# F.A.Q.

## Is it free?

Yes

## Can I use it commercially?

Yes, you can use it for commercial and non-commercial games completely free!

## Is it really a game engine?

**Short Answer**: For common purposes, sure, you can think of Monogatari as a **visual novel engine**

**Technical Answer**: Monogatari is a **web development framework** created to build modern websites that just happen to be games, it lacks quite a lot of elements to be considered a real game engine as it is only using an already available platform: **your browser**.

## Who develops Monogatari?

A lot of awesome people help developing Monogatari, you can view the whole list here: <https://monogatari.io/contributors>