Well I wouldn't consider a visual novel with only clicking and a choice once in a while gameplay. Most of the games here are like this and that is more reading with some extra features.
I also think, that he very likely doesn't mean games where the gameplay is only clicking to different locations and grinding money which are mainly there to make the game longer and don't offer much, if anything.
Most alicesoft, and eushilly games offer some better gameplay, so you might want to look into them.
On vndb, you can filter the games for similar games a bit like this:
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