The Floating City

The Floating City is a 130,000-word climate fiction novel by Felicity Banks, set in a future shaped by climate change. Your choices control the story as you explore the drowned city of Old Sydney, the underground New Sydney and your own floating city, while deciding what career to pursue. The game is entirely text-based, with no graphics or sound effects.

Choose your future

You can follow your parents’ path and run the city’s shark farm, or choose another career. Build your reputation to improve your career prospects, trade with other cities and form useful connections. You can play as male, female or non-binary, and as gay, straight or asexual and/or aromantic. You can develop a romance with a male or female friend, or choose neither.

Uncover the danger

Your friend Kassandra is risking her life to discover why the sharks are afraid, and you are the only person she listens to. Learn more about shark behavior and investigate the mystery behind it. You must decide whether to risk Kassandra’s life to try to save others, or urge her to give up her dreams; you can save thousands of lives or abandon them to increase your own profits.