
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, Dialogue Heavy, 2D, 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 46.8% ★, Visual Novel 14.3%, Point & Click 11.6%, Dialogue Heavy 9.1%, Pixel Graphics 6.2%
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 46.5% ★, Dialogue Heavy 17.5%, Visual Novel 17.1%, Interactive Fiction 13.2%, 2D 2.1%
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 39.2% ★, Dialogue Heavy 26%, Interactive Fiction 9.5%, Visual Novel 8.9%, Pixel Graphics 6.2%
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 48.4% ★, Point & Click 14.1%, Dialogue Heavy 12%, Visual Novel 8.8%, Pixel Graphics 5.7%
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 28.2% ★, Dialogue Heavy 27.1%, Visual Novel 17.5%, Point & Click 15.1%, Story Rich 3.4%
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 57.1% ★, Point & Click 21.5%, Pixel Graphics 7.1%, Casual 6.8%, 2D 4.7%
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.
Why similar: Shop Keeper 43.6% ★, Dialogue Heavy 21%, Visual Novel 14.5%, Point & Click 9.2%, 1990's 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 48.3% ★, Interactive Fiction 14.9%, Dialogue Heavy 13.8%, Pixel Graphics 8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 3.6%
Run a shop. Help weird customers. And definitely make everything worse!
Why similar: Shop Keeper 42.7% ★, Dialogue Heavy 19.6%, Interactive Fiction 13.5%, Point & Click 10.3%, Pixel Graphics 4.6%
A story-driven visual novel with point-and-click elements about one evening shift at an unusual candy shop. Talk to customers, figure out who is human and who is supernatural, and make sure everyone gets the right sweet.
Why similar: Shop Keeper 40.3% ★, Dialogue Heavy 22.2%, Point & Click 14.5%, Visual Novel 13.7%, 2D 2.7%
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 49% ★, Visual Novel 17.7%, Interactive Fiction 15.5%, Pixel Graphics 5.2%, Story Rich 3.8%
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 41.7%, Visual Novel 20.4%, Interactive Fiction 18.4%, Pixel Graphics 13%, Indie 3%
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 41.5% ★, Interactive Fiction 12.7%, Dialogue Heavy 12.3%, Visual Novel 11%, Point & Click 10.6%
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 46.7% ★, Dialogue Heavy 19.1%, Interactive Fiction 15.9%, Pixel Graphics 6%, 2D 4%
A cozy, small-scale, coffee shop and talking simulator. As a raccoon barista, you have a gift for warming people’s hearts: brew coffee, match flavours to your customers and discover their stories. Help travellers sort out their final errands before they catch their last train.
Why similar: Shop Keeper 52.5% ★, Interactive Fiction 18.5%, Dialogue Heavy 13.1%, Adventure 7.6%, Casual 4%
Dreamlike point-and-click adventure meets animated visual novel. Come along on a journey through surreal experiences, meeting colorful characters and having delightful conversations.
Why similar: Dialogue Heavy 21.8%, Visual Novel 20.3%, Point & Click 18.2%, Interactive Fiction 18.2%, Satire 9.5% ★
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 42.3% ★, Dialogue Heavy 27.1%, Visual Novel 15.1%, Cartoon 4.1%, Story Rich 3.3%
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 74.7% ★, Interactive Fiction 12.8%, Pixel Graphics 9.7%, Indie 2.5%, Singleplayer 0.4%
Annoy this guys time in this comedic piece of interactive fiction.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 26.2%, Dialogue Heavy 23.4%, Visual Novel 20.7%, Point & Click 15.5%, Adventure 4.6%
Serve Hot Chocolate to a cast of sapphic mythological monster girls, as you explore a mysterious snowclad arctic town!
Why similar: Shop Keeper 59.7% ★, Interactive Fiction 17.4%, Visual Novel 16.3%, Pixel Graphics 3.3%, Casual 1.7%
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 64.8% ★, Visual Novel 22%, Casual 3.8%, Indie 3.7%, 2D 2.9%
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 46.6% ★, Dialogue Heavy 19.2%, Visual Novel 14.8%, Point & Click 11.4%, 2D 3.5%
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 41.2% ★, Dialogue Heavy 20.9%, Point & Click 13.8%, Visual Novel 9.9%, Pixel Graphics 4.7%
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 39.6% ★, Dialogue Heavy 25.2%, Visual Novel 13.7%, Interactive Fiction 12%, Adventure 3.7%
Every RPG has someone handing out quests. In Questmonger, that someone is you. Run a crumbling adventurer’s guild, match heroes to dangerous jobs, lend them gear, and live with the outcome. Heroes die. Rent comes due. The royal inspector remembers every failure.
Why similar: Shop Keeper 52.5% ★, Point & Click 19.5%, Dialogue Heavy 8.1%, Pixel Graphics 5.9%, Casual 5.8%
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 20.7%, Point & Click 18.1%, Visual Novel 17.6%, Interactive Fiction 17.4%, Comic Book 12.2%
At your grandfather's old tea house, every customer who walks in has a story worth hearing. Brew drinks, serve an odd cast of regulars, build deep connections — and maybe find love along the way. Years of family secrets are waiting to surface.
Why similar: Dialogue Heavy 31%, Shop Keeper 29.9% ★, Visual Novel 17.1%, Pixel Graphics 8%, 2D 3.7%
A PSX-style first-person horror game about a quiet night shift in a bar that slowly turns into something deeply wrong.
Why similar: Shop Keeper 53.6% ★, Interactive Fiction 18.9%, Dialogue Heavy 10%, Pixel Graphics 5.6%, Adventure 4.9%
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 56.5% ★, Interactive Fiction 19.7%, Dialogue Heavy 10.8%, Casual 6.4%, First-Person 3.4%
Run a kiosk in 1980s communist Poland. Check ration cards, distribute rationed goods, and dabble in illegal trade to support your family. Every decision can bring profit or trouble.
Why similar: Shop Keeper 69.4% ★, Interactive Fiction 19.7%, Pixel Graphics 4.8%, Story Rich 3.5%, Retro 2.3%
The only bar left on the old road is a curious place. You're the bartender. Chat with the rare guests who've found their way here. Mix them fulfilling drinks accompanied by ASMR-grade soundscapes. Will you solve the mysteries of a world inspired by magical realism?
Why similar: Shop Keeper 52% ★, Interactive Fiction 18.1%, Dialogue Heavy 14.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 6.9%, First-Person 3.3%
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 61.2% ★, Comic Book 15.5%, Pixel Graphics 7.7%, Adventure 4.6%, 1990's 3.4%
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 69.9% ★, Visual Novel 26.6%, Indie 2.9%, Singleplayer 0.6%
A conversation adventure where you spend the worst, best summer visiting your booze-loving senpai, making weird food, and sneaking out together at midnight.
Why similar: Dialogue Heavy 29.7%, Interactive Fiction 19.9%, Visual Novel 18.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.4%, Point & Click 7.8%
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 72% ★, Dialogue Heavy 21.4%, Casual 4.2%, Indie 2.2%, Singleplayer 0.3%
Run a small shop. Buy stock from wholesalers, find what each customer needs, and purchase the materials they bring. Make a profit, sell at a loss, give items away, or refuse the deal. But remember: one item, sold or withheld, can decide who lives and who dies.
Why similar: Shop Keeper 57.2% ★, Point & Click 10%, Interactive Fiction 9.8%, Dialogue Heavy 6.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 6.5%
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 37.7% ★, Visual Novel 21.1%, Point & Click 16%, Dialogue Heavy 9.9%, Casual 5.3%
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 56% ★, Point & Click 23.7%, Interactive Fiction 13.2%, Casual 5.1%, Indie 1.9%
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 38.1%, Point & Click 22%, Visual Novel 17.6%, Indie 8.1%, Casual 6.2%
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: Interactive Fiction 24.8%, Point & Click 24.6%, Visual Novel 20.8%, Adventure 9.5%, Pixel Graphics 7.4%
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 20.3%, Dialogue Heavy 18.7%, Comic Book 12.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 8.7%
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 24.1%, Point & Click 24%, Dialogue Heavy 17.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 9.7%, Adventure 9.3%
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 54.3% ★, Point & Click 15.6%, Dialogue Heavy 9.5%, Comic Book 6%, Casual 5.4%
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 58.4% ★, Point & Click 25.1%, Pixel Graphics 9.4%, Casual 4.6%, Indie 2.2%
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 21%, Interactive Fiction 20.5%, Visual Novel 15.3%, Dialogue Heavy 13.2%, Satire 11.7% ★
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 36.6%, Point & Click 15.3%, Visual Novel 12.5%, Interactive Fiction 12.2%, Comic Book 9.6%
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 43.2% ★, Point & Click 17.8%, Interactive Fiction 17%, Choose Your Own Adventure 7.3%, 1990's 4.7%
A choice-driven visual novel centered on addiction, happiness, and the search for meaning. As a bartender in a rapidly decaying world, serve drinks and substances that shape your customers' fates. Experience their stories through minimalist 1-bit pixel art and an atmospheric liquid DnB soundtrack.
Why similar: Dialogue Heavy 47.9%, Visual Novel 32.5%, Pixel Graphics 10.7%, Story Rich 4.8%, Indie 3.5%
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 31.9%, Visual Novel 21.4%, Comic Book 15.5%, Point & Click 14.2%, Interactive Fiction 12.7%
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 21.5%, Interactive Fiction 14.5%, Point & Click 13.9%, Satire 13.3% ★, Visual Novel 11.2%
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 21.5%, Point & Click 20.9%, Visual Novel 20.4%, Dialogue Heavy 16.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 7.4%
Own and run a workshop in a steampunk fantasy world! Craft, fix and sell items to make a living while meeting countless townsfolk and listen to their stories.
Why similar: Shop Keeper 72.7% ★, Point & Click 20.2%, 2D 4.4%, Indie 2.4%, Singleplayer 0.4%
Will returns to bury his mother and leave right away, but everything changes when he finds a stranger in the woods. As the house decays and roots swallow everything, saving her comes with an irreversible cost: uncovering a truth hidden in Awakewood for ten years.
Why similar: Point & Click 22.4%, Visual Novel 22.3%, Interactive Fiction 19.6%, Dialogue Heavy 10.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 8.5%
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 34.7%, Visual Novel 19.1%, Point & Click 18.5%, Pixel Graphics 9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 8.7%
Can you really trust what Hector tells you? Fulfill the wishes of the cursed, perform spells that alter fate, and decide for yourself whether the stories you hear ever happened at all.
Why similar: Shop Keeper 41.7% ★, Point & Click 15.1%, Visual Novel 14.3%, Interactive Fiction 14.1%, Pixel Graphics 5.6%
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 63.5% ★, Point & Click 18.7%, Visual Novel 9.8%, Casual 3.9%, 2D 2.4%
A short narrative about a trip with friends over the weekend. Decide what River does during the trip. Help your friends, explore the place, or just enjoy the scenery.
Why similar: Dialogue Heavy 27.5%, Point & Click 19.9%, Interactive Fiction 18.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 7.6%, Pixel Graphics 7%
"When aliens order pasta, only one guy can deliver justice!" You're a food delivery guy in this short, comical graphic adventure, determined to stop the monopoly on Italian cousine imposed by an alien invasion.
Why similar: Point & Click 23%, Dialogue Heavy 18.8%, Visual Novel 17.2%, Interactive Fiction 16.6%, Pixel Graphics 8.7%
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 60.6% ★, Point & Click 22.8%, Casual 7.5%, 2D 5%, Indie 3.9%