About the Game
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!
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Version Information
Steam Patch Notes
Official update history
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 interaction
Fixed 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 often
Fixed Bookston Crest Replica item effect
Widened the time frame in which Harper’s cave quest can start
Reworded the Grandfather Clock effect description to be more accurate
Cassette tapes now appear in their respective genre boosting categories, as they should
You can no longer get locked out of adopting the dog by declining him twice
Fixed typos and some confusing wording (in multiple languages)
Fixed over 90 book tags
Fixed a problem that could lead to being stuck at the bonfire
So, if you have reported a bug to us in the last 3 months and have gotten a “we’ll fix it in the next patch” reply: This is that patch!
Hopefully you’ll enjoy the improvements and continue having fun with Tiny Bookshop!
As always here is a link to the previous patch notes: [dynamiclink href="https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/2133760/view/199980407888807012?l=german"]
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!
This patch fixes some achievements not being set correctly! Thank you for reporting this!
Have a lovely end of the year! 😊❤️
Thank you for your help!
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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 English
107 German
113 French
77 Russian
61 Spanish
74 Turkish
65 Simplified Chinese
52 Traditional Chinese
31 Japanese
60 Ukrainian
[p align="start"]🇺🇦 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!!! ♥️
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💡 Quality of Life Features:
By popular request, players will now be able to save and load bookshop presets. This should make decorating so much easier. Create different layouts, swap between them, and experiment to your heart’s content!
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🔍 We've also added the ability for you to zoom! Just a fun little feature for you to inspect and admire the lovely details in Bookstonbury.
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[p align="start"]💰 New Items for the Season!
We wouldn't be ending the year without some fresh decor for the season! Check out what's new on catalogue:
A cozy snow sled and… RUGS! Four brand-new rugs are now available to help you tie your bookshop together!
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[p align="start"]🔧 Bug Fixes and Improvements:
Fixed that the boombox was missable
Prioritised events in journal and newspaper so the most important info is the most visible
Adjusted some tags of books
Adjusted some tags of items
Added "increases customer count" as a filter category in the customisation screen
Added "Important" as a filter category in the customisation screen so you can find and track your quest items more easily
Selected a nicer font for Cyrillic (RU and UA)
Improved PS5 controller RGB mode: it now shows the color of the inspected genre in the stocking screen
Made the UI shaders compatible with older hardware (ymmv)
Adjusted the behaviour of some investigations to be more consistent
Adjusted some timing-related narrative edge-cases
And many more...
We have plenty more in the works for next year. 🐱
[p align="start"]But for now this is our farewell to this year, thank you for making it incredibly special. You all have forever changed the lives of our little team of seven in the just 4 months since Tiny Bookshop released! Thank you!
[p align="start"]Happy holidays, and see you next year!
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 ❤️
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 Save System to try to recover saves automatically and support multiple users. This is a preparation for enabling Steam Auto Cloud in the future.
From now on, the correct directory of your save files is:
Windows:
%userprofile%\AppData\LocalLow\neoludic games\Tiny Bookshop\YOUR_STEAM_ID\Saves\
Mac:
~/Library/Application Support/neoludic games/Tiny Bookshop/YOUR_STEAM_ID/Saves/
Linux:
~/.config/unity3d/neoludic games/Tiny Bookshop/YOUR_STEAM_ID/Saves/
The save files will be loaded from old paths and will be automatically moved once you save. The game saves during any scene load during game play.
Introducing: Self Repairing Save Files!
There is still the archive we introduced, and the Backup folder in your saves, just to make sure your files can never get fully lost! For this we introduced an automatic way, trying to recover the saves if something breaks. This should prevent some of you from having to deal with copying save files from one folder to another in case a save got corrupted.
Regarding the Missing Save Files on Steam Deck:
We sadly can’t automatically port over the save files here, as this has to do with Steam deciding to default to Proton instead of Linux to run our game. Proton uses an emulated file system, so we can’t “reach” the previously created files from within the game. We contacted Steam Support about this, but we aren’t able to change the default behaviour ourselves.
Once we have cloud sync enabled, we’ll return the game to run natively on your deck as intended, but this requires careful consideration to make sure any save files created between the change Valve introduced, and the change back are synced using Steam Cloud.
Until then, we have two fixes for you:
If you want to continue on Linux this is the version we will support in the future (Recommended):
Select Properties->Compatibility and choose Steam Linux Runtime from the dropdown to run natively the Linux version on your device, as we intended.
If you want to stay on Proton and your save files are missing:
Enter Desktop mode, head to “~/.config/unity3d/neoludic games/Tiny Bookshop/YOUR_STEAM_ID/Saves/” or if you have not played on the current patch,yet: “~/.config/unity3d/neoludic games/Tiny Bookshop/Steam/Saves/” and copy the files there to ""~/.steam/steam/steamapps/compatdata/2133760/pfx/drive_c/users/steamuser/AppData/LocalLow/neoludic games/Tiny Bookshop/YOUR_STEAM_ID/Saves""
Tech-y Deep Dive
For those who are really into the tech side of things, we dug deep to figure out what happened the two times there were save shenanigans:
What Happened, when the MAC saves got lost in the first week of release?
So we noticed the following:
We are using the Unity game engine, and noticed that its persistentDataPath is not actually persistent. The behaviour of the persistentDataPath changes on Mac if there is a different folder under a specific path available, which was the case after we tested Auto-cloud in development mode.
That this would happen despite setting the development mode toggle was not clearly documented on the Steamworks backend, but this led to the mac version reading from a different folder after the folder showed up.
We have fixed this by directly specifying the correct path across all platforms, so this should never happen again!
What happened, when the SteamDeck saves got “lost” a few weeks ago?
On Steam Deck, the problem lies with the Steam Deck compatibility review. By default, they only test using Proton, even if a Linux version is available. We noticed they had done a compatibility review, but wanted to hold off on publishing it, as we were still working on adjusting the text scaling and were pretty busy with everything else around release. Somehow, this review was published regardless. As soon as the review was live, Steam changed the default compatibility setting for the Steam Deck from “Linux Native” (What we intended, tested and support) to Proton (Which works, but is not being tested by us). Proton “simulates” the windows file system, leading to the game looking for save files in a different path. We’ll work with Steam Support to undo this default in the future, but only after we enable Steam Cloud for a bit, to make sure the saves between Proton and Linux versions on the Steam Deck are synced correctly.
- 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.
- Adjusted the gardening fundraiser so it doesn’t keep subtracting money after the quest is completed.
- Fixed snow at Park.
- Fixed Nightmare Fuel-Effect never disappearing.
- Adjusted spacing of location genres in the journal to avoid overlaps.
- Improved the UX of colouring your bookshop.
- Made Spoiled Fish only placeable in one slot at a time, to avoid accidental smells.
- Fixed wildlife-board being obstructed at the fish-market.
- Made the Antique Lantern slightly stronger.
- Fixed a glitching shadow at the Café.
- Made rain a little more likely in spring.
Known Issue:
Steam Cloud is still disabled, until we can figure out a way to test it safely. We are in contact with Steam Support! 🙏🙏🙏
Weekend:
We’ll be taking this weekend off, after having worked through the last one. So I hope you’ll understand that we’ll try not to respond during this weekend.
Next week is also the Gamescom, where we will have a booth in the Indie Arena! We’ll still try to find time to respond to your questions, and fix urgent bugs if there are any, but communications might be a bit slower next week, as our 5-person-team has to staff the booth, too.
The First Week:
This last week has been a blur for us. We never imagined that this many people would pick up our game! We are simply blown-away and exceptionally thankful for your support and passion for the game, and the kindness and positivity you bring to every conversation we had with you. We are lucky to have made a game for such a wonderful community! ♥️
As always, here is the link to the previous patch notes: https://steamcommunity.com/app/2133760/discussions/0/601912361526467372/
- 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 of the issue, and are hoping we can resolve this together swiftly. We have also temporarily disabled Steam Cloud on the store page, until we are able to safely test and verify its integration.
Thank you everyone for your understanding, help and support! And for being so kind in your messages, despite this issue.
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Uploaded May 19, 2026
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• Run Redist/_CommonRedist installers if game won't start
• Add folder to Windows Defender exclusions
• Run as administrator
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