ReStory: Chill Electronics Repairs

Man, I never tought that something so simple could be so addictive and relaxing. After a hard day fixing and building things a work, I find myself building fixing things at home in a game! Totally recommend.

nice game

really nice & cozy game i recommend it.

Cozy game about a small electronics shop with a heart-warming story. I like it. I actually binged through the story with lots of hours played each day within a week of buying it.

[h3]TL;DR Will I Like It?[/h3] You will like this game if you are looking for a calming, low stakes, realistic repair/cleaning simulation game, and don't mind some repetitive or grating gameplay elements. [h3]Full review[/h3] I use a plus + and minus - system for how significantly each item improved or affected my experience. +++ Extremely cute aesthetic and vibes. Love the music, sound effects, and ambiance. Especially the satisfying sounds of electronic parts clicking together. +++ Really fun gameplay loop of taking apart electronics and fixing them. Each part like screws and buttons are simulated. Having disassembled many devices in the early 2000's, I can confirm that the devices are actually quite accurate, with real common failure points. If you like cleaning games, you'll like this one. ++ Interesting main story with memorable characters and interactions. It feels like there are actually meaningful choices, but it's often a bit opaque what kind of choice you're actually making. ++ You can customise your shop and move stuff around. It's a fully functional 3D space. + Good amount of total device variety and repairing job types. + Upgrades are meaningful and impactful. +/- There are some sinister undertones to the story. [spoiler]Organised crime, police corruption, collusion, hostile business takeovers, corporate espionage, kidnapping, stalking, child endangerment, etc.[/spoiler] Feels a bit strange contrasted with the overall vibe of the game. +/- You can't really do anything fast or optimise the process. You're going to be fully disassembling and reassembling every device every time. You can't easily identify which parts are dirty, and you cannot partially complete jobs. You can't just go, oh it doesn't turn on, let's just replace the battery, great it works now. No, you will also be cleaning the motherboard and every capacitor. Not necessarily a bad thing, it's a slow paced relaxing game after all. +/- It kind of has controller support, but I wouldn't recommend it. Mouse is basically mandatory, especially for small objects. Interestingly you don't really need a keyboard, makes me wonder if a phone version of this game would do well? - Finding and clicking the tiny screws was often difficult. You can't zoom in or control the camera as much as I'd like. - Some minor balancing issues. For example, there's no reason to ever buy used devices from auction for parts like the game recommends in the tutorial. Unless you end up using every part eventually, you lost money. It's far cheaper to just buy parts individually from the store as you need them. Either way, repairing things actually costs a lot, and takes much longer, without appropriate renumeration, so you're incentivised to only take the cleaning jobs if possible. The auto cleaning bath was a complete waste of time and money. - The re-soldering mechanic requires a very steady hand and is quite unforgiving. If you slip, your progress is reset and you need to start the solder again. Beware if you have motor disability. -- You have to unlock each new type of device via licensing, which are very expensive. So you spend a lot of the game grinding/cleaning the same old parts repeatedly until you can afford a new device type. After about 8 hours and 20 in-game days, I had only unlocked half of the licences in the game, so I was still often earning pennies cleaning beginner items. Late game, your income doesn't really scale up much, it just takes longer and longer to unlock more licences. Feels like a stopgap to slow down story progression by gating it behind these licences. -- The "competition" part of the game feels really out of place with the rest of the game. Again, it's extremely unforgiving. If you misclick or pick up the wrong piece at all, it completely starts the assembly again. You're timed to fully assemble an item with no instructions, no mistakes, no slip ups. It's also required for story progression. It's not extremely difficult, but I didn't enjoy interacting with this mechanic. -- A bit external to the game here, but their privacy policy is actually randomly quite bad. When you first launch the game, it presents their data collection as reasonable, but I highly recommend declining, or at least reviewing the linked policy. Their privacy policy says they record a huge amount of data on you, including every button press in game, and share your data with many affiliates, with no way of opting out afterwards, and not much transparency overall. They also may train A.I. on your data. Kind of out of place in the context of the game. Makes me leery of all the surveys they're putting out on Steam recently. Disclaimer: My reviews are based on my personal opinions and experiences. They’re not intended to be objective statements about the game, so it’s perfectly fine if your experience and opinion are different from mine.

incroyable je prend du plaisir a me reposer apres des dur journée et a passer des heures a réparer des appareils quand j était gosse merci j ai pus realiser un reve de gosse réparer une playstation

uno de los mejores juegos que eh probado en mi vida