EMBARGO UNTIL: Tuesday, August 18 2026, 9:00 AM BST
London, Tuesday 18 August 2026 - SquarePlay Games has announced they will launch Monk Took Book for PC on Thursday 3rd September.
Monk Took Book is a co-op game about organising, stacking and remembering where you put hundreds of books in a cozy-creepy medieval library. It is the third game by the indie dev duo previously responsible for the well-received Overcrowd: A Commute ‘Em Up and Space Trash Scavenger.
The new game is a novel mix of the now burgeoning tidy-up genre, coupled with a memory challenge inspired by Wilmot’s Warehouse.
Alastair McQueen makes up one half of SquarePlay Games. “Everyone knows you can't judge a book by its cover. But in Monk Took Book you have to,” he said. “Because the books don’t have titles, only a picture on the front, players have to decide together how to organise them, using their own logic.”
“And then they have to remember where they put them,” he added.
The game also features some other systems to spice things up, such as ghostly hauntings, book thieves, pests, fire, physics and some (entirely optional) viking raider combat, all of which can be tackled using various tools and weapons.
Monk Took Book can be played solo or with up to three friends, and will launch for PC on Steam, for under $10.
Links
YouTube trailer (unlisted until embargo lifts): https://youtu.be/oPmJXbXkW30
Steam store: https://store.steampowered.com/app/4022090/Monk_Took_Book/
Press kit: https://www.squareplaygames.com/press-kit
Twitter/X: https://x.com/SquarePlayGames
Discord: https://discord.gg/squareplaygames
Price: under $10