Developer Strange Scaffold has announced its newest title, haunted book sorting simulator Something is Wrong with the Library, launching on PC via Steam this fall.
The game is set in the small mountain town of Sweet Elm, the game takes place inside the Alex Dieter Public Library and Center for Reflection, named for the billionaire who has transformed the town into a curated hub of technological innovation and small-town comfort.
He has also been killing unhoused people and stuffing them in the walls of the library. And now, the library is extremely haunted.
With the help of the library’s former administrator, Phillip Shed, players must clean and organize the library over the course of one tense night, shelving hundreds of real books while unraveling a story of complicity, supernatural violence, and what it takes to bring a haunted place peace–one shelf at a time.
“If you’ve ever been in a library at night, you’ll know that it feels unexpectedly warm and full of possibility–until you hear a single sound you don’t recognize, and realize you’re surrounded by towering shadows.” says studio head Xalavier Nelson Jr, in a press release.
“As a former librarian, I truly hope that, despite the objectively messed up things they’re going to witness, everyone who plays the game falls in love with their local library a little more.”
The press release details some of the game’s key features:
- Fully-voiced story with an entire library of eerie manifestations to unlock.
- An authentic modern library filled with thousands of real book titles.
- Modular Chaos System – every playthrough gives you a different set of books to shelve!
- Organize fallen and missing books by Dewey Decimal System classification, author, and title.
- The Drowning Room
Something is Wrong with the Library will launch on PC via Steam this fall. For more information, follow Strange Scaffold on Bluesky.
Strange Scaffold is the development label of Xalavier Nelson Jr., known for his work as a leading developer on Clickolding, El Paso, Elsewhere, I Am Your Beast, Space Warlord Baby Trading Simulator, Truck-kun Is Supporting Me From Another World?!, and more.