This tiny indie game lets me live my dream of selling books by the sea
I’ve had my eye firmly on this game for a couple of years now, and finally I can say I’ve played it. Tiny Bookshop truly lives up to my expectations – and its name, because your bookshop really is tiny. Don’t let the size fool you, though, as there’s a lot to love and plenty of whimsy in Neoludic’s indie gem.
As the age-old story goes, you get bored with the rat race and buy a tiny trailer, which you turn into a bookshop. Then, you pull up in a quaint seaside town to start selling tomes. From here, you can buy boxes of used books in the local newspaper, along with some decorations for your trailershop, and figure out where you want to park up each day.
You can set up shop at the waterfront, where sailors like travel books, or by the supermarket – crime and drama go down really well here – or outside the local café. Each area has a different clientele that prefers a different combination of the seven available genres of books. You need to make sure your stock matches this, or you won’t shift many in a day.
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I’ve had my eye firmly on this game for a couple of years now, and finally I can say I’ve played it. Tiny Bookshop truly lives up to my expectations – and its name, because your bookshop really is tiny. Don’t let the size fool you, though, as there’s a lot to love and plenty…