
Open your own bookshop! Order books, stock your shelves, and earn revenue. Use your profits to decorate, expand, and hire staff. Collect rare books that give powerful abilities. Adopt a cat to keep you and your customers company along the way!
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Prices
Each in the currency that store quoted — not converted: the gap between two rows is the publisher's pricing, not an exchange rate.
Every market we collect.
Discounts
Every price cut of more than 20% we have observed, in each market that quoted one, with this game's chart position on either side of it. These are episodes, not a model: a sale is one event, and one event cannot tell you what the next one will do.
Reviews, worldwide (the counter carries no country): 2.71/day in the week to Sep 12 → 4.86/day in the week after.
For scale, across Steam · Top Sellers · Brazil over the last 30 days: the 24 chart moves that followed a price cut of more than 20% went a median of 9 places towards #1, and the 2,404 moves with no price cut behind them went 2 away. One store, one chart, one country — it is the only place we have enough observations to say even that.
Prices outside the United States have been collected since 6 August 2026 and chart positions since 19 July 2026, so a cut older than that has no market to compare and a market that joined later has no history yet. Nothing here is converted between currencies.
About

Fulfill your dream of owning and operating your own bookshop. Buy and sell inventory and use the profits to decorate and expand your shop. Build your business from a small boutique shop into a retail empire!

Buy and place bookshelves, then fill them with new books, comics, board games, and other items to sell. Run the cash register to earn revenue. As your business grows, hire employees to be cashiers and item stockers so you can focus on expansion.

Expand your reach to new locations around the world. Use your income from established shops to help set up new shops. Travel between shops to manage them and optimize your profits. Early access will launch with the France and Japan locations.

Use your profits to customize your store. Choose walls and floors. Decorate with rugs, plants, wall art, and more! Create specialized sections for your favorite genre, or build cozy book nooks.

Get boxes of used books that may contain rare mythical books. These books have powerful abilities to improve your profits and capabilities.

Adopt a cat to keep you and your customers company every day in the shop. Buy food, a bed, and other items to keep the cat active and happy in the store.
Engagement
Reviews
Themes across 351 recent reviews and how positive each mention is. A keyword signal, not full sentiment analysis.
Reviews
Certainly not terrible, but life is too short to deal with a line at a checkout or stack shelves which is where this simulator begins. For me it lacks gameplay and surprises and feels like a real job - so perhaps it's a good simulator but a poor game. There are many better simulators out there, visually, conceptually and for gameplay.
wife plays this alot but its been crashing lot after about an hour of play
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Stats
All-time low is the lowest price we've recorded for this game since we started tracking it.
Languages: English, French, German, Spanish - Spain, Japanese, Polish, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Portuguese - Brazil, Italian, Korean
Hours played at review time, across 354 reviews with recorded playtime.
positive critical· bar length = how often the theme comes up
Super fun to run a bookshop with your friends. A fun, chill, cozy game that has lots to do and lots of achievements to get! Love it!
so relaxing i love it!
I get lost in this game. It is sooooo much fun. It's a game that you don't have to think, you just do. The bots aren't bad and they keep up. You get to the next location and level quickly. I hope they keep adding on locations and I like that you can go back to other locations to upgrade where needed. I do wish you had more options for furniture and accessories. And it would be nice to change the front of the store, make it more modern or old like a Harry Potter feel. That would be cool. And if you add lights on the inside they should make a difference for reading not just for show. All those things will come I'm sure. Great game !!!!
I like the grind because of the benefits; it's stress-free; attractive NPCs
fun
so cozy and fun. I can't wait to see more updates! would be cool to see some pastels, some dark colours like navy, dark green etc to enchance some vibes.
My favorite thing is reading the titles of the books!
[h1] DISCLAIMER: This is a first impressions review, and NOT a full review [/h1] Bookshop Simulator is a game developed and published by Blep Games The game offers some nice graphics and a nice aesthetic, although some ugly glitches here and there, it is pleasant all the same The game does suffer with some repetitiveness at certain areas of the game but a fun game nonetheless Bookshop Simulator overall, however, is a fun game to play, yet sometimes repetitive and it does get boring if being played for a long time, but is a really good simulation game to play in short bursts! [h1] RECOMMENDED :) [/h1] [b] REVIEW SOURCES: [/b] [list] [*] None
Active players
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