Strange Scaffold Announces Library Tidying Game for PC
Strange Scaffold is applying its development-label model, which has mixed horror with different genres across 18 releases in six years, to the sorting game format.
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Strange Scaffold announced Something is Wrong with the Library on September 29. The tidying simulation game is scheduled for release on PC via Steam in Q4 2026. Players sort thousands of real books by the Dewey Decimal Classification, author order, and title order inside the haunted Alex Dieter Public Library and Introspection Center, with help from former administrator Philip Shed. Book combinations change each playthrough, and paranormal elements such as The Drowning Room have been teased.
The game is set in the Alex Dieter Public Library and Introspection Center, where shelves have been wrecked by supernatural forces and by patrons who have already passed away. Former administrator Philip Shed assists the player. Sorting rules include the Dewey Decimal Classification, author name order, and title order, and the books that need returning change with each playthrough. Strange Scaffold has teased paranormal elements including The Drowning Room.
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