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The Ren'Py Visual Novel Engine
There have been more than 120 games made with Ren'Py.
The best way to see Ren'Py in action is to download some of them.
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Songs of Araiah uses a custom text window and click-to-continue indicator.

Ori, Ochi, Onoe. shows how completely the look of Ren'Py can be customized.
Ren'Py is a free and cross-platform engine that helps you use words, pictures, and sounds to tell stories with the computer. Its easy and efficient script language makes it possible for non-programmers to make visual novels, while its Python support allows for complicated simulation games.
Download Ren'Py
- Ren'Py 6.8.1 "Heroic Hexameter" is the latest stable version, released on December 1, 2008.
- Older versions are also available.
- New releases are announced on our twitter feed, which can be subscribed to in several ways.
Documentation & Code
- The Quickstart Manual shows how to make a simple game, and is the best place to start.
- Tutorials are aimed at teaching everyone how to make games.
- Cookbook recipes provide boilerplate code for common tasks.
- Frameworks help experienced programmers make more complex games.
- Translations of the Ren'Py interface exist for several languages.
- The Reference Manual is an authoritative (if complex) manual describing Ren'Py.
The documentation is always a work in progress, so feel free to help improve it. (Once logged in, anyone can edit it.)
Support
- The Lemma Soft Forums are the focal point of the English-language visual novel making community. Please post Ren'Py questions into the Ren'Py section.
- Our IRC channel is #renpy on irc.freenode.net.
- Contact us privately if you have questions that are inappropriate for a public forum.
Although not Ren'Py-specific, the OELVN Community Wiki is a good place to start when looking for resources (character art, background art, music, fonts, etc.) to use in your game.
