Little Library

I really love the idea of the game, but in it's current state I can't recommend it. The primary purpose of the game is to help the town increase their reputation by running the library on a daily basis, including reshelving books, paying bills, cleaning, ordering new books and, my favorite and the challenge in the game, recommending books to members of the town. It includes other mechanics like fishing (I'm not sure what I can do with the fish once caught), and farming (I guess to make some extra money), but it's mostly walking around town talking to people and then opening the library and running it, using extra energy at night to fish. However, the main mechanics of running the library don't function properly, causing you to constantly lose reputation. Here are the bugs I ran through in just over an hour of play: 1. Individuals visiting the library will just stand in front of the shelves indefinitely, preventing you from reaching the shelves to clean. Due to this, you can't do any other tasks of the library, forcing you to close it and lose rep. 2. On the time I successfully cleaned all the shelves, (all shelves showed their categories), it didn't register it and got stuck in the same loop where I could do nothing else and had to close, losing reptuation. 3. While trying to clean the shelves, my character would glitch into the shelves, not clean them Beyond that, there are regular places where the borders of the houses aren't complete and you can walk into the walls. UI Improvements: 1. There's lag time on your movement if you use movement keys, causing you to take an extra step before turning unless you time it just right. Meanwhile, clicking causes you to race across the speed at 10x speed. 2. There's lag when trying to exit the Menu and no back arrow like on other screens. 3. Inventory screen doesnt show your fishing rod, what seeds you bought, or your money. It appears to only show fish Storyline: 1. The characters have a tendency to just repeat the same dialogue every day 2. The storyline in the western woods didn't seem to have anything coming out of it even when I would go explore it. Overall, t's a great concept, and a decent start to the game, but was released too early in my opinion

I'm kinda on the fence, but I will say Recommend, with the caveat that this is a very repetitive and chill game. If that's your jam, then go nuts homie. If you were hoping for a more in depth game, then eh maybe do not go nuts. The Basics: Gameplay loop is very short and samey. Wake up, maybe go fishing, sell your fish, chat up some locals, water your crops (if any), open library, rec 3 books to your customers, clean, put up returned books (if any), close library, fish, sell, water, etc. You get the picture. You get reputation by giving correct genre recommendations to your customers. You build relationships by listening to the locals say the same thing like every day. You get money by catching/selling fish, growing/selling produce and from daily donations to your library. You spend money on more books (and allegedly bills but I haven't actually had one yet). Nice: Interesting book selection. Chill gameplay. Nostalgic graphics. Clicking on a square moves you there much faster than WASD, which is only nice because otherwise you are slow. I do like the reshelving returned books mechanic, but I actually work in a bookstore so maybe it's not that exciting for anyone else lol. Fishing for money is a neat addition. Not So Nice: Repetitive day loops. You do clip through stuff, especially the bookcases when cleaning them. The map is large and you move slow. Characters seem to ask for the same stuff repeatedly. Growing produce is....tedious. You have to select from a menu of all possible seeds, even if you only have 1 kind of seed available. So every time you plant, you have to select Plant, scroll through the list to find the seeds you have, then plant, then interact again to water them. Not the worst, but very unideal. Maybe more stuff unlocks as you progress, I have no idea. As is, I'm not sure what the point of the resort is? You cannot talk to the guests so it seems strange that its like....an entire section of map. I haven't unlocked the Basement yet, since it took me awhile to realize the carpenter was only in her shop before I open the library for the day and I spent all my money on books. RIP. It's a neat little game concept and I'll probably circle back to it occasionally when I want a very chill no stakes game, but it's not grabbing me at the moment.

Unfortunately, very buggy right now. Hoping it improves.

I really like this library mechanic idea for the cozy game! It's repetitive but really simple game that you manage the library in a small town with different NPC to gain the relationships too with the folks. Also it using 16-bit pixel art game that makes this games looks really cute.

As a fan of cozy games, I really loved the atmosphere of the game and the relaxing feeling it creates. I got attached to Emma and will play more to understand more about her story, it looks like she is hiding something haha. Please do not make her a bad persooon!!!! she reminds me of Robin from Stardew Valley. Would we be able to marry characters in the future? I need to say that the game still has some rough edges, especially with UI quality and the amount of dialogue in the beginning, but I cna understand that the devs want to give different personalities to each characters and I can see it in the conversaitons!!! I really want to see more about this game and cant wait to see the next updates