I’m using a game maker called Clickteam Fusion 2.5.
I wouldn’t really recommend it for creating text games, though. At its core, it’s a game engine for making platformers. I initially bought it on a sale, to make puzzle games, but then when I got the idea to start working on a text adventure, I used Clickteam Fusion because I already had it, because I was already familiar with it, and because I can port it on Android, Windows, HTML5 and iOS without too much effort. (although I can’t really properly port it for iOS since I don’t have a MAC and I’m not yet very inclined to pay their ridiculous 100$ per year fees).
So far I haven’t really run into any problems I couldn’t fix, so I shouldn’t have any trouble finishing the game with this software, but it’s definitely not the optimum way to do it.