Playing

On a computer

Open the game and press Play. The game paces itself to your display. A toolbar offers saves, fullscreen, mute and display options. Up next on the library home opens your latest save straight away; mark a story Finished on its page to leave it out.

On a phone

Open Renplay in the phone’s browser and hold the phone sideways. The game fills the screen around the camera cutout. Every screen works with touch only.

iPhone and iPad: add it to the Home Screen

Safari cannot show a web page full screen, but a home-screen app can.

1. Open Renplay in Safari.
2. Tap Share, then Add to Home Screen.
3. Open Renplay from the new icon.

The player explains this itself where a fullscreen button would not work.

Android

Use the fullscreen button in the player.

Serve Renplay over HTTPS so the browser can cache the game and the home-screen app works; see Reverse proxy and HTTPS.

Saves and history

• Saves, autosaves and progress go to your server as you make them. Open the same game on another device and its saves are there.
• They are stored the way desktop Ren’Py stores them.
• Every overwrite and delete keeps the earlier version. RENPLAY_SAVE_HISTORY sets how many versions are kept per save file (20 by default). Look at them in the game’s saves view.
• Uninstalling or reinstalling a game never deletes saves.

Export to desktop Ren’Py, and import from it

Export a game’s saves from its page, or all of them in Settings. Put the files in the desktop game’s save folder and it loads them. The other way works too: import a desktop game’s saves into Renplay.

Walkthroughs and play time

A game can have a walkthrough PDF next to it in the player. Renplay counts the time a game is open and visible, and shows it with your latest save. Time is counted from the moment you upgraded to a version that counts it.