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Bookshop Simulator
Open your own bookshop! Order books, stock your shelves, and earn revenue. Use your profits to decorate, expand, and hire staff. Collect rare books that give powerful abilities. Adopt a cat to keep you and your customers company along the way!
What players say
Steam review score and the most-helpful voices, which may include critical ones. Score via Steam as of 2026-09-25.
“Before I write this review, Let me say something some people don't know or understand There are 2 types of simulator games: 1. Hyper-realistic where you can manage every element to finally tune a store that takes hours to make progress in 2. A simulator that sells you the…”
— a player, Steam review · 21 hrs played“Love love love the game, for early access its damn awesome. The only thing I'd want other than more books and new locations for stores, is a way to store legendary and rare books. Let me put them in boxes and store them in storage rather than sitting on my store room floor in a…”
— a player, Steam review · 114 hrs played“I REALLY wanted to like this game, but I feel like whoever designed it has never been inside a bookstore, let alone run one. I know it is a game, and I know it is in Early Access, but I genuinely thought it would offer a completely different experience and go in a much more…”
— a player, Steam review · 1 hrs playedPlayer activity
Monthly average concurrent players. Live data self-collected from the Steam API · history through 2026-08 via SteamCharts.
Achievement stats
Global completion rates across all Steam players — a data view of how far people actually get. Source: Steam official stats · as of 2026-09-26.
Price tracking
US-region pricing (USD), sampled twice daily by our own tracker since 2026-09-26. Steam prices vary by region — always confirm your local price on Steam.
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Latest official news
Developer announcements via the Steam news API — links go to the original posts. More across all games on the news hub.
Patch 1.1.1258
Change Log 1.1.1258: Fixed: - Save migration breaking loading in a certain case - New bookshelves not showing for clients in Multiplayer - Scanner not showing UI on first unboxing - Coffee cup crashes
Update 1.1
Hey everyone! Update 1.1 is now live! This update brings a huge expansion to the Steam Workshop capabilities, new legendary books, new bookcases, and more! Workshop Expansion: The workshop tool has be
Patch 1.0.1233
Change Log 1.0.1230 Fixed: - Clients will now be rewarded achievements when connected to a host in Multiplayer - Issue with Location switching clearing certain data - Teleporter losing legendaries - C
Patch 1.0.1224
Change log 1.0.1224: Fixed: - Stop board game material properly shows now - Door in Paris is now properly solid - Lyon pathing issues causing teleporting NPCs should be fixed - Magazine shelf should a
1.0 Update
Hey everyone! Update 1.0 is here! There's a lot packed into here with some rather large updates so let's just get started with the rundown. Multiplayer: Multiplayer has come to Bookshop Simulator! Up
Screenshots
Official Steam store screenshots — click any shot to enlarge.
Facts & details
From the Steam store record, snapshot 2026-09-25.
| Genres | Action, Adventure, RPG, Simulation, Sports |
| Player tags | Simulation · Management · Economy · Singleplayer · Trading · Parody · Capitalism · Cozy · Cats · Funny · Life Sim · 3D (Steam store community voting) |
| Features | Single-player · Multi-player · Co-op · Online Co-op · Steam Achievements · Full controller support · Steam Workshop · Steam Cloud |
| Languages | English, French, German, Spanish - Spain, Japanese, Polish, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Portuguese - Brazil, Italian, Korean |
| Controller | Full support |
| Achievements | 74 |
| Official site | https://www.bookshopsimulator.com/ |
Minimum system requirements (PC)
Minimum: Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system OS: Windows 10 (64-bit) Processor: Intel i5 3550 / AMD Ryzen 5 2600 Memory: 8 GB RAM Graphics: GTX 1060 / RX 580 DirectX: Version 11 Storage: 10 GB available space