
Librarian: Tidy Up the Arcane Library! is a single-player simulation. You need return scattered books to proper places in an Arcane Library. As completed rows of bookshelves, you can learn ability to improve your efficiency. Use your skills and strategies to shelve 3,072 books as quick as you can.
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A mischievous fairy has left the once-majestic library in utter chaos. The principal’s word is law: "You are forbidden from leaving until all 3,072 books are returned to their rightful places!" In the silent, mystical archive, your long battle against the mountain of books begins.
Categorization: From Destructive Magic and The Travels of Otherworld to Romance Novels—use titles and cover designs as clues to transport a massive collection to the correct sections.
Massive Volume: With 3,072 books to organize, the task may seem overwhelming at first. However, as you stack each book, you will unlock magical abilities that drastically boost your efficiency.
Visual Satisfaction: There is a special joy in seeing the books that once cluttered the floor return to the shelves, slowly revealing the hidden floor beneath. As chaos transforms into perfect order, you’ll experience an unparalleled sense of satisfaction.
Strategic Efficiency: How will you combine your unlocked abilities? What order will you tackle the mess? The strategic fun lies in your decision-making, as your tactics can lead to a dramatic increase in workflow.
Immersive Atmosphere: The library’s ambient sound and BGM change dynamically; as shelves fill up, the acoustic resonance grows stronger, drawing you deeper into the world.
The Principal’s Strict Evaluation: Your precision is being monitored. The Principal’s evaluation shifts in real-time based on how many rows are "correctly shelved" according to the rules. Accuracy and speed are the keys to a perfect score—and your escape.
Assemble: A spell that summons other volumes of the same series directly to your hands.
Insight: Highlights other volumes of the same series, making them easy to spot even in a disorganized pile.
Auto-Shelving: A spell that instantly places the books in your hands onto the shelves in perfect order.
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Languages: English, Traditional Chinese, Japanese, Simplified Chinese
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Great cozy game with no pressure to perform quickly/efficiently (unless you're going for the three-hour achievement of course). The #4 and #5 spells are pretty crazy and make the other helpful spells go unused, but also made the speed run a lot of fun. I definitely recommend doing the no-magic run before going for speed so that you know the library layout by heart. Looking forward to seeing what they add in the future!
I want to like this game, I really do. I tried but the game has major issues. The difference between this glowing because it's correct or incorrect looks pretty darn similar. I'm not colorblind at all, but this game makes me want to get my eyes checked because it should glow "red" when it's wrong, but I do not see any red.... at all. I'm like well I guess it didn't place well because the glow wasn't so bright? Placement is for debate. A book about love should be in romance right? Wrong. Where should it go, no clue, just not romance. I'm sure the game gets more enjoyable once you unlock a perk, but unlocking that perk is a slog that may not be worth it to you. The game is a lot... a lot. Take a pic of the legend because you will be constantly going back to it. Which is so stupid. It makes a tedious game borderline infuriating.
Отличное медитативное развлечение. С прокачкой магии уборка идет все быстрее, так что задача не столь грандиозна, как кажется на первый взгляд.
When I saw this, I thought "what is this? There's no way it's what it looks like. It's going to have some hour long mandatory tutorial, then make me read long weird stories and follow a linear track around. There's no way it's simply a game that drops you in a disorganized library." My friends, this game showed me how old and cynical a life in the gaming world has made me. This is an open world library sorting game. The books are gorgeous. You don't have to read anything. You don't even have to sort them. No one is making you do anything. It's a mess of books and no one is there to push you or scare you or tell you to fetch them anything. This is my happy place. Only thing I need is more library.
Look, let’s be honest: I absolutely hate this game. But I also can’t stop playing it. As someone with OCD, this game is a weaponized zen trap. It offers the exact kind of low-stakes, high-dopamine hide-and-seek that appeals to my need for absolute order. The book titles are incredibly clever, hunting them down feels great, and it requires just the right amount of brainpower—which is to say, almost none. It’s the perfect digital scratch for a very specific itch. However, consider this a formal warning from the Restricted Section: Do not get this game if you are looking to just veg out and relax. You think you're going to casually browse a few digital shelves, but before you know it, it’s 3:00 AM, you’re covered in metaphorical dust, and you are aggressively organizing forbidden texts like a manic wizard who drank way too much espresso. You will find yourself deeply, existentially offended if a grimoire on Necromancy is misplaced next to a light-hearted scroll about herbalism. It is a beautiful, organized nightmare. Highly recommended, but I still hate it.
Es muy gustoso ordenar las estanterías, y se nota que quien ha hecho el juego ama los libros, porque reconoces los tipos de encuadernados, camisas, relieves, maquetaciones, etc de cada género y tipo de publicación.
I love this game. I only wish their were other libraries than the singular. I hope there is more to come.
I...MUST....SAY I am appalled that these people used AI maybe 2 times with art and a couple times with text. It's even a double hit to me because my entire mother's side of my family was killed by a drunk LLM driver. How DARE they! Who do they think they ARE the Pope?! If they can't type proper English they should enroll in advanced 5-year English programs. And if they can't draw they should enroll in an advanced Art Degree program for 8 years. It just makes me so sick to my stomach. /s "AI SLOPPERS" - get a MF life. Get over it. GFY. PS - wtg Librarian devs. Great job!
I wasn't gonna write a review for this game, but the goobers giving it a negative rating all because the devs used AI for a few painting REFINEMENTS (not creation), a UI element, and grammar correction (which is literally what Grammarly is) is ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ ridiculous. Like bro, if you like the game, but don't like how they made it, don't leave a negative review. You didn't dislike the game, you disliked AI. Go leave a negative review for AI generated games, not a game that used AI for a few things. If people actually read the page, instead of just going into the discussions tab and falling for the rage bait ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ in there, they'd realize the devs didn't go to Claude and be like "oh, Claude, make us a game about organizing arcane books in a library", they just used it for part of the refinement process. Seriously, people will rate this game negative because they didn't want to spend eight thousand years going over every single book in the game to make sure grammar and spelling was proper. Like I've already said now, if you don't like that they used AI, go rate AI negative. Not a game that you actually enjoyed playing. Use your brains, people. I don't really like writing reviews in this fashion, but the stupidity of some people is immense enough to make me. For my actual review of the game: It plays suprisingly smooth for how many different assets there are. And it's extremely fun to play. Though it is a lot quicker to beat than I'd like it to be.
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