Review: Tiny Bookshop
- Guilherme Ribeiro
- Sep 7
- 2 min read
How about stopping to read a book?
THE GAME
Tiny Bookshop is a management game developed by Neoludic Games and published by Skystone Games and 2P Games. You've dropped everything and decided to open a small, traveling bookstore. That's the premise of Tiny Bookshop, a game in which you manage your bookstore while befriending the townspeople. Decorate your shop, help citizens, and recommend books to them.
MY IMPRESSIONS
Quite simply, Tiny Bookshop has you manage a small bookstore. You buy boxes of books of different genres and put them up for sale in your shop, always trying to display the books that will attract the most attention. Decorating your shop, besides making it more stylish, also influences your customers, as some of them promote certain book genres. Talking to locals will earn you friendships and quests, which can unlock other locations or items to purchase.
The game's art is simple but charming and cheerful. All the books in the game are real books, which makes everything much more immersive. Some customers will ask you to recommend books to them based on a given specification, which is really cool and adds some spice to the game, as otherwise, the game would simply be round after round of selling and buying. Unfortunately, however, the game is not in Brazilian Portuguese, which makes it difficult to understand the customer's exact needs and, therefore, not being able to recommend the correct book. Aside from that, it's a very relaxed and casual game, something to play and relax, without much pressure, but still requiring a certain level of attention.
ACHIEVEMENTS
With a wide variety of achievements, Tiny Bookshop will require a certain level of commitment to achieve 100% of its achievements. There are several areas of the town with interactions that unlock achievements, in addition to the more basic achievements tied to the game's central theme: sales-related achievements. Generally, progressing through the game and interacting with the entire environment and characters will guide you toward completing all the achievements, so just relax and enjoy the game.
CONCLUSION
A very simple yet relaxing game, despite being a management game. Everything is done in the most basic way, meaning you won't have to think too much and still manage everything efficiently. The only downside is that the game isn't in Brazilian Portuguese, specifically when I need to recommend a book to a client. Even though I understand English, the description the client gives you is often imprecise, making it difficult for the player to understand exactly what they want so as not to make a mistake in the recommendation. This discouraged me, but I hope they add more language options in the future. Even so, it's a very comfortable game, the kind you can play in the late afternoon with a cup of tea.
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