Twine Alternatives

Twine is described as 'Open-source tool for telling interactive, nonlinear stories' and is a popular app in the development category. There are more than 50 alternatives to Twine for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Linux, Mac, Web-based and Self-Hosted apps. The best Twine alternative is Ren'Py, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Twine are Dream Novel, StoryFlow Editor, Inky by Inkle and Tuesday JS.

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  1. Amulet icon
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    Amulet is a free Lua-based audio/visual toolkit suitable for small games and experimentation. It runs on Windows, Mac, Linux, HTML5 and iOS.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  2. A free visual novel creation tool — perfect for commercial use. Easily publish your game across all platforms, including PC, web browsers, smartphones (iPhone & Android), and tablets.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Mac
     
  3. 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)

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Self-Hosted
     
  4. Cross-platform tool for creating visual novels and interactive stories.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Online
     
  5. TADS icon
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    TADS 3 is a robust, modern programming environment specially designed for creating Interactive Fiction.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  6. 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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    It plays games, does not help create them.

    • Playfic is Free and ProprietaryTwine is Free and Open Source
  7. 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...

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    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Online
     
  8. Laiir icon
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    Dive into a world of interactive storytelling like never before! Laiir is an innovative choose your own adventure app fueled by cutting-edge AI, delivering fully crafted stories that are ready to play right out of the box with no prompting or setup required.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • iPhone
    • iPad
    • Android
    • Android Tablet
     
  9. Dedalus icon
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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.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Self-Hosted
     
  10. 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

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  11.  1 like

    A minimal text adventure engine.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Online
     
  12. WebGAL icon
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    A visually appealing, feature-rich, and easy-to-develop new web-based visual novel engine.

    Cost / License

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Mac
    • Linux
     
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