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Dear Mr Stardew Valley please make a bookshop game

I want it

One of the purposes of the supporter post is to be a vehicle for our unborn game desires. So here's one of mine. I want a game about inheriting a dusty old bookshop hidden down a rarely-visited alley in the big city. An urban Stardew Valley in which you must stock the polished shelves with prized first editions and fill the cardboard boxes outside with finger-weathered airport trash. It would be like Keep The Aspidistra Flying, but without the bitterness, resentment, darkness, depression and squalor. Okay, maybe a bit of the squalor.

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