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 icon

    Windows Frotz

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    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...

    6 Windows Frotz alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Windows
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    • Windows Frotz is the most popular Windows alternative to Gargoyle IF Player.

    • Windows Frotz is the most popular Open Source & free alternative to Gargoyle IF Player.

    • Windows Frotz is Free and Open SourceGargoyle IF Player is also Free and Open Source
  2. Text Fiction icon

    Text Fiction

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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

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Android
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    • Text Fiction is the most popular Android alternative to Gargoyle IF Player.

    • Text Fiction is Free and Open SourceGargoyle IF Player is also Free and Open Source
  4. Spatterlight icon

    Spatterlight

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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
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    • Spatterlight is the most popular Mac alternative to Gargoyle IF Player.

    • Spatterlight is Free and Open SourceGargoyle IF Player is also Free and Open Source
  5. Lectrote icon

    Lectrote

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    A portable Interactive Fiction games interpreter application.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Electron / Atom Shell
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    • Lectrote is the most popular Linux alternative to Gargoyle IF Player.

    • Lectrote is Free and Open SourceGargoyle IF Player is also Free and Open Source
  6. Windows Git icon

    Windows Git

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    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

    Platforms

    • Windows
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  7. dMagnetic icon

    dMagnetic

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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
    dMagnetic 0.30, running "The Guild of Thieves" in xterm.
     

    • dMagnetic is the most popular Web-based alternative to Gargoyle IF Player.

    • dMagnetic is Free and Open SourceGargoyle IF Player is also Free and Open Source
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    Fabularium

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    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.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Android
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