
- 72/100
- Players16 ratings
- 80/100
- Critics2 reviews
More scores
- Metacritic17 critic reviews
- 81/100
- Metacritic usersuser score
- 66/100
- Player reviews
- 96% positive7,209 reviews
- Steam Deck
- Verified
- Runs on
- Windows, Mac, Linux
- Price
- US$19.99
Where to get it

2025 · Business simulation · Casual
Tiny Bookshop
Timed Nintendo exclusive
Leave everything behind and open a Tiny Bookshop by the sea in this ambient narrative management game. Stock your wagon, set up shop in scenic locations, and navigate a post-capitalist future alongside Bookstonbury’s eclectic cast of characters.
- Released
- 7 August 2025
- Platforms
- AndroidLinuxNintendo SwitchPlayStation 5WindowsXbox Series X/SiOSmacOS
- Genres
- Business simulationCasualIndieRole-playingSimulation
- Developers
- —
- Publishers
- —
- Modes
- Single-player
- Perspective
- Side view
- Themes
- Business
- Age ratings
- PEGI 3ACB PGESRB T
- Languages
- Chinese (Simplified), Chinese (Traditional), English, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Portuguese (Brazil), Russian, Spanish (Spain) and 2 more
- Copies sold
- 500,000 as of 2025-12-05
- Time to beat
- 18hmain story33hcompletionist
About
Tiny Bookshop is a shopkeeping simulation video game developed by Neoludic Games and published by Skystone Games. It is set in a fictional seaside town where the player manages a mobile bookshop. It was released on August 7, 2025 for Windows, Mac, Linux, and Nintendo Switch. It was later released on the Xbox Series X and S and became available on Xbox Game Pass on Day 1.
›Story
Explore the picturesque coastal town of Bookstonbury-by-the Sea as you make a living selling used books out of your trailer and befriend the locals. Build your small business, discover wonderful locations, help out the locals, solve mysteries, and become a part of the town's story.
Players say
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The articlegameplay, story, development, reception
Gameplay
In Tiny Bookshop, the player assumes the role of a bookseller running a mobile bookshop in the fictional seaside town of Bookstonbury. The game allows players to design and decorate their trailer-turned-bookshop, sell and recommend real-world books to customers, make friends with locals, discover new locations, and complete missions around town.
Each day the player selects a location to take their mobile bookshop in Bookstonbury. Then the player selects how many of each of the seven book genres they want to stock, up to the limit allowed by the bookshelves equipped in their shop. After starting their day, the player opens their shop and waits for customers to browse their books. Some non-player characters are regulars and the player can befriend them through missions.
Development
Tiny Bookshop was developed by Neoludic Games, a small developer based in Cologne, Germany.
In May 2026, the studio announced they were working on downloadable content (DLC) to extend the story of the original game.
Reception
Tiny Bookshop received largely positive reviews, and was praised by critics for its relaxing gameplay and cozy atmosphere.
Tiny Bookshop won Most Charming Game at the Indie Cup Germany 2022 festival and the Ubisoft Newcomer Award at the German Developer Award in 2023. At Gamescom 2025, it won the Games for Impact award and was nominated for Most Wholesome.
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