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?
Gupscore: ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Category: Cozy, Management
I’d honestly rate Tiny BookShop this high score for the amount of bummed out I got when the ‘This is a Demo’ note dropped. And I was just getting the knack for checking out the books I was selling.
Tiny Bookshop is at the top of my list of games to wishlist. I only heard about it in like a million recommendations on Tiktok and Youtube, and there’s a good reason for that. Game is actually good and well thought out.
First, I got a decent tutorial on how everything works. This is always my thing with most demos. Second, the cozy visuals and the slow-paced progression makes me feel I can play this game while working lol
Third, the assortment of books are interesting enough that I sort of missed going to Manila Book Fair and getting all my books before classes start. It’s not really that I’m such a book lover.. but the general cozy vibes of being around books, it’s dopamine. It gets more interesting when people started asking for recommendations and I had to read the excerpts of the current stock I have just to give a proper recommendation. Then you actually get curious about those books so you google them and turns out some are actual novels.
Bookstonbury is a quirky English-sounding name, but maybe someday this game will go international, who knows there could probably be a Bookinawa or Booklahoma or Booka Ratton lol Other tiny details–I appreciate that I can pick random items from the beach or anywhere else and use it as decoration. I also liked poking the pelican and petting the doggo.
The tiny bookshop customization could use a bit more options and there’s also not a lot of backstory about our main character aside from ‘wanting a fresh start’, so those are some things I’m looking to unlock when the game releases.
Final verdict: If I was being honest, as much as this game feels interesting, I might leave this in the backburner. I’m still 50/50 if this could be too cozy it might teeter around boring.
