Leave everything behind and open a tiny bookshop by the sea in this cozy narrative management game. Stock your tiny bookshop with different books and items, set up shop in scenic locations, and run your cozy second-hand bookshop while getting to know the locals.
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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.
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): 7.57/day in the week to Aug 7 → 9.86/day in the week after.
Too few observations to say whether a discount moves this store's chart at all: across the last 30 days Steam · Top Sellers · Poland has just 18 day-to-day chart moves that followed a price cut, against 2,498 that did not. We are publishing the count instead of a direction — 20 is the fewest we will draw a conclusion from, and price collection outside the United States began on 6 August 2026.
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
Leave everything behind and open a tiny bookshop by the sea in this cozy narrative management game.
Stock your Tiny Bookshop with different books and items, set up shop in scenic locations, and run your cozy second-hand bookshop while getting to know the locals.
Decorate your Tiny Bookshop with the items you collect. Are you into absolutely plastering it with plants? Maybe a spooky candle-lit atmosphere is more your style? Every item also has an effect on your customers and can introduce new mechanics.
Recommend the right book to the right person ~ or try to expand their literary horizon? Sometimes they just need a little help finding a book they will love!
Befriend Bookstonbury's quirky cast of characters and help each other out! They're friendly, promise :)
Stock books of different genres to satisfy the locals’ reading habits and watch your customers trickle in. Every place around town attracts a slightly different crowd, so get to know your audience and become a master bookseller!
Explore the scenic places of charming Bookstonbury-by-the-Sea and learn the ins and outs of the town. Discover its long history ~ what happened at Bookston Burgh? And who really was St. Bookston?
Discover secrets, collect items and grow your stamp collection as you explore the nooks and crannies of Bookstonbury. Who knows what else you'll find?
If you want even more updates on the development and to chat to some fellow book lovers, you can now find us on Discord!
Sums Steam only; Xbox, PlayStation, Nintendo publish no volume signal, so the true total is higher by an unknown amount.
| Store | Price | Audience | Score | Chart | Est. revenue |
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SteamYou are here | $19.99 | 7.8Kreviews | 96% | — | $5.7M |
| $19.99 | 548ratings | 74% | — | not modelled | |
Updates
Build ids and update times come straight from Steam's PICS — the same source SteamDB reads. Patch history grows as we record new builds.
Engagement
Reviews
Themes across 1047 recent reviews and how positive each mention is. A keyword signal, not full sentiment analysis.
Reviews
Relaxing management sim that cleverly teaches general knowledge of all kinds of books and authors.
muito legal não só amo recomendar livros como também amo ser recomendada livros
Enorme coup de coeur !
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Languages: English, German, French, Spanish - Spain, Japanese, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Turkish, Ukrainian
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Matched by title — a reused name can pair the wrong games. * is a critic aggregate. Prices and positions are each store's United States storefront; Epic charts worldwide. Audience and Score too, except Steam's, which is worldwide.
Hours played at review time, across 1.1K reviews with recorded playtime.
positive critical· bar length = how often the theme comes up
This game is the ultimate cozy game! So so fun while also having challenges! I have this game on every dang platform and it is just my favourite.
This is such a cozy game. Very simple mechanics and controls, but it still makes you strategize. I love that they use actual books! It's always fun to see a book on my shelf that I've read IRL and so I can [i]REALLY[/i] recommend it to the NPCs haha. The art and music are so very charming and I love the personality of all the NPCs. Overall 10/10! Adding to my list of comfort games.
这里是天堂吗？好幸福……玩得废寝忘食昼夜颠倒日夜不分，这个游戏简直每一个像素点都在诠释幸福的定义，从现在开始我将放弃其他一切所有事情研究怎么才能过上游戏里这种日子（不是） 😭😭😭😭[spoiler] 索菲娅 [/spoiler]你带我走吧，我也要退学/辞职来到一个风景秀丽氛围舒缓居民和睦的滨海小镇，开着一辆卖书车不断积累资金从小破车到大书店，在各个地点与各个居民留下珍贵的回忆的同时把书山镇变成一个更美好的地方……书山镇的经纬度到底是多少我明天就要去😭😭😭😭 唯一的问题是本地化做得不太好，推荐书的时候跟顾客的交流总是牛头不对马嘴，我推荐《如果我们无法以光速前行》的时候顾客居然说这是爱情小说，我真的怒了！！！！但毕竟推书只是一个增益并不影响核心经营，而且玩到后面也能猜（呃）出顾客想要的书所以没关系；此外社交平台上似乎也有玩家总结了所有书与推书标签的对照表，不过反正推书对错影响不大而且书也不少所以我没有去记，有需要的话可以自行搜索一下，总体来说瑕不掩瑜啦，如果我的英文水平再高超一点也许我会玩英文版就没有这个问题了T^T 虽然玩了足足24小时（有参考攻略，不看攻略的话可能需要30+h）但我还是觉得不够长……不过要是再长一点我可能真的要抛弃现实生活每天开赛博书店然后把自己饿死了吧！从流程长度的角度来说也是很完美的一个游戏啊（感慨）
Cosy gaming at its finest. Very relaxing, non-punishing gameplay that lets you go at your own pace. The environments are delightful and I really enjoy the added mini-quests that give the game some extra direction without being overbearing. There's enough customisation and decoration for those of us who are into that sort of thing, and overall I found myself pleasantly surprised by how much I want to keep coming back to this.
Lovely Cozy game. The customization options for the shop are wide with multiple side quests as well. The game is pretty chill I really enjoy the recommendation mechanics. It's honestly given me quite a few books suggestions I want to check out.
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I bought this game as soon as it came out on Nintendo Switch and absolutely adored it, the only thing I wanted more of was *more* of the game. It was part of the first bundle of games I bought after getting my first PC, and was so excited to play it again. I'm already very pleased with it yet again, and for me it is one of the ultimate cozy games.
Active players
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