
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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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).

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Languages: English, Spanish - Spain, French, German, Portuguese - Brazil
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Recomiendo totalmente Wax Heads a todo aquel que le guste perderse entre estanterías de CDs o vinilos e investiga la historia detrás de cada disco. Un hermoso juego que habla sobre la importancia de la amistad, la hermandad y la comunidad. Si sos amante de la musica, este juego te va a encantar.
Love the art, love the music. The characrters feel well crafted and with interesting personalities.
I'm enjoying this game. It runs smoothly with no problems or bugs whatsoever.
So cool, very detailed. I love all the little easter eggs, mini-games and the way the story slowly takes shape
'Wax Heads' is a wonderfully heartfelt game that has true indie spirit flowing through its veins. If you love games with charm, style, memorable characters and good music, this is a must. This game is really a love letter to independent record shops, venues, and all creative outlets that build community and make the world a warmer place. It probably goes on a little longer than it needs to, and the central 'find the record' mechanic was starting to irritate me a little by the last portion. But that aside, this is a true indie gem that's brimming with intelligence, charisma, passion and style. Can't wait to see what Patattie Games puts out next!
i played for seven hours in a row the day i got it and only stopped because i wanted to sleep. woke up and almost immediately did another two hours to complete the game
i wish this was my life
Wax Heads is a fun, charming indie game with a great gameplay loop that you would think might get old quick, but I did not find that at all. Trying to figure out the customers actual requests and having a constantly rotating list of stock, which wove in story and worldbuilding elements from the game was great and made you actually have to pay attention to the game. The soundtrack was also fantastic, with a wide variety of made-up bands and artists that actually sounded really good (being able to que things up on the in-game player was great). Nice characters that really grew on you as well as a simple, yet interesting plotline kept the game's momentum going. After playing the demo for this game a few years ago I had high hopes, and I'm so glad I was not disappointed. A very much recommended indie game.
Fantastic game with great characters and a great story!
Very relaxing, and it has a great storyline. Finding records for everyone is fun, and discovering their personalities very entertaining. Would definitely recommend.
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