
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.
60+ similar titles based on shared tags and player behavior. Themes include Shop Keeper, 2D, Dialogue Heavy, Visual Novel.

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.

Pip's Potion Shop
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!

Circuit Shop
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.
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 49.3% ★, Visual Novel 13.5%, Point & Click 11%, Dialogue Heavy 8.7%, Pixel Graphics 5.9%
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 49% ★, Dialogue Heavy 16.9%, Visual Novel 16.2%, Interactive Fiction 12.6%, 2D 2%
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 41.5% ★, Dialogue Heavy 25.2%, Interactive Fiction 9.1%, Visual Novel 8.4%, Pixel Graphics 5.9%
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 50.8% ★, Point & Click 13.4%, Dialogue Heavy 11.5%, Visual Novel 8.3%, Pixel Graphics 5.5%
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: Shop Keeper 30.3% ★, Dialogue Heavy 26.6%, Visual Novel 16.9%, Point & Click 14.6%, Story Rich 3.3%
Cliffside Cafe is a casual point-and-click cooking game where you play as a barista running your very own cafe! With tons of recipes, ingredients, and upgrades to unlock, will you become the ultimate barista?
Why similar: Shop Keeper 59.4% ★, Point & Click 20.2%, Pixel Graphics 6.7%, Casual 6.5%, 2D 4.5%
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 50.7% ★, Interactive Fiction 14.2%, Dialogue Heavy 13.2%, Pixel Graphics 7.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 3.4%
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 45% ★, Dialogue Heavy 18.9%, Interactive Fiction 12.9%, Point & Click 9.8%, Pixel Graphics 4.4%
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 51.2% ★, Visual Novel 17%, Interactive Fiction 14.7%, Pixel Graphics 5.2%, 2D 3.7%
MageTender is a fantasy bartending game where you serve customers with different moods and quirks. Mix drinks using magical ingredients that shift emotions in different ways! If your concoction misses the mark, be ready to defend your bar with spells and quick typing!
Why similar: Shop Keeper 49% ★, Dialogue Heavy 18.3%, Interactive Fiction 15.1%, Pixel Graphics 5.8%, 2D 3.9%
Shop Crush is a mysterious shop-owner simulator with psychological horror elements set in the early 2000s.
Why similar: Shop Keeper 45.4% ★, Dialogue Heavy 22.8%, Visual Novel 13.5%, Point & Click 6.9%, 1990's 3.5%
Blue Remembered Hills: A Miscellany of Wayfarers from Yeyu is a narrative management game set in southwestern China during the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period. You keep a mountain inn—running the business, receiving travelers, and witnessing and shaping their stories.
Why similar: Shop Keeper 43.9% ★, Interactive Fiction 12.2%, Dialogue Heavy 11.9%, Visual Novel 10.5%, Point & Click 10.1%
In a postwar world where even memories can be used as collateral, you become the owner of a small pawnshop. Speak with customers, judge the value of their memories and belongings, and over 30 days of running the shop, uncover forgotten truths and the story of the protagonist.
Why similar: Shop Keeper 76.4% ★, Interactive Fiction 11.8%, Pixel Graphics 9%, Indie 2.4%, Singleplayer 0.4%
Serve Hot Chocolate to a cast of sapphic mythological monster girls, as you explore a mysterious snowclad arctic town!
Why similar: Shop Keeper 62.1% ★, Interactive Fiction 16.4%, Visual Novel 15.2%, Pixel Graphics 3.1%, Casual 1.6%
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 44.7% ★, Dialogue Heavy 26.2%, Visual Novel 14.3%, Cartoon 3.9%, Story Rich 3.1%
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 67.1% ★, Visual Novel 20.4%, Casual 3.6%, Indie 3.5%, 2D 2.7%
In the game, players will be given a series of questions to test them. They will continuously interact with the examiner and make decisions, ultimately discovering the flower that represents them.Welcome to play.
Why similar: Dialogue Heavy 42%, Visual Novel 20.1%, Interactive Fiction 18.4%, Pixel Graphics 13%, Indie 3%
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 43.6% ★, Dialogue Heavy 20.3%, Point & Click 13.2%, Visual Novel 9.4%, Pixel Graphics 4.6%
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 49% ★, Dialogue Heavy 18.4%, Visual Novel 14%, Point & Click 10.8%, 2D 3.4%
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 41.9% ★, Dialogue Heavy 24.4%, Visual Novel 13%, Interactive Fiction 11.6%, Adventure 3.5%
Tarvern Days is a single-player game made with RPG Maker MV. Become a bar owner in a fantasy world and run a tarvern for 14 days. Find out how your choices determine the fate of your characters. (Almost) everything is in your hands.
Why similar: Shop Keeper 72.1% ★, Visual Novel 24.6%, Indie 2.7%, Singleplayer 0.6%
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 73.8% ★, Dialogue Heavy 20%, Casual 3.9%, Indie 2%, Singleplayer 0.2%
Do you believe that on Halloween night, the line between the world of the living and the dead becomes thinner? If not, then you’re probably used to simply buying children off with candy. But imagine being stuck on a night shift in an ordinary roadside minimarket...
Why similar: Shop Keeper 63.6% ★, Comic Book 14.5%, Pixel Graphics 7.3%, Adventure 4.2%, 1990's 3.2%
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: Shop Keeper 37.6% ★, Dialogue Heavy 37.4%, Visual Novel 10.8%, 1990's 4.5%, Retro 2.5%
Annoy this guys time in this comedic piece of interactive fiction.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 26.3%, Dialogue Heavy 23.7%, Visual Novel 20.5%, Point & Click 15.5%, Adventure 4.5%
Reach for the stars, gather their instruments, and curate the best collection in the universe! THE OMEGA REACH is a point-and-click museum simulator (and dungeon crawler) where you are a musical genius.
Why similar: Shop Keeper 58.4% ★, Point & Click 22.3%, Interactive Fiction 12.5%, Casual 4.8%, Indie 1.8%
AIM × PANIC Shop Management! Gather materials, process them, craft items, and serve customers―― A hyper-fast shop management game where everything is controlled with your aim. Three difficulty levels, from mouse beginners to aiming experts. Online multiplayer supported.
Why similar: Shop Keeper 60.8% ★, Point & Click 23.5%, Pixel Graphics 8.9%, Casual 4.4%, Indie 2.1%
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 58.8% ★, Interactive Fiction 18.6%, Dialogue Heavy 10.3%, Casual 6%, First-Person 3.2%
Through a narrative based on Red Ribbon’s new album “Planet X”, experience a broken-heart girl’s journey through thoughts, daydreams and music.
Why similar: Dialogue Heavy 20.9%, Point & Click 18%, Visual Novel 17.5%, Interactive Fiction 17.4%, Comic Book 12.1%
Can viral traffic defeat an empire? In this management sim, lead a fallen princess to build an adult media empire and fund the frontlines. Balance stamina, scout trends, and survive random events to save your home. Every choice counts—turn views into soldiers and reclaim your kingdom!
Why similar: Shop Keeper 65.8% ★, Point & Click 17.4%, Visual Novel 9.3%, Casual 3.7%, 2D 2.2%
Paint your own vinyl designs! Venny's Vinyl Shop lets you manage your dream vinyl store with various customers, lots of paint, and endless fun.
Why similar: Shop Keeper 56.7% ★, Point & Click 14.7%, Dialogue Heavy 9.1%, Comic Book 5.7%, Casual 5.1%
Take up the mantle, read the fates, control them, use them. You are The Fortuneteller. You are to be the best of the best. Use the tools given to take what is rightfully yours, vengeance.
Why similar: Shop Keeper 45.6% ★, Point & Click 16.9%, Interactive Fiction 16.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 6.9%, 1990's 4.5%
Prepare drinks for the crew of the space station and listen to their stories. Based on the legendary Space Station 13.
Why similar: Shop Keeper 39.9% ★, Visual Novel 20.3%, Point & Click 15.7%, Dialogue Heavy 9.9%, Casual 5.2%
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 38.4%, Point & Click 21.9%, Visual Novel 17.3%, Indie 8.1%, Casual 6.2%
A bright and cozy casual tycoon! Grill skewers for hungry zombies, fulfill orders, and upgrade your shop to become the best spot in town. Don't miss special orders! Unlock recipes to boost your reputation. Enjoy cute customer reactions with simple controls anyone can play.
Why similar: Shop Keeper 62.8% ★, Point & Click 21.3%, Casual 7.1%, 2D 4.8%, Indie 3.7%
Don't Let Me Fade is an interactive adventure about memory, identity, and loss. Piece together fragments of a life - even if a simple teddy bear is the last symbol of connection to oneself in a world without time.
Why similar: Point & Click 24.9%, Interactive Fiction 24.7%, Visual Novel 20.9%, Adventure 9.4%, Pixel Graphics 7.3%
Watercolors Sink Beneath the Surface is a nostalgic pixel-art point-and-click adventure set on Narumi Island, where only an abandoned high school stands. Years later, two girls return to complete a watercolor inspired by their school memories, gathering ideas from the remnants of the past.
Why similar: Visual Novel 24%, Point & Click 24%, Dialogue Heavy 18.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 9.7%, Adventure 9.1%
The Paint Atelier: Replica Co. is a fun 2D art & management sim. Paint what’s in the minds of quirky customers with top accuracy, showcase your art in the gallery, sell it at auctions, and compete online with friends!
Why similar: Shop Keeper 60.7% ★, Point & Click 17.7%, Visual Novel 9.7%, Casual 6.4%, 2D 5.4%
Atonement is an interactive graphic novel set in the Wild West. At various points in the story, you will be asked to make a choice, these choices will take you down different paths in the story. There are 3 storylines featuring a manhunt, a bank job, and a train robbery.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 21.9%, Visual Novel 20.1%, Dialogue Heavy 18.9%, Comic Book 12.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 8.7%
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 73% ★, Interactive Fiction 7.1%, Point & Click 6.3%, Pixel Graphics 5.9%, Story Rich 4%
A fantasy curse-casting adventure. Make curses that can only be undone by true love's kiss!
Why similar: Shop Keeper 59.8% ★, Interactive Fiction 17.1%, Visual Novel 15.3%, 2D 3.5%, Adventure 2.2%
Hire and manage beautiful horny girls to return erotic glory to the Dancing Inn. Guide your ladies through a RPG system of skills and perks to maximize profit and pleasure. Romance, plan, corrupt and explore in this magical adult management sim.
Why similar: Shop Keeper 44.3% ★, Point & Click 18.4%, Visual Novel 15.7%, Dialogue Heavy 8.5%, Adventure 5.1%
A cozy narrative simulation game where you craft bubble tea, guide heartfelt conversations, and play character-driven mini-games that explore mental wellbeing through meaningful choices and gentle, story-rich gameplay.
Why similar: Shop Keeper 59% ★, Interactive Fiction 16.3%, Visual Novel 14.8%, Cartoon 3.5%, Casual 2.9%
Lost on Cow Island is a linear story-driven comedy adventure game, in the style of Monkey Island, Sam & Max, or Day of the Tentacle. Look, Interact, and Talk to a host of kooky af characters and navigate out of impossible situations to fix your time-travelling car and get back home!
Why similar: Point & Click 20.9%, Interactive Fiction 20.5%, Visual Novel 15.2%, Dialogue Heavy 13.3%, Satire 11.8% ★
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 50.5%, Interactive Fiction 14.9%, Visual Novel 14.6%, Pixel Graphics 7.5%, 2D 3.7%
You lost your coal mine job, now you're a cashier at Poland's landmark convenience store. Scan groceries, verify IDs, grill hot dogs, and try to feed your family on what's left. A dark comedy about surviving late stage capitalism, one receipt at a time.
Why similar: Shop Keeper 56.5% ★, Point & Click 19%, Pixel Graphics 6.1%, Casual 6.1%, 2D 4%
Elf Controller, the Christmas fates are in your hands! Review the documents, uncover the tricksters, and give gifts only to the deserving. Your decision determines whether a child gets a celebration or just a lump of coal. This is your responsibility and your magic. Merry Christmas!
Why similar: Shop Keeper 39.6% ★, Point & Click 25.5%, Indie 9.2%, Pixel Graphics 7%, Casual 5.7%
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 60.7% ★, Point & Click 16.9%, Dialogue Heavy 13.7%, 2D 3.6%, Story Rich 1.9%
Embark on a Magical Shopkeeper RPG! Make strategic choices and face various challenges as you establish your store in Flame Plaza. Craft any type of potion. Fight enemies and complete quests to find new resources. Get ready for twists, and discover new ways of profit.
Why similar: Shop Keeper 61% ★, Interactive Fiction 16.3%, Point & Click 15%, 2D 3.5%, Casual 2.4%
You've joined the gig economy as a courier for T.A.L.E. Couriers! Explore, meet and chat with a cast of characters, complete deliveries for the company while doing jobs on the side in this walkin' n talkin' pixel art adventure where this job is not everything you expected it to be...
Why similar: Dialogue Heavy 21.7%, Interactive Fiction 14.4%, Point & Click 13.8%, Satire 13.4% ★, Visual Novel 11.1%
Wax Heads is a cozy-punk narrative sim about working in a struggling record store. Chat to quirky customers with unique tastes, explore a handcrafted record collection, fall in love with bands (and their drama!), or just slack off with your colleagues - whatever gets everyone’s groove back!
Why similar: Dialogue Heavy 36.9%, Point & Click 15.1%, Visual Novel 12.4%, Interactive Fiction 12.2%, Comic Book 9.5%
"The Curiosity Clerk" is a Victorian fantasy narrative puzzle game blending item identification and deduction. Manage a mysterious shop, expose lies using the Craftsman’s Manual, and send robots on text-roguelite wild adventures. Shape fates across 20 days to unlock 4 endings and Day 21.
Why similar: Shop Keeper 53.1% ★, Point & Click 17.7%, Visual Novel 9.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 6.9%, Adventure 4.7%
Take a Hint! is a comic-style visual novel where you control Delfina and must convince your best friend Ailén that her boyfriend is not good for her. It won't be easy, and no one will leave until the truth comes out.
Why similar: Dialogue Heavy 32.4%, Visual Novel 21%, Comic Book 15.2%, Point & Click 14.2%, Interactive Fiction 12.8%
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 33.3% ★, Dialogue Heavy 22.9%, Visual Novel 15.4%, Interactive Fiction 13.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 6.2%
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 34.8% ★, Dialogue Heavy 21.3%, Visual Novel 15.1%, Interactive Fiction 14%, Choose Your Own Adventure 5.9%
N.E.R.D is a story-driven escape room puzzle game, brought to life as a gripping interactive movie. Inspired by cult classic thrillers, this is an experience that will pull you in - and won’t let go. Dark, intense, and deeply unsettling, every moment pushes you further into the unknown.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 21.6%, Point & Click 20.8%, Visual Novel 20.2%, Dialogue Heavy 16.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 7.4%
A charming yet fantastical town, where vitality and decay constantly collide. We hope that through interactions with characters and objects, and the sensory experience created by visuals and sound, you can connect with the emotions and charm of this little world of West Town.
Why similar: Shop Keeper 53.5% ★, Visual Novel 15.6%, Point & Click 13.7%, Retro 4.1%, 2D 3.7%
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 67.9% ★, Point & Click 19.1%, Pixel Graphics 5.6%, 2D 4.6%, Casual 2.7%
Guilt Free is a visual novel crossed with a point and click made to offer perspective on mental health and eating disorders. Navigate a couple's rocky relationship and encounter "flaws" or "quirks" that may actually be symptomatic behaviors.
Why similar: Dialogue Heavy 38.1%, Visual Novel 16.8%, Interactive Fiction 16.1%, Point & Click 13%, Choose Your Own Adventure 6.2%
Mine ore, run the store, unlock tech, and push a modest shop to its limit. Start with click mining, then automate; balance inventory, traffic, and sales through the tech tree for efficiency—from manual play to the peak.
Why similar: Shop Keeper 69.9% ★, Point & Click 9%, Pixel Graphics 7.8%, 2D 5.5%, Casual 4.6%