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


gist-txt is described as 'A minimal text adventure engine' and is a game development tool in the news & books category. There are more than 10 alternatives to gist-txt, not only websites but also apps for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Linux, Mac and Self-Hosted apps. The best gist-txt alternative is Twine, which is both free and Open Source. Other great sites and apps similar to gist-txt 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.

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.

