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Pulse of the City
Leonard Sufran
Oct 18, 202536 min
Action

Pulse of the City

When a live node goes missing and an engineer disappears, a former operative drags old debts into a conspiracy that weaponizes the city's infrastructure. She must race networks and men to rescue her brother and stop a manufactured crisis before a reserve node tears the city open.

Steelwake Protocol
Elias Krovic
Sep 27, 202564 min
Action

Steelwake Protocol

A high-octane urban thriller set in a drowned megacity where a salvage diver, a hacker, and a patchwork crew steal back a life-saving regulator from corporate hands. They expose a secret ledger that privatizes air, triggering public fury, legal battles, and a fragile civic victory.

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6.09
Slipstream Over Aqualis
Quinn Marlot
Sep 22, 202539 min
Action

Slipstream Over Aqualis

Jax Arana, a maintenance diver in a floating city, sees a crisis blamed on his friend. With help from a wry elder and a stubborn drone, he takes on security forces and a ruthless director to stop a catastrophic plan. Under rain and roar, he rewrites the city’s song and finds his place where steel meets sea.

64
5.87
Tide of Keys
Tobias Harven
Sep 21, 202535 min
Action

Tide of Keys

In a near-future harbor where corporate grids control life and neighborhoods run on fragile micro-cores, courier Juno Reyes races against corporate security to reclaim a lost flux key. With a salvaged ally and a band of misfits, she must outwit machines, face an uncompromising corporate agent, and restore power to her community.

40
6.57
Steel Pulse
Helena Carroux
Sep 21, 202537 min
Action

Steel Pulse

In a vertical metropolis, courier Aria Vale risks everything to rescue her brother and stop a corporation from weaponizing a mysterious resonance device. Parkour, drones, and a makeshift crew collide in a pulse-chamber showdown that reshapes the city’s fate.

46
5.86
Tidefall
Benedict Marron
Sep 21, 202545 min
Action

Tidefall

In a drowned city where corporations tune the sea like an instrument, salvage pilot Rin Valen uncovers a stolen Tide Anchor that can bend harbors to profit. With a ragtag crew, an old engineer's device, and a risky public reveal, they fight to return control of the tide to the people.

45
6.48
Tidebound
Geraldine Moss
Sep 21, 202534 min
Action

Tidebound

In the flooded tiers of Brinegate, scavenger Rynn Kade fights to rescue her brother from a syndicate that weaponizes the city's tide-control lattice. With a mismatched crew, an old engineer's gift, and a temper for justice, Rynn must expose the private lever that decides who survives the storm.

33
5.94
Gale Engine
Ulrika Vossen
Sep 20, 202540 min
Action

Gale Engine

In a storm-slashed floating city, courier Kade Maren steals back a missing rotor—the Helix's pulse—stolen by corporate hands. Racing across rooftops, barges and maintenance galleries with a ragtag crew and a battered drone, he fights to return the city's heart before it costs his sister her life.

47
6.62
Harbor-9: Tidebreak Run
Quinn Marlot
Sep 19, 202556 min
Action

Harbor-9: Tidebreak Run

In a storm‑lashed port megacity, parkour courier Jae Park stumbles onto a corporate plot to cripple the tidal gate and drown the Lower Harbor. With a retired mechanic, a sharp‑tongued drone pilot, and a magnetic grappling glove left by his missing diver sister, he races across cranes and skybridges to expose the scheme and fight through the Gate Spine.

42
6.05
Skyline Thrust
Corinne Valant
Sep 18, 202538 min
Action

Skyline Thrust

In a vertical city where air is sold by corporations, courier Ari Calder steals herself into a dangerous game: cells that power the Aerostat rings vanish, and neighborhoods suffocate. With a patched crew—an ex-engineer, a salvage captain, a loyal little drone—Ari risks everything to expose the ledger of breath and force the city to breathe on its own terms.

Shadow Circuit
Claudia Nerren
Sep 18, 202545 min
Action

Shadow Circuit

In a neon-struck city where a corporation's algorithms can erase people from records, courier Arin races against time and systems to rescue his sister from forced absence. He joins an underground Circuit, inherits a single-use device, fights Helion's security, and helps build a community ledger to protect names.

Steel Current
Nadia Elvaren
Sep 18, 202546 min
Action

Steel Current

In a flooded near-future city, Lina, a young salvage runner, fights to recover a stolen stabilizer that keeps the lower wards alive. She leads a ragged community resistance against corporate seizure, rebuilds what was broken, and learns that shared repair can defeat commodified power.

Skyline Tides
Mariette Duval
Sep 17, 202539 min
Action

Skyline Tides

In a storm-lashed coastal metropolis, rooftop runner Mai races to deliver an AI patch to the city’s seized desalination plant. With gecko gloves, an amphibious drone, and help from a silver-haired radio tinkerer, she threads canals and catwalks to outmaneuver mercenaries in a high-stakes sprint for water.

Tide of Reckoning
Samuel Grent
Sep 17, 202549 min
Action

Tide of Reckoning

A near-future action novella: Mara, a 22-year-old courier in a coastal megacity, fights Umbra Corp after a stolen package reveals a plan to control the tidal grid. With a ragged crew, a hacked drone, and a salvage captain's help, she exposes the conspiracy, rescues her community, and rebuilds the harbor's future.

33
6.35
Tetherfall
Liora Fennet
Sep 14, 202537 min
Action

Tetherfall

In a flooded neon city tethered to an ancient orbital Spine, salvage-runner Cass Calder finds a stolen shard of the Spire. Hunted by corporate enforcer Marla Voss, Cass must gather a ragged crew, learn to wield a strange device, and protect a secret that could remake the city. An action-driven tale of risk, loyalty, and hard choices.

36
5.77
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