Tiny Bookshop

I loved it, at least for the 60-70% of the playtime I have in this game. It was cozy, charming. I learnt about books, and I was able to recommend books. The characters you meet in the fictional coastal village of Bookstonbury are all very sweet and you help them with their worries, and celebrate endings and beginnings with them. You go through all four seasons, there several hotspots to sell books, and tons of items you can decorate your tiny bookshop with to help you sell more books, etc. But the closer I got to completion of the game I got burnt out. It started to become less fun. I had so many items and upgrades that I could sell anything anywhere, but the customers felt slow in their browsing of books (wish there was a way to increase the speed here, x2 would be nice, or even more.), and near the end their wishes just made no sense to me. Customer wanted a book that had X and Y and Z (themes, etc), I couldn't find any books matching all three so I recommended a book that had X and Z, but then they complained about the lack of Y. Other times the same thing worked, so I couldn't make sense of it. But all in all I would say I am happy with the experience, I am glad I played through it, but if you are a completionist you better have a lot of patience for the slow gameplay. Edit: After thinking more about this game there is another thing I would love to see changed, and it's the sizing of the books in comparison to their real life amount of pages. Trying to find a book with 700-1000 pages for someone that wants a long read would be way more pleasant if I could judge the length based on book size, because having the biggest book being the 44-pager and the thinnest little thing being a 600 page epic make little to no sense.

[h2]书籍滞销，帮帮我们！[/h2] 打造一个心目中赏心悦目的小小书屋是最吸引玩家的一部分，另外本作让人十分惊喜的地方在于书籍做了中文本地化，当顾客触发让玩家根据顾客需求推荐书籍的环节，真的会在书架上展现现实真实存在的实体书信息[spoiler]（有一些书很搞，我读书少这些书真的存在吗？）[/spoiler]，例如作者、出版日期、内容简介，一个界面上密密麻麻很多字，玩家需要根据顾客的描述结合书籍的信息页面挑选出最适合当前顾客的书籍[spoiler]（说是在做阅读理解你就懂了）[/spoiler]，这一方面给玩家一种在书海中遨游的氛围，另一方面也确实能调动起玩家“阅读”的能力，这个亮点让本应该枯燥无味的经营体验升华成充满真实阅读体验的过程，开着小书车给顾客们推荐书籍的模拟体验真实不少，可惜这种真实体验会随着玩家逐渐把注意力放在书籍信息关键词提取上而削弱，真实感还是转变成了关键词对号入座的生硬感，再加上虽然特意做了本地中文化，但是翻译生硬不通顺的问题在一个页面文字占比很大的情况下很影响玩家阅读体验，最后又回到了机械式经营的流程中。 如果是有掌机的玩家可以在掌机上游玩本作那么本评测中提起到的有关本作所有的痛点都不是什么问题，这就是一部十分优秀的“睡前游戏”很适合掌机玩家在睡前游玩，本作“放松安神”的功效是实打实的好。至于在PC上为什么不推荐，首先就我个人来说没有办法做到在感受困意以后能把睡意从关闭电脑到上床睡觉的过程中维持住[spoiler]（早睡......这种事情，我做不到！）[/spoiler]，“睡前故事”并不适合不在床上准备睡觉的人。其次关于游戏节奏，本作主打的慢节奏体验并不是在游戏设计上多么有巧思，而是指的是玩家为了完成某个任务或者购买装饰品需要花费大量的时间在重复性并且收益低的内容上[spoiler]（报！书山镇书店老板每天卖书都在亏钱！）[/spoiler]，针对带着明确目的去完成任务的玩家能够明显感到在流程中有一种强烈的阻挠感在阻止玩家推进流程，任务大部分都是需要反复积累无法速成的任务，卖书过程无法快进，没有给玩家提供加速的机制[spoiler]（时间，要加速了）[/spoiler]，在本作游戏性不高的情况下不推荐专门去游玩本作，本作的定位还是适合作为一款副游。 在流程上因为没有办法跳过日期，所以很容易错过限定季节的特定事件，又因为触发事件需要把特定的物品装备上才能触发，所以一旦错过就要经历游戏中完整的一年，游戏中的一年有4个季节[spoiler]（远滩这个地点的任务只有在夏季才能触发）[/spoiler]，每个季节有28个回合，一些重复性的对话内容不能自动跳过[spoiler]（没有办法挂机）[/spoiler]这在随心所欲游玩的差不多以后准备通结局的时候极其折磨。 游戏流程一方面安排了大量的限定任务又一方面想让玩家轻轻松松的游玩，两者在本作中并不能很好的自洽，尤其是不推荐给以一周目通关为目标的玩家游玩。

Tiny Bookshop is a very good managment game where you have to sell differents various books to customers in differents areas. You also can customize and add some decorations to your shop. I really like the fact that game offer lots of freedom to go where I want. The story is very good, the designs are nice and the soundtrack is very chill. I highly recommend it! 📖💗

游戏本身没有大问题，但本地化做得真的不行，有些npc的要求跟原版不说背道而驰也是两模两样，有些会要求会前后矛盾，甚至在书籍简介上出现了翻译错误。这个游戏玩的就是按条件推荐书籍，给我错误信息指望我全靠文学素养给书吗？而且汉化组选择的字体和对文字的排版导致玩家阅读文字获取信息的难度很大，视传专业看得脑袋都大了一圈，这要是本科生相关课程的作业要么低分要么打回去，不知道审核是怎么审核的。 总得来说游戏本身还是不错的，很解压很放松，但有能力的推荐去玩原版或者繁中，考虑到这个测评本身可能还是简中用户更有可能看到，所以打了差评，希望下次制作组好好挑选汉化组，对本地化上点心。

Cosy management games are right up my alley and I really thought I would like this one. There's nothing to manage though, the bookstore basically runs itself and you just stare at the screen waiting for an NPC to ask you for a book recommendation. The characters are not very likeable. I started recommending them books they hate just for fun. There seems to be no penalty for doing so. This whole game is so low stakes it's hard to get invested.

I'm not sure what I was expecting, but you actually have to know a lot of books and be an avid reader to play this game. The book recommendations minigame will give you a description like, "I loved The Ginger Tree, and I enjoy poetry". You then have to choose the correct book given a title and very short description of the book. Really you have to actually know the book you're recommending, otherwise it's hopeless. What the heck is The Ginger Tree??? What is Lady Audley's Secret??? Does it have poetry??? 30 minutes in, a kid walks up to me and tells me I'm terrible at my job. And the worst part is, they're right. I have nobody to blame but myself. Anyway, this system is really cool and I think lots of people will love it, but I'm too dumb, ignorant, and unread for this game. Just an FYI for others like me. I'll recommend it even if it didn't work out for me.

Tiny Bookshop — НАЙКРАЩА ГРА ДЛЯ КНИГОЛЮБІВ 📚 А якщо ви взагалі не любите читати ця гра може це змінити. Саме той випадок, коли приходиш додому втомлений, нервовий, і просто хочеш вимкнути голову та відпочити. Сюжет починається просто й душевно: ми кидаємо все і їдемо далеко-далеко до моря, в тихе невелике містечко. З першої хвилини огортає затишок і атмосфера спокою. У нас є маленький магазинчик на колесах, їздимо по різних локаціях і продаємо книжки. Є цікавий сюжет із колоритними персонажами, з якими можна спілкуватися на свій розсуд. А ще маленький песик, який одразу краде серце і стає нашим другом 🥹 Крамничку можна оформлювати як душі завгодно: декору безліч, і це окреме задоволення. Збираєш марки, накопичуєш спогади і непомітно занурюєшся у цей світ. Окрема перевага у бібліотеці є багато українських письменників, також різноманітна зарубіжна література. Супроводжує чарівна і приємна музика на фоні. Геймплей простий і зрозумілий, зайде навіть тим, хто рідко грає (я серед таких) Tiny Bookshop це маленька втеча від буденності 🌊

This was very cute and fun. The quests give enough of a dopamine loop to keep you coming back till you finished, and it was nice to 100% without being too grindy. My only advice to any achievement hunters would be to not wait till the end to start getting the book sale achievements (or you'll have to get through a lot of extra days waiting for the right event/season.) A skipping days function would have been nice to prevent that small grind, but overall a solid game!