A day and night in the library
Monk Took Book is a job simulator set on Holy Island, home to the monastic library of the Dark Ages. Each morning new books arrive, each cover carrying a distinct symbol. You remember them, then stack and shelve them however you like. At night the Scribes ask for specific tomes, and you have to recall where you put them — the whole game leans on your memory and your shelving system. The Abbot pays for good work in Blessings, which you spend on Perks to raise Strength, Speed and Carpentry, on raising taller shelves, or on unlocking new chambers to fill. After dark, vermin, spirits and other beasts come for the collection, so you take up a dagger, crossbow or holy cross, then use the quill to repair books that took damage.
Playing with your fellow monks
You can run the library alone or with up to three other monks, so four players in one session. The work splits naturally: someone fetches and stacks, someone shelves, someone keeps watch at night. Books can be carried in big stacks or thrown across a room, which makes passing stock to a friend across the hall a practical move as well as a clumsy one. You can play in first or third person. Getting a group going is straightforward — proximity voice chat, in-game text chat, Steam invites, public or private lobbies, and copy/paste join codes for people who would rather not hunt for a lobby.
Systems that make the work messy
Everything runs on simulation rather than scripted set pieces: flame spreads and combustion are simulated, fire can be doused with a pail of water, and books tumble and fly with real physics. There is a day and night cycle, ballistic weapons and melee combat, all feeding into a fairly emergent kind of play where a thrown book or a knocked-over shelf can change your whole night. The tone sits between cozy and creepy — ordered shelves and parchment during the day, a darkened building under assault after sunset.
Before you start
Difficulty is granular: you can reduce, increase or disable some or all enemies, tune the rate of incoming books, and switch to an Arachnophobia mode if spiders are not your thing. A more chilled experience is an intended way to play, not a compromise. Practical options include full key rebinding, manual and autosave, FoV, headbob and gamma sliders, window or fullscreen, and widescreen support. Worth settling early is your shelving scheme — the symbols on covers are what you rely on at night, so a layout you can read at a glance pays off immediately.