Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source (GPL-3.0)
Platforms
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
- Online


Chronicler is described as '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)' and is a game development tool in the development category. There are more than 10 alternatives to Chronicler for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Linux, Web-based, Self-Hosted and Mac apps. The best Chronicler alternative is Twine, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Chronicler are Inky by Inkle, Ink by Inkle, QuestJS and Dedalus.


editor that uses the Ink narrative scripting language and allows you to play and test your interactive (game) narrative stories on the fly.

ink is a scripting language built around the idea of marking up pure-text with flow in order to produce interactive scripts.


Quest 6 is a full re-write of Quest, an interactive fiction app, to pure JavaScript. It's a framework for creating parser-based text adventures.




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.




Moiki is a web-based platform that facilitates the creation, sharing, and exporting of interactive stories. The stories can be played on a range of devices including computers, mobiles, and tablets. Moiki provides a dynamic and immersive format for an engaging user experience.




Yarn Spinner is a tool for creating interactive dialogue for games. Write your conversations in Yarn, a simple programming language that's designed to be easy for writers to learn, while also powerful enough to handle whatever you need.

ChoiceScript is a simple programming language for writing multiple-choice games (MCGs) like Choice of the Dragon. Writing games with ChoiceScript is easy and fun, even for authors with no programming experience.
StoryNexus: The choice is yours. StoryNexus gives you free access to hundreds of interactive worlds, from science fiction to romance, from gothic fantasy to historical adventure.

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.


a tool for writing & testing nonlinear dialogue, especially for video games, and a full featured visual editor for managing game storylines.



