
Wax Heads is a cozy-punk narrative sim about working in a struggling record store. Chat to quirky customers with unique tastes, explore a handcrafted record collection, fall in love with bands (and their drama!), or just slack off with your colleagues - whatever gets everyone’s groove back!
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Every price cut of more than 20% we have observed, in each market that quoted one, with this game's chart position on either side of it. These are episodes, not a model: a sale is one event, and one event cannot tell you what the next one will do.
Reviews, worldwide (the counter carries no country): 1.71/day in the week to Jul 30 → 3.29/day in the week after.
For scale, across Steam · Top Sellers · Brazil over the last 30 days: the 26 chart moves that followed a price cut of more than 20% went a median of 7 places towards #1, and the 2,402 moves with no price cut behind them went 2 away. One store, one chart, one country — it is the only place we have enough observations to say even that.
Prices outside the United States have been collected since 6 August 2026 and chart positions since 19 July 2026, so a cut older than that has no market to compare and a market that joined later has no history yet. Nothing here is converted between currencies.
About
Lose yourself in an emotional, uplifting narrative about community, musical mysteries and underdog spirit. Help endearing and indecisive customers find their perfect records while debating all things music with your loveable colleagues. It's your job to help Repeater Records find its rhythm again!
From customer requests to store shenanigans, you’ll dive into a variety of cozy puzzles. Decode clues and hunt for the perfect music recommendation by browsing records, scrolling social media, and poring over local music zines. You might even find yourself running the lights for local bands, designing gig posters and packing orders!
Drop the needle on a stacked soundtrack featuring dozens of original tracks spanning across many genres, bands, and eras. Every song is crafted to feel like a nostalgic gem. From grimy basement bangers to dreamy indie deep cuts. It’s a playlist built to loop in your head long after you clock out.
Dig through crates packed with 80+ hand‑drawn albums, lovingly imagined bands, and liner note lore that rewards curiosity. Each record has its own personality, history, and fanbase. Did Scandinavian metal band Jarhead really murder their singer and put his head in a jar? Is it true big shot rapper RXXX used to be a kid's TV presenter? Has anyone ever seen Mimi?
Repeater Records is staffed and frequented by a rotating cast of eccentrics, music nerds, and chaotic regulars. Every character is bursting with personality, quirks, and questionable opinions about what “real music” is. Get to know them and enjoy their banter. They’re the soul of the shop after all!
Patattie Games is the two-person indie punk duo made up of developers; creative doodler Murray Somerwolff (Welcome to Elk, Spitkiss, Dead Pets Unleashed) and creative programmer Rothio Tome (Former UNITY developer support engineer and top Spanish GameDev streamer).

Add-ons
Each DLC is estimated with the same model as a game, then summed — a modeled figure, not reported DLC sales.
Sums Steam only; PlayStation, Xbox, Nintendo publish no volume signal, so the true total is higher by an unknown amount.
| Store | Price | Audience | Score | Chart | Est. revenue |
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SteamYou are here | $14.99 | 507reviews | 97% | — | $282.9K |
| $14.99 | 78ratings | 93% | — | not modelled | |
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Reviews
Themes across 152 recent reviews and how positive each mention is. A keyword signal, not full sentiment analysis.
Reviews
Mari kita perjelas satu hal di awal: Wax Heads adalah game yang bagus. Sangat bagus, malah. Visual komiknya sangat unik dan stylish, ritme 'slow life'-nya tertata rapi, dan alunan musiknya benar-benar menenangkan jiwa. Developer berhasil menciptakan sebuah suaka indie yang hangat. Namun, game ini ternyata tidak diciptakan untuk mentalitas seperti saya. Sebagai seseorang yang menghabiskan 12 jam sehari di kerasnya site proyek lapangan, berurusan dengan dokumen teknis, trafo tegangan tinggi, dan tekanan birokrasi, otak saya mencari sebuah katarsis. Saya butuh wadah teater psikologis untuk meluapkan emosi yang tertahan—entah itu lewat narasi yang mengaduk-aduk batin, atau interaksi karakter yang intens. Wax Heads terlalu damai untuk mental yang sedang mendidih. Ditambah dengan absennya Voice Actor yang mengharuskan mata ini kembali membaca rentetan teks panjang (setelah seharian kelelahan membaca laporan proyek), game ini gagal memberikan pelampiasan emosi yang saya butuhkan. Alih-alih menjadi pelarian yang membara, musiknya yang menenangkan dan temponya yang lambat justru menyulap game ini menjadi 'dongeng pengantar tidur'. Saya dibuat mengantuk tak tertahan hanya dalam 23 menit pertama. Verdict Pola Flamingo: Ini bukan karya yang buruk, ini hanya 'semen yang salah cetakan' untuk fondasi mental saya saat ini. Jika Anda mencari ketenangan absolut dan suka membaca dalam keheningan, beli game ini sekarang juga. Tapi jika Anda adalah pekerja lapangan dengan stres menumpuk yang mencari pelampiasan emosi meledak-ledak? Game ini hanya akan menjadi obat tidur visual Anda.
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Languages: English, Spanish - Spain, French, German, Portuguese - Brazil
| $14.99 |
| 59ratings |
| 72% |
| — |
| not modelled |
| $14.99 | — | — | — | not modelled |
Matched by title — a reused name can pair the wrong games. * is a critic aggregate. Prices and positions are each store's United States storefront; Epic charts worldwide. Audience and Score too, except Steam's, which is worldwide.
Hours played at review time, across 152 reviews with recorded playtime.
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The music and art are incredible!! Having a lot of fun with it so far having completed Side A :)
Great music, great art, great story! Loved the mini games peppered in and the puzzles of finding the right album.
If you’re into light puzzle games (think Strange Antiquities), good music or lived human experiences, you should play Wax Heads. A true love letter to music, community and the human connection at the heart of both, I’ll cherish my time at Repeater Records for a long time to come. The music isn’t just a collection of tracks bolted to a seemingly random mechanic either. It’s the rhythmic heart of the experience, the melodic source that drive the characters and stories you witness across the store’s counter. Whether it’s music or video games, I think there’s common ground between a store clerk and a critic recommending stuff they feel passionate about. The idea that you can positively influence people’s lives with your knowledge of a certain artistic field, really resonated with me.
[h1] Por amantes de la música para amantes de la música [/h1] Wax Heads es una carta de amor a la música y a la comunidad que genera pese a tener miles de facetas. Cada persona tiene distintos gustos e intereses, pero al final muchos compartimos esta pasión de una u otra forma. Se nota que el equipo de desarrollo también siente una gran pasión por ella por todos los detalles escondidos a lo largo del juego [spoiler](las cintas VHS secretas son increíbles, lástima que no pudiera conseguir la segunda porque me olvidé de la mecánica)[/spoiler]. Además, la historia insiste en la defensa del comercio local, cosa que secundo. En cuanto al juego en sí, es una visual novel con toques de puzzle. El juego tiene varios actos en los que se va desarrollando la historia. Para avanzar en ella, tienes que vender a los clientes de la tienda los vinilos que más se ajusten a lo que te pidan. La historia se divide en el arco principal en torno a la tienda y en los arcos secundarios de los distintos clientes, y ambos son increíbles. Es imposible no encariñarse con los personajes (Ali, Patri, Rashida, Winston y Tee mis favoritos). Y la banda sonora, como no puede ser de otra forma, es impresionante. [spoiler]Como nota final, he de admitir que me reí mucho con Punkilaso de la Vega y Por la Glorfia de mi madre.[/spoiler] En definitiva, un muy buen juego que vas a disfrutar muchísimo si amas la música. De mis favoritos de lo que he jugado este año.
Bardzo przyjemna, dopracowana, krótka gierka. Czuć, że włożono dużo serca w jej produkcje. Gdyby taki sklep istniał w mojej okolicy, byłabym stałym klientem.
Vibes are immaculate and the soundtrack slaps. Feels like a warm hug in this age of AI slop. The record shop is a nice place to get away from it all.
The puzzles are fun and range from simple to baffling. But in The Customer is Always Right mode, you can just keep guessing. I also enjoyed the overarching story. Repeater Records is a fun neighborhood shop to hang out in.
Una pasada de arte, musica adictiva y un grandísimo pique para encontrar ese maldito disco!!! ¿porque nadie conoce el nombre del disco que quiere? no lo se pero es muy divertido ^^.
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