- Version 1.1.6 - 11 May 2026
Hi everyone! As most of you will have seen by now, we recently launched Tiny Bookshop’s physical version as well as releasing on Playstation 5 and Xbox! But gladly, we also found some time to catch up with your requests and bug reports, and fixed what we could with the time we had. Without further ado, here is what we addressed with this update 🔧♥️: Fixed rare game-freezing dog interactionFixed a bug where Harper wouldn’t return the fixed St. Bookston crest (if clues were found in a certain order)Fixed some dialogues playing at the wrong time or too oftenFixed Bookston Crest Replica item effectWidened the time frame in which Harper’s cave quest can startReworded the Grandfather Clock effect description to be more accurateCassette tapes now appear in their respective genre boosting categories, as they shouldYou can no longer get locked out of adopting the dog by declining him twiceFixed…
- A Tasty Recommendation from the Tiny Bookshop team! - 16 January 2026
We’re excited to bring Tiny Bookshop to new players with our first major Steam sale! Leave everything behind to open a tiny bookshop by the sea for 25% OFF this weekend; and for those of you who may also dream of opening your own restaurant? We have a delicious wishlist recommendation: Arcane Eats from our friends at Wonderbelly Games! In Arcane Eats, the best deck-building mechanics get spiced up by cooking elements to add a new depth of flavor and strategy. Running a restaurant is rewarding but hard – you’ll have to satisfy hangry customers, balance the books, and keep the health & purity inspector at bay. Think like a Master Chef, keep cool in the face of challenging (yet charming!) customers, and try to impress legendary chefs like Guy Fairy to grab that 3 Mythril Star rating. You can get a taste in the Arcane Eats Demo and wishlist now!
- Version 1.1.3 - 15 January 2026
Hi everyone, we fixed a couple bugs, like: Problems changing save files or returning to main menu And some book tags In addition we are happy to announce a new item: A Grandfather Clock, that strikes when half of your customers today have entered your shop And another 100 books in the English version ✨ Have a nice weekend everyone, thank you for your support!
- Hotfix 1.1.2 - Fixed Achievements - 22 December 2025
Hi folks, thank you for reaching out! This patch fixes some achievements not being set correctly! Thank you for reporting this! Have a lovely end of the year! 😊❤️
- Hotfix Version 1.1.1 - 18 December 2025
This patch fixes items not being considered in shop when placed on top of the table, etc. after a reload. Thank you for your help!
- Version 1.1.0 - The Winter Update - 18 December 2025
This update is PACKED with new books! But we also have a few new surprises for you. Here’s all that is new in this update: 📕 A Library’s Worth of New Books!Thanks to the incredible work of our Tiny Bookshop Book Council, we will be adding a total of 1,087 new books for you to discover and add to your TBR totems! So this is now the perfect moment to dive back into book recommendations! Here is a breakdown on all the new books by language:447 English107 German113 French77 Russian61 Spanish74 Turkish65 Simplified Chinese52 Traditional Chinese31 Japanese60 Ukrainian 🇺🇦 Ukrainian Joins the Shelves!And as you can spot in the list above, Tiny Bookshop now supports Ukrainian! We're thrilled to welcome even more book lovers and readers to Bookstonbury! Thank you Inna for all your hard work!!! ♥️💡 Quality of Life Features:By popular request, players will now be able to save and load bookshop…
- Tiny Bookshop Is Now Steam Deck Verified - 18 December 2025
Hi folks! After going back and forth with the Steam team, we were able to optimise Tiny Bookshop for the Steam Deck's screen fully! 🥳With this update, Tiny Bookshop is officially Steam Deck verified! This patch also introduces the ability to zoom in, while your shop is at a location, so even the smallest text in speech bubbles will be readable.This patch also sets the default back from Proton to Linux for the Steam Deck and Linux devices. This comes with two notes:The Proton (Windows) and Linux native versions are identical, but you might see some faster loads in the Proton version, and faster runtime performance in the Linux version.Note 1:Load times can be a bit longer on Steam Deck / Linux. This is nothing new, but keep it in mind. Our theory is that thread priority is handled differently, leading to slightly slower load speeds.Note 2:If you haven't opened the game on your Steam Dec…
- Nominate Tiny Bookshop for Steam Award 2025 - 28 November 2025
Hello there Booksellers! The Steam Award 2025 are now underway! You can nominate your favourite games across a variety of categories over at:https://store.steampowered.com/steamawards/nominations/2025 Tiny Bookshop is eligible for several categories, but our favourite is... ⭐️ Sit Back and Relax Award! ⭐️ If you’d like to submit a nomination for Tiny Bookshop, you can do so until December 1st, 10 AM PT. All nominations will be gathered by Valve, and the finalists will be revealed on December 18th! We’ve also been hard at work preparing some exciting news for you in the coming weeks, and we can’t wait to share more when the time comes. But until then, thank you all so much for your continued support of Tiny Bookshop! Your neoludic games 🧡
- Version 1.0.7 - 7 October 2025
Hi everyone, this is just a tiny update addressing a Unity security vulnerability. According to Unity, no exploits have been known with this vulnerability. You can read more on the matter here: https://unity.com/de/security/sept-2025-01 Back to testing cloud save! Have a lovely day everyone ❤️
- Version 1.0.6 - 30 September 2025
General Fixes: Hi everyone, we’re back after recovering from Gamescom, and the stress that has been the release of our first game, with our latest patch! This one took a bit longer to figure out, because we made changes to the save system, and that requires a ton of testing and consideration, to make sure nothing breaks. Plus, it seems like the life we’ve been putting on hold before the release of TB finally caught up with us! Two of our team members got married last month, and we all had to spend some much-needed time to take care of our personal lives, after the crunch-free but still very all-consuming development that was Tiny Bookshop. Without further ado, let’s jump into what we’ve fixed and addressed with this update 🔧♥️ Fixed some UI scaling issues and some edge case problems with dialog bubbles Fixed some item and book tags. Fixed some more typos. Save System Rework Improved Sa…
- Over 300,000 Copies! What's Next? - 3 September 2025
Hello, everyone! We’re back from an incredible week of Gamescom! After 3 years of attempts, we finally came back with an award, winning Gamescom's "Games for Impact" 2025! Thank you to everyone who has voted for us! 🎉 After another week off to recover and purge any remaining "con cough", the team is now back in the office and excited to continue supporting Tiny Bookshop. 💛 ⭐ Tiny Bookshop has sold over 300,000 Copies!It's still not been a month since the release of Tiny Bookshop, and we already sold over 300,000 copies across both Steam and Switch! At this rate, Bookstonbury is going to face over-tourism, and we'll have to call in more seagulls! In all seriousness, we are absolutely blown away! Thank you so very much for the support! ✨ What’s next for Tiny Bookshop?Throughout this month, we will be going through our backlog of player reports, focusing on bug fixes, such as fixing issu…
- Tiny Bookshop has sold over 200,000 Copies!!! - 19 August 2025
It's been a bit over a week since Tiny Bookshop was released. Can you believe there are already over 200,000 of you making Bookstonbury unsafe with your book recommendations 📚, prickly cacti, and smelly fish??? 🐟 I know, it's still hitting me... This has been the most chaotic and wonderful week of our careers; we cannot thank you enough for all the love you have shown for Tiny Bookshop. Now go out there and sell some more books to the world! 💖
- Tiny Bookshop - ver 1.0.5 - 15 August 2025
Hi everyone, it’s now officially 7 days since Tiny Bookshop released, and finally, after tackling the most serious bugs, we found some time to take care of more UX and feedback. Adjusted/Fixed Maryam’s recommendation quest at the café not saving the progress consistently. Increased rain chance in spring slightly. Inspiring Klaus now counts anywhere, and not just at the supermarket. Adjusted Historic Tag. Changed it from “Written about the past” to “meeting a need of immersing yourself in the past”. Nerfed Professor Quest to make it less frustrating. Made cases visible and visually distinct to help you identify which one is currently active. Removed a dialogue gamepad deselection, that would lead to having to re-select dialogue. Made Play and Long mutually exclusive, as plays don’t tend to be over 450 pages. Added a bail-out book box, in case you are out of money and out of books. Adjust…
- Tiny Bookshop (Switch) Review - 14 August 2025
Despite how popular the “cozy games” genre has become, many titles that fall under its umbrella lose sight of the “cozy” part —but not Tiny Bookshop . The latest indie sim darling is precisely what its name implies: you’ve started a mobile secondhand book store, operating out of a trailer pulled by your car. Each day, you venture out to one of the charming locales around the idyllic town of Bookstonbury-by-the-Sea to hawk your wares. Success depends on how well you stock your shelves and make recommendations to your indecisive patrons. Or at least, this is the core of Tiny Bookshop ‘s experience—as much of a puzzle game as it is a business sim. Your stocks are replenished by buying used book lots out of the newspaper classifieds. Deftly dividing your shelf space amongst the various genres will help cover your bases when customers come looking for specific requests. Then it’s a matter of…
- Tiny Bookshop - ver 1.0.4 - 12 August 2025
Added a robust local backup system for saves (One on start-up and one whenever you save) Fixed an issue where the game did not start due to a Steam back-end change Fixed typos and adjusted some book tags Fixed an issue where in the final quest you would sometimes not get an important item Fixed the timing and conditions of some late game quests Known issue: There is currently an issue with Steam Cloud messing with the save files on Mac, and perhaps other OSes. That’s the reason we experienced and fixed the start-up bug, added two additional back-up systems for your save files, and did not get much else done today. If you are affected, please try the solution posted in this thread: https://steamcommunity.com/app/2133760/discussions/0/601912361526441201/ If that doesn’t work, please mail us at developers at neoludic.games and we will try our best to help you. We have alerted Steam Support…
- Tiny Bookshop - ver 1.0.3 - 11 August 2025
Hi everyone, thank you so so much for enjoying our game, and helping us find and fix some more rogue bugs! We're still waiting to verify our Steam Cloud fix with Valve, but here are all the things we fixed in the last 24 hours ✨ Fixed an issue that would sometimes arise when having back-to-back recommendations. Leading to a softlock. Fixed an issue where the plant-growing cutscenes would sometimes not reset properly. Fixed a bug where Tilde’s dialogue at the chess group in the Park would sometimes get stuck, blocking the rest of the day from progressing. This should fix similar bugs in other locations like Moira at the lighthouse or the concert being stuck at ""Wohooo"". Fixed a bug where Walt was not finishing the Writing Quest. Fixed a softlock where you could not confirm the pop-up on the gamepad after adopting the dog. Fixed the start of a late-game questline. Fixed a Harper cave sp…
- Tiny Bookshop - ver 1.0.2 - 10 August 2025
Hi everyone, thank you for all your kind words, your thoughtful feedback and your super helpful reports when things didn't quite work as planned. Here’s what we changed and fixed in this update! Removed contradicting requests for the length of books Removed contradicting requests for something light and academic Adjusted book tags Fixed being stuck at the cave investigation after telling Harper “maybe later” Increased priority of board game dialogue by Klaus Fixed more typos EN Fixed more typos DE Fixed the recommendation request appearing with a huge delay at the Hospital Ensured Seagullsaren’t talking when asking for help Fixed inspiration duration buffs having no effect Fixed untranslated dialogue line Fixed that the recycling bin falsely claims that it is paintable Fixed two instances of Harper while she’s giving the tour Fixed that players were able to skip the wintermarket sell-ou…
- Tiny Bookshop - Patch 1 - 9 August 2025
Hi everyone, as promised, this is a quick first patch, here's what changed ✨ ✅ Adjusted some book tags. ✅ Fixed a couple EN typos. ✅ Fixed customization tutorial bug on controller. ✅ Fixed jumping visitors at the supermarket. ✅ Fixed rare vanishing shelves bug in the recommendation screen. ⚠️We've temporarily disabled cloud saves, as there was a bug with cross-platform saves vanishing completely! We've prepared a fix, but just want to make sure to check in with Steam before setting it live ⚠️ Thank you everyone for your diligent and detailed reports! We'll continue to tinker away on them during the weekend 🔧
- Guide to Report Bugs - 7 August 2025
Like the six-legged critters, bugs can sneak in from anywhere. And before we can address them, we need to identify them. The faster we can figure out what caused a bug, the faster we can fix it!Here are a couple tips on how you can help with that, after you encountered one.1. Play the game until the bug appears, 2. Then press F2 (depending on your configuration, you might need to hold down the FN key on your keyboard when pressing F2).3. This brings up our bug report tool. Here you can give the bug a good name, and describe what happened BEFORE the bug occurred and describe the bug itself.4. If you're open to being contacted with follow-up questions, you can enter your mail, but you don't have to.5. Press send!If you can't open the game, or prefer reporting bugs otherwise, you can also email us with a bug report to developers\neoludic.games.It's still important for you to describe what…
- Tiny Bookshop OUT NOW!!! - 7 August 2025
Dear lovely book and indie game enthusiasts! Your time has come!🎉 You can now open your very own Tiny Bookshop by the seaside!!! 🎉Thank you so much for being here with us. It means the world that you have supported us for so long, and none of this would have been possible without you all!We sincerely hope you enjoy the game! A lot of love was put into it.And after playing, it would be amazing if you could take the time to leave a review!It would help us reach even more people who might love the game in the future 🫶But most importantly: Have fun in Bookstonbury! Yours ever gratefully,neoludic games 🧡
