 endings
- 37 plays
literary fictionprocedural tragedyadult dramaCalder Vale, 8-9 October 2026
adult dramaproceduralrural tragedyveterinary medicinemoral ambiguityworkplace dramafarmingbetrayalinstitutional pressureliterary fiction
Content notice (7)
- animal death and livestock disease control
- graphic aftermath without instructional killing detail
- professional coercion and false certification
- financial distress and loss of a family farm
- betrayal by a trusted colleague
- alcohol use and grief
- no explicit sex; all characters are adults
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The station needs two engineers. The contract recognizes one woman.
- ~65 min
- 5215 words
- 12 branch points
- 4 endings
- 108 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
Nine workers, one unsigned deed, seventy-two hours before the seal.
- ~65 min
- 6841 words
- 12 branch points
- 4 endings
- 130 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
The fire saint's contract expired. Forty thousand homes did not.
- ~60 min
- 5479 words
- 11 branch points
- 4 endings
- 106 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
A white stake is an argument. A signature lets people walk.
- ~150 min
- 15159 words
- 18 branch points
- 5 endings
- 137 plays
literary fictionadult dramaprocedural tragedypost-war political dramathe Kestrel Valley in the fictional Republic of Drenava, 1-14 October 2026, eleven years after the armistice
adult dramaproceduralhumanitarian deminingpost-warworkplacemoral injuryinstitutional pressuresmall communitydisabilityslow burnmoral ambiguityliterary fiction
Content notice (10)
- landmines and explosive remnants of war
- a demining accident
- graphic traumatic injury and amputation
- blood and medical aftermath
- wartime detention and disappearance discussed
- institutional pressure and workplace investigation
- hearing loss and disability
- grief and survivor guilt
- no instructional ordnance detail
- no slurs written out
She certifies what the works can do. The sale decides what those words mean.
- ~180 min
- 12392 words
- 9 branch points
- 5 endings
- 127 plays
literary fictionindustrial dramapolitical dramaVeyra, Republic of Orsava, January to October 1997
adult dramaindustrial dramapolitical fictionworkplaceprivatisationlabourmoral ambiguitypost-socialistslow burneconomic coercionliterary fiction
Content notice (8)
- economic coercion and wage theft
- unemployment and threatened poverty
- political and corporate corruption
- labour conflict and strikebreaking
- a nonfatal industrial crush injury
- alcohol and tobacco use
- sexual content implied, cuts away
- class prejudice and xenophobia shown through behaviour; no slurs written out
The state mark is hers. So are the eleven cases attached to it.
- ~180 min
- 12613 words
- 14 branch points
- 5 endings
- 129 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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