This update is PACKED with new books! But we also have a few new surprises for you. Here’s all that is new in this update:
📕 A Library’s Worth of New Books!
Thanks to the incredible work of our Tiny Bookshop Book Council, we will be adding a total of 1,087 new books for you to discover and add to your TBR totems! So this is now the perfect moment to dive back into book recommendations! Here is a breakdown on all the new books by language:
447 English
107 German
113 French
77 Russian
61 Spanish
74 Turkish
65 Simplified Chinese
52 Traditional Chinese
31 Japanese
60 Ukrainian
🇺🇦 Ukrainian Joins the Shelves!
And as you can spot in the list above, Tiny Bookshop now supports Ukrainian! We're thrilled to welcome even more book lovers and readers to Bookstonbury! Thank you Inna for all your hard work!!! ♥️
💡 Quality of Life Features:
By popular request, players will now be able to save and load bookshop presets. This should make decorating so much easier. Create different layouts, swap between them, and experiment to your heart’s content!
🔍 We've also added the ability for you to zoom! Just a fun little feature for you to inspect and admire the lovely details in Bookstonbury.
💰 New Items for the Season!
We wouldn't be ending the year without some fresh decor for the season! Check out what's new on catalogue:
A cozy snow sled and… RUGS! Four brand-new rugs are now available to help you tie your bookshop together!
🔧 Bug Fixes and Improvements:
Fixed that the boombox was missable
Prioritised events in journal and newspaper so the most important info is the most visible
Adjusted some tags of books
Adjusted some tags of items
Added "increases customer count" as a filter category in the customisation screen
Added "Important" as a filter category in the customisation screen so you can find and track your quest items more easily
Selected a nicer font for Cyrillic (RU and UA)
Improved PS5 controller RGB mode: it now shows the color of the inspected genre in the stocking screen
Made the UI shaders compatible with older hardware (ymmv)
Adjusted the behaviour of some investigations to be more consistent
Adjusted some timing-related narrative edge-cases
And many more...
We have plenty more in the works for next year. 🐱
But for now this is our farewell to this year, thank you for making it incredibly special. You all have forever changed the lives of our little team of seven in the just 4 months since Tiny Bookshop released! Thank you!
Happy holidays, and see you next year!