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Bookshop Simulator

Blep Games · 2026-07-20

Steam

ActionAdventureRPGSimulationSports

Modes: Single player, Multiplayer, Co-operative · Perspectives: First person

Releases: Sep 16, 2025 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

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!

Bookshop Simulator is an Action, Adventure, RPG, and Simulation game released in 2026, priced at $15.99, with a Very Positive review sentiment (93% of 1651 reviews).

93%
positive of 1.7k reviews
Very Positive
steam's rating (official)
platinum
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Verified
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: Playable
$15.99
steam price (US)

Health check

Healthy
  • · 262 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~33/week).
  • · Review velocity up 65% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 12% of 27,908 Action games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 33k–74k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 1,651 total reviews — how this is computed.

All-time low: $11.99 at Steam (2026-09-12)via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $15.99 · on sale 1 of 10 observed days (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
898920252026Week of 2025-09-16: 89 positiveWeek of 2025-09-16: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-09-23: 41 positiveWeek of 2025-09-23: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-09-30: 34 positiveWeek of 2025-09-30: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-10-07: 48 positiveWeek of 2025-10-07: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-10-14: 20 positiveWeek of 2025-10-21: 36 positiveWeek of 2025-10-28: 31 positiveWeek of 2025-10-28: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-11-04: 33 positiveWeek of 2025-11-04: 4 negativeWeek of 2025-11-11: 39 positiveWeek of 2025-11-11: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-11-18: 38 positiveWeek of 2025-11-18: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-11-25: 75 positiveWeek of 2025-12-02: 35 positiveWeek of 2025-12-02: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-12-09: 11 positiveWeek of 2025-12-09: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-12-16: 18 positiveWeek of 2025-12-23: 27 positiveWeek of 2025-12-23: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-12-30: 27 positiveWeek of 2026-01-06: 28 positiveWeek of 2026-01-13: 24 positiveWeek of 2026-01-20: 30 positiveWeek of 2026-01-20: 2 negativeWeek of 2026-01-27: 23 positiveWeek of 2026-01-27: 2 negativeWeek of 2026-02-03: 20 positiveWeek of 2026-02-10: 22 positiveWeek of 2026-02-10: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-02-17: 14 positiveWeek of 2026-02-17: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-02-24: 18 positiveWeek of 2026-02-24: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-03-03: 14 positiveWeek of 2026-03-03: 2 negativeWeek of 2026-03-10: 22 positiveWeek of 2026-03-10: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-03-17: 25 positiveWeek of 2026-03-17: 3 negativeWeek of 2026-03-24: 33 positiveWeek of 2026-03-24: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-03-31: 26 positiveWeek of 2026-03-31: 5 negativeWeek of 2026-04-07: 23 positiveWeek of 2026-04-07: 4 negativeWeek of 2026-04-14: 29 positiveWeek of 2026-04-14: 2 negativeWeek of 2026-04-21: 21 positiveWeek of 2026-04-21: 4 negativeWeek of 2026-04-28: 19 positiveWeek of 2026-04-28: 2 negativeWeek of 2026-05-05: 26 positiveWeek of 2026-05-05: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-05-12: 15 positiveWeek of 2026-05-12: 2 negativeWeek of 2026-05-19: 17 positiveWeek of 2026-05-19: 3 negativeWeek of 2026-05-26: 16 positiveWeek of 2026-06-02: 15 positiveWeek of 2026-06-09: 18 positiveWeek of 2026-06-16: 12 positiveWeek of 2026-06-23: 13 positiveWeek of 2026-06-23: 3 negativeWeek of 2026-06-30: 20 positiveWeek of 2026-06-30: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-07-07: 14 positiveWeek of 2026-07-07: 2 negativeWeek of 2026-07-14: 26 positiveWeek of 2026-07-14: 4 negativeWeek of 2026-07-21: 83 positiveWeek of 2026-07-21: 15 negativeWeek of 2026-07-28: 33 positiveWeek of 2026-07-28: 7 negativeWeek of 2026-08-04: 22 positiveWeek of 2026-08-04: 7 negativeWeek of 2026-08-11: 19 positiveWeek of 2026-08-11: 3 negative
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Price history

$15.99$13.592025-09-162026-08-032025-09-16 — best price $14.392025-09-30 — best price $15.992025-11-01 — best price $14.392025-11-15 — best price $15.992025-12-18 — best price $14.392026-01-05 — best price $15.992026-03-19 — best price $14.392026-03-26 — best price $15.992026-06-25 — best price $14.392026-07-09 — best price $15.992026-07-20 — best price $13.592026-08-03 — best price $15.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Completion

60+
achievements tracked
82.9%
earned "Your First Books"
24.2%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsFull controller supportSingle-playerMulti-playerCo-opOnline Co-opSteam AchievementsFull controller supportSteam WorkshopSteam CloudFamily Sharing

11 supported languages: English, French, German, Spanish - Spain, Japanese, Polish, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Portuguese - Brazil, Italian, Korean

Console footprint

PlatformPlayers trackedCompletionTrophies/achievements
Steam (Steam)7794%74

Players tracked by Exophase (achievement/trophy trackers) — a sample of the player base, not total sales.

Census log

Computed from census-recorded observations only — dates are observation dates.

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