Inky by Inkle Alternatives

Apps similar to Inky by Inkle include Ren'Py, which is free and open source. Other options are Twine, Drafft, Capsule VN Engine and TilBuci. Game Development Tools like Inky by Inkle are a crowded field, with more than 50 alternatives for Windows, Linux, Mac, the web and self-hosting.

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  1. ADRIFT icon
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    ADRIFT Developer is a Windows application that allows you to create complex interactive fiction games quickly and easily. It allows you to concentrate on the story by making everything else easy, such as having all options available in dropdown lists, rather than you having to...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Online
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  2. 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
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  3. Dialogue Designer is a powerful (but easy to use) branching dialogue editor designed for story-driven games like RPGs and Visual Novels. Create complex non-linear data structures in minutes, no programming experience required!

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
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  4. textadventures.co.uk is a community of interactive fiction game makers and players.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Online
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  5. Spatterlight icon
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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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  6. 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
    • GB flagUnited Kingdom
    Undum screenshot 1
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  7.  1 like

    A minimal text adventure engine.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Online
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  8. 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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    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
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  9. Chat Mapper icon
     3 likes

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

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

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    Platforms

    • Windows
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  10. Playfic icon
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    Playfic is a platform for writing and playing interactive fiction. Interactive fiction (aka "text adventures") is a genre of game that uses no graphics or sound, but instead, uses text to tell a story in an interactive world.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Online
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  11. Reebyte icon
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    Reebyte is a multi-platform standalone editor tool for visual novel creator and other creative interactive projects. Powerful and easy to use, where we are focused on people who doesn't have programming experience and want to create their own professional visual novel or...

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

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    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Steam
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  12. Quest icon
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    Build text adventure games, role-playing games, training materials, simulations, and interactive fiction without having to program.

    27 Quest alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Online
    • GB flagUnited Kingdom
    v5.8
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