A solo journaling game set on a gently flowing river, you are a bookseller with your floating bookshop. As you paddle up and downstream, your days are filled with customers, leaks and the irritating nook beetles that bury into the pages of your books. Make friends with regular customers to the bookshop, experience the River as she moves through the different seasons, visit and explore various towns, go fishing in the River's rich waters. Throughout the year, the seasons change and holidays give the chance for you to join in celebrations and festivities with the animalfolk. Floating Bookshop is set in a fully formed world with its own unique seasons, holidays and customs.
Bookshop is played with a pack of playing cards, a 20 and 6 sided dice. Record your daily goings-about in the bookshop, make note of the weather, and the customers that both delight and annoy you. Participate in holidays and answer prompts for events. Do you run into a customer that you get along with?
At the start of the day, flip a card for the weather which affects the number of customers come through the door. Decide how you want to spend your day: opening the bookshop, travelling down the river, participating in a holiday or simply sit on the deck and watch the river flow by.