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Schedule-driven social adventure game?

Meet your weird neighbors simulator?

Moon-like?

I dis-like game genre names, but I can't get enough of being plopped into an unfamiliar world where myriad bizarre characters live their lives and time passes whether I like it or not. Love-De-Lic's Moon and Chulip would directly inspire recent indie gem 24 Killers and the upcoming Danchi Days, indicating a possible resurgence of the subgenre. Onion Games' own Stray Children promises more of that dreamy Moon goodness. And I'd be remiss not to honorably mention Majora's Mask's side quests and other recent indie gem Time Bandit as partial channelers of Love-De-Lic's design sensibilities.

I'm not just here to wax poetic about Moon, though.