Bookshop Simulator
Worth it · RPG · 2026
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
BUY IT.
Worth it at $19.99, a BANGER if it drops to $18.20.
- Length
- 20.5h
- Value
- $0.98/hr
- Reviews
- 93% positive
Recent reviews trending down: 85% over the last 30 days against 93% all-time.
Buy now or wait
The Autumn Sale is on until Oct 8. It is at full price today. Valve's discount rules keep it out of the Autumn Sale: its US price went up on Sep 21, and no discount is allowed for 30 days after that. The next one it can join is the Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4.
- Autumn Sale cooldown
- Until Oct 21
- Last discount ended
- 11 days ago
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Minimum on the Steam store: 8 GB of memory, GTX 1060 / RX 580, 10 GB of storage. Windows only.
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 drives the score
How to read this
Grades run S to D, read from the buyer's side. ▲ marks a lift, ▼ a drag or a dock, ? an input we do not have, • a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work
The value story
It has never been cheaper than $11.99. That was September 2026. 7 discounts in the 13 months on record. They run about 10 percent off, roughly 8 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 11 days ago. Past sales have already crossed the $18.20 BANGER line once.
On value it sits in the top 1 percent of its genre. It is pricier than 82 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 97 percent. Among the games closest to it, 100 Asian Cats (free, scores 79) and 100 Capitalist Cats (free, scores 79) both come in lower.
Players rate it 93 percent positive over its lifetime, but the last 30 days run 85 percent. Something recent has soured the room. This site sampled 410 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 10 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written September 2025 to October 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 70 percent of the 100 reviews written there were positive, against 93 percent overall, and those are 7 percent of everything written about it.
Finishing takes 20.5 hours; clearing it takes 70, which is 3.4 times the campaign.
It carries Valve's Deck Verified rating, which is the one that means it just works.
The drop-off
84% start to 3% rarestNo achievement in this game marks the ending, so there is no finish rate. The curve runs from the most-unlocked achievement to the rarest, and its shape is where players stop. Steam global achievements
Players
110 players online when we last checked, on Sep 29, 11:50 UTC.
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Bookshop Simulator scores 83/100 on the BANG Score (worth it) as of Oct 2, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/3467040/bookshop-simulatorReviews set the ceiling, and price against real length moves the BANG Score inside it. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 27, price as of Oct 1.
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