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

DevGAMM Awards 2024

Save and Sound 2024

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!

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

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

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

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

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 (

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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!

• 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.

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.

Hey everyone!

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

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!

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!

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

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!!!

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: