
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/day in the week after.
For scale, across Steam · Top Sellers · Brazil over the last 30 days: the 26 chart moves that followed a price cut of more than 20% went a median of 7 places towards #1, and the 2,400 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.
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Reviews
Themes across 342 recent reviews and how positive each mention is. A keyword signal, not full sentiment analysis.
Reviews
Normally, I avoid games that are just "X SImulator" as they're either "lol so broktden" Goat Simulator/Surgeon Simulator riders or shallow, soulless gamified jobs (usually churned out by Gamersky nowadays). But, for some reason, Bookshop Simulator spoke to me. I bought it in Early Access and thought, "This actually has some potential if they polish it up a bit." Unfortunately, that never happened, 1.0 has released and it's just ugly. NPCs are stiff proc-gens with so few permutations that you can end up with multiple clones in a single line, your "pets" still walk infinitely into building corners, staff can't handle partial stocks and fill storage with near-empty boxes, UI elements look and feel like placeholder assets, the "tutorial" is unimmersive, simple tasks that are far more rewarding than they should be, and the entire game feels like it should have taken another 6 months to a year of Early Access to become an actual game. Another reviewer had the right of it: Get Retro Rewind instead. Same gameplay loop with a LOT more polish, only with a "90's rental shop" coat of paint.
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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 345 reviews with recorded playtime.
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Absolutely love this game. I find myself playing it for hours effortlessly, captivated by its cozy, laid-back atmosphere that still offers addictive gameplay. From the charming bookshop style to making decisions about which books to stock, every aspect is thoughtfully designed. The graphics are vivid and appealing, and the gameplay mechanics are smooth and engaging. I eagerly anticipate future updates, hoping to see more diverse locations around the world and an expanded collection of books, including rare editions and new titles. This game shows great potential for growth, and I believe it will continue to improve. It's definitely worth the price and the time invested.
I was so sick with motion sickness after playing this game for less than an hour. I can’t find any easy way to change settings to fix this. If you are sensitive to motion in games, DONT BUY
They changed everything good about this game,
the game was so horrendously laggy even on the lowest graphic settings, i could see through walls and ceilings, and this problem doesn't happen with similar games like tgc shop simulator or rune factory 5. its a good game BUT i can't recommend it because i was just really frustrated 90% of the time
I moved to my last store (England) with my two mythical books, stock from other stores, legendary books etc. When I took everything out of the teleporter, the books were on the ground. I hadn't gotten around to moving them and when I checked to finally move them under the boxes once I had set up the store, they were no longer there. I tried reloading, they're still missing. They're just gone now.... Not in any of my old stores, not back in the teleporter. I quit and reloaded... still nothing. I had 3x achievements left and I feel like quitting because I spent $250,000 on those 2 mythical books that would have helped me to easily get the last achievements. I also have most of my legendaries missing (the couple of ones that were on a personal shelf stayed). It's as if the books have fallen under the map of England. There's no way of getting them back. To think I genuinely enjoyed this game up until that point. It's so disappointing that you can lose books that easily, it took me hours and so much money to get all those books.
Pour l'instant, j'aime énooormément le jeux, hyper chill, pas trop compliqué à comprendre, le fait que ça soit des livres, c'est vraiment good, j'aurais penser à la place des bonbons des porte clés ou des stickers. La maj avec le multi, pas encore test mais trop ravie. J'ai vue des coms qui disaient qu'il faudrait un état d'humeur des clients (c'est bien, mais perso, c'est un truc qui peut gâcher mon expérience de jeu, voir peut être l'activé ou le désactiver peut être good) Les décos sont simple et pas trop relou, pour un début, je pense que c'est déjà pas mal, surtout avec tout les livres qu'il y a, plus il y aura de déco, plus ça sera lourd (comme les couleurs, celle de base sont pas trop mal, autant ne pas trop se charger la dedans d'un coup :) )... ça doit être dans cette même ligné, graphiquement etc, j'aime aussi. Par contre c'est une super idée de vouloir garder un petit magasin avec peu d'espace (une pour se faire la main) et deux pour le faire plus familier moins grosse librairie, aussi intéressant de pouvoir acheter des jeux d'occasion sans livre boost. Hâte de découvrir le Japon et l'Angleterre <3 Bravo en tout cas, je ne lâche plus le jeux (c'est grace à la démo que j'ai test, qui m'a donné envie de faire le jeux complet)
Progression in this game is honestly so good. Rewards feel nice, you get helpers pretty early and still have a lot of work tasks to do yourself so you aren't bored. I love the way the books are, funny titles and you can add your own if you like. Few things that can improve the game imo. Everything looks pretty off for lighting, as in glossy looking? Night time = aggressive blue filter. Please do something about the lighting in the game. Rng used book opening is something you spend a lot of time doing. It's one of my least favorite tasks that is mandatory for a better income store. The reveal is very slow, wish there was just a instant reveal option? Not enough bookshelf options, please add more shelf sizes, shapes and colors/styles. Cafe feels.. not worth having? A lot of work and having to leave and grab stuff and go click back onto the register was a bit jarring and felt very weird for work tempo. -custom (the largest) sized books would sometimes chuck other books off the cash register. Was hard to check people out when trying to pick up books from floor through the cash register. Other than that, I really enjoyed the game and will be decorating more soon.
I played for over 20 hours and by the time I got to the Paris store everything turned blue and the cat from the Lyon store would literally fly by whenever I ordered something. I started all over again and put almost 30 hours in and chose to go to Japan but the same thing happened, it turned blue. I can't anymore.
Its fine but some problems built up to make me quit In the midgame your restocking begins to scale out of control. If you set up your second bookshop for aesthetics the store room will be too far away from deliveries and shelves, and your fully staffed 5 fully levelled stockers will take an half an hour (realtime) additional per day just to restock what you sell in a day. So you'll teardown your beautiful store to line up the restock shelves right next to the regular shelves. The game saves at the beginning of most days and I started getting crashes repeatedly when I ended a day in the later mid game. Calculating profits would start to chug even on my expensive performance computer and 50% of the time I would crash and have to replay the day losing 40 minutes of set up and busy work. Game is close to good but loses its charm on insanely grindy restocking and some crashes. I think to fix it they need to allow us to set a % for when shelves will get restocked so that stockists don't restock shelves that are only missing 1 book and a massive increase to speed. I think if stockists were 300% faster right now it would still feel bad honestly.
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