Tiny Bookshop

I like books, and I like video games, so why not give this one a shot? Turns out, this was a fun little game about running a book shop. The execution of this ideas was... Alright! I found it's not particularly gripping, but it was fun for about 10 hours or so. In this game, you decorate your travelling book cart, stock books on shelves, go to venues, and make book recommendations. It uses a pool of real-life best-selling and Internet-famous titles to populate its shelves, which was cool. However, making recommendations felt like a crapshoot sometimes because there were no clear tags to the books (how am I supposed to know if a novel from 1923 I've never read has a happy ending?), and customer requests were not always possible to fulfill (you want a... Fantasy book... Without magic...), making for an occasionally frustrating experience. It's especially bad when they ask for a book with X, Y, and Z, and you fulfill X and Y, but they reject it for Z, despite claiming Z was optional. The decoration system seemed to have a lot of strategic depth that went completely ignored in my playthrough. This overall created a pleasant but not perfect bookselling experience, and one that was fairly samey. The writing was also alright. Typical cozy game fare. You've got a small town with pleasant characters in it and you all get along. Nothing remarkable. The graphics and sound were also par for the course for this genre. It's good that the game has no particular ending, because it would certainly be past where the game was fun; I found myself going through the motions at the 20 hour mark to finish some plot elements. Still, I enjoyed my 10 hours with it, and you might like it too. There was some dissonance between game mechanics, and nothing was particularly mind-blowing to me in any department, but you know what? I had fun. I liked this game!

c trop bien

best. game. ever.

Génial

So good!

Such a cosy and chill game! Perfect for leaning back with a cup of tea and some good music (even tho the in game music is very nice as well) There is so much to discover and mysteries to solve, I never felt like I was running out of questions to solve

Extremely cozy, slow game about organizing/decorating a small, drivable bookstore and recommending actual, real books based on what people would like to read. It's not a must to be a book enthusiast, but it is certainly more fun to sell book that you actually know/have read in real life, and it also makes the process of recommending easier. I spent a lot more time that I though I would, which is to be fair not only due the game being very relaxing, but also story progress will consist of a lot of waiting, e.g. for donations to roll in, finishing a certain number of sales, or waiting for characters to come back the next day. You really have to be prepared for the route to be the goal here. The decoration possibilities are huge, I think I still have not bough half of the possible items and colours available for the shop. If you like saisonal decorations, prepare to rearrange often, as the game also features seasons, seasonal events, and seasonal weather. The characters which stories you follow are sweet, altho some remain a bit shallow, and the way they speak seems a bit forced to a certain slang at times. For a few of the story tasks (none of them essential to reach the scripted end of the game, but for late game content for achievements), I had to consult guides because it was a bit unclear where to go or what to do/click in the places you visit. All in all I think every gamer with a focus on cozy games should have played this game, I feel like it is already a classic in the genre!!