Any good family tree software that works for this game?

[Vaelrisian]

The fact that deceased tribe members get erased from the in-game family tree once all their kits are dead bugs me, so I'm trying to make a full family tree with smartart in Word, but every time I add a new creature the positions of my creatures' screenshots gets all screwed up. Also, the pictures and text keep getting smaller and smaller to the point you can't even tell what they look like unless you zoom in over 250%, and then they get all blurry anyways.

So, does anyone know a free genealogy software that lets you make fictional family trees rather than ones with your real family, with infinite space? Unless the devs revamp the family tree system to work like Crusader Kings 2, creating a family tree in some external program is the only way to keep track of the entire tribe's history and relationships.

[The Moth]

https://steamcommunity.com/app/440650/discussions/1/2479690531140333555/

Cheers! :D

[lark.backwardswalk]

Depending on what exactly you're looking for, there are several free options out there!

Family Echo is a popular online browser based option commonly used by Simmers and the like. The whole thing is based around the visual presentation with a tiered system not unlike what's already in the game. It supports portraits for your "people", a section for notes which can be displayed underneath their names on the tree, and you can also make your trees public if you like!

Gramps is an offline open-source application with an incredible amount of detail. I've been using it extensively for a writing project involving a very complicated family tree and it handles it well! Not only can you have multiple pictures per person, but it also has a whole timeline feature for adding lifetime events too, if that's of any interest to you. The only real downside is there still aren't a lot of good options for visual displays of your tree, it's just variations on the standard fan chart, so Niche families might not display well.

Ahnenblatt is another offline application that shows its in-development nature a bit more than the others--which can get interesting because the help files haven't been translated into English yet. This one has an interesting learning curve because of how the families are structured (actually, now that I think about it, it's very similar to how trees in Crusader Kings II work...) and adding people is weird, so it's unlike most geneology software I've played with before.

All of them should import/export GEDcom files, so theoretically they're cross-compatible, although I haven't had the greatest luck. Although I can tell you that Ahnenblatt likes importing CKII trees better than Gramps does.

[Jojo]

I've been using Family Echo for ages but you can't have parent- child incest relationships so you have to make a new character with the same name and stuff for that but that usually isn't a good idea anyway so apart from that it is fine :D

Gramps sounds really useful. Definitely gonna try it :D

[Vaelrisian]

I'll have to give some of these a try when I get back to playing Niche (I'm a bit addicted to Project Hospital right now). Thank you for the suggestions!

[sea_goon]

try nuclino. Its an idea mapping app for project work, but it would be ideal for this. You could create parent and child nodes with extra info written inside, and you can drag the nodes about wherever you want them. Ive just started the game, and i might give this a go myself! seems a shame to lose the family tree....thats one of the things I loved about the original Creatures game

[KittHaven]

I recently got back into playing Niche and have written an in-depth guide on here for how to use the MyHeritage Family Tree Builder for keeping a Niche family tree. Including how to export the tree using a graph into an image or a PDF. I love how the finished product looks on my example haha.

https://sta.sh/0111jz51gwrm