
Work in a warm, cozy bookstore, sort books by genre, and brighten your shelves! Shelf by Shelf invites you into a peaceful world with satisfying organizing mechanics. Help local readers find the perfect books, make them happy, grow your earnings, and expand your shop!
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Shelf by Shelf is a cozy simulation game that blends the love of books with a relaxing organizing experience. Arrange books on shelves, sort them by genre, and decorate your store. Spending time in a tidy and warm bookshop will make you feel great!
🦆 A Place for Everything
Whether it’s colorful books with vibrant covers or your personal items, organize your shelves just the way you like. Fill them up, enrich your collection, and create libraries that appeal to every reader!
📚 From Dusty Shelves to Grand Libraries
Start with a cozy reading corner and grow into a bustling bookstore filled to the brim. Expand your space with new furniture, decorations, and collections.
💭 Requests Come In, You Deliver
From local residents to book clubs, fulfill orders for different customers, prepare special collections, and invest your earnings back into your shop.
🏢 Your Shop, Your Style
Colorful covers, elegant furniture, and character-filled decorations… All the details to make your bookstore unique are in your hands!
✔ Soft-toned, warm, and comforting visuals
✔ Relaxing and smooth organizing mechanics
✔ Carefully selected literary works to expand your general knowledge
✔ A gameplay pace that soothes rather than stresses
✔ Hidden little surprises waiting to be discovered
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Languages: English*, French*, German*, Simplified Chinese*, Portuguese - Brazil*, Japanese*, Korean*, Spanish - Latin America*, Turkish**languages with full audio support
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Way too slow paced and boring. Wouldn't recommend unless they add further progression or story to it or even if you were able to make money faster with more reward.
The disappointing fact is, there's really not much to do. There's no progression beyond getting more shelves and filling them, and even then you're stuck with horrible RNG that gives you three copies of one title while ignoring the ones that the customers are actually asking for. I also had days bug out twice where the same character would just return over and over again looking for the same book. You'll spend at least the first week just spending every dollar you earn to expand your limited collection. To give an idea of how slow the money earning is, there's an achievement to have $100 in your account and it took me two in-game days of not buying anything intentionally just to earn it. At that point I was around day 25 and was still spending every dollar I made on more books. Get Tiny Bookshop. It does this entire premise much better, with more charm, more decor and interesting characters.
What a cosy chill game. I love it. I'm not the best at decorating but my little store is coming along nicely. I like how they used real titles as I've read most of them and actually know what to recommend if I don't have the book. I seriously want my own book store in real life. Back to the game. So if you need action, this one isn't for you. Just like the lazy cat that just hangs around your store, this game has the same vibe. The look is super cute and I highly recommend it if, like me, you just need to unwind and breath a little. You water your plants, decorate your store, hang out with the cat, clean and restock the shelves and help customers find the books they are looking for or something similar. My dream job. 10/10
A nice experience for someone like me who loves tiny bookshops. Of course, it's not a tiny bookshop, but the game doesn't claim to be one either; it's a different experience... those who play the game will understand what I mean. I think it's a relaxing experience 7/10
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The game feels really undeveloped and lacks features. It's good for about half an hour but there really isn't much to do; It's a repeat cycle of order books, stock shelves and thats it. There's no features to be unlocked - there's just unlock shelves, buy books, and 4 wallpapers and 4 floors. I would not reccomend this game.
A game where you sell books in a two-room bookstore. Essentially, selling books is more of a side activity; it's a game focused on organizing. You get shelves and place objects, books, and pots on them. There is no automatic placement. You arrange them one by one. Searching for books and reading them one by one until you find them is enjoyable. My only complaint was that there wasn't more interaction.
This game honestly reminds me of dealers life game it was from that family but when you play it is different so i want to see shelf by shelf not like a simulation game but like a organizing game. the diffrence from organizig games was that the organizing you did was more customizible and it served a purpose. I liked the environment and the mood vector based simple but nice illustrations were verry cute note: I saw this game on redditt weekss ago and my one complant is that there is not more of what i saw. you have to fill it with content because you have made something that has potential
Leider absolut langweilig. Ja, Cozy Games müssen nicht voller Action sein (das macht diese ja aus), aber langweilig halt auch nicht. Es gibt kaum was zu tun, und es gibt mir auch nicht das Gefühl das da "noch was kommt". Ich werde es zurückgeben, weil mir das Game trotz dem günstigen Preises das absolut nicht wert ist.
Start out pretty slow, but overall a very fun and chill game. Perfect to play when you feel overwhelmed by things. Everything from the gameplay to the graphic is simple & streamlined, and you don't feel forced to get this one upgrade or get this decoration to maximize stats. Very low stake management game!
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