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Roommates Visual Novel – Roleplaying Game Review
Roommates Visual Novel is a Roleplaying/Adventure game from Celso Riva, first launched in 7th March 2014.
It’s rated 4+ and currently has 116+ ratings on the App Store.
What Makes Roommates Visual Novel Stand Out
Welcome to the halls of Latin House!
The best dorm (that you can afford) at the greatest college (that would accept you) in the entire country (Not counting the parts that aren't here). Okay, maybe we're overselling it.
Either way, you're invited along with either Max or Anne as they make their way through the first year of their college experience.
- Play as Anne and romance Dominic, Rakesh, Max and Isabella
- Play as Max and romance Sally, Anne, Isabella and Rakesh
- Hilarious light comedy writing guaranteed to make you laugh
- Life simulation gameplay with full scheduler and stats raising
- OST by Leetstreet Boys including the main theme "Name In Lights"
This Roleplaying game offers engaging gameplay and regular updates for mobile players.
Player Feedback
As a newer release, Roommates Visual Novel is building its player community. Early feedback suggests .
Recent Updates & Development
Latest Update: 1st October 2015
Recent improvements include:
This app has been updated by Apple to display the Apple Watch app icon.
- Added Retina highres font support
- Built against the latest RenPy
Download & Availability
Roommates Visual Novel is available through the official App Store for iOS devices.
Get Roommates Visual Novel on App Store
Requirements: Requires iPhone 5s / iPad Air / iPad Air (Cellular) / iPad Mini 2 (Retina) / iPad Mini 2 (Retina, Cellular) / iPhone 6 / iPhone 6 Plus / iPad Air 2 / iPad Air 2 (Cellular) / iPad Mini 3 or later.
Compatible with iPhone and iPad devices.
Player Experience Highlights
Community Insight:
We believe we were 13 when we first found this game, Im 21 now. This has held such a special spot in our heart for so long. The story line is amazing, every character is so fleshed out, the school system in the game is so fleshed out, the sounds and music in the game is absolutely incredible. We used to get on this game on the bus just to listen to the title screen song its so good! Im such a huge fan of Roommates! Our favorite part has to be the murder mystery at Halloween time! So good! We cant say enough about this game its genuinely that good! Remember its a bit older so the graphics will look like something you would see in an iPhone 5 during that time. Still a phenomenal game and we recommend giving it a shot! Definitely worth the time! The full version does cost money but even the free version is great as it is.
Even though it been four years since this game came out and its 2020 we never thought we be playing something like this. The choices in the game gives you time to think which choice works out best and what character to be with. We really say it a well plan game. The only problem is that the demo was short and need to pay to get the full version. Thats was something we wasnt expecting and uncalled for. So Im here stuck playing just the demo not the full. We really hope they might be able to change it? Idk either it a fun game and everyone should try it.
It is a little pricey but the full game is great! We got all endings as both characters and enjoyed the adventure it took us in we had nice pictures and graphics with a great story line also! We suggest this app if you dont mind paying for games.
We love this so much. We're definitely recommending this to all our friends. Five stars.
This will always be one of our favorite apps.
We're not sure why there are so many complaints about the steep price tag – for $6.99 you can play ALL the routes, whereas most games charge $4 per each route. This game is also much longer and has more content and gameplay than most games as well. All in all, a super fun experience.
The Game is Amazing But can you lower the price to 0.99 plz and If you do we will give you a real positive rating.
Make a second one and you live in an apartment in the city and you all text each other to meet in the city and like something happens like you get kidnapped or something.
We LOVE THIS GAME SO MUCH OMGGGG!!<3 Literally play it for hours.
We just have to say this is probably the most enjoyable and complex sim we've ever encountered…But realistically; this game just needs to be 100% free, it's so disappointing to be able to progress with the girls and enjoys these greats scenarios for in-game time of 5 weeks after making so much progress…..Isabella is bae but our relationship with Sally was also at 20%. We only have one miracle like request; After awhile please make this game 100 percent free we know you guys need to make money and all that but this is such a great game that the said company would get so much publicity it'd break the AppStore.It took us tons of scrolling to find this game; It honestly needs to be attainable for everyone completely within all its glory; The cast is great and dialogue is exceptionally valuable.Its laughable, loveable, extremely realistically. The scenarios are captivating, and alluring and you really get immerse into the story. We just really want this game to be free cause we're gonna be in an extremely tight place with money and we just love this game so much.
We bought stats and our game updated.we can't our stats back what to do. Love the game though o want more can u make it to were there is more that the freshman year.
As usual, the games are a bit pricy but definitely worth it for the stories. (Plus that was a lot of work to put into it) we enjoyed this a lot and didn't mind not having every option available to the player, although would've enjoyed it if it were to happen. Each character had a nice story and the art is very pretty! Although playing as Max…we just wished it wasn't so forced with the relationship between Isabella and him, it was just plain cringeworthy. We didn't really like that at all actually but we do like her in Anne's POV. The characters and plot were pretty clich, but it made fun of it and was rather nice to have to be honest. Definitely something to look forward to, hope you make even more games in the future! The others are also very nice.
We love this game even we don't have the full version thx seller and we like anne :).
The game is so fun n we were actually intending to buy both anne and maxs story, until we saw the price. $7 is a bit much for it. We appreciate the work thats gone into it but we bet a lot more people would actually buy it if the price was a tad lower. Kind if a bummer, we really enjoyed the game :/.
This is a really cool game with lots of amazing content. We love it and think that the money we spent on it was totally worth it. We have only one complaint. We cant get the Max/Rakesh ending! We have spent hours and hours playing this and unlocking all of the endings, but no matter what we try the ending is always the same. If they fixed this we would certainly give this game.
From what we played in the free trial, the game was fun and interesting and we could easily get into the gameplay and story. We almost bought Maxs route so we could get a Max and Dominic pairing, only to find out that there is, in fact, not one. Honestly Im a bit disappointed that youd pay so much for a route and not be able to get with all of the characters. We can see that a lot of people want a Max and Dominic option and if that existed, this would easily be a five star rating.
We are only giving this four stars and not five for one reason and that is the disappointing ending its kinda sad a game we pour hours into to have two characters fall in love to only have them not be together at the end of the game or even not a mentioning of them both at all? It was pretty disappointing the ending to roommates but besides that the game is wonderful and we loved every character thank you.
We liked the game. It seems forced with Isabel, but we wouldn't know since we're not paying a whole $7 to find out. Too expensive.
It's a good game and we want more pike this but we tried 2 time to get the ending with Isabella and Anne but it did not work.
This is a delightful little dating sim, truly peppered with the raw tensions of being about 18, at the books, and steeped in love. Of course the story is adolescent melodrama, but this is true to form, evoking the sexual pitter-patter of that age. The art is well done. It is great you can pursue any gender. This is a worthy little game to give any lovelorn person a dose of vicarious romantic drama.
Game is great! However, $6.99 for the full version is a little steep we did pay it because we really wanted to see the outcome from our story! We'd lower the price, we're sure it would attract more that way! We've only completed the one with Anne x Max, but we can't wait to finish it out.
The story is great, and we can tell a lot of time and effort was put into it, so awesome job on that! And don't get us wrong, we are SUPER grateful to be able to romance the same gender, but we would really love if the characters could date everyone possible. We know it'd be unrealistic if all the characters were pansexual, and that writing routes for all of the possibilities would take forever, but just something to think about! Love it either way <3333.
Okay, honestly, why is it so hard to get the same sex options as opposed to all of the other ones? We played as Max half a dozen times and couldn't romance Rakesh, but with Anne, we got it on our first try.
$6.99 for the full game? We mean really? We like the game but that's too much money for it. We think maybe if you lowered the price to $2.99 or $3.99, we and probably many others (the reviews say we're not the only one with this complaint) would buy it. 7 bucks is just too much and the free version doesn't allow you to do much. We really like it, we were just hoping for more. If you lower the price, we will buy it immediately. As a side note, we saw a few people say their data was deleted and we'd be extremely upset if we paid 7 dollars for it then lost our game.
Expensive full version for what it is? We love this game, but we think the full price should definitely be around 3.99 or something. 6.99 just seems too much… Especially with how we're reading peoples' data got deleted. That's not worth seven dollars…. Oh well, we hope to god that doesn't happen to us if we purchase the full version.
Really nice game, but you can only play up to a certain point where you have to purchase the full story for 6.99. Also you can't date everyone (it doesn't make sense to not have the option??), which is a huge drawback since the characters are just so well-written and lovable. ;) Would recommend this to friend and foe.
We'd recommend more options for like people to end up with…. Like open Anne and Max to all characters.
It's one of our favorite games on the Apple Store! But it just deleted all of our games, and after we updated the app it deleted everything, so we couldn't revisit old scenes and we had to restore our purchases. We're not asking for our games back, we're asking for the app to stop deleting things for no reason.
We're just really disappointed that we paid 6.99 for max and there's no max x Dominic :(.
While we really enjoyed the game, the price for the full version is just ridiculous. $6.99? Really. We manage to buy it and idk if it was really worth it. Lower the price, it will get a lot more people to actually buy it.
We lost not only our saves but also our completion endings. Not cool. Don't fix what's not broken.
We like this game, we really do. It took us forever to find a game we can play as a guy and date girls in (nearly any dating game we've found is for girls only). And we had a pretty far along game. Multiple saves. The recent update erased those. We'll accept that once, but if another update in the future does it again, this game is gone.
Great tutorial. But u have to pay for the game!?! No thank u!! Make the WHOLE game free and that earns u 3 more stars.
The game visuals are lazy with no movement or action. Also, you get barely any choices.
It won't download!!! What the crap.
Somehow upon barely opening the app, our touch of the home button instantly cost us $6.99. We'd like our money back. We're not even playing the game.
We really love this game but 7 dollars for a full story?? Like can you make it not reasonable , we would buy it if it was like 4 or 5 dollars we mean cmon.
At first we thought that the app would be pretty awful considering that most dating sim games on the AppStore are. After playing it for a while it turned out to be amazing! It's probably one of the best games we have ever played.
Honestly $7 is a little much, we are going to have to think about paying that much but the free trial has us hooked, we probably will end up purchasing the full version since it has a awesome story line.
This lets you live out college life and finds your love however you want. Beautiful drawings and excellent stories.
Been looking for a visual novel to play, and this hit the spot perfectly! We were hesitant to pay such a high price, but the awesome amount of raw content, combined with the fact that it is actually enjoyable, and that it never gets old no matter how many times you play it, we'd say this game is absolutely perfect.
We love this game, Really fun, The only reason why we really like this game is because it's one of those choose your own adventure games, we nevered played one of those kinds of games before, But we finally found one, we think this game deserve pass.(Means 6 stars)Probably the best games we ever played before, Thanks people who created this game,.
Absolutely love this game and the characters!! Keep making more please.
We like the game a lot but $6.99 a little outrageous but it was good but we wish they would make a sequel we finish this game in two days.
The game is amazing the story and all the characters are great it's just to pricy and if u lowered the price or made it free we would get it instantly.
Love this game! We just brought the full version but it keeps crashing on us when Anne yells "now max" after joining the gun fight. PLEASE FIX.
At First, we were thinking to delete after we played alittle but the story line make us to play it to the end…. Even after we finish the game, we also want to play again & again… It's one of the best game we've ever played, thx.
First we'll confess we started to play this at like 1am thinking of deleting it 'cause we downloaded it on whim like 7 months ago thinking it would be bad. Needless to say our stars says it all. We went from 1 am to 7 am for the first run through of the trial because it is amazing. It is hilarious, it is engaging, all with a extremely well designed story. The characters are well supported and designed. Given this was on the free trial but the fact is we bought the rest of the story. Why? Because we like and we feel like it's something we want to come brine reading. We're willing to support the creator of this and paying the $7 for max's story. And we think it it would be a little more reasonable if the price was at $5. But because we want to support the creator of such an amazing slice of life theme game we're willing to pay for it. But don't expect us to buy any cheats ma not because we feel will ruin the ascetic of the game.
We wish very much to get a happy ending- Ever time we reach 100, it doesn't register, and we have to start all over! The sadness-Anyhow, this is a beautiful game. The characters are brilliant, funny, and have their perks. They are very human. Thank you creator!~.
Such a great game! We've got a few hours in it, and it's really nice. Can we buy the soundtrack somewhere.
User feedback from Apple App Store
App Details
- Version: 1.0.2
- Size: 91.96 MB
- iOS: 7.0 or later
- Languages: EN
- Content Advisory:
- Developer: [Celso Riva]()
Last updated: 1st October 2015 | Genre: Roleplaying, Adventure | Developer: Celso Riva