Design Immersive Visual Novels & Story Worlds. Without Code.
Create rich branching stories with interactive room hotspots, visual node graphs, character databases, and seamless 1-click publishing to Windows, Mac, Linux, and Web.
Watch a Game Get Built from Start to Finish
A quick 60-second timelapse showing the full RagNext workflow — setting up rooms, designing interactive hotspot screens, connecting branching logic, and publishing a standalone game.
Craft Any Game You Can Imagine
These fantasy RPG scenes are just one example of what you can assemble. Whether you're building a cyberpunk detective mystery, a cozy slice-of-life visual novel, a sci-fi space thriller, or a tactical dungeon crawler — RagNext gives you the modular building blocks to craft anything.
Village & Room Navigation
Design custom stat HUDs, room-based inventories, compass navigation, and immersive narrative text logs with rich markdown styling.
Interactive Battle System
Use interactive hotspots and visual variable scripting to construct turn-based battles, dice-roll checks, dialogue confrontations, and health tracking.
Spells, Runes & Inventories
Turn your custom illustrations into interactive backpacks, inspectable puzzle objects, spell cards, clue boards, and alchemy stations.
Turn Any Artwork into a Living, Clickable World
RagNext's Interactive Screen Editor gives you unprecedented freedom. Build custom RPG combat sheets, point-and-click escape rooms, puzzle interfaces, and interactive dialogue screens with live coordinate previews.
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Comprehensive Studio Tools for Storytellers
Organize assets, manage character relationships, and generate lore descriptions — with optional AI co-author assistance available in RagNext AI Pro (BYOK supported).
Character Database & Lore
Track character stats, gender, starting rooms, and hostility states. In RagNext AI Pro, click ✨ Compose Description to generate rich backstories with AI assistance using your own API key or local model (OpenAI, Gemini, OpenRouter, Ollama, LM Studio).
Hierarchical Media Catalog
Organize images, BGM music tracks, sound effects, and video clips into custom folders with instant previews and one-click import/export.
Choose the Perfect Edition for Your Studio
Start building for free with our Community Evaluation edition, purchase a permanent Steam license, or lock in our early access discount for AI Pro.
Free Evaluation
Free forever for testing and game jams
- Up to 10 Rooms & 5 Characters
- Interactive Visual Action Graph
- Export standalone game on Host OS
- ✕Cross-platform export locked
- ✕AI Writing Tools locked
RagNext on Steam
One-time purchase, lifetime updates on Steam!
- Unlimited Rooms & Characters
- Visual Action Graph & Hotspots
- All Export Platforms (Win/Mac/Linux/Web)
- Steam Cloud saves & auto-updates
- ✕No GenAI features (Steam compliant)
💡 Available now on Steam Early Access
RagNext AI Pro
🔥 Limited-time launch sale to celebrate Beta 3 & Steam Early Access!
- Unlimited Rooms & Characters
- All Export Platforms (Win/Mac/Linux/Web)
- ✨ AI Dialogue Rewriting & Polish
- ✨ AI Node Graph Logic Assistant
- 14-Day Offline Grace Lease
- 💡 BYOK: Use your Gemini (free tier), OpenAI, Anthropic, or local Ollama key.
Ready to Bring Your Visual Story to Life?
Download RagNext Studio today for Windows, Mac, or Linux and start building your interactive novel in minutes.