Tiny Bookshop Review – cozy, clever and infinitely charming from the cover

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Build your book, one tranquil day at once.

Reading and games are my two favorite hobby and Small bookstore He packs them together in one perfectly cozy experience. It is a tiny game with a massive heart – a part of management, partly telling the story and completely designed for players who find joy in books and relaxing vibrations.

Small bookstore It is a cozy narrative management game in which you leave everything to live a tardy and peaceful life leading a bookstore at the sea in Bookstonbury. Although his tardy pace and minimal challenge may not work for everyone, this game recognizes the charm with a book – or in this case, running a full store – and turns this feeling into a tranquil but purposeful loop of the game in which you will love to get lost.

Warehouse shelves in a stunning coastal history

A bonfire with a group of characters gathered around fire on a beach in a tiny bookstore
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Bookstonbury is a stunning coastal city revived by an extremely charming style of art. You can run your tiny store on wheels, where you want, or the lively mega marche, a picturesque sea lantern, or a heated Liberté cafe in the heart of the city.

Every day you choose where to configure which items you want to have in your store and around it, and run a selection of books for sale. When your store is ready, you can get sales. While running the store, you will meet the cast of bizarre characters who slowly reveal more about yourself. These villagers sometimes also give you tasks to fight.

Your little bookstore is fully configurable, and the decor you operate even has the unique effects of the game that can assist or make sales hard. Some items may escalate the sale of some species, while others may be ghostly or distracting attention by distracting customers from books. Additional items can be found all over the world, bought from some suppliers and earn during special events.

Books you know and love, as well as these

Recommending a book at Tiny Bookshop
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The books with which you store your shelves are organized in seven different categories and are bought loose from Blind Boxes, which means that you never know what you can find. You can meet enormous titles and series such as Hunger gamesIN Song of ice and fireIN A strange case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. HydeAnd Shakespeare, or you can find false books that only exist in Bookstonbury, many of which are quite stupid, like Catching carp by Nigel Carpum.

Descriptions of all books are custom, and quite entertaining and related lines are sprinkled all the time. If you come across Dance with dragonsFor example, that developers brazenly ask George RR Martin when he finally intends to release Winter winds. Neolyudic games ask real questions here.

Many customers buying books in a small bookstore
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Every day, customers sometimes ask for recommendations based on what they like, which means you need to know a little about the books you have in the warehouse. Fortunately, they are all classified and have a few key details that you can review by making navigation easier. You may have to look at a few, but it turned out that this process is quite entertaining, and I even added a few books to my list of those who want.

During the game I only came up with two tiny problems. The first and greatest is that the book’s recommendations were sometimes contradictory and seemingly impossible to fill. One client asked me for a fantasy book without magic, dot, but then I got nervous that I recommended a book without magic. I also caught several typos here and there, like a “Healhty plant”, which was for sale, which is not a huge matter, but I broke the immersion a little. Both cases took place more than once, but they were tiny problems in the massive plan of things.

Turn the pages – it is more hidden between the lines

Cannon ball collection in Tiny Bookshop
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Small bookstore It is luxurious in secrets and novel content to discover. Whenever I thought that I saw it all, finally found or unlocking even more. This includes special collections that you can operate to download the store, novel interactions in various places that you can visit, and fresh locations that you can only discover on specific days or in certain seasons.

What makes him Small bookstore It stands out how it smoothly connects the cozy streets with a fine story. I respect your time without hurry, offering a sense of progress without stress. How you decide to spend days, build a shop and exhaust your collection depends on you, and it’s not just relaxation – it is also satisfying.

I don’t have enough Small bookstoreAnd he quickly becomes one of my favorite cozy games in the latest memory. He won a constant place on my (digital) shelf with books, and if you love cozy games, he also deserves a place on yours.


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