Twine Alternatives

Twine is described as 'Open-source tool for telling interactive, nonlinear stories' and is a popular app in the development category. There are more than 50 alternatives to Twine for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Linux, Mac, Web-based and Self-Hosted apps. The best Twine alternative is Ren'Py, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Twine are Dream Novel, Inky by Inkle, Ink by Inkle and Tuesday JS.

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  1. 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)

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    • Self-Hosted
     
  2. Chronicler icon
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    Chronicler is an open source desktop application which allows users to create CYOA/MCG (choose your own adventure/multiple choice games) interactive fiction using a GUI not dissimilar to Twine (i.e. in the style of a flow chart).

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Wine
     
  3. Monogatari icon
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    Monogatari is a simple web visual novel engine, created to bring Visual Novels to the web.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  4. 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)

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    • Self-Hosted
     
  5. textadventures.co.uk is a community of interactive fiction game makers and players.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

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    • Online
     
  6. ifSpace icon
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    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.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

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    • Windows
    • Online
    • Self-Hosted
     
  7. Jawa icon
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    JAWA is an online tool which makes it possible to create, free, easily and quickly, point'n'click type investigation / adventure games, playable directly in the browser or in the form of mobile apps (smartphones & tablets).

    27 Jawa alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free Personal
    • Proprietary

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    • Online
     
  8. TilBuci icon
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    TilBuci is a free, open source tool to create interactive content. From a visual web interface, you can gather your media, texts, and all content in the form of interactive "movies" that can be exported as websites, embedded via iframes, made available as PWA apps or...

    23 TilBuci alternatives

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    • Online
    • Linux
    • Windows
    • Mac
     
  9. Amulet icon
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    Amulet is a free Lua-based audio/visual toolkit suitable for small games and experimentation. It runs on Windows, Mac, Linux, HTML5 and iOS.

    78 Amulet alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Mac
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    • Linux
     
  10. A free visual novel creation tool — perfect for commercial use. Easily publish your game across all platforms, including PC, web browsers, smartphones (iPhone & Android), and tablets.

    20 TyranoStudio alternatives

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    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

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    • Windows
    • Mac
     
  11. 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)

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    • Self-Hosted
     
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