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Doki Doki Poyatchio!! is an overhead adventure game developed by Studio Saizensen, also responsible for the Umihara Kawase cult series, and they even share the same character designer. In this game you play as a young boy sent to a rural town for a month in order to help his aunt with her bread deliveries. Delivering bread and buying ingredients are the only things you have to do every day; how you spend the rest of the day is up to you. The town is populated by various characters who move around according to their own schedules, including a number of girls who exist as romance options for the player. Despite having a top-down, sprite-based presentation reminiscent of JRPGs, this game has no stats or combat whatsoever, and is more of a laid-back adventure/sim. Obviously, your ending changes depending on the girl you pursue.

As a side-note, the same developers would eventually produce Shining Hearts on the PSP, which was clearly meant as a spiritual successor to this game. However, Shining Hearts is a full-fledged RPG with combat and stats. You can find out more here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CMAGmJEYhik