Ren'Py

The Ren'Py Visual Novel Engine is a free software engine which facilitates the creation of Visual Novels, a form of computer-mediated storytelling. Ren'Py is a portmanteau of ren'ai (恋愛), the Japanese word for 'love', a common element of Visual Novel - genre for which Ren'Py is made; and Python, the programming language that Ren'Py runs on. Ren'Py has proved attractive to English-language hobbyists; over 1000 games use the Ren'Py engine, nearly all in English. See that large, categorized and tagged list on Ren'Py site.

Repositories for some Linux distributions (at least Debian and Ubuntu) offer ready to install RenPy with everything the engine needs (including fonts), as well as a few games for it.

Tropes used in Ren'Py include:

• Game Maker

Games using Ren'Py include: created by Ren'Py include:

• From Christine Love
  • Digital: A Love Story
  • Don't take it personally, babe, it just ain't your story
  • Analogue: A Hate Story
  • Hate Plus
• From Hanako Games
  • Black Closet
  • Date Warp
  • Long Live the Queen
  • Magical Diary: Horse Hall
  • The Royal Trap
  • Sword Daughter
• Doki Doki Literature Club!
• Everlasting Summer
• Jisei and its sequels
• Juniper's Knot
• Katawa Shoujo
• Loren the Amazon Princess
• Magical Boutique - Simulation Game from Chibi Goddess.
• The Question a small example game from LSF Team (also provided by Canonic Ubuntu repository).
• Seduce Me The Otome
• Sepia Tears ~midwinter's reprise~
• Sunrider: Mask of Arcadius
• That Cheap and Sacred Thing from carosene (also provided by PlayDeb repository).