Everyone needs a shelf!Find new items every day, put them on your own little shelf and show it to your friends. No rush, no pay-to-win. Just collecting, arranging and a bit of pride.
Play it your way
LittleShelf can sit on your home screen with its own icon and open without the browser bars around it. It is the same game, just closer to hand.
iPhone & iPad (Safari): open littleshelf.de in Safari, tap the Share button at the bottom (the square with the arrow), scroll down and choose Add to Home Screen.
Android (Chrome): open littleshelf.de in Chrome, tap the ⋮ menu at the top right and choose Install app — on some phones it is called Add to Home screen.
Works on the desktop too: Chrome and Edge show an install icon on the right side of the address bar.
LittleShelf runs inside Discord as an Activity — in a voice channel, next to the people you are already talking to. No second account: you sign in with Discord and land in your own shelf.
How to start it: join our Discord server, go into any voice channel, open the Activities menu (the rocket icon) and pick LittleShelf.
A small desktop app for Windows that opens LittleShelf in its own window — same account, same shelf, nothing to keep in sync. Sign in with your e-mail, with Google or through Steam; everything you collect is the same collection you have in the browser.
How to get it: download the installer from itch.io and run it. It sets LittleShelf up like any other Windows program and puts it in your start menu.
On the first start Windows may show a blue warning about an unknown publisher — the app is not code-signed yet. Pick More info and then Run anyway.
LittleShelf is coming to Steam as a desktop version. You will be able to sign in through Steam — no password, no second account — and land in your own shelf.
Already playing here? Link your Steam account beforehand under Options → Steam account in the game; then the Steam version opens exactly the shelf you already have.
Watch us collect live – now and then the stream shows promo codes, just for those watching. And on Discord you'll meet the other collectors.
Everyone has that one shelf at home – the place where the things you love end up. LittleShelf is that shelf as a game: collect what is rare, beautiful or just yours, give it a spot, and let others discover it. No grind, no timers that punish you, no pay-to-win. Just the quiet pride of a collection that grows with you.
LittleShelf is a one-man project. Every item, every mechanic and every line of code comes from one desk – and so does every answer to your feedback. No studio, no roadmap written by a committee. Whatever you suggest in the game’s “workshop” goes straight to the person who can actually make it happen.
This is a service game, meant to be looked after for years: seasons with curated items, events, new themes and collections, player-made originals joining the catalogue every month. Your shelf is never finished – and neither is the game. What you build today will still be yours when the next season starts.
LittleShelf is a free collecting game for the browser, your phone and Discord. You search for small, odd, beautiful things – coins, cassettes, fossils, rubber ducks – and put the ones you like on your own shelf. There is no combat, no timer that punishes you for logging off and nothing you can buy to win. The whole game is the collection and what you make of it.
You have searches, and they refill on their own – twenty-four of them are waiting on your first day. Every search turns up an item. Duplicates are not waste: merge them into rarer versions, offer them in the marketplace or record them in your archive book, where every finished collection earns a badge. What you keep goes on one of your four boards, and how it looks there is up to you: wallpapers, shelf styles, decoration and a cozy shelf that exists purely for arranging.
The same shelf follows you: open it in the browser, install it on your phone as an app, install the desktop app for Windows or start it inside Discord as an Activity and collect next to your friends — and a Steam version with Steam sign-in is on its way. One account, one collection, no separate versions. Publishing your shelf gives you a link anybody can open – no account needed to look.
Yes, the whole game is playable without paying. There is an optional shop, and what it sells are cosmetic extras and conveniences – a rename, extra comfort features, statistics. It does not sell collectibles, rarities or places in the rankings.
No — the game itself runs in any modern browser. On a phone you can add it to your home screen and it behaves like an app, and inside Discord it opens as an Activity. There is an optional desktop app for Windows on top of that; it comes as an installer you download from itch.io. The Steam version is in preparation.
Everyday things, curiosities and oddities, sorted into collections and rarities – from common finds to legendary items. New themes, events and seasons keep arriving, and players design items of their own that join the catalogue.
Yes. Add friends, visit their shelves, leave a heart once a day and trade through the marketplace. You can also publish your shelf as a public page and share the link with anyone.
Only as much as you want. Searches pile up while you are away, nothing expires out of spite, and a shelf left alone stays exactly as you arranged it.
