Arcweave is a collaborative authoring platform for designing, playtesting, and publishing games, training scenarios, and branching narratives. Its node-based editor maps story flows and uses reusable character, location, and item components. Authors can run a project as a choice-based game, debug its logic, and share playable links that work on any device. Teams can edit at the same time, exchange comments and replies, and assign roles and permissions. AI tools include a text generator, design assistant, and text enhancer. Free plugins connect to Unity, Unreal, and Godot, with real-time sync and localization support listed for each. Projects can be exported as JSON, CSV, XLSX, Markdown, or PDF. The REST API offers read and write access to project content on Team workspaces. The free Basic plan is limited to three projects with up to 200 items each and excludes commercial use. Paid plans start at $15 per member per month with annual billing.
Who it is for
Arcweave suits writers and teams building branching stories, games, or training scenarios, particularly those who need collaborative editing or game-engine plugins. Its Basic plan is for non-commercial projects within its project and item limits.
What is good
- Visual node-based story editor with reusable components
- Playable links work on any device
- Free plugins for Unity, Unreal, and Godot
- Multiple project export formats
- AI text generation and editing tools
What to know first
- Basic plan excludes commercial projects
- Basic plan allows only three projects
- Basic projects are limited to 200 items each
- Paid plans start at $15 per member monthly, billed annually
Verdict
Arcweave brings narrative design, playtesting, collaboration, and publishing tools into one platform. Check the Basic plan’s non-commercial restriction and project limits before choosing it.
Arcweave plans and pricing
All plansCompared on game narrative design software
- Free plan
- Yes
- Paid from
- $15/mo
- Branching dialogue
- Yes
- Quest design
- Yes
- Authoring model
- node-based
- Game engine support
- Unity, Unreal Engine, Godot Engine
- Localization workflow
- Yes
- Version history
- Yes
