
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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Discounts
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 2,400 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 | 595reviews | 97% | — | $282.5K |
| $14.99 | 78ratings | 93% | — | not modelled | |
Engagement
Reviews
Themes across 151 recent reviews and how positive each mention is. A keyword signal, not full sentiment analysis.
Reviews
I've been waiting for so long for this game, and omg, it was worth the wait. The art is AMAZEBALLSSS!!!! I can't fathom how can people be so creative to create a game that is so unique and original. If you love simulator games that aren't repetitive, and with a good storyline, this is def for you!!!
[h1] 7/10 [/h1] While it doesn't really provide much replayability and can feel too linear and repetitive at certain points, it's overall a charming visual novel with a great soundtrack, that includes a lot of different genres. Worth picking up if you are heavily into music.
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All-time low is the lowest price we've recorded for this game since we started tracking it.
Languages: English, Spanish - Spain, French, German, Portuguese - Brazil
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| 59ratings |
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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 151 reviews with recorded playtime.
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Wax Head es una oda a la música, a la cultura y a la identidad de los barrios que se ha ido perdiendo con la gentrificación. Si quieres un juego cozy para que te caliente el corazoncito, te encantará.
definitely one of the best games I own so far! I waited for this game to publish for like two months, and I'm not disappointed. I still can't believe all the music album covers + the music itself are all human-made, such a great detail. I follow one of the devs on Instagram and all the BTS that he shows is insane—especially the BTS of making all the music. I posted about this game on my blog/zine (whatever you wanna call it since it's a zine on tumblr), and talked about the relationship that is formed between art & the human experience + highly recommended it to all my zine freaks. which finally resulted in more conversation on this game, and also resulted in some of my friends loving it as well !!! #I hate ai & # I love paul sm in this game.
This was such a cool visual novel to play! I originally thought this was going to be another shop simulator, so I was pleasantly surprised by a very immersive narrative! Your goal is to figure out what album customers want based on their hints. I enjoyed the variety in difficulty and how some solutions could be found by interacting with other parts of the game, like the newsletter and social media page. The art and sound design are amazing. There are a bunch of different mini puzzles to do throughout the game that are cute and fun. The story was very well written from start to end Highly recommend for any music enthusiast looking for a cozy visual novel!
this game has so much soul and clear effort, the story is awesome, the gameplay if satisfying, the music is top-notch! recommend-recommend-recommend
i honestly don't know what to say - what an absolute gem of a game! beautiful artwork, music, representation and storytelling! extremely relevant too, its a breath of fresh air. thank you for this wonderful experience. i really recommend this game to all!!!! <3
O que é o ser humano sem a arte, e o que é a arte senão gerada pelas mãos humanas? Uma perfeita mensagem de amor de carinho para todos os criadores e amantes da arte!!!
By far my favorite game of 2026! Reminds me a little bit of the movie Empire Records, but so much cooler!
Comprei pela dinâmica do jogo, fiquei pela história. Inicialmente, achei que gostaria mais com a parte de encontrar as recomendações para cada cliente, mas acabei me apaixonando pelos personagens, pelas bandas fictícias e pelo drama da história. Wax Heads tem essa qualidade de te fazer mergulhar no mundo que ele cria. A arte é excepcional.
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