The Clockwork Prize

Created and Curated by Ken Holm

Budapest, 1896. The whole city is celebrating a thousand years, and the great Millennium Exhibition is about to open in the park. You are the newest apprentice to Ferenc Halmos, a famous clockmaker whose shop is going under, and whose last great machine, a brass figure that can draw, is not finished. There is a prize. There are rivals. And there is one investor who is offering far too much money.

historical adventureNewLong read

~197–199 pages · 20 chapters · 3 endings · 3.1M paths

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