Windows Frotz Alternatives

Apps similar to Windows Frotz include Text Fiction, which is free and open source. Other options are Gargoyle IF Player, Fabularium, dMagnetic and Lectrote. In total there are six Adventure Games like Windows Frotz for Windows, Linux, Mac, Android and the web.

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  1. Text Fiction icon
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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

    Platforms

    • Android
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  2. Gargoyle is an IF player that supports all the major interactive fiction formats.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
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  3. 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.

    6 Fabularium alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Android
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  4. dMagnetic icon
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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
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  5. Lectrote icon
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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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  6. 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 (MIT)

    Platforms

    • Windows
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