
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 2,402 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
I had such a great time with this :) I bought it because my deep love of collecting vinyl and got a really sweet story that centers the importance of community and connection especially now with AI becoming so normal in our day to day. All the songs were stellar, can't recommend enough.
Really enjoy the story and characters in this game! I was looking for something like Tiny Bookshop and while this is a lot more narrative based, I still really like it!! It’s got a really cool vibe, fun story and the soundtrack is pretty dope. Highly recommend!
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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
| $14.99 |
| 59ratings |
| 72% |
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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 152 reviews with recorded playtime.
positive critical· bar length = how often the theme comes up
almost close to finishing the game and so far its so fun!!! my favorite music to put on is sister - stick a stick in my eye every time i play the game it's my go to! i love the characters and the story <3
This game is incredible; the story, the art, the characters and every piece of music made for it is outstanding. I seriously reccommend this to absolutely everyone.
Adorei. Um jogo indie com um game design muito bem feito e um traço artístico maravilhoso. Uma surra no estômago das indústrias que insistem em tirar a alma das artes. Viva a música!
Haven't been this impressed in a long time. Such a love letter to the music industry and those who love it. Gameplay is fun, art is adorable, music is AMAZING. You should play this!! Length is perfect too, just long enough to make you care but short enough to move on with your life and go listen to more music!
Arte y música preciosa, buena historia y una muy buena critica al deterioro de los barrios y tiendas a manos de gente con dinero que solo le importa hacer más dinero sin importar lo que el barrio y su gente pierde con ello.
very entertaining, comforting game with wonderfully detailed animation. my only nitpick is that I did find some VERY minor typos, but as the game is new and has just been released, this is to be expected and is as in no way bothersome.
Baixei esse jogo despretensiosamente, não esperava muito. E fiquei viciada! As bandas fictícias são tão boas, que me peguei pesquisando se eram baseadas em alguma banda real ou se as músicas estavam disponíveis em algum streaming (não encontrei, infelizmente). A história principal é cativante, os personagens são engraçados e cheios de personalidade! As artes dos álbuns são um deleite para os olhos, além disso toda a construção de imagem/personalidade das bandas em si é bem coerente. Dito isso, esse é um jogo essencialmente de história, suas ações influenciam pouco ou quase nada no fluxo do jogo. O que eu não vejo problema nenhum, mas pode ser que alguém não goste. E tudo bem. Outro ponto que é válido destacar: esse é um jogo queer, a tradução para PTBR utiliza a linguagem neutra (não é um problema pra mim, mas sei que tem gente que não curte). No geral, recomendo demaaaaaais!
Story wise, this game nailed it. I have a hard time with a lot of narative driven games feeding me stale characters built out of tired tropes, but this game dodged that handily. It's got a lot to say about community, and capatalism, but doesn't feel too soapbox-y. Aesthetically, I dig it. The art is quirky and unique, and some of the music is genuinely impressive, especially considering how many unique tracks one composer was involved in. Gonna have a few of those stuck in my head for sure. Gameplay wise, this felt alarmingly similar to working in actual retail, where customers would tell me "I saw a book over there last week about sisters and the cover was blue" and then I'd have to work a miracle. That's not a knock, this game pulls this sort of "read my mind" gameplay very well. I rarely if ever felt stuck or cheated when I picked wrong. I wouldn't call it a deeply challenging puzzler, but I'm the kind of person that appreciates fair play more than mind-bending conundrums. Overall, totally solid little game.
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