Planned Release Date: Nov 17, 2026

About This Game

The year is 1999. You are the proud owner of a beautiful pc game store. You feel great satisfaction by organizing all your games meticulously into their designated spots. Gently sliding that last box into the shelf... mhhh....  But alas, what is that?! You hear a menacing pirate jingle and suddenly a software-pirate ship appears in your store! And they start looting your games and throwing everything around! This cannot stand. This will not stand! You whip out your trusty 12 gauge shotgun... and start issuing some DMCA takedowns.

Game Shelver 99: I must organize my Steam Library and defend it against pirates with a shotgun

Features

• Organize and sort the games you own on Steam into the correct shelves

• Procedural store layout and procedural categorization challenges based on your games collection, with multiple correct solutions for high replayability

  • Categorize by genre, by tags, by year, by developer, by title or by price

• Shoot and destroy software-pirates that loot your store in waves and throw your organized games out of the shelves

• Adjustable difficulty (number of games to shelve, extra slack on shelves, number of pirates, ...)

• Improve your sorting skills with FPS-style power-ups (carry capacity, highlighting, auto-shelving, ...)

• Single player or online co-op (up to 4 players) with a combined game collection (3 or 4 players highly recommended. Your friends might see THAT ONE game you own they are not supposed to. In a 3 or 4 player game you can always point and say it belongs to the other guy! Wait. Actually there is no pointing mechanic in the game. Dammit.)

• Nostalgic, late 90s / early 00s retro vibes with modern, over the top effects and a satirical (subtle, I know) genre-blend:  Tidy-Up Cleaning Organizer First Person Shooter Wave Defense (let's add "Quantum AI Blockchain Simulator" for the clicks).

Wishlist Game Shelver 99 now, try the demo during Next Fest in October and get the full release in November!

Mature Content Description

The developers describe the content like this:

You shoot pirate ships with a shotgun. When hit, the pirate ships show an exaggerated blood burst effect and then explode into tiny wooden pieces.
The artworks on the in-game boxes depends entirely on your own Steam Library or the Steam Library of your friends if playing coop. If they contain games with violence or nudity, the publicly available artwork of those games might show up in this game. Only play with friends that share similar gaming interests.