Gargoyle IF Player Alternatives

Gargoyle IF Player is described as 'Gargoyle is an IF player that supports all the major interactive fiction formats' and is an app. There are seven alternatives to Gargoyle IF Player for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Mac, Linux, Android and Electron apps. The best Gargoyle IF Player alternative is Windows Frotz, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Gargoyle IF Player are Text Fiction, Spatterlight, Lectrote and Windows Git.

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  1. Windows Frotz is an interpreter that can play all the old Infocom text adventures. Infocom used a novel approach to write their games: they had a system that produced a data file for the adventure that was the same on every computer, and an interpreter for every computer that...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  2. Text Fiction icon
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    With interactive fiction novels you're more than just a passive book reader, following the adventures of the hero. Instead, you become the hero! Explore the world, make decissions and ultimately decide on the outcome.

    Cost / License

    Platforms

    • Android
     
  3. Spatterlight icon
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    Spatterlight is a native Cocoa application plays most kinds of interactive fiction game files: AGT, Adrift, AdvSys, Alan, Glulx, Hugo, Level 9, Magnetic Scrolls, TADS (text-only), Quill, and Z-code (except v6).

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
     
  4. Lectrote icon
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    A portable Interactive Fiction games interpreter application.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Electron / Atom Shell
     
  5. Windows Git is an interpreter for Glulx games. Windows Git consists of a core interpreter called Git, and an input/output library, called Windows Glk. Together these two components form the Windows Git package, which has been created by David Kinder.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  6. dMagnetic icon
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    "You wake up on a sunny August morning with birds singing, and the air fresh and clear. However, your joints are stiff and you have not woken up in your bedroom as you would have expected. Trying to recall what happened the night before, you manage to piece together a few...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Online
    • FreeBSD
    • AmigaOS
    • NetBSD
    • OpenBSD
     
  7. Create and play interactive fiction on your Android phone or tablet. Also known as text adventures, interactive books, playable novels, z-machine, glulx, tads, terps.

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    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Android
     
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