And if stuff like unity or even rpg maker is too complex for you, then you can downgrade even further as long as you're okay with focussing on creating a text adventure. There's a neat program called twine that you can use to create some really marvelous feats of choose your own adventure stories, or even go so far to create full text adventures. The only caveat is that you need to learn at least a bit of the special 'programming'-language the program uses for stuff like text that only shows if something else has happened before in the story, save games and the like.