Top 15 Interactive Fiction Archive Alternative and Similar Softwares | Dec 2024

The contents of the IF Archive -- including thousands of text adventures, text adventure development tools, articles, essays, hint files, walkthroughs, jokes, and sly references to Greek politics -- are contributed by the interactive fiction community, past and present.

1. Twine

Twine Twine is an open-source tool for telling interactive, nonlinear stories.You don't need to write any code to create a simple story with Twine, but you can extend your stories with variables, conditional logic, images, CSS, and JavaScript when you're ready.Twine publishes directly to HTML, so you can post your work......

2. Bound

Bound Experience prose fiction on mobile from top authors via short episodes with in-depth companion material and integrated community features.We’ll resist the urge to make the big pitch and just share that we’re taking everything we’ve learned from games and applying it to prose fiction. We’ve designed a new user experience......

3. Spatterlight

Spatterlight 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).Spatterlight also supports the Treaty of Babel standard for cataloguing bibliographic information about interactive fiction.The Spatterlight application is released under......

4. Playfic

Playfic 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.Writing GamesWriting Playfic games may look like English, but it can be confusing.......

5. Squiffy

Squiffy 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.......

6. TADS

TADS TADS 3 is a robust, modern programming environment specially designed for creating Interactive Fiction.......

7. Outline 4D

Outline 4D Outline 4D is an outlining and writing program that lets you brainstorm, create, structure and organize your ideas. In addition to a traditional vertical single-pane outline format, Outline 4D has a horizontal timeline format that is an alternative to index cards, blocks, and traditional outlining systems. The Tracking Feature allows......

8. Penana

Penana Penana is the social publication platform exclusively designed for young and aspiring writers who have thousands of ideas to convey through fictional stories in both serial and collaborative formats.In this app, we have included the core features from our Penana web platform ( www.penana.com ) to provide a seamless on-the-go......

9. Unlimited Fiction

Unlimited Fiction Unlimited Fiction is where writers get paid for posting their writing. Based on WordPress, this site offers writers a chance to get feedback while writing their stories and get paid while doing so. We also allow writers to post their poetry to the site. Please visit the site to learn......

10. Figment

Figment Figment is a community where you can share your writing, connect with other readers, and discover new stories and authors. Whatever you're into, from sonnets to mysteries, from sci-fi stories to cell phone novels, you can find it all here.......

11. Wordcradle

Wordcradle Wordcradle is a free online writing software. It provides a place to privately store your stories, organize chapters, set writing deadlines, create characters, store research and plan out your novels. It also provides you with incentives to finish your stories and meet your writing deadlines by giving you the option......

12. Poop Fiction

Poop Fiction We pick the perfect story for your bathroom break - the only paper you need is on the roll.......

13. Dripread

Dripread dripread (v) To break up the reading of information into bitesize installments.Love reading but don't seem to get time to finish a book?. Dripread converts your book into a daily digest that you can read by email.Dripread is free and simple to use:Choose a book or upload your own.Subscribe for......

14. FictionPress

FictionPress FictionPress provides an easy-to-use interface for authors to publish stories and for users to easily read them online.......

15. Unlimited Fan Fiction

Unlimited Fan Fiction Unlimited Fan Fiction is the archive that is run without any ads. It is free to register and submit stories, and to comment on news articles. You can review each chapter of a story, and submit a rating of it as well.......