Hello everyone!

Update v0.7 is now live! Today's update brings part 1 of the cafe! This includes new buildables, new products, and new decoration options. As usual, the full change log is below.

The cafe is accessible once you reach Player Level 25. Items and furniture can be ordered through the Cafe App in your tablet. Each location has a separate cafe level which will unlock items as you progress the cafe level in both Paris and Yamanashi.

The cafe brings a cafe specific checkout counter, a coffee machine, a display case for cafe related items, and a cafe table for customers to sit at and enjoy their cafe orders. In order to run a cafe, you'll need to place the cafe checkout counter and either a stocked display case or a coffee machine.

With the cafe, a new product type has arrived - pastries! Part 1 brings 4 unique pastries to your cafe: Baguettes, Croissants, Cream Puffs, and Fruit Sandwiches. These can be stocked in the cafe display case just like other items in bookshelves.

Part two of the cafe will be coming in the new year and will focus on employees and cafe related achievements. This does mean that, for now, you will have to run the cafe yourself rather than entrusting an employee to take care of the cafe customers.

As usual, we've added a couple of new books to the available products and they will be ready to unlock as soon as you download the update.

We've also gone through and updated the demo with all of the fixes, improvements, and changes that the main game has had. The demo will remain in Paris and saves will continue to be incompatible with the full version.

Finally, as its the holiday season, the team will be taking some time off to spend the holidays with family and loved ones. We'll still check in and be around for any dire issues that come up over the break but for the most part, we'll be off and will return in the new year. We want to thank everyone that has joined us, played the game, supported us, given us feedback, and helped track down issues. We're looking forward to picking back up in the new year! Happy Holidays everybody!

Added:

- Cafe App for everything Cafe

- Cafe buildables: Cafe checkout counter, Cafe display counter, coffee machine, and Cafe table

- New item type: Pastries. Currently 4 available: Baguettes, Croissants, Cream Puffs, and Fruit Sandwiches

- New floors and wallpaper for cafe

- 4 new books

Changed:

- Wall buildables (Posters and Artwork) no longer block or are blocked by other buildables

- Storage racks are now sorted back to front

- Christmas Tree collision mesh improved for selection

Hello everyone!

Update v0.6 is now live! Today's update brings something that has been requested quite a bit - Achievements! We're also bringing more holiday decorations for the winter season, new books, a new legendary, and (as always) quality of life improvements and fixes.

We're bringing the first rollout of achievements to Bookshop Simulator today! We've been keeping track of certain things behind the scenes that we knew we wanted to have achievements for in the future so when loading a save with the update, you may be granted one-time achievements that you've already surpassed and may have progress on many others that will update/grant the next time you take related actions.

Note for completionists; We are in early access and will undoubtedly add more achievements with upcoming major features or new locations so please don't expect that you will retain 100% completion if you get all of these achievements.

New holiday decorations have dropped for those that enjoy the winter season! We've got a festive Christmas tree, a chilly snowman, an assortment of presents, two new rugs, and three new wallpapers to get into the mood.

With these also comes a small change. Certain objects can now be placed or built outside of the store to decorate the outside of your shop a bit more as well as the inside.

As usual, a new set of books have dropped to continue adding to your growing stock of products.

In October, we ran a decoration contest for the Halloween season in our Discord. We wanted to thank everyone for participating and the wonderfully creative submissions we received. This new legendary will provide a bonus to candy sales.

As usual, we've also included a number of quality of life improvements and bug fixes. You can check out the full change log below!

Added:

- Steam achievements!

- New holiday decorations: 3 presents, menorah, Christmas tree, snowman

- 2 holiday themed rugs

- 3 holiday themed wallpapers

- New Legendary Book

- 4 New books

Changed:

- Expansions app now shows MAX when there are no more available expansion

- Allow certain items to be placed outside (plants, holiday decorations, paints, etc)

- Recommending items will grant player and store experience

- Recommending items bonus will now show as bonus money in UI

Fix:

- Remove exploit that allowed multiple pedestals in Paris

- Update many warning messages that weren't localized

- Candy quantity shown wrong in UI

- Rare instance when a rare book would not spawn in a used box within a certain number of boxes

- Plants falling over when placed on the floor (they will still fall if placed off the floor)

- Recommendations can be blocked by customer not having enough money

- Rare issue with customers getting stuck at reading chairs

- Interrupting a cashier in a certain state would break customers in line

- Customers looking for a register would jiggle when stopping

- Issue causing checkout queue lines getting stuck at 1 max