Tiny Bookshop

Very cute, chill game. Easy mechanics. Suggesting real books to customers is the best part!

Unique and relaxing deckbuilder game with some light narrative elements and pleasant if not particularly memorable characters. The best aspect of this game is that the books are real books, both popular and sometimes wildly obscure. I was a bookseller before I became a librarian so this all felt like old hat for me but I do wonder how somebody would feel about the recommendation element if they weren’t already broadly familiar with the books, especially when you have more books on your shelves than you can flip through quickly and the requests gets more complicated. I was ready for the game to be done when it was and I wouldn’t recommend playing it for more than a couple of hours at a time since the gameplay loop gets repetitive quickly but this is an indie game gem I hope to see inspiring other games in the future.