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The station needs two engineers. The contract recognizes one woman.
- ~65 min
- 5215 words
- 12 branch points
- 4 endings
- 40 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
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Nine workers, one unsigned deed, seventy-two hours before the seal.
- ~65 min
- 6841 words
- 12 branch points
- 4 endings
- 45 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
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The fire saint's contract expired. Forty thousand homes did not.
- ~60 min
- 5479 words
- 11 branch points
- 4 endings
- 37 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
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Seven dead workers have valid bookings. Checkout is at eight.
- ~55 min
- 6450 words
- 10 branch points
- 4 endings
- 45 plays
spookyfolk horroradult dramaromancemysteryVeyr, an invented coastal city, 17-18 February 2027
spookyghost storyadult dramahaunted hotelworkplacequeer romancegriefinstitutional cover-upwinterbranching
Content notice (8)
- death in an industrial accident
- ghosts and supernatural cold
- institutional cover-up
- grief and family guilt
- medical distress from cold
- adult relationship tension
- sex implied and cuts away
- no slurs written out
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The mountain takes the body. The book decides whether it ever lived.
- ~188 min
- 31721 words
- 12 branch points
- 6 endings
- 43 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
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The fish belongs to a dead man. The hunger belongs to everyone.
- ~190 min
- 29053 words
- 12 branch points
- 7 endings
- 49 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
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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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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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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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