Hello there, Bookseller! With Steam Next Fest just around the corner, were back with some exciting updates!

Well, firstly is of course, we'll be in the next Steam Next Fest, from June 9 - June 16th! And secondly, as Tiny Bookshop gets closer to launch, our demo could really use a refresh! Check out what we have been working on: [img src="https://clan.cloudflare.steamstatic.com/images/42918095/0c7037c3a6340223005112b42a4817da2bc435e7.png"][/img]

Demo Refresh for Steam Next Fest!

Believe it or not, the original Tiny Bookshop demo is almost a year old now!

Since then, weve been hard at work behind the scenes, listening to your feedback, making improvements, and polishing up the experience. And as new indie devs on the scene, we have learned so much from this experience! So for the upcoming Steam Next Fest, we are relaunching the Tiny Bookshop demo TODAY, on the 7th of June! Players can experience the first 3 days of Tiny Bookshop with some improved features and quality of life additions.

Now I know what you must be wondering.. What's New in the Demo?

We've written up a whole changelog with all the new things that you can expect!

Check Out What's New Here!

What To Do if You Find a Bug!

We done our best to ensure smooth gameplay for this demo refresh, but if there is anything that fell through the cracks, check out what you can do on our Bug Report Post to give us a heads-up!

Tiny Bookshop - So you've found a bug while playing the Tiny Bookshop Demo? - Steam News

Quick Note on Demo Length & Languages.

We know many of you were hoping for an extended demo. We hear you! And were just as eager to share more!

Sadly, due to logistical issues regarding localisation, were unable to expand the demo at this time!

With just two months to go until release, weve decided it's best to keep the demo at its current length and focus our remaining time on polishing the full game, so its truly ready for your hands come launch day!

Thank you so much to everyone for your support! And as always, our Discord server is where we'll be making major announcements. If you're excited for Tiny Bookshop, and love meeting other cozy gamers + booklovers. Feel free to join the community! Until next time, Bookseller!

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[ 2025-06-06 18:00:50 CET ] [ Original post ]

Hello Booksellers! Weve been quietly tinkering behind the scenes, dusting shelves, sorting books, and listening closely to your feedback. With the refreshed Tiny Bookshop demo, this is what you can expect:

What's New in the Demo Refresh?

1. Book Recommendations

First up, lets talk about one of Tiny Bookshops most unique feature. Weve received so much feedback from the demo, and weve been hard at work making improvements. In this new demo refresh, weve revamped and made a bunch of adjustments to improve the recommendation system.

• Clearer Book Requests We've massively reworked and reworded NPC requests. They are now easier to understand, more sensible, and their responses are slightly less harsh.

• Favourite Book Hint If someone mentions their favourite book, you can now view its description right within the request, saving you a Google Search side quest.

• No More "Meh" Customers no longer respond with apathy when given semi-fitting book suggestions (rude). Instead, theyll be pleasantly surprised when you recommend an unexpected book. Everyone should be willing to try something a little bit different!

• Always An Answer! Weve also tweaked how customer requests are generated. Now, customers will ask for something that matches a book already in your current inventory. That means fewer sorry, I dont have anything moments and more satisfying decisions.

• Polite Bookseller Don't lie to your customer! By popular demand, "Sorry, we're closed" is now changed to something more fitting!

• Difficulty Indicator There's now a difficulty indicator for recommendation requests, making difficult requests a little more obvious and hopefully rewarding.

• Dual Genre Tutorial We've added a tutorial explaining how books can belong to multiple genres. Think Dracula, is it a classic or fantasy? Its both!

• Less Duplicated Books You are now much less likely to find the same book twice, when going through your shelf.

• Recommendation Sale Boost After you nailed a recommendation, customers become Inspired, briefly boosting everyones chance to make a purchase. May your kindness spark bookish joy!

2. Accessibility

Secondly, we know coziness feels different for different people, so weve introduced a host of new accessibility settings to make Tiny Bookshop more accessible to players with different gaming needs!

General:

• Recommendation Timing You can now adjust how long customers will wait for book recommendations, giving you more breathing room to play at your own pace!

• Auto-Accept Recommendations Dont want to click recommendation bubbles at all? No problem. Let the game auto-accept them for you!

Mouse and Keyboard:

• Pause on Tooltip We've added a setting to automatically pause the game when reading a tooltip. This is especially useful when inspecting timed effects and detailed info.

• We removed the need to click and hold or click and drag completely on mouse and keyboard.

  • Click and Place Decorating In customisation, instead of clicking and dragging. You can now simply click to pick up and click to place when decorating your wagon.

  • New Camera Control Setting "Cursor at Screen Edge", which can be used instead of the default "Click and Drag". This moves the camera as you hover near the screen borders.

Controller:

• Hold-to-Confirm Settings Sometimes throughout the game, we ask you to hold a button to confirm an important choice. Because this can be a problem for some players, you can now toggle a setting that removes that requirement entirely.

• Customizable Movement To move the view, it is still necessary to move and hold one of the sticks in the desired direction. So stick sensitivity and movement speed can now be finely tuned in the settings to feels just right.

• Optional Haptics While our haptics are subtle, you can now turn them off completely if you prefer to play without haptics, or may find haptics uncomfortable.

Ease of Use Enhancements:

• Smarter Graphics Defaults The game will now do its best to approximate a combination of settings that works well on your device on first launch.

• Settings Tooltips All settings now contain detailed tooltips to help you understand exactly what it does.

3. Journal Updates

Your journal has received some much needed glow-up:

• Chapter Navigation Flipping through your notes is easier than ever.

• Calendar Page There's now a brand new calendar page in the Journal, showing you upcoming events, and helping you keep track of all the things that happened this seasons.

• Bookshop Stat Page The new Stats page gives a detailed overview of your shops current setup and how its affecting your business. Great for aspiring expert booksellers who want to fine-tune their strategy.

• Character Pages There are now pages dedicated to Special Friends you'll make, with space to document memories and quests.

4. Visual Updates

• Customer Variety There's now more variety in people's outfits. They can show up wearing hats, bags, umbrellas or raincoats, and so much more!

• Better Visual Effects We've reworked the visual look of the game, and improved the look of shadows and visual effects throughout Tiny Bookshop.

5. Sound Design

• Morning and Evening Music Weve added peaceful morning and evening music to frame your day in a gentle ambience.

• Recommendation Music The recommendation scene now has chill music to help you get into a thinking space!

• New Sound Effects We've added new sound effects to book recommendations and journal navigation.

6. Customisation

• Item Filters We added filters to easier find that one item you want to decorate your bookshop with and make it easier to try out different builds.

7. Newspaper

• Sales Report From time to time you will get a sales report in your newspaper to see how you are doing.

We hope these changes will help give players a better gaming experience and give you a good taste of what's to come in the full release!

What To Do if You Find a Bug!

We done our best to ensure smooth gameplay for this demo refresh, but if there is anything that fell through the cracks, check out what you can do on our Bug Report Post to give us a heads-up!

Tiny Bookshop - So you've found a bug while playing the Tiny Bookshop Demo? - Steam News

As always, thank you so much to everyone for your continuous support! And have fun book selling!

Until next time!

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[ 2025-06-06 17:59:09 CET ] [ Original post ]

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It has been a long year filled with development, fine-tuning, and lots of planning (and occasional struggling), we can finally see the finish line! On August 7, youll be able to pack up your wagon, stock your shelves, and start your bookselling adventure by the sea! So if you haven't already, wishlist Tiny Bookshop so you'll be notified when it launches this autumn!

Cozy Family & Friendly Games Celebration!

We're revealing our release date in conjunction with Rokaplay's Cozy Family & Friendly Games Celebration! The Steam event is live NOW on May 29th. Enjoy special highlights, new game releases, and discounts on many wonderful, cosy titles! We will also be featured in this month's Rokaplay Cozy Games Newsletter! If youre a fan of wholesome, relaxing games like Tiny Bookshop, this free monthly newsletter is a great way to stay up-to-date on the latest cozy titles, events, and announcements.

Click here to Subscribe!

What Comes Next?

With August on the horizon.. there's no rest for the wicked, oh no! Theres still plenty to do before the doors officially open. Tweaking, polishing, translating, balancing, and multiple rounds of testing still await us! We're still fine-tuning the details, dotting the is, crossing the ts, and fluffing the pillows in the reading nook. Theres so much more to do! But were more excited than ever to share what weve been quietly building behind the scenes. We cannot express how lucky we are to have your support, and it means so much to us! So we're more motivated than ever to deliver the warm, cozy bookshop adventure youve been waiting for. Thank you all for your continued enthusiasm, kind messages, and love for our tiny bookish game! If you would like to stay in the loop with all things Tiny Bookshop and meet other book lovers in the community, feel free to join our Discord server!

Let the countdown to August 7 begin!

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[ 2025-05-29 15:12:02 CET ] [ Original post ]

News for April!

Hello fellow Bookstonians! Happy Easter Holidays! We have some much-needed updates, cause lots have been going on! Regarding Tiny Bookshop news, sadly we haven't much to announce for April, but fear not, you May expect to hear news from us very very soon! Though April is not without some excitement, we do have a couple of participatory news!

LudoNarraCon by Fellow Traveller

Tiny Bookshop will be highlighted alongside a lineup of other amazing narrative games! If you are a fan of writing in games, look out for their Steam event that's going live, May 1st - 5th! For more information on the event, and their lineup of speakers, Head over to https://www.ludonarracon.com/

Gamescom Latam BIG Festival

Tiny Bookshop has been nominated as a finalist for Best Casual Game, in this year's Gamescom Latam BIG Festival! While we haven't had much luck (yet) winning our nominations, it is still a great honour and an amazing milestone! Mayhaps we'll be able to win this time? Check out all the nominees over at https://latam.gamescom.global/en/big-festival-en/#awards

[ 2025-04-18 13:51:36 CET ] [ Original post ]

Ever since Gamescom, we have been hard at work developing Tiny Bookshop! A lot of exciting progress has been made! While we don't have a release date for you yet, we have been sharing lots of behind-the-scenes goodies over on our Discord, Instagram and TikTok! So feel free to follow us for all the latest scoops going into 2025! Join the Tiny Bookshop Discord! November has been packed with events, here is a recap of all that's been happening!

Cozy Quest 2024

This autumn has been full of Steam events, but Cozy Quest is definitely one to keep an eye on. There'll be sales and promos on cozy games, plus spotlights on new and upcoming titles youll want to add to your wishlist. While we are still quite a ways away from release, were excited to bring you a special livestream as part of Cozy Quests featured broadcasts! Join David as he plays through the demo, guiding you all the way to the flea market and sharing you insights on the game design of Tiny Bookshop.

DevGAMM Awards 2024

We also have the great honor to be nominated for the DevGAMM 2024's Most Anticipated Game. You can check out all the amazing nominees over at https://devgamm.com/awards2024/ Catch the award announcement live on November 15! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ygg7Kz2nJr0

Save and Sound 2024

On November 4th, Tiny Bookshop took part in Save & Sound 2024! Save & Sound is an annual online music festival that highlights incredible soundtracks and creative use of music in games. We had the great opportunity to join the festival with a special recorded performance of our soundtrack, brought to life by our talented artist Raven Rusch! Check out a recap of the performance right here! https://youtu.be/fdbYJK4zEr0?t=9452

[ 2024-11-14 18:00:12 CET ] [ Original post ]

Hello, dear bookworms, and happy Gamescom season!

You can come see us face to face at the Indie Arena Booth of Gamescom 2024, on August 21st 25th!

Just head to Hall 10.2, and find our booth among the other awesome indies, at number S4!

We are also nominated for two Gamescom awards, and YOU can help us win!

If you'd like to vote in the Gamescom awards, we are nominated in the categories Most Wholesome and Games for Impact!

Vote here! (Only from Wed 21 to Thur 22)

Simply login with your Koelnmesse account and vote in the 14 available categories. The voting will only be available online from Wednesday, August 21 until Thursday, August 22, 2 pm CEST.

While you are exploring the Indie Area, why not participate in our cute sticker rally?

By playing five out of 10 games of your choice, and collecting their stamps, you can receive a cozy sticker sheet! And if you play 6 or more of them, there will be an additional sticker in store for you!

And last but not least, here is a sneak peek at the new merch we have prepared for you at our booth!

We have a limited amount of brand-new 3D-printed keychains and pins of our seven genres! Thus, they will be distributed via a tiny raffle. But even if we run out of them, there will always be some trusty stickers for you to take home! Alrighty, that's all for now. But we are so so excited to see you at Gamescom! <3

[ 2024-08-21 07:00:52 CET ] [ Original post ]

Thank you everyone so much for taking the time to report this issue, and thank you for your patience. In this small patch, we've addressed a game-breaking bug for players playing in simplified-Chinese. Please let us know whenever you encounter any issues with the demo! Pressing F2 and reporting bugs and glitches that way is a huge help for our tiny team to figure these things out quickly. --- F2 (

[ 2024-08-08 15:09:46 CET ] [ Original post ]

Demo version 1.12

Bugs:

Fixed a bug causing corrupted save files in the newspaper, potentially causing some stuck loading screens Fixed a bug when loading another scene, potentially causing some stuck loading screens Fixed a minor-bug when loading scenes while animations are playing, potentially causing some stuck loading screens Adjusted the box size of a tutorial hint so it remains readable in ES, DE, and FR Added an auto-equip if users unequipped the shelf and quit in the customization screen - Fixes stuck in stocking screen tutorial bug - Fixes stuck in recommendation screen tutorial bug Fixed bug panel not showing up while between scenes Fixed bug that allowed the boost arrows to stay visible after an effect stopped Fixed typo in FR Tilde dialogue Fixed typo in FR Gazette title Fixed inflating birds when clicking too rapidly on them Added an actual request behind Tilde's kinda rude context-less one

Polish:

Removed hyphenation from the dialogue text box Added 20 unique books for ES Added thank you for playing message on day 4, to better communicate the end of the demo on the map Adjusted spacing in the newspaper for bold texts Enabled resizing when playing the game in windowed mode Added version display to the escape-menu Bug reports now automatically include log messages, improving the bug fixing workflow

Notes:

Some crashes on devices without a dedicated GPU or an older GPU might be due to the demo being slightly too demanding on the hardware. We'll be optimizing the final version of the game of course, but for now, consider lowering the resolution in full-screen mode, lowering the Anti-Aliasing Settings, turning off Ambient Occlusion, and turning off VSync can all help improve performance and stability. Loading screen bugs can have a variety of causes with the same symptom, so yours might be gone, or still present after these fixes. Thank you so much to everyone who reached out and tried to help. Please still do, if you continue to encounter this bug, F2 + contact info is the best way to figure this out. Because this patch contains fixes that address save-file corruption, it will reset your saved game. Thank you everyone for the kind words, we were absolutely blown away! We are incredibly thankful for having such a thoughtful and passionate community! And thank you everyone for your thorough and diligent reports!

[ 2024-06-12 12:36:13 CET ] [ Original post ]

Dear loyal and devoted bookworms, What you heard at Wholesome Direct is true! The time has come! Your pleas have been answered!

TINY BOOKSHOP NOW HAS A PUBLIC DEMO!

We are so excited to finally share some of the new gameplay with you all! If you'd like some more info on what that demo entails, here is all you need to know:

• How do I play the demo? Download it right here on Steam!
• When can I play it? Right now! Until the end of June.
• What languages will it be available in? English and German. French and Spanish are added as well, but they have not been thoroughly tested, so please feel free to give us your feedback!
• Is there gamepad support? Yes! And we are quite proud of it!
• How long is it? You can play for 3 days in-game, which equals to about 30 minutes in real time. And after the credits, you can still continue decorating your bookshop!
• What can I do in it? Firstly, you will be introduced to the game mechanics with our brand new tutorial. As always, you can explore locations, talk to our characters, browse the newspaper, customise your bookshop, and of course sell books. For the first time, you can also learn more about locations in your journal, master challenges and quests, and recommend specific book titles to your customers!
• Where can I go if I have questions? We have set up a brand new community Discord server for our marvellous fans right here! Join your fellow book worms in discussing the game and share your feedback with us, the developers!
• How can I help improve the game? Since the game is still in development, this demo may contain some bugs, typos, mistranslations, or inconsistencies. If you notice any, it would be helpful if you could report them via our custom bug reporting tool, by pressing F2! We will provide a more detailed guide to bug reporting in a follow-up post today. We'd also love to hear your ideas, suggestions, concerns, or praise ;) over on the Tiny Bookshop Discord.

We are so excited to hear your thoughts on the game, and thank you all for your incredible patience! We hope you have fun with our little demo, and would love to see you all soon over on Discord. <3 Lots of love, Your neoludic Team

[ 2024-06-08 16:11:09 CET ] [ Original post ]

Hi there! Seems like you've run into a problem with our demo! Here's how you can report it to us and help us improve the game for the future.

The best way to report a bug is when encountering it. Pressing F2 in-game to bring up our in-game bug-reporting tool.
This allows us to learn where the bug occurred, along with automatically taking a screenshot, and collecting info on which type of device this happened on. Youll still have to give our six-legged friend a good name and a detailed description of how you got there, to better help our team find it. In case we have follow-up questions, it would be fantastic if you could share a way to contact you, but no pressure! Lastly, you can tell us how urgent this bug is, so we can get to the really bad stuff first.
If this is somehow not an option for you, or youd like some help from us because you can't continue the demo, or youd like the communitys help in figuring something out, then you are welcome to share it on our brand new community Discord server (join here). In this case, please include a screenshot/video/gif of what happened, a detailed description, some information on your current device, whether you played with mouse or with gamepad, and how we can replicate it. Thank you for taking the time to help us out! It's the best way to ensure an amazing finished product. We wish you lots of fun with continuing the demo! Cheers, Your neoludic Team

[ 2024-06-08 16:10:09 CET ] [ Original post ]

Hey everyone!

As promised, we are back this week to celebrate our favourite event of the year: Wholesome Direct 2024!

The kind folks over at Wholesome Games have prepared another showcase of over 70 cozy indie games for you, and have assembled a bunch of awesome streamers to present them to you over on Youtube and Twitch on June 8, at 12 pm ET /6 pm CET! As we said last week, we also have some Tiny Bookshop news to announce, so what better platform than Wholesome Direct to get them to you all! Tune in on Saturday to find out what we have in store for you! Hope to you see y'all in the chat, your faithful neoludics

[ 2024-06-05 18:00:40 CET ] [ Original post ]

Hello, our dear bookworms! We are so sorry that it's already been such a long time since the last update, but! Do not fear, Tiny Bookshop is still here, and it's coming along incredibly well. The most important first: We are thrilled to be invited to the Cozy & Family Friendly Games Celebration held here on Steam from May 30 (that's tomorrow!) to June 04. There will be an amazing line-up of lovely games, handpicked for a cozy night on the couch with your loved ones, with great discounts, demos, and livestreams! Additionally, it's a huge help for us small and upcoming developers whenever you check out and wishlist upcoming games like Tiny Bookshop. Have fun at the event! Now, for other things that happened since *checks notes* NOVEMBER?! (what even is time) We won!!! the Ubisoft Newcomer category of the German Developer Awards. With an acceptance speech on stage, and everything! It was all very exciting. Here's a picture of us looking dorky and happy (with the lovely Mai-Vy from Ubisoft).
As always, thank you from all of us at neoludic for being so excited about our little game, for leaving lovely comments, and for your wishlists! It's what makes it all worth it. See you next week with some more news!

[ 2024-05-29 09:56:20 CET ] [ Original post ]

Hello everyone! First of all, thanks so much for stopping by our Steam page, or for following along on Tiny Bookshop's journey. We're so thankful that you are here with us, and have some great news we'd love to share with you. This weekend, you can find some of the coziest games on Steam all in one place, at the Cozy Quest Steam event being held until Monday, November 20th! Not only can you check out and wishlist upcoming games like Tiny Bookshop, but you'll also get a chance for great discounts and exclusive demos of more than 100 awesome cozy games! Join us for a weekend of delightful gaming and livestreams! In October, it was such a treat to have exhibited our game at the SXSW in Sydney for the first time! Everyone was so sweet, and we certainly hope to go back some day. Shockingly and delightfully, we made it to the Finalists of the GAME OF THE YEAR at the Games Festival Awards! What?! Thank you so much to the jury who deemed us worthy of such an accomplishment, and huge congratulations to DREDGE by Black Salt Games, the winner of the award! For December, we are invited to a very fancy and fun gala, since we are among the three nominees for the Ubisoft Newcomer Award at the German Developer Awards (Deutscher Entwicklerpreis or DEP). What a great honor that we have a wonderful jury to thank for! Keep your fingers crossed for us until the show on December 7th, when the results will be announced. Last, but certainly not least, we wanted to share one of the things we have been working on in the past months. Say hello to Harper, Bookstonbury's unofficial town historian, cryptozoologist, and general (adorable) nuisance.
She is eight years old and goes to elementary school, but that's certainly not stopping her from sticking her nose into your bookshop's business and sharing very helpful mermaid facts along the way. That is it from us for now, but stay tuned for more news, events, and updates from our small and cozy team! Thanks again for being here, and see you soon!

[ 2023-11-17 13:00:31 CET ] [ Original post ]

Hi Bookworms, we have some exciting announcements for you this week! Tiny Bookshops demo will be playable all week at the Gamescom Cologne - Germany. Come find our booth in hall 10.2 in the Indie Arena Booth number 47. We are excited to meet you all, and show you our little game! You can send us a DM via Twitter (X???), on TikTok or comment here, to let us know in advance when youll be there, so we can make the time to chat with you.
On that note, we are incredibly excited to announce that our silly little Tiny Bookshop was nominated for Gamescom's MOST WHOLESOME game award. Our Tiny Bookshop is nominated among stellar titles like Pikmin 4, Pioneers of Pagonia, Smushi Come Home and The Wandering Village. If youd like to help our silly little game out, you can vote for your favorite pick at gamescom.com starting on Tuesday after the opening night live, even if you are not attending Gamescom. P.S. We are also incredibly honored to be the winners of this year's Indie Cup Germanys Rising Star Award

[ 2023-08-21 14:52:02 CET ] [ Original post ]

Dear bookworms, We are excited to finally show you all the changes and improvements we have made to Tiny Bookshop since last year Starting with a fresh new Trailer, just for the occasion: [previewyoutube=vrZs644YqSQ;full][/previewyoutube] The first big change is the updated art-style:


Now Tiny Bookshop features vibrant pastels, luscious greenery and a fully dynamic sky. This rework also allowed us to add something many of you requested: You can now pan around, explore locations, find little hidden treasures and listen in on background conversations.
We have also reworked customization, to allow you to place items anywhere, even inside the Bookshop!
And painting has been reworked to allow you to paint everything, in any combination you like!
While it will still be a little while until Tiny Bookshop will be ready for release, we have created a little demo, which you will be able to play at Gamescom this year! And we are working hard to make it available online shortly after that as well, so make sure to follow to receive a notification.
Thank you for being with us on this journey! Your support and lovely comments really mean the world to us! Tiny Bookshop will still take a little while to release, thank you so much for your patience and support. You all really keep us going!!!

[ 2023-06-10 17:30:48 CET ] [ Original post ]

Hi Steam Community! We're trying out this new feature, so let's have a little Q&A!

We will start with an FAQ portion, and share some answers to the three most common questions weve received about Tiny Bookshop:

[olist]

What platforms will Tiny Bookshop be on? We are working to release Tiny Bookshop right here on Steam for Windows, Linux, Mac, and Steamdeck, as well as on the App Store for Mac. We cant promise any other platforms yet But we hear all of your calls for other platforms, and are working out ways we can make those possible eventually!

Will I need a Gaming PC to play the game? Not at all! Newer Apple devices (with M1 Chip and above) will be great, and lower end PCs and Windows laptops should also be able to run Tiny Bookshop easily.

Will the game be free? No, sorry, that wouldnt really work for us. But, in exchange for paying for the game, you get to support a small indie team, and are spared the bad monetization practices. [/olist]

Now it's your turn! What would you like to know about Tiny Bookshop? Add to the discussion below!

[ 2023-02-21 16:00:51 CET ] [ Original post ]