ifSpace Alternatives

ifSpace is described as 'An interactive Fiction Space Engine and application for creating and playing Interactive Fiction games (e.g.: Colossal Cave, Zork, Choose your path books) with no coding required' and is a game development tool in the games category. There are more than 25 games similar to ifSpace for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Linux, Web-based, Self-Hosted and Mac apps. The best ifSpace alternative is Twine, which is both free and Open Source. Other ifSpace like games are IFDB.org, Inky by Inkle, Ink by Inkle and QuestJS.

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  1. Squiffy icon
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    Squiffy is a tool for creating multiple choice interactive fiction. It's written entirely in JavaScript - the compiler uses Node.js and the games it generates run in a web browser so it can run on any system with a modern browser.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Self-Hosted
     
  2. Undum icon
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    Remember those Choose Your Own Adventure, or Fighting Fantasy books? Where you got to choose what your character does next? Well if you think of that in a web-page you have hypertext interactive fiction, or HIF.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Self-Hosted
     
  3.  2 likes

    A minimal text adventure engine.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Online
     
  4. Quest icon
     4 likes

    Build text adventure games, role-playing games, training materials, simulations, and interactive fiction without having to program.

    26 Quest alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Online
     
  5. Raconteur icon
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    Raconteur makes writing interactive hypertext fiction with Undum straightforward and perhaps even fun. It's a wrapper library that bundles oft-needed functionality and a new, cleaner, CoffeeScript-friendly, DSL-inspired API for...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Self-Hosted
     
  6. Cross-platform tool for creating visual novels and interactive stories.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium (Pay once)
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Online
     
  7. InquisitorIF icon
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    Inquisitor is an engine for browser and multiplatform Interactive Fiction works. It bares similarities to Twine while facilitating creation of worlds with locations and items.

    Cost / License

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Self-Hosted
     
  8. ADLENGINE icon
     1 like

    Adliberum Engine is a multiplayer compatible role-playing text adventure engine. Complete with real-time world-building commands; craft text powered games and scenarios alone or with others. Complete with world editing commands; create worlds, games and puzzles that you can...

    Cost / License

    • Free Personal
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Steam
     
  9. Ficdown icon
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    Ficdown is a set of standards using the Markdown formatting syntax that can be used to create choice-based interactive fiction. Formatting of text is done using standard Markdown, with a few Markdown elements taking on additional story-defining properties (for example, level-two...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Self-Hosted
     
  10. Adventuron icon
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    Adventuron is a text-adventure authoring tool, used to create games playable on desktop, mobile as well as old computers including Amstrad CPC, Commodore 64, ZX Spectrum. Featuring a web-based code editor with autocompletion and a fast development workflow that lets you play as...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Online
    • Self-Hosted
     
  11. Squeaker icon
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    Squeaker is a non-linear multi-language dialogue tree editor. Squeaker makes it easy to focus on composing and editing a game's script while keeping it all organized.

    Cost / License

    • Pay once
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
     
    • Squeaker is the most popular commercial alternative to ifSpace.

    • Squeaker is Paid and ProprietaryifSpace is Free and Open Source
  12. Narrat icon
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    Narrat is a narrative game engine for text-based games. Game dialogue info is written in files with a similar syntax to Ren'Py (.rpy files). Those files get loaded by the game engine which plays through them.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Self-Hosted
     
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