Retro Rewind - Video Store Simulator

MUITO BAOOO

if you are like me and wanted to work at a video store as a teenager, this will make your dream come too. this game has a heart! while sometimes rough around the edges, i cannot help but love it. special shoutout to the note in the alley! <3

i love is game

So much fun!

Did you ever grow up wanting to run your own movie store and then the advances of technology 360 no-scoped your dream before you got a chance? This is the game for you!!!

I'm really enjoying this game so far. I'm at 31 hrs currently. The controls, UI, and things like tooltips are pretty good. I think it tells me all the things I really want to know at any given time or within one click or keypress except a couple of niche things I could think of (like wanting to know how many times something has been rented in the last week or something, or when the title was purchased). The artwork is really nice. The spoof titles and art are so entertaining to me. It was really a fun experience to unlock new titles and see what they chose to include, and they picked some great choices very core to the time period imho. I like the shop customization and how there are different themes you can use. My only wish is that there were a few more colors, especially ones that match some of the later genre colors. The game progression feels exceptionally polished in this vs most store-like simulation games. The beginning doesn't seem to fly by too fast, and the end doesn't feel like it drags on forever before something new unlocks. The money and xp feel very balanced with each other instead of having tons of money but not enough XP or vice versa. At 31 hours, I'm nearing the end of what unlocks by level, but then there is still plenty of gameplay in finding titles I haven't found before, collecting rare editions, and fully expanding the store to hold a huge collection instead of being a little conservative about what to buy. From watching let's plays, it seems there is some randomness in which new release titles come out first, and I love that. Not exactly an accurate to life movie history experience, but it makes a different save feel more fresh that way. The non-new-release titles are also extremely random, so you can end up with very different things in your collection than someone else or yourself in another save. Once you have employees, it doesn't feel boring, not having anything to do but just standing around like many other store sims. You can have employees handle the two main tasks, but there are lots of other little things you need to do. I wouldn't complain if they added a third employee task to stock candy shelves. fridge, toy rack, and things like that. It wouldn't need a dedicated employee, but you could swap the cash register employee to it after close for example. I feel plenty occupied and fulfilled just dealing with customer requests in the daytime and handling purchases and adding them to the racks during the closed hours.

Boah, was für ein Hammer-Spiel! Retro Rewind versetzt mich sofort zurück in die 80er-Jahre und weckt Erinnerungen, die ich längst vergessen glaubte. Als Kind durfte ich meinen Vater regelmäßig in die Videothek begleiten. In die Horrorabteilung durfte ich natürlich nie – aber genau dorthin wollte ich immer! Schon damals haben mich die Filmcover, die Flyer der Neuerscheinungen und die Ankündigungen kommender Filme unglaublich fasziniert. Dieses ganz besondere Videotheken-Feeling bekommt man heute eigentlich nirgendwo mehr geboten. Doch Retro Rewind schafft es tatsächlich, genau dieses Gefühl wieder zum Leben zu erwecken. Allein das entspannte Durchstöbern der Filme macht unglaublich viel Spaß. Dazu kommt die Möglichkeit, den eigenen Store ganz nach den persönlichen Vorstellungen zu gestalten – einfach großartig! Das Handling ist unkompliziert, die Spielmechanik leicht verständlich und das gesamte Spielerlebnis gleichzeitig entspannend und fesselnd. Die Entwickler haben damit bei mir – und sicherlich auch bei vielen anderen – voll ins Schwarze getroffen. Ich bin so begeistert von diesem Spiel, dass ich momentan kaum aufhören kann zu zocken. Ganz ehrlich: Was habt ihr da bitte für ein geniales Spiel entwickelt? Vielen Dank für diese wunderbare Reise zurück in eine Zeit, die viele von uns niemals vergessen werden. Absolute Empfehlung für alle, die die 80er, Videotheken und Retro-Games lieben!

Really fun game. And honestly perfect for my gf and me to each play one day. Recommend playing it like that:)