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Name	Categories	Pricing	Perspective	Scripting Language	Source Access	Description
RPG Maker MZ	Retro JRPGs	Trial, Paid	2D	Event Scripting, JavaScript	Closed	Introducing RPG Maker MZ, the latest version from the RPG Maker series that allows anyone to make an RPG with ease! Thanks to new functions and improved operations, on top of accessing an enhanced creative environment and more powerful production elements, you can make a game that really answers what players want.
Ren'py	Visual Novel	Free	2D	Custom Scripting, Python	Open	Ren'Py is a visual novel engine – used by thousands of creators from around the world – that helps you use words, images, and sounds to tell interactive stories that run on computers and mobile devices.
Visual Novel Maker	Visual Novel	Trial, Paid	2D	Event Scripting, JavaScript	Closed	Visual Novel Maker: a revolutionary new tool for Visual Novel Creation aimed towards aspiring artists and writers to bring their stories to life.
Solarus	Zelda-like Action RPGs	Free	2D	C++, Lua	Open	A lightweight, free and open-source game engine for Action-RPGs.
ZDoom	Boomer Shooter	Free	3D	C++	Open	ZDoom is a family of enhanced ports of the Doom engine for running on modern operating systems. It runs on Windows, Linux, and OS X, and adds new features not found in the games as originally published by id Software.
id Tech	Boomer Shooter	Free	3D	C , C++	Open	id Software has 18 repositories available. Follow their code on GitHub.
Recoil	Real Time Strategy	Free	3D	Lua	Open	Recoil is a battle tested open-source RTS engine that, allied with a flexible Lua API, allows you to implement the perfect UI and mechanics for your game with the ability to support thousands of complex units simultaneously. Fork of Spring RTS Engine.
Spring	Real Time Strategy	Free	3D	Lua	Open	Spring is a versatile 3D RTS game engine. Using extensively Lua for scripting game-specific code to make nearly every aspect of the engine customizable, from GUI, to unit AI, to pathfinding.
M.U.G.E.N	Fighting Game	Free	2D	Custom Scripting	Closed	M.U.G.E.N is a 2D fighting game engine with many customizable components. (Latest version is 1.1 Beta)
Pixel Game Maker MV	Action Platformer, Top-down Action	Trial, Paid	2D	Event Scripting	Closed	Use Pixel Game Maker MV to make your own 2D action games! The latest Maker title provides a simple, fun way to make games with zero coding!
Visionaire Studio	Point & Click Adventure	Paid	2D	Lua	Closed	Visionaire Studio is a powerful multi-platform game engine specifically designed for the creation of 2D and 2.5D point & click adventure games. It allows virtually everyone to develop games, as no coding is required. The only limitation is your imagination!
Adventure Games Studio	Point & Click Adventure	Free	2D	JavaScript	Open	Adventure Game Studio (AGS) provides the tools to make your own point & click adventure, for free! Bring your story and artwork and slot it in, and let AGS do the rest.
Wintermute Engine	Point & Click Adventure	Free, Paid	2D, 3D	JavaScript	Open	Wintermute Engine Development Kit is a set of tools for creating and running graphical “point&click” adventure games, both traditional 2D ones and modern 2.5D games (3D characters on 2D backgrounds).
StoryStylus	Point & Click Adventure	Trial, Subscription	Text	JavaScript	Closed	StoryStylus is software designed for storytellers to create, publish & play interactive story games for web, & mobile. Let's create Story Worlds together! Point & Click.
Twine	Interactive Stories	Free	Text	Event Scripting	Open	Twine is an open-source tool for telling interactive, nonlinear stories.
inklewriter	Interactive Stories	Free	Text	Event Scripting	Open	inklewriter is a tool for writing interactive stories.
Inform 7	Interactive Stories	Free	Text	Custom Scripting	Open	Inform is a free app for creating works of interactive fiction, available for MacOS, Windows, Linux and Android.
Quest	Interactive Stories, Text Adventures	Free	Text	Event Scripting, Custom Scripting	Closed	Quest lets you make interactive story games. Text adventure games like Zork and The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. Gamebooks like the Choose Your Own Adventure and Fighting Fantasy books.
Squiffy	Interactive Stories	Free	Text	JavaScript	Closed	Squiffy is a tool for creating interactive fiction - that is, multiple choice games that focus on text and story. Players navigate through the game or story by clicking links. Sometimes these kinds of games or stories are known as gamebooks.
Adrift	Text Adventures	Free	Text	Event Scripting, Custom Scripting	Closed	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 spend a lot of time just trying to figure out how to code the game.
TADS	Text Adventures	Free	Text	Custom Scripting	Closed	TADS is a free authoring system for writing your own Interactive Fiction. It offers a complete set of programming tools for creating high-quality text adventures.
ADLENGINE	Text Adventures	Free	Text	JavaScript	Closed	A homage to Text Adventures and Multi-User Dungeons of old... The Adliberum Engine allows you to create text adventures, muds and text-powered roleplaying games. Complete with world editing commands; create worlds, games and puzzles that you can share or play with others all in real-time.
Edventrure Builder	Interactive Stories	Free	Text	Event Scripting	Closed	A simple platform to create your own scavenger hunt, interactive story, or choose your own adventure mobile game
Adventure Cow Storylab	Interactive Stories	Free	Text	Event Scripting	Closed	Adventure Cow is a site for making interactive stories.
PuzzleScript	Top-down Puzzles	Free	2D	Custom Scripting	Open	PuzzleScript is an open-source HTML5 puzzle game engine.
ChoiceScript	Interactive Writing	Free	Text	Custom Scripting	Open	ChoiceScript is a simple programming language for writing multiple-choice games (MCGs) like Choice of the Dragon. Writing games with ChoiceScript is easy and fun, even for authors with no programming experience. Requires Node.js

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