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.
Too few observations to say whether a discount moves this store's chart at all: across the last 30 days Steam · Top Sellers · Poland has just 18 day-to-day chart moves that followed a price cut, against 2,498 that did not. We are publishing the count instead of a direction — 20 is the fewest we will draw a conclusion from, and price collection outside the United States began on 6 August 2026.
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 | 548ratings | 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 1047 recent reviews and how positive each mention is. A keyword signal, not full sentiment analysis.
Reviews
As a lover of shop sims, this game tickles that itch perfectly! Not to mention that the worldbuilding is very well done, all the characters you meet are so fun and the art style makes this game look so cozy. Also, the fact that all the books in the game are real adds such a fantastic touch to this game.
好玩，非常治愈温馨，我的退休理想生活。书籍还特意做了本地化，非常用心了。 缺点是因为操作比较重复，后期体感比较差，还总是需要推书，无法完全挂机，但又卡着npc的剧情任务没做完很尴尬
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Every market we collect.
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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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| not modelled |
| $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 1.1K reviews with recorded playtime.
positive critical· bar length = how often the theme comes up
Perfect game for a reader.! Very cozy vibes and loved all the characters.
Очень уютная игра, занесла к себе в список на прочтение много новых книг
仍然推薦給喜歡慢節奏經營的朋朋 ・針對推薦書本這個功能，個人認為一開始很新奇，但後來作業感非常重 ・努力花了時間找出接近客人的需求推薦書，但若不是客人要的，仍然會被客人無情吐槽，蠻讓人心寒的 ・書本的重複率高，感覺就是30幾本在排列組合而已 ・針對戲劇/劇本書本的推薦敘述感覺有問題，不確定是否是翻譯有問題？ ・更換擺設的效果覺得不是非常顯著
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Love the cozy low-stakes atmosphere. As you go, it does get more involved, but overall it's just an enjoyable experience.
Schönes atmospährisches Spiel. Gut zum Abschalten und macht Lust aufs Lesen.
说实话本质挂机游戏，但是他又要求你高强度互动闹麻了，怎么都不爽快。作为一个正经玩的游戏速度太太太太慢了，但也没办法放在那不管，不知道是什么定位啊
Active players
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Players by region
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