What is Ren'Py? 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. These can be both visual novels and life simulation games.

Each contains the full Ren'Py software development kit, with everything needed to develop Ren'Py games for the Windows, Mac, and Linux platforms; the Ren'Py tutorial; and "The Question", an example game.

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The goal of Ren'Py is to provide tools that enable human creativity in the form of visual novels and similar styles of games. In service of this goal, developers may use tools that increase their efficiency, including tools that use language models.

Ren'Py, known in full as the Ren'Py Visual Novel Engine, is a free and open-source game engine which facilitates the creation of visual novels. It was developed for and targeted at multiple platforms, including Microsoft Windows and Linux.

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What is Ren'Py? 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. These can be both visual novels and life simulation games.

Welcome to Ren'Py's documentation! To find out more about Ren'Py, please visit the Ren'Py home page:

Each contains the full Ren'Py software development kit, with everything needed to develop Ren'Py games for the Windows, Mac, and Linux platforms; the Ren'Py tutorial; and "The Question", an example game.

To get a feel for what Ren'Py is capable of, please play through the Tutorial, and perhaps some of the games featured on the Ren'Py website. You may also want to read the rest of this manual, starting with the GUI Customization Guide.