Exchange Program: New Roommate

Exchange Program: New Roommate is a visual novel with sandbox RPG elements for players who want a slow-burn dating sim with darker corruption themes. The tone stays grounded and personal rather than campy.

Story

A poor but gifted student wins a spot in an exchange program and moves abroad to attend a prestigious high school, boarding with a volunteer host family. When the program places a second exchange student in the same house, the two are forced to share a room, setting up an unplanned closeness neither of them expected.

Gameplay

Players navigate daily school and home life, working a part-time job while managing money, time, and relationships with the household and people around the school. Choices shape how the roommate situation and other connections develop, with branching paths that lean toward either building relationships directly or watching them slip toward other outcomes. Along the way, side activities and small business ventures give the player other ways to spend time and earn income outside the main story threads.

Features

• Real-life photo-based visuals instead of fully rendered 3D scenes
• Branching paths that let players pursue possessive or hands-off approaches to the same relationships
• Side ventures and management tasks layered on top of the school and home routine
• School-life setting with a persistent cast tied to the host household