60+ similar titles based on shared tags and player behavior. Themes include Story Rich, 2D, Atmospheric, Singleplayer.
Shop Crush is a shop-owner simulator and visual novel set in the early 2000s. Stock a wide variety of goods, haggle with shoppers, and manage your reputation. Get to know your regulars and peel back the illusions tied to each persona as you slowly uncover the horrifying truth.
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June. No matter what you do—or don’t—days keep moving. But some choices stay. Some things don’t come back. This is that kind of story.
inKONBINI: One Store. Many Stories
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.
June. No matter what you do—or don’t—days keep moving. But some choices stay. Some things don’t come back. This is that kind of story.
Why similar: Shop Keeper 29.8% ★, Psychological Horror 14.7%, Emotional 14.1%, Life Sim 12.4%, Choices Matter 7.6%
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 29%, Shop Keeper 24.6% ★, Life Sim 8.9%, Visual Novel 8.4%, 1990's 6.8%
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.
Why similar: Shop Keeper 31.1% ★, Dialogue Heavy 21.7%, Visual Novel 12%, Emotional 7.9%, Story Rich 5.9%
Run a night-shift bakery inside a quarantine zone. Every customer looks human at first. Check their symptoms, fill the report, and make the call — bread, medicine, or the knife. Keep your supplies stocked and beware what waits outside the glass.
Why similar: Shop Keeper 38.1% ★, Psychological Horror 14.4%, Management 12.9%, Life Sim 12%, Retro 8.3%
Run a secondhand bookshop in London, 1994. Every book remembers who owned it before — pressed flowers, letters, notes in the margins. Across books that should never have met, the same hand keeps writing. You inherited the rules with the shop: shelve carefully, and do not read the margins.
Why similar: Shop Keeper 40.5% ★, Management 15.9%, Life Sim 14.4%, Psychological Horror 9.2%, Female Protagonist 7.6%
Run a cozy store as a grandma in a forgotten town where the living and the dead collide. Grow your shop by serving customers, fulfilling requests, and managing daily life. Talk to townsfolk and wandering spirits, hear their stories, and help them find purpose and peace.
Why similar: Shop Keeper 30.7% ★, Dialogue Heavy 16.4%, Emotional 13.2%, Management 12.3%, Life Sim 10.1%
Kicked out by his father for not becoming fully human, the protagonist is left in charge of a neglected guild. Guildream is a casual and comedic simulation game where anyone can enjoy managing a quirky guild.
Why similar: Shop Keeper 42.5% ★, Management 18.9%, Life Sim 15.8%, Point & Click 7.2%, Cute 6.7%
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 44.2% ★, Dialogue Heavy 23.2%, Visual Novel 13.9%, Point & Click 7.1%, 1990's 3.6%
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 29.5% ★, Dialogue Heavy 20.4%, Life Sim 11.5%, Emotional 11.5%, Visual Novel 11%
A narrative 2D single-player game about working in an underground tobacco shop, funding a collapsing film project, taking on tasks, exploring a dangerous city, and watching reality gradually break apart.
Why similar: Shop Keeper 31.1% ★, Dialogue Heavy 17.2%, Management 12.6%, Surreal 10.5%, Visual Novel 8.1%
Listen to your customers, find out what they really want, and search for the right property to recommend in this real estate simulation and story-driven adventure. Work alongside your boss, Hisui Odate, at a small neighborhood agency and help each customer find a place they can truly call home.
Why similar: Dialogue Heavy 19.7%, Life Sim 14.9%, Visual Novel 14.5%, Female Protagonist 10.3%, Retro 7.4%
You play as Hicha — a shut-in girl whose only reason to live is her virtual avatar, Virai. Help her escape the depressive nightmare before it consumes her completely.
Why similar: Psychological Horror 18.1%, Life Sim 16.7%, Visual Novel 12.1%, Emotional 9.5%, Female Protagonist 9.5%
Weep for the dead! In this short psychological horror story, play as a professional mourner travelling between funerals. Ride a nightmarish bus whose destination depends on how you choose to face your traumas.
Why similar: Dialogue Heavy 18.3%, Emotional 13.9%, Surreal 13.7%, Psychological Horror 13.5%, Visual Novel 11.8%
A short, interactive visual novel set in the mid-19th Century, in which a poet fights against time as she's writing the most important work of her life. Poetry is the answer, but what is the question?
Why similar: Emotional 17.6%, Psychological Horror 15.8%, Visual Novel 14.6%, Dialogue Heavy 12.7%, Surreal 10.1%
可愛い後輩と2人っきり……冷凍庫の中で。 低体温症、矛盾脱衣、幻覚などの苦痛を乗り越えた先にあるのは、「真相」と「死」のみ。
Why similar: Dialogue Heavy 27.8%, Psychological Horror 17.7%, Visual Novel 15.1%, Point & Click 7.4%, Hand-drawn 6.6%
Run Your Game Cafe in This Funny, 2D, Pixel Art, Game Cafe Tycoon Manager Simulator, Meet Funny Friends , Make new Customers, Keep old Ones Happy, Make Money , Pay Power Bill & Rent Every day , Buy New Games , Update Old Games , Repair Devices , Keep Business Going, Don't Get Bankrupted!
Why similar: Shop Keeper 48.7% ★, Life Sim 17.5%, Management 17%, Dialogue Heavy 10.4%, Cute 4.5%
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 35.4% ★, Dialogue Heavy 20.9%, Emotional 11.2%, Story Rich 6.9%, Dark 6.6%
Hush Darling is a psychological point-and-click narrative game inspired by classic makeup and dress-up games. Follow a young woman as she uses makeup to hide the visible signs of an abusive relationship, while the cute facade gradually gives way to a much darker reality.
Why similar: Psychological Horror 21.2%, Emotional 19.2%, Female Protagonist 16.3%, Dark 10.1%, Point & Click 8.9%
Lounge Café is an atmospheric coffee shop simulator where you play as Sara from Lucerne, running a small café in Binoville. Choose beans, craft drinks, and compete in the city’s major coffee tournament to become the best.
Why similar: Shop Keeper 68.5% ★, Management 26.6%, Life Sim 3.7%, Atmospheric 1.2%
Face your fears, Alice. This time, you're not alone. This is the last chapter in the horror visual novel trilogy.
Why similar: Dialogue Heavy 20.2%, Visual Novel 13.5%, Surreal 13.5%, Psychological Horror 13.4%, Emotional 10.7%
Going Once! is a cozy art gallery / auction house management game. Appraise and buy art, display it in your gallery and auction it off to the highest bidder!
Why similar: Shop Keeper 55.4% ★, Management 20.3%, Dialogue Heavy 17.9%, Cute 6.3%
Experience life through the eyes of others in DEEPWOOD. A downloadable visual novel project.
Why similar: Visual Novel 22.3%, Psychological Horror 21.7%, Surreal 19%, Dialogue Heavy 18.1%, Hand-drawn 9.4%
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 42.1% ★, Life Sim 15.2%, Dialogue Heavy 13.1%, Female Protagonist 9.4%, Management 8.3%
"Kiki & Ana - The Child" is a cute story experience. Focused on story, art, and music. Must avoid hazards which some people find difficult. Takes about an hour to complete. WARNING: flashing lights, light gore.
Why similar: Emotional 22%, Visual Novel 15.9%, Female Protagonist 11%, Cute 10.7%, Psychological Horror 10%
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 28.3%, Shop Keeper 27.1% ★, Visual Novel 18.1%, Story Rich 8%, Point & Click 7.9%
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 21.2%, Emotional 15.6%, Visual Novel 15.2%, Female Protagonist 11%, Choices Matter 8.3%
You'll open a potion shop in Sacred Heart City and learn about the reasons for the decline of Sacred Heart City by meeting a wide variety of customers. This is a story-based business simulation game, the main gameplay is that the customer asks you to make the right potion according to the request.
Why similar: Shop Keeper 50.9% ★, Life Sim 19.1%, Emotional 9.7%, Story Rich 6.4%, Retro 5.1%
Buy mysterious (possibly cursed) goods from the dark web by night, then sell them in your curio shop by day. Balance profit against consequence and assemble an artifact capable of causing the apocalypse. All in a day’s work.
Why similar: Shop Keeper 55% ★, Management 20.4%, Life Sim 17.2%, Dark 5%, 2D 2.4%
Run your own pub in this atmospheric and story-rich job simulator. Featuring a full brewing pipeline, dynamic NPCs, side quests, bar upgrades and expansions, branching dialogue, a freely explorable city, and a deep narrative set in dystopian Napolis City.
Why similar: Shop Keeper 34.6% ★, Dialogue Heavy 14%, Psychological Horror 11.5%, Management 9.2%, Retro 8.6%
Death, redemption, distortion, love, and... you are the reason.
Why similar: Psychological Horror 21.4%, Emotional 18.4%, Visual Novel 14.2%, Female Protagonist 9.9%, Cute 9.5%
A semi-autobiographical horror visual novel about unhealthy relationships. Can you help Alsie save her relationship from ruin?
Why similar: Dialogue Heavy 17.6%, Emotional 16%, Psychological Horror 14.6%, Visual Novel 13.4%, Female Protagonist 8.8%
People come to the shop on Halsey Row to sell the memories they can't carry and buy the ones they can't live without. Appraise what they bring. Decide what it's worth, and who you'll sell it to. Run an honest shop, or a darker one, and piece together what this street is hiding.
Why similar: Shop Keeper 50.9% ★, Management 10.3%, Choices Matter 9.4%, Dark 8%, Story Rich 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 38.5% ★, Dialogue Heavy 27.7%, Life Sim 10.3%, Visual Novel 9.3%, Story Rich 6.4%
With a brand spanking new degree in Literalchemy, use your witchy powers to change stories, craft tales, run a bookshop, and even find love in this puzzle, visual novel, shopkeeping sim!
Why similar: Shop Keeper 38.7% ★, Dialogue Heavy 17.3%, Visual Novel 13.2%, Management 12.4%, Cute 6.1%
Go home, Alice. The past awaits you. This is the second chapter in the horror visual novel trilogy.
Why similar: Dialogue Heavy 17.7%, Visual Novel 14.9%, Psychological Horror 14.1%, Surreal 13.7%, Female Protagonist 11%
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 26.2% ★, Psychological Horror 21.9%, Dialogue Heavy 16.5%, Management 13.6%, Female Protagonist 6%
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 47.6% ★, Dialogue Heavy 12.8%, Emotional 10.6%, Visual Novel 9.3%, Point & Click 7.6%
An isolated village during the war. Men leave one by one, along the winding forest path painted crimson by distant fires, and do not return. Young Nadia becomes a part-time postwoman filling in for her sick mother. She is now a messenger of hope and of trouble.
Why similar: Dialogue Heavy 20.1%, Visual Novel 15.9%, Emotional 14.4%, Female Protagonist 10.2%, Hand-drawn 8.6%
🧺 A cozy 2D life sim about running a small-town laundry. Wash, dry, and iron clothes for townfolks. Upgrade your shop, decorate your space, and discover heartwarming stories behind every piece of clothing.
Why similar: Shop Keeper 45% ★, Life Sim 20.8%, Management 14.7%, Point & Click 9.3%, Cute 7.3%
One rainy day you come home from the store and find a wounded fox on the road. In spite of your strict parents who forbid you to have pets, you decide to take her in.
Why similar: Psychological Horror 15.7%, Surreal 14.9%, Visual Novel 14.8%, Female Protagonist 10.5%, Retro 10.1%
Can you survive the horror of being yourself? A cute and disturbing psychological horror about identity, isolation, and the terrifying reality of being different.
Why similar: Psychological Horror 16.9%, Surreal 16.2%, Female Protagonist 9.1%, Visual Novel 9%, Emotional 8.4%
You choose a favorite and walk beside them. But those you left behind — where do they go while you're gone? LUNADUN: LUNATIC DUNGEON is an emotional adventure where choices shape the fate of four characters. 'The ones you loved, the ones you ignored — you don't get to walk away from either of them.'
Why similar: Dialogue Heavy 22.2%, Emotional 19%, Psychological Horror 16.3%, Visual Novel 15.6%, Dark 8.1%
Arcadia Cafe - domestic horror in early 2000s. Work the night shift as a student at a roadside cafe. Meet bizarre guests, get cash for your job, but beware — homecoming may be much more horrible than you expect.
Why similar: Shop Keeper 35% ★, Psychological Horror 13.8%, 1990's 12.3%, Retro 12.2%, Female Protagonist 9.1%
This is the story of your life. Experience the entire journey from toddler to adulthood. Go to schools, learn new things, meet new friends, and have wild adventures! Every choice you make will influence your future career, and decide who your romantic partner will be. Who will you become?
Why similar: Life Sim 18.8%, Emotional 17.1%, Management 13.2%, Visual Novel 11.2%, 1990's 9%
Run your own sandwich shop! Stock your ingredients, prepare delicious sandwiches, take payments, customize and expand your store, and become the best sandwich shop in town!
Why similar: Shop Keeper 55.2% ★, Management 20.3%, Life Sim 18.2%, Cute 6.3%
Your motel is busy for the first time in years. Antsy city-folk and dispossessed teens flood your rooms, and you can barely keep up. Now, after a week of all-nighters spent managing reservations, room service requests, and Yup! reviews, you begin to wonder… could you even fall asleep if you tried?
Why similar: Dialogue Heavy 23.5%, Psychological Horror 16.3%, Visual Novel 12.7%, Management 11.5%, Hand-drawn 9.4%
Play as Da Rong across a lifetime of meetings and farewells with family, friends, and fellow villagers. This linear narrative game unfolds through walking, dialogue, and interaction. Choices reveal what Da Rong leaves unspoken, but do not change the main story.
Why similar: Dialogue Heavy 27.6%, Emotional 19.1%, Visual Novel 16.6%, Retro 9.9%, Story Rich 9.3%
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 25.1%, Emotional 21.5%, Visual Novel 15.5%, Choices Matter 9.4%, Story Rich 7.8%
Tails Noir Preludes is a post-noir narrative adventure with branching choices. It is an intertwined series of vignettes about change, circumstance, and consequence. Guide four characters through formative moments in their lives in a dystopian Vancouver inhabited by anthropomorphic animals.
Why similar: Dialogue Heavy 32.4%, Visual Novel 18.3%, Emotional 15.1%, Surreal 8.3%, Female Protagonist 8.2%
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 47.7% ★, Dialogue Heavy 19.6%, Visual Novel 18.9%, Story Rich 5.1%, Choices Matter 3.6%
You inherited a taxi dispatch business but it came with debt attached. Hire drivers, dispatch fares, navigate Istanbul’s chaos, deal with bad customers and worse luck. You have 15 days to pay it off or lose everything. The meter is running.
Why similar: Shop Keeper 39.8% ★, Management 19.5%, Point & Click 9.4%, Retro 8.5%, Hand-drawn 5.7%
2D RPG about the brutal daily life of Ray - an artist struggling with addiction, who takes care of her little sister. Look after your condition - no one should know about the addiction. Improve your skills, sell paintings, do everything to ease the withdrawal. Survive and look for a way out.
Why similar: Dialogue Heavy 23.3%, Emotional 12.6%, Female Protagonist 10.1%, 1990's 9.9%, Surreal 9.4%
You used to help the hollow maid take care of herself. This time, she's missing & the front-facing UI has disappeared, giving way to a whole new environment. Find your friend.
Why similar: Psychological Horror 18.8%, Surreal 17.7%, Emotional 17.6%, Visual Novel 13.3%, Point & Click 9.8%
Run a weaponsmith shop in dark medieval city of Greyhaven. Sell weapons, manage gold, debt, materials, and fame, while customers, beggars, bandits, and rumors reveal the consequences of every choice.
Why similar: Shop Keeper 55.7% ★, Management 17.9%, Choices Matter 10.1%, Story Rich 8.3%, Atmospheric 4.1%
Linda & Joan is a narrative game about a British family. You play as Russell, Linda, and Joan — son, mother, and grandmother — switching between them to help the family cope with a series of traumatic events. Based on a true story. Prologue available now. Main game is in development.
Why similar: Dialogue Heavy 18.3%, Emotional 17.7%, Life Sim 14.9%, Female Protagonist 9%, Choices Matter 8.7%
Serve coffee and befriend customers as you learn their story in this coming-of-age visual novel.
Why similar: Dialogue Heavy 29.9%, Visual Novel 19.2%, Female Protagonist 13.6%, Choices Matter 8.3%, Cute 7.9%
How about running your own pastel stand across Brazil? Fry your customers’ pastéis and be careful not to burn yourself! Travel through different regions of the country, discover new ingredients, and upgrade your stand to attract more and more customers along the way.
Why similar: Shop Keeper 45.8% ★, Management 18.1%, Dialogue Heavy 12.3%, Point & Click 7.7%, Cute 6.1%
Night shift alone at a cursed gas station. Pump gas, stock shelves, clean, and work the register. But you are not alone. An authentic job simulator fused with psychological horror where you must maintain the routine to survive the anomalies watching you.
Why similar: Shop Keeper 37.1% ★, Psychological Horror 15.4%, 1990's 11.8%, Surreal 9.9%, Retro 8.5%
Experience a pastel-toned emotional journey in Yuika My Bestie, a short visual novel you can complete in under 15 minutes per playthrough. With 5 unique endings and heartfelt choices, it takes just 30–40 minutes to explore every path of this soft, late-night cry.
Why similar: Dialogue Heavy 24.5%, Emotional 17.9%, Visual Novel 14.5%, Life Sim 10.9%, Female Protagonist 9.4%
A psychological horror game set in an old roadside motel. Clean rooms, fix broken things, and welcome weird customers. Try to go your normal routine while struggling with your mental health
Why similar: Shop Keeper 47.8% ★, Management 18.8%, Dialogue Heavy 15.1%, Psychological Horror 12.6%, Story Rich 4.2%
