Daigaku Gurashi

A fun little game, a shame that it hasn't been updated. The best little social sim you'll ever get honestly.

top 10 things you can do in this game: 1. achieve over 100 depression 2. drink 3 energy drinks 10 frames before going to soapland 3. the character customization (no specification, the entirety) 4. be jumpscared by the death screen 5. bang people and cuddle 6. make a dating sim of characters if you make enough characters to fill the character list 7. i have been playing this game since it was called 'koukou gurashi' and there are still lines of dialogue i have never seen 8. shove people into trashbins (and get shoved into trashbins if thats your thing, which you can also make your character be into) 9. buy a chinese beetle for an unreasonable price that does absolutely nothing other than sit in your inventory 10. walk around at the pace of a snail if you're too depressed (even if you have 100 energy 0 stress) honorable mention: i can play it on my toaster with basically no lag

Developed and published by YamiToast, Daigaku Gurashi offers an unusual take on the life simulation genre by focusing on emergent social interactions instead of a heavily scripted narrative. Rather than leading players through a fixed storyline, the game places them in the lively college town of Kimyōmori, where they spend an academic year building a life at Monorisū College. Every day presents opportunities to form friendships, pursue romance, make rivals, or simply observe how the town's residents interact among themselves. This design creates the feeling of inhabiting a living community where the player is part of a much larger social network instead of being the sole catalyst for every event. Its anime-inspired presentation complements this concept well, creating an experience that feels both charming and surprisingly ambitious despite its indie production values. The game's defining feature is its remarkably deep social simulation. Players are given extensive freedom when creating their character, choosing everything from appearance and personality traits to pronouns, sexuality, hobbies, preferences, and even speech patterns. These choices have meaningful effects on conversat…

This game is pretty damn cool, i love all the npc interactions and everything the player can do. At first it may seem confusing but getting the hang of the game is easy!

Yeah

very great game, sad that barely anyone talks about it anymore.