Bibliophiles need to make space in their game library for indie release Tiny Bookshop, a cosy management game that celebrates the uplifting power of reading. From developer neoludic games and publisher Skystone Games.

We're officially in that time of year -- that accelerating drive to get everything done before the festive season break -- when people start holding up a mirror to their life.

Worn out by routine, you may find yourself fantasising about a quieter, more fulfilling alternative for soul and body. Giving up your rat-race existence to teach yoga in Bali. Casting aside Excel formulae to found an artists' retreat in the countryside. Escaping from the big city to a coastal town to deal in second-hand books.

Indie game release Tiny Bookshop, from German developers neoludic games, is here to help you live out that last scenario -- at least through a screen.

In this (mostly) relaxed management sim with a narrative element, you move to the fictional Bookstonbury-by-the-Sea early one summer. There, you open the titular tiny bookshop, a trailer that you set up daily at key spots around the history-soaked settlement, and get to know the idiosyncratic locals -- like introverted reporter Fern and hard-to-please...