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Bookshop SimulatorNewsUpdate v0.5
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Update v0.5

Bookshop Simulator · published 15 Nov 2025, 01:48 UTC · build 20795925

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Hello everyone!

Update 0.5 is now live! Today's update brings a new feature for those that want to be a little more active in your stores - customer recommendations! We're also bringing you new books, some new plants, quality of life improvements, and fixes!

Customer Recommendations:

Some customers, upon entering your store, will be open to being recommended a book. Customers who are open to this will show their favorite genres in a popup similar to the legendary powerups. Simply select the customer and tell them you will recommend a book for them. They will then wait for you to return with a book that matches their preferences. You may only help one customer at a time. Recommending can only be done when customers are wandering around the store (and not heading to check out). Successfully recommending a book to a customer will provide a small tip on top of them adding the book to their purchases.

New Books:

We're bringing you another 7 new books which can be found in the license tab ready to be unlocked.

New Plants:

We're also bringing you an additional 3 new plants to make your shops a little more green. These now work similar to the Halloween decorations so they are freely placeable on floors or tables as you see fit. The existing monstera plant has also been converted to work in the same fashion but only for newly purchased plants. Existing ones will need to be sold and bought again to be the new type.

Quality of Life/Fixes:

As always, we're also bringing a number of quality of life and bug fixes. You can check out the full change log below!

Change Log v0.5.888

Added:

- Customer recommendations

- New plants: Shrub, Bird of paradise, Thuja

- 7 new books

- Used boxes now show how many legendaries from that box you own

- f10 will pause the game in any screen if you are stuck (save + load should reset your position)

- Player exp bar to see your current level progression

Changed:

- Monstera now a free-placable item (newly purchased monstera plants only)

- Increase sale price tolerance for candy, comic books, and manga

- Used boxes now open specific to their box type, not your current location (you can carry legendaries from one location to another)

- Make tutorial wording easier to understand

- Tweaked passive income legendary calculations

Fixed:

- Rare case when stockers took used books before they hit the ground causing them to improperly be inserted into shelves

- Rare case when all apps did not unlock

- End of day screen stuck (esc/enter now close EoD screen)

- German text showing non-German (thank you community user)

- Certain items staying unlocked between shop locations

- Rare case of customers/employees moving when paused

- Cats stuck hovering in Japan

- Fixed some cases of stockers getting stuck

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