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  • Animal Crossing revolves entirely around settling and thriving in a small village, with no other goal than to live your life.
  • The games of the Atelier Series franchise are sometimes described as being in this genre. Atelier Lydie & Suelle: The Alchemists and the Mysterious Paintings in particular is promoted on the packaging of the U.S. version that it is "A slice-of-life RPG featuring mysterious worlds within paintings."
  • Best of Three: There are no fantasy elements or unrealistic situations. The game simply features a conversation between two realistic characters facing their past.
  • Blaze Union puts a lot of emphasis on this, despite its fantastic setting.
  • Most "Tycoon" games tend to be this since your goal is to be a successful businessman and the only thing holding you back is your own incompetence.
  • CV: Casting Voice
  • The Delicious series. Since Delicious 2 to be exact.
  • Ensemble Stars!: the main story is more plot focused, but almost all of the gacha and event stories simply fill in the details of the characters' lives over the course of the next school year.
  • Farnham Fables' second episode, "Just Another Sunday", consists mostly of Wendy helping out around the family farm and cheering up her depressed little sister. The closest thing to conflict is her trying to get a stubborn, runaway cow to follow her.
  • The Friends of Ringo Ishikawa
  • Harvest Moon
  • The Kids We Were
  • Life Is Strange Franchise.
  • Like a Dragon games on the surface seem like another gritty sandbox crime drama set in Japan, but it's their large variety of side activities and sub stories filled to the brim with bizarre humor when this element starts to kick in, usually portraying the main protagonist Kazuma Kiryu (or any other secondary protagonist later on) helping the residents of Kamurocho and other locations with an everyday problem or personal issue. Yakuza 3 includes Kiryu running an orphanage in Okinawa while Yakuza 6 with its appropriate tagline "The Song of Life" incorporates themes of family and humanity along with the seaside town of Onomichi.
  • LocoRoco 2 had extra cutscenes which included mostly that and described as "view of everyday life of the planet".
  • My Cafe — Stories & Recipes boasts a large cast of unique customers, each with differing backstories and goals. As the cafe expands, the player gets to see how these people progress through their lives, including their changes in careers and relationship and some-such.
  • My Time at Portia
  • Neo Cab
  • Persona 3, Persona 4 and Persona 5.
    • These are full fledged RPGs with urban fantasy elements, although they use a calendar system that you can perform daily activities with such as leisure, hang outs and dating.
  • Photopia is mainly this, though it interlaces the everyday events of the characters' lives with a children's sci-fi story within the story.
  • Shenmue: There is an overarching plot about the hero Ryo investigating and seeking revenge for his father's murder that you eventually will have to follow (the only Game Over occurs after about 3 in-game months pass), but you can also spend whole days puttering around town, visiting shops, and playing arcade games and slot machines.
  • The Sims
  • Summer Lesson
  • Steambot Chronicles
  • The first Vietcong and Fist Alpha are pretty much about the everyday life of a Green Beret in Vietnam.

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