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Best Open-Source Game Engines with Editors
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RouteVN
RouteVN Creator is a free, open-source tool that lets anyone, writers, artists, hobbyists to create their own Visual Novels. No coding or technical background required.
  Decker
Decker is a multimedia platform for creating and sharing interactive documents and adventure games with sound, images, hypertext, and scripted behavior
  TilBuci
TilBuci is a free, open source tool to create interactive content, focused on building interactive narratives like visual novels.
 
Ren'Py
A visual novel engine that helps you use words, images, and sounds to tell interactive stories that run on computers and mobile devices
  Inky
Inky is an editor for ink, inkle's markup language for writing interactive narrative in games and exports to HTML5
 
Twine
An open-source tool for telling interactive, nonlinear stories
 
Capsule VN Engine
Capsule VN Engine is a lightweight, no-code game development tool designed for the creation and distribution of 2D visual novels using web technologies.
 
Narrat Engine
Narrat is a beginner-friendly game engine for making narrative games with RPG features, visual novels, interactive fiction, and more
  Luna Visual Novel Engine
Luna is a visual novel engine made using JavaScript.
 
Calico
An interactive fiction engine for web games, powered by Inkle's ink
 
Inform
Inform is a programming language for creating interactive fiction, using natural language syntax
 
Bitsy
A little engine for little games, worlds, and stories
  EngineLol
An experimental web-based Game Engine to create simple interactive fiction
  Flickgame
Flickgame is a game-/story-/thing-making tool. You have sixteen frames, sixteen colors, a few brush sizes, and the means to link together frames via the color menu.
  Tinychoice
Extremely minimalist choice-based text adventure engine