Headline : Can you save a struggling record store? Give it a spin in ‘Wax Heads’

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Last year, sales of vinyl in the UK hit their highest level since 1990. Business is booming – unless your business is Repeater Records, the struggling music shop where charming indie PC game Wax Heads takes place.

For anyone who spent their youth haunting hole-in-the-wall record shops, Wax Heads will feel comfortingly familiar. Illustrated in comic book style, Repeater Records is cluttered, chaotic, and incredibly cosy. Coffee mugs and a Tamagotchi decorate the till, a sleeve with the likeness of MF DOOM’s metal-plated mug hangs on a wall, and a shelf dedicated to fictional punk rock band Sister sits in front of a poster calling for unionisation. As the store’s newest employer, you’ll help every customer find their perfect record. Some of them will come in with an idea of what they want, but it’s your job to find what they need.

Sometimes, this is simple. Our first customer stans this universe’s main pop girl, Mimi, who’s just released a new album. Using arrows to navigate around the shop, we leave the counter to find it. Along the way, we check our in-game phone and discover that we can play original tracks by the game’s artists in the shop – including ‘Unstoppable’, a breakneck electronic pop song by none other than Mimi (or in the real world, composer Gina Loughlin). Head now thoroughly bopping, we find her latest release – identified by its “New!” sticker – and run it through the till. Your recommendations are scored by points: we get the full three in this case, and the happy superfan later tags us in a cheery social media post.

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