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What are the best visual novel engines?

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5 Options Considered

Best visual novel engines	Price	Platforms	Languages
-- Visual Novel Maker	$59.99	Windows, Linux, Mac, Web, Mobile	CoffeeScript, JavaScript
-- TyranoBuilder	$14.99	-	-
-- Godot	-	Windows, Linux, Mac, Android	-
-- Ren'Py	-	Windows, Linux, Mac, iOS, Android	Python, Cython
-- CloudNovel	Free / Paid	-	-

Ren'Py

Top Con

Not for every genre

While technically capable of creating 2D games in any genre, Ren'Py excels in creating visual novels and has a reasonable feature set for creating puzzle and point-and-click games. Other genres are best tackled by other engines. See More

Top Pro

Reasonably good at creating puzzle and point-and-click games

Specs

Platforms:Windows, Linux, Mac, iOS, Android

Languages:Python, Cython

Top Con

Requires knowledge of Python to use

Top Pro

Cross-platform

Available on Windows, Linux, OSX, iOS, and Android. See More

Top Con

No web support

Ren'py games cannot be played in most standard browsers. See More

Top Pro

Active and friendly community

You can find a large and active Ren'Py community answering questions and posting tutorials on the Lemma Soft Forums. See More

Top Pro

Very little coding knowledge is required

You only need to know the basics of Python in order to use this engine. See More

CloudNovel

Top Con

Makes you pay to download your game files

They make you pay for a distributable file of your own work that is pretty limited and can be a nuisance to convert for android/iOS without paying again. See More

MellowCamazotz's Experience

Details on-site are poorly explained until AFTER you sign up, which is dodgy. The engine itself is pretty standard but you can do everything this does in RPG Maker, which is often on sale at $10 and doesn't make you pay every time you want to create a distribution file. See More

HarmoniousBaalHammon's Experience

My account on the site got deleted, never got a reason why. I was even paying for the service See More

GregariousMaximon's Experience

it easy to use. See More

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