Spellbound & Shelved

Tidy up the library

All 6,655 books are spilled across the floor. Your gnomes shelve it away, and the library's slowly returning to beauty.

Your readers are the mess

6 unlockable types of customers visit your library and pay for the privilege of pulling your hard-shelved books back onto the floor. Income and entropy are the same people. So the master lever is the door sign: flip it to CLOSED and the gnomes tidy in blessed peace while the till sits silent; flip it to OPEN and the gold flows while the mess creeps back.

You manage, they work.

No manual shelving. You hire, upgrade, unlock wings and flip the sign; the fun is watching a dozen red-hatted gnomes waddle, haul teetering stacks and bow to pick up one more book. Want something to do? Snatch tip coins before they fade, pep-talk a gnome into a sprint, usher a dawdling reader out. Or touch nothing and let the library breathe.

What's in the box

• > 200 upgrades
• 15 shelf wings, chained shut until you buy their chains off
• 29 achievements and a finale for the last book leaving the floor
• A full run in roughly 1–3 hours — save and continue any time

Proudly provided for free

Spellbound & Shelved costs nothing. It exists to promote my main project, needmoar.games. A site that ranks Steam games by what players actually prefer, one head-to-head duel at a time. If you enjoy the gnomes, go give it a spin.

Music by Marllon Silva (xDeviruchi). UI sounds and cursors by Kenney (CC0).