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.
For scale, across Steam · Top Sellers · Brazil over the last 30 days: the 23 chart moves that followed a price cut of more than 20% went a median of 14 places towards #1, and the 2,420 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
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
SteamYou are here | $19.99 | 7.8Kreviews | 96% | — | $5.7M |
| $19.99 | 547ratings | 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 1037 recent reviews and how positive each mention is. A keyword signal, not full sentiment analysis.
Reviews
Tiny Bookshop is a genuinely cosy game. The environment, art direction and background music all work together wonderfully to create a calm and comforting atmosphere. It even inspired me to read more away from the keyboard, and I now regularly take a book with me while commuting to work (and actually open it). I enjoy the premise, the characters, the smaller personal stories and, of course, the mechanic of recommending books to customers. However, I do feel that the amount of meaningful interaction is rather limited. Aside from the occasional quest, recommending books is essentially the only major activity during the working day. I have not played a huge amount yet and may amend this review later, but for now, the in-game days have slowly started to feel more like an idle game than an actual bookselling experience. Despite that, it still offers plenty of wonderfully cosy hours. I understand why the price may seem a little steep to some people, but considering the amount of entertainment it provides, I personally think it is well worth it. The game is clearly made with care and maintains its comforting atmosphere from beginning to end. At times, I could almost imagine the smell of the paperbacks around me. Just be aware that there may be a few sluggish moments where there is not much to do beyond waiting for the next customer.
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Languages: English, German, French, Spanish - Spain, Japanese, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Turkish, Ukrainian
| $19.99 |
| 123ratings |
| 93% |
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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 1K reviews with recorded playtime.
positive critical· bar length = how often the theme comes up
Yes yes yes! Cosy game to the max! I played this postpartum while baby napped and I ended up falling asleep I was so chill (and sleep deprived) which might account to my play time. I don’t think it’s as long a game. There’s not much end game but that’s totally fine, I loved every minute of the game. And also came away with some book recommendations. If there were any further update or dlc I would definitely buy
8 из 10...для тех, кто читает книги и помнит их сюжет
An enjoyable and cosy play. I spent some time being frustrated about having to change my decor so much until I realised the Presets option was there to save your stats between locations. Absolute godsent
Calming gameplay. Go at your own pace. Also has really good book recs.
super fun, love the npcs!!!!
Very satisfying
One of the coziest games I've ever played. It's joyful; it's relaxing; and it's beautifully sapphic. This game perfectly delivers on the fantasy of owning a book store.
mega cozy das game fängt den verschlafene stadt vibe richtig gut ein das gameplay macht spaß und die verschiedenen charaktere und quest verhindern das es eintönig wird ich hab jetzt 10 stunden gespielt und immernoch nicht annähernd alles gesehen was das das spiel so zu bieten hat
This game is cozy but very repetitive. I would def recommend it getting on a sale.
Active players
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Players by region
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