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The best Game Development alternative to Quest is Inky by Inkle, which is both free and Open Source. If that doesn't suit you, our users have ranked more than 25 alternatives to Quest and 18 are Game Development Tools so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting Game Development Tool alternatives to Quest are Ink by Inkle, QuestJS, Dedalus and Chronicler.

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  1. Inky by Inkle icon
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    Inky by Inkle

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

    47 Inky by Inkle alternatives
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    License model

    • Free • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux

    Inky by Inkle Features

    1.  Works Offline
    2.  No registration required
    3.  Ad-free
    4.  Support for scripting
    5.  Interactive storytelling
    6.  Visual Novel
    7.  Unity Integration
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  2. Ink by Inkle icon
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    Ink by Inkle

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

    48 Ink by Inkle alternatives
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    License model

    • Free • Open Source

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    v1.0 (2021)

    Ink by Inkle Features

    1.  Ad-free
    2.  No registration required
    3.  Support for scripting
    4.  Works Offline
    5.  Unity Integration
    6.  Visual Novel
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  4. QuestJS icon
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    QuestJS

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    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.

    45 QuestJS alternatives
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    License model

    • Free • Open Source

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    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Mac
    • Linux

    QuestJS Features

    1.  Single player
    2.  No registration required
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    Dedalus

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    Dedalus is an authoring system for generating Choose Your Own Adventure (CYOA) narrative. It is similar to other creation tools like Twine, Undum or Varytale.

    24 Dedalus alternatives
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    License model

    • Free • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Self-Hosted

    Dedalus Features

    1.  No registration required
    Discontinued

    Multiple links within the Readme are 404'd, including the example game's page and the starter pack download. Also, the GitHub hasn't been updated since 2019.

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    • Dedalus is the most popular Self-Hosted alternative to Quest.

    • Dedalus is Free and Open SourceQuest is also Free and Open Source
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    Chronicler

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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).

    16 Chronicler alternatives
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    License model

    • Free • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Wine

    Chronicler Features

    1.  Tree view
    2.  Visual-thinking
    3.  Planner
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  7. Moiki icon
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    Moiki

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    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.

    25 Moiki alternatives
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    License model

    • Free • Proprietary

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Android
    • iPhone
    • iPad
    • Online
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    Moiki Features

    1.  No Coding Required
    2.  Single player
    3.  Ad-free
    4.  Export to HTML
    5.  Interactive storytelling
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    • Moiki is the most popular Android, iPhone & iPad alternative to Quest.

    • Moiki is Free and ProprietaryQuest is Free and Open Source
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    Yarn Spinner

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    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.

    44 Yarn Spinner alternatives
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    License model

    • Free • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
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    ADRIFT

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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...

    18 ADRIFT alternatives
    ADRIFT Developer

    License model

    • Free • Proprietary

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Online
    ADRIFT Runner
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    ifSpace

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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.

    25 ifSpace alternatives
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    License model

    • Free • Open Source

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Online
    • Self-Hosted
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    ifSpace Features

    1.  Dark Mode
    2.  Works Offline
    3.  Single player
    4.  No Coding Required
    5.  Ad-free
    6.  Interactive storytelling
    7.  Mobile friendly
    8.  Interpreter
    9.  Fanfiction
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    Undum

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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.

    24 Undum alternatives
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    License model

    • Free • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Self-Hosted
    https://idmillington.github.io/undum/

    Undum Features

    1.  Works Offline
    2.  Single player
    3.  No registration required
    4.  Ad-free
    5.  Client-side
    6.  Customizable
    7.  Support for HTML5
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    Adventuron

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    Adventuron is a text-adventure authoring tool, used to create games playable on desktop, mobile as well as old computers including Amstrad CPC, Commodore 64, ZX Spectrum. Featuring a web-based code editor with autocompletion and a fast development workflow that lets you play as...

    23 Adventuron alternatives
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    License model

    • Free • Proprietary

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Online
    • Self-Hosted
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    Narrat

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    Narrat is a narrative game engine for text-based games. Game dialogue info is written in files with a similar syntax to Ren'Py (.rpy files). Those files get loaded by the game engine which plays through them.

    24 Narrat alternatives
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    License model

    • Free • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Self-Hosted
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