Retro Rewind: Video Store Simulator

“Retro Rewind” isn’t particularly demanding, but it charms with its atmosphere and the joy of unlocking items to expand your video store. After about 20 hours, everything is unlocked, and it started to lose its appeal for me. For longer-lasting fun, the game needs more depth.

Retro Rewind accomplishes small things with accuracy. It doesn’t lean heavily on asset stores to fill out its world (though, I would like to talk to whoever made the arcade cabinets 3/4 scale on risers, wtf), it’s not as janky as a lot of its peers, and it maintains a tight scope. There are places where it can grow (they’re adding video game rental in the future), but not a whole lot to complain about. It might not blow you away, but it might suck you in. And it might also make you pine for the days of Blockbuster Video. We didn’t know how good we had it.