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.
Modeled estimate, not a reported figure. How we estimate →
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 2,515 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 1041 recent reviews and how positive each mention is. A keyword signal, not full sentiment analysis.
Reviews
Great, Relaxing game.
This game is not only adorable but also relaxing, and a tip for recommendations is to re-read the request. I've forgotten that this person doesn't like a super long read, loves a long read, etc.
It is SO cozy. The progression is just perfect, all of the characters and little side quests spice things up just enough around the day to day of selling books. I seriously can't get enough. If this game could be my full time job, that's what I would want.
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Every market we collect.
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Stats
All-time low is the lowest price we've recorded for this game since we started tracking it.
Languages: English, German, French, Spanish - Spain, Japanese, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Turkish, Ukrainian
| $19.99 |
| 123ratings |
| 93% |
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| $19.99 | — | — | — | not modelled |
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
I can't stop playing this game—you mean I get to decorate my little bookshop wagon and live a chill life selling and recommending books to customers in a quaint, small town?! This makes the ex-bookseller in me so happy!! Particularly when I saw titles like Cleopatra and Frankenstein, Normal People, Death on the Nile, Anxious People—some of my favourite books. Dev, you've got my 100% recommendation for this game for just featuring these good titles in the game. This is an absolute no-brainer for book lovers!!!
Замечательная игра, очень смотивировала меня начать читать книги! Нашла для себя много книг, которые хочу почитать.
Relaxing after a long day. Fun for a book lover. More story and character development then i expected! Perfect balance.
It's a fun little game but too repetitive. The lack of being able to change the speed in game was a nightmare for someone with adhd. I would say if you have money to throw away.... Why not?
TLDR: a budgety game with non-budgety price. Buy at a discount. Basically it's should be a story-driven relaxing game, the problem is there's no story, or at least one which could interest the player. Simplistic graphics is quite nice, but character animations are awful. Another flaw is that sizes of books are not correlated with the declared numbers of pages, even remotely. And the genre classification of the books is ridiculous (poems in drama, dramas in classical). Number of book titles is also too small.
the game is so fun and relaxing. the challenges are fun and engaging and the storyline is interesting.
Petit jeux sympathique, jolie sound design, DA originale. J'aime bien y jouer par petite tranche de 45 min - 1h, de quoi avoir ma petite dose de cosy.
Active players
Estimated daily and monthly active players (DAU/MAU) modeled from peak concurrency.
Players by region
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