Tiny Bookshop sells over 300,000 copies as developers tease future content updates

The developers behind last month’s massively popular narrative management sim Tiny Bookshop have celebrated a sales milestone and teased new updates for the game.

Released on August 7th to highly positive reviews – I’m working on one for The Cozy Gamers! – the game sees you leave your life behind and move to a seaside town where you manage and run a small, travelling bookshop and must form connections with the local townspeople, uncover their stories, and help them while also growing your business.

In a post shared in the Tiny Bookshop Discord server thanking fans, dev neoludic games, which won Gamescom’s Games for Impact 2025 award, confirmed that they had sold over 300,000 copies of the life sim game across both Steam and Switch.

Now back from Gamescom, the dev team also confirmed that they’re focusing on addressing a backlog of player reports, implementing bug fixes, and improving the overall player experience of the game – this includes fixing issues with Steam Cloud saves.

They also revealed in the post that the team will be looking at bringing “some much-needed quality-of-life updates” into the game, such as the ability to save Bookshop loadouts, and are taking a look at “new content” to add to the game with more info to come soon.

Finally, neoludic games revealed that applications for the Tiny Bookshop Book Council, a group of paid bookologists who will work to curate and expand the selection of book titles within the game, passed 700.

Despite the high number, applications for a position on the team are still open with the dev team encouraging more applications from people with backgrounds in Japanese, Chinese, Ukrainian, Turkish, and Russian language books – if that sounds like you, you can apply via this Google Doc.

Tiny Bookshop is currently available on Steam and Nintendo Switch, and as part of a bundle with Discounty, a management sim where you run and expand a supermarket shop.