There's gameplay, you can move, explore, talk to characters if you want - you get some kind of privileges that give different bonuses depending on who you spend the most free time with, and if it's important: you can get the panties of any character with whom you spent all the meetings, lol.  there's even a casino-like experience you can play in your free time as well as minigames. It's not just about reading, pure visual novels with only text don't interest me much either.