Games ≫ The Returns Desk: A Cozy Library

The library has been closed for years, and the returns desk is full. You are the librarian. Pick up a book, read its cover, carry it to its shelf and slide it into its slot, by hand. 864 books, eight wings, one Victorian rotunda.

Every book tells you where it goes

Nothing lights up the answer and nothing sorts itself.

• The emblem and color point to one of the eight wings, and the shade narrows it down further.
• The title is the row.
• The volume number is the slot.

Some books come back damaged: rub them clean before they go on the shelf.

Open the library, one wing at a time

Every row you finish earns a point. Open another wing and its lanterns light up and its banner takes its color. Points also buy help with the carrying, never the searching: a book basket, bigger deliveries, a repair brush, and the power to summon a book into your hand. Earn back the weather, rain, snow, wind and storm, and the hours from dawn to night.

The reading room

A fire to poke with the irons, a gramophone with four records to wind up and play, and display cases that fill with a volume for every row you finish.

No hurry

No timers, no score, no fail state. The game saves as you go.

Comfort

• Seated or standing, with a crouch button
• Teleport or smooth movement
• Snap or smooth turning
• Comfort vignette
• Left- or right-handed
• Haptics on or off
• Master, ambience and effects volume

Requires tracked controllers. Hand tracking is not supported.