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Life in a New City

A visual novel with dating simulator features which has you: making decisions to improve your relationships, completing tasks and challenges for the girls, and attempting minigames to unlock special cutscenes. Try to obtain the strongest possible relationship with each character as you please.

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Rodrigo Piedras
Publisher
Rodrigo Piedras
Release
September 9, 2025
327 days ago
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About the Game

Life in a New City has you, the protagonist, move to a new city and explore relationships with different characters. Converse with the local girls and attempt to forge a strong bond with one or many.

A slice of life visual novel with minigames that will test your social skills. Who will you choose to spend the most time with?

Meet the girls of the city!

The landlady's daughter, Sumaki!

A girl who loves jokes and has a smirky attitude, but has trouble being serious.

Will you be able to undo her armour?

Meet the bookworm, Haki!

A nerdy chick who loves to read books, discuss philosophy, and drink coffee.

Can you keep up with her intellect?

And finally, get to know Dorith!

A friendly girl who's life revolves around sports and the gym.

Can you make space in her heart for you?

Get to meet each girl in game, and attempt to create strong relationships with them! Each character will provide you with tasks and challenges that you may attempt to unlock more features to your relationships.

Features included:

  • Complete tasks to improve your social relationships! Fulfil favours to further refine your relations with the different characters you meet around the city.

  • Partake in different minigames to achieve goals set by the characters! Solve jigsaw puzzles, attempt reaction-based games and complete item-finding games to establish yourself as a reliable person.

  • Navigate through this visual novel at your own pace! Included with the game are features to steer the narrative as you see fit, such as: rewind, save and load state, and auto skip. With these, you may create your own checkpoints around the city and revisit your favourite moments at any time.

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