60+ similar titles based on shared tags and player behavior. Themes include Dialogue Heavy, Visual Novel, Casual, Simulation.
Play as Iris, a burnt-out goddess who opens a midnight bakery in a sleepless city. Read customers’ emotions as color and craft cakes to comfort them, while hiding from the gods searching for her.
Shake It: Lycoris
Shake It: Lycoris is a bartender simulator where cozy vibes, smooth jazz, and a wide variety of cocktails blend into one unique atmosphere.
Confections & Conversations
Confections & Conversations is a cozy bakery simulator about baking sweet treats, managing a small business, most importantly getting to know a cast of colorful customers, and helping guide them through heartfelt conversations all in a modern isekai fantasy world.
Shake It: Lycoris is a bartender simulator where cozy vibes, smooth jazz, and a wide variety of cocktails blend into one unique atmosphere.
Why similar: Dialogue Heavy 22.9%, Shop Keeper 19.8% ★, Visual Novel 13.3%, Immersive Sim 10.2%, Simulation 7.7%
Confections & Conversations is a cozy bakery simulator about baking sweet treats, managing a small business, most importantly getting to know a cast of colorful customers, and helping guide them through heartfelt conversations all in a modern isekai fantasy world.
Why similar: Shop Keeper 30.1% ★, Dialogue Heavy 24.1%, Cooking 12.6%, Immersive Sim 8.7%, Visual Novel 7.4%
Become the host of an afterlife teahouse. For 49 days, serve the final cup to the departed. Experience a deep brewing system based on authentic traditions. Listen to the secrets of unique spirits, change their fates, and face the truth of your forgotten past.
Why similar: Shop Keeper 26.2% ★, Dialogue Heavy 20.2%, Cooking 10.4%, Visual Novel 9.9%, Lore-Rich 8.9%
Welcome to Anssoloin's new postman! After years of hard work, you've finally been able to buy your own post office by the sea. Learn more about the village and its residents through your work. Will you be able to fit in your new community? Sort the mail, discover new things, chat, and relax.
Why similar: Shop Keeper 38% ★, Dialogue Heavy 11.4%, Lore-Rich 9.1%, Immersive Sim 8.5%, Simulation 8.2%
In Midnight Ramen, you play as the owner of a late-night ramen stand and his apprentice. You interact with your customers, listen to their troubles, and help them out whenever you can. But as the bowls of ramen are cooked and served, troubles are beginning to brew in your own life as well...
Why similar: Dialogue Heavy 22.2%, Cooking 12.4%, Visual Novel 12.3%, Immersive Sim 9.1%, Lore-Rich 8.5%
inKONBINI: One Store. Many Stories is a cozy slice-of-life game about running a small-town convenience store, inspired by early 1990s Japan. Meet regulars, stock shelves, and watch quiet, everyday moments turn into meaningful stories.
Why similar: Dialogue Heavy 31.9%, Shop Keeper 24.3% ★, Visual Novel 8.5%, Immersive Sim 8.1%, 1990's 5.6%
Brew coffee in wartime Kyiv in this cozy and narrative-heavy coffee brewing simulator. Master tactile coffee brewing technics and become a quiet refuge for people carrying both ordinary worries and painful stories.
Why similar: Shop Keeper 38.5% ★, Immersive Sim 14.9%, Dialogue Heavy 12.3%, Emotional 6.1%, Atmospheric 5.7%
Brew concoctions, meet and help a variety of fantasy characters, and uncover the secrets of Ravensport in this cozy visual novel.
Why similar: Dialogue Heavy 21.2%, Shop Keeper 17.3% ★, Lore-Rich 13%, Visual Novel 11.9%, Cooking 8.9%
Shop Crush is a mysterious shop-owner simulator with psychological horror elements set in the early 2000s.
Why similar: Shop Keeper 32.3% ★, Dialogue Heavy 21.5%, Visual Novel 11.7%, Emotional 7.8%, Story Rich 5.8%
Run a warm, cozy noodle shop in a dark, cyberpunk world. Make noodles, listen to your customers, put together jobs, and drive the story to spread your warmth through the world, or send it deeper into darkness.
Why similar: Dialogue Heavy 22.9%, Shop Keeper 17.9% ★, Visual Novel 12.6%, Simulation 11.5%, Cooking 9.7%
Serve coffee and befriend customers as you learn their story in this coming-of-age visual novel.
Why similar: Dialogue Heavy 27.7%, Visual Novel 16.2%, Female Protagonist 8%, Simulation 7.9%, Choices Matter 7.7%
The Last Lodge is a medieval psychological horror game where you work as an innkeeper. Listen closely to your patrons' stories, prepare their orders, and ultimately, choose which traveller has visited their very last lodge.
Why similar: Shop Keeper 40% ★, Immersive Sim 15.5%, Dialogue Heavy 13.2%, Cooking 9.9%, Simulation 6.7%
Manage your own shop, buy and sell products, negotiate with customers, and grow your business by balancing risk, trust, and profit. At the same time, uncover the truth behind your father's disappearance.
Why similar: Shop Keeper 46.8% ★, Visual Novel 17.3%, Immersive Sim 15.9%, Simulation 11%, Atmospheric 4.2%
In Beastfolk Barber (code name: Project Salon), you're a barber in a city full of beastfolk. Chat with your customers, style their look, help them see something new in the mirror... and in themselves.
Why similar: Dialogue Heavy 37.9%, Visual Novel 17.6%, Choices Matter 10.3%, Multiple Endings 8.7%, Story Rich 4.9%
A visual novel about an environmental disaster. Coordinate volunteers, make difficult decisions, and try to survive as you try to save a coastal town dying from an oil spill.
Why similar: Visual Novel 20.1%, Dialogue Heavy 14.1%, Immersive Sim 10.9%, Simulation 10.6%, Story Rich 10.4%
Run a tea shop in the British countryside in this heartfelt visual novel voiced by Bethan Dixon Bate (Baldur's Gate 3) and Lenval Brown (Disco Elysium). Play as Ms Meadows as she prepares for her best friend’s long-awaited visit. Brew tea, listen to customers’ stories, and craft poems.
Why similar: Dialogue Heavy 22.5%, Visual Novel 13.6%, Cooking 11.7%, Emotional 8.2%, Choices Matter 8.1%
《闪耀！我的游戏班》是一款以学校生活和游戏开发为主题的多结局模拟养成游戏。你作为一名负责学校游戏班的老师，将带领唯一的一名学生，在三年时间内以将其培养为最优秀的游戏专业学生为目标，做出最好的游戏打败其他学校夺得大奖，拯救学校重返巅峰。神秘程序带来行业危机，而你和你的学生将会拯救这个行业，还是加剧它的毁灭？三年后，这名学生随着毕业，又将拥有怎样的未来？这一切，都将由你亲手决定。
Why similar: Shop Keeper 20.5% ★, Lore-Rich 15.7%, Dialogue Heavy 13.3%, Simulation 13.3%, Visual Novel 11.2%
A calm, story-driven simulator where every crafted part matters. Run your tiny workshop, meet other robots, and discover how even the smallest detail can change a life in this forgotten city of machines.
Why similar: Shop Keeper 41.4% ★, Dialogue Heavy 18.8%, Visual Novel 16.6%, Simulation 11.8%, Story Rich 5%
With your shop on the line, meet unique characters and craft potions of every flavor in this short, light-hearted game. From giant constructs to quirky little creatures, listen to their troubles and mix the right ingredients to create a potion that soothes their hearts and satisfies their cravings!
Why similar: Shop Keeper 43.2% ★, Visual Novel 14.4%, Dialogue Heavy 10.1%, Lore-Rich 8.9%, Casual 5%
It’s 1999 and Y2K is upon us. You are the owner of an independent video store that a corporation is eyeing off to purchase. Help your customers find the perfect video by listening to their stories and decide what the future is for your video store.
Why similar: Shop Keeper 44.9% ★, Dialogue Heavy 26.2%, Visual Novel 14.3%, Cartoon 3.9%, Story Rich 3.1%
A cozy visual novel about running a tavern in a D&D-inspired fantasy! Gather rumors, serve magical drinks, and meet adventurers on a life-changing quest.
Why similar: Shop Keeper 21.7% ★, Dialogue Heavy 19.7%, Visual Novel 12.2%, Emotional 7.2%, Choices Matter 6.8%
A fantasy tea-brewing adventure. Listen to your customers' worries and brew them the tea that they didn't know they needed.
Why similar: Shop Keeper 32.7% ★, Cooking 11.6%, Visual Novel 11.2%, Choices Matter 6.8%, Multiple Endings 6.2%
A friendly crash course in Japanese American history, culture, and community! Inspired by the real stories of the three historic Japantowns of California: San Francisco, San Jose, and Los Angeles's Little Tokyo.
Why similar: Dialogue Heavy 41.3%, Visual Novel 12.4%, Lore-Rich 9.5%, Cartoon 8.7%, Story Rich 5.4%
Dust off your coffee machine and prepare your warmest smile to meet your customers again in the second episode of the much loved coffee brewing and heart-to-heart talking simulator; Coffee Talk Episode 2: Hibiscus & Butterfly.
Why similar: Dialogue Heavy 44.5%, Visual Novel 11.8%, Atmospheric 7%, Choices Matter 6.7%, Simulation 6.5%
The Archipelago is a visual novel about brewing tea. The teas you choose determine who you encounter in the midst of a vibrant and changing world.
Why similar: Lore-Rich 16.8%, Dialogue Heavy 15.2%, Cooking 13.3%, Visual Novel 13.2%, Atmospheric 7.5%
An apocalyptic Ice Age approaches the automatic doors of your convenience store. Scrape together what you need to survive through bartering or outright scamming in this short narrative game. In the end, only you can judge yourself.
Why similar: Dialogue Heavy 23.2%, Dark Comedy 18%, Visual Novel 11.8%, Choices Matter 8.6%, Simulation 8.2%
A restaurant romance simulation set in the shadowed world of the Abyss! As you meet its strange residents and grow closer to them, their hidden stories gradually come to light.
Why similar: Shop Keeper 37.6% ★, Visual Novel 15.2%, Simulation 14%, Cooking 10.7%, Dialogue Heavy 9.1%
Manage your own cafe and become a donut therapist in this cozy dating/cooking sim. Cook mood-changing donuts, decorate your shop, and help customers navigate life, love, and heartbreak—one bite at a time.
Why similar: Shop Keeper 26.8% ★, Dialogue Heavy 21.7%, Cooking 11.1%, Visual Novel 10.7%, Choices Matter 6.2%
Underground Business is a horror cooking game where you prepare orders for a rural town at a pizzeria kiosk. Take orders, cook pizza, investigate the suspicious pizzeria underground and run for your life in high-intensity chases!
Why similar: Shop Keeper 34.1% ★, Dialogue Heavy 20%, Cooking 14.8%, Simulation 10.6%, Immersive Sim 10.1%
Birb Café is a coffee-making visual novel about a cute bird helping adventurers on their quests. Your choices matter!
Why similar: Dialogue Heavy 20%, Lore-Rich 14.9%, Visual Novel 14.3%, Cooking 14.1%, Female Protagonist 7.3%
The darkness surrounding the Odyssey Coffee House is undeniable, but what’s the connection behind these unusual occurrences? Who’s the culprit? Dark Brew is a mystery/thriller cafe simulator set amongst the stars. Play as Leon the racoon, and manage the coffee house while talking to patrons.
Why similar: Shop Keeper 35.3% ★, Dialogue Heavy 23.2%, Simulation 9.1%, Story Rich 8%, Atmospheric 7%
Mansion Made Love Simulation Game
Why similar: Visual Novel 23.3%, Dialogue Heavy 17.6%, Immersive Sim 16.2%, Simulation 16%, Fantasy 9.7%
A TRPG × Visual Novel led by the roll of the dice. You arrive at Seiria Magic Academy just one week before the centennial 'Violet Eclipse.' Immerse yourself in campus life, romance seven heroines, and uncover the world's hidden secrets. Your choices alone will reshape the fate of this world.
Why similar: Dialogue Heavy 27.3%, Visual Novel 18.1%, Lore-Rich 16.7%, Immersive Sim 10.4%, Female Protagonist 8%
Coffee Talk is a coffee brewing and heart-to-heart talking simulator about listening to fantasy-inspired modern peoples’ problems, and helping them by serving up a warm drink or two.
Why similar: Dialogue Heavy 41.5%, Visual Novel 12.8%, Atmospheric 7.2%, Story Rich 6.6%, Emotional 6.2%
Travel to the world of the dead, whose stories encourage reflection on life. Chat with spirits, brew drinks to suit your mood, and bond with the people who run the afterlife cafes. In this urban sci-fi fantasy visual novel, your choices impact the living, the departed, and your own path forward.
Why similar: Dialogue Heavy 30.2%, Visual Novel 16.8%, Choices Matter 8.4%, Story Rich 8.2%, Multiple Endings 7.6%
a psychological visual novel where you investigate the souls of the dead. spend time with them, analyze their past, file reports to decide their eternal fate.
Why similar: Dialogue Heavy 16.2%, Dark Comedy 15.6%, Visual Novel 14.7%, Lore-Rich 13.5%, Choices Matter 8.8%
As a merchant in a city caught between warring powers, build relationships with unique characters, expand your store, and discover the true price of doing business.
Why similar: Shop Keeper 40.9% ★, Visual Novel 16.4%, Story Rich 9.1%, Choices Matter 7.8%, Multiple Endings 7%
A point and click personality test game where you take the role of a Sorter, a soul tasked with determining the fate of the recently deceased. Learn their stories and sentence them to an afterlife of either punishment or forgiveness as you confront your own morality.
Why similar: Dialogue Heavy 35.9%, Simulation 16.2%, Visual Novel 14.9%, Choices Matter 8.7%, Story Rich 8.5%
Step into a vibrant otome story where your choices shape relationships with a dog senior, rabbit professor, and cat office worker. Navigate romance, mystery, and emotional growth as your decisions determine how each bond unfolds.
Why similar: Dialogue Heavy 23.4%, Visual Novel 14.2%, Cartoon 8.8%, Choices Matter 8.5%, Multiple Endings 7.7%
Hanako’s Flower Shop is a heartfelt visual novel where you run a flower shop, crafting bouquets using the language of flowers. Listen to customers’ stories, shape Hanako’s journey through choices, and navigate her struggle to honor her grandpa’s legacy while discovering her own path.
Why similar: Dialogue Heavy 23.8%, Visual Novel 15.5%, Choices Matter 9.3%, Emotional 9.1%, Story Rich 8.8%
Welcome to Kokoro No Kimono! Step into the gentle rhythm of Japan, where every fold tells a story. Create exquisite kimonos for your guests, master the art of tying Obi belts, and lose yourself in the quiet charm of an authentic kimono shop.
Why similar: Shop Keeper 54.5% ★, Lore-Rich 19.4%, Story Rich 7.9%, Simulation 7.4%, Atmospheric 4.4%
Heal your patients from curses and possessions as a shunned witch doctor in this creepy, cozy witch-life adventure: Care for your plants, craft magical amulets and analyse what is wrong with your neighbors so they start trusting in magic again. Make mythical new friends and heal what is broken.
Why similar: Shop Keeper 24% ★, Dialogue Heavy 19.4%, Visual Novel 12.6%, Emotional 7.8%, Story Rich 7.2%
As a new Merchant in the bustling city of Rosewall you'll manage your own shop, craft artisan goods, hire Companions, and even unravel a mystery of the city! Immerse yourself in a fantasy world where conflict is a thing of the past in this visual novel meets shopkeeper simulator.
Why similar: Shop Keeper 37.6% ★, Cooking 12.5%, Dialogue Heavy 12%, Simulation 7.1%, Choices Matter 6.9%
SoulBite is a 2D pixel-art restaurant sim. You're the chef of a small diner where guests share stories and secrets. Listen to their words, figure out what they truly crave, and serve the perfect dish. A cozy, heartwarming experience where every meal tells a story. Welcome, Chef.
Why similar: Shop Keeper 44.6% ★, Simulation 15.6%, Dialogue Heavy 15.1%, Cooking 9.5%, Atmospheric 6%
Explore a serene island where land and sea intertwine on your quest to help a mysterious girl from the sea find her way home. Uncover rich mythology and hidden truths in this heart-warming, epic tale, brought to life with gorgeous artwork and music. Embark on a truly unforgettable adventure!
Why similar: Dialogue Heavy 17.5%, Lore-Rich 14%, Immersive Sim 13.7%, Visual Novel 12.8%, Emotional 10%
You are a wanderer with a cracked soul and a home on wheels. Your task is to hear the voices of those who want to take their own lives, and to find the right words before they fall silent forever.
Why similar: Dialogue Heavy 24.4%, Immersive Sim 19.5%, Cooking 12.3%, Visual Novel 11%, Simulation 9.6%
Black Dog Bar is a dialog-based bartender simulator. Each client has its own story. Communicate, mix cocktails, and... manipulate. It is only you who decides where the complicated story of each hero will turn and what will happen to them when they leave the bar.
Why similar: Dialogue Heavy 30.4%, Visual Novel 17.2%, Cooking 17%, Choices Matter 9.1%, Emotional 8.7%
Become the new manager of a run-down maid cafe. Rebuild it with unique kemonomimi maids, each with their own secrets and personalities. Manage ingredients, serve customers, expand your shop, and chase the ultimate dream: the legendary Maidchelin 3-Star!
Why similar: Shop Keeper 31.9% ★, Dialogue Heavy 20.4%, Visual Novel 11.5%, Immersive Sim 10.4%, Cooking 8.9%
Manage your café, meet new friends, and serve unique drinks as new stories unfold every day in Coffee & Fox! Can you handle everything this place has to offer?
Why similar: Shop Keeper 43.3% ★, Dialogue Heavy 14.9%, Lore-Rich 11.1%, Cooking 10.3%, Female Protagonist 6.8%
Cozy visual novel about a lovely witch who’s able to talk to spirits in a fantasy setting. Using her powers, Julia helps her neighbors in their daily whereabouts. Craft potions, find the right time to use them and get to know both spirits and clients to find their peace.
Why similar: Dialogue Heavy 31.8%, Visual Novel 17.7%, Emotional 11.1%, Atmospheric 7.6%, Story Rich 7%
A character focused, flower shop, dating sim where YOUR choices shape the town's future.
Why similar: Shop Keeper 34.9% ★, Visual Novel 10.4%, Immersive Sim 9.9%, 1990's 8%, Choices Matter 7.9%
Your diner is the final stop before the infamous afterlife gate. Let customers drown their sorrows for profit, or attempt to show them a better way? You decide in this morally confronting choice-based game.
Why similar: Shop Keeper 26.9% ★, Dark Comedy 18.5%, Dialogue Heavy 17.8%, Cooking 11.6%, Choices Matter 7.1%
Welcome to X Burger! Today is May 28th, World Burger Day. Tomorrow is May 28th. And the day after that. The celebration never ends here. Until the party is over and the 'bill' comes due. Just smile and keep working.
Why similar: Shop Keeper 35.3% ★, Cooking 14.2%, Immersive Sim 11.5%, 1990's 8.3%, Simulation 8.2%
Infusion is a cozy, narrative-focused, coffee-making sim with branching storylines that takes place in a fantasy world full of magic and intrigue. Make different types of coffee, get to know your patrons, help them solve their dilemmas and become the best barista the Cordara has ever seen!
Why similar: Shop Keeper 45.1% ★, Simulation 14.9%, Lore-Rich 12.2%, Dialogue Heavy 10.4%, Casual 5.6%
A cozy horror game where you craft plants for late-night customers while you manage a small plant shop. Expand your plant collection, upgrade your shop & grow your business.
Why similar: Shop Keeper 26.8% ★, Dialogue Heavy 18.7%, Immersive Sim 14.9%, Simulation 11.7%, Atmospheric 10%
Run a chaotic potion shop for one week in this cozy roguelike. Discover recipes through experimentation, serve unpredictable customers, and balance gold and reputation—while your snarky cat keeps watch.
Why similar: Shop Keeper 53.8% ★, Simulation 12%, Anime 7.2%, Casual 6.6%, Choices Matter 6.4%
Be the person you needed. Brew tea, listen well, and guide branching stories in a narrative slice-of-life about showing up when it matters. No perfect answers. Only your choices and what they set in motion.
Why similar: Dialogue Heavy 27.9%, Visual Novel 15.7%, Emotional 12.4%, Choices Matter 10.4%, Story Rich 8.9%
This game features captivating storytelling, rich interactivity, diverse puzzles, and branching narratives based on player choices. As players guide Nara through various events, they'll develop relationships with male characters, solve puzzles, and shape the story's outcome through their decisions.
Why similar: Visual Novel 18.4%, Simulation 17%, Dialogue Heavy 16.8%, Immersive Sim 15.7%, Emotional 8.1%
Why hello there, sir. I’m the newsboy! In this story game you run your little shop, help strange customers, and explore so many places, and probably tick people off too!
Why similar: Shop Keeper 39.2% ★, Dark Comedy 22.7%, Dialogue Heavy 21.7%, Story Rich 6%, Lore-Rich 5.5%
Make a new start in a dying city. Repair arcane cyberpunk items, befriend odd and intriguing characters, and make choices to shape the world around you, all from the warmth of your workbench.
Why similar: Shop Keeper 36.2% ★, Lore-Rich 18.7%, Visual Novel 9.7%, Immersive Sim 8.3%, Simulation 6.9%
