Wax Heads

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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 [link deleted]'s your job to help Repeater Records find its rhythm again!

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Developer:
Patattie Games
Engine:
Godot
Release date:
05 May 2026
Recent Steam reviews:
Very Positive (65)
All Steam reviews:
Very Positive (409)

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Description

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)

Recommended system requirements

minimum*

OS:
Windows 11
Processor:
Intel Core i5-4670K (4 * 3400) / Radeon RX 550 (4096 MB)
Memory:
4 GB RAM
Graphics:
GeForce GT 1030 (2048 MB) / Radeon RX 550 (4096 MB)
DirectX:
Version 12
Storage:
2 GB available space

recommended*

OS:
Windows 11
Processor:
Intel Core i5-4670K (4 * 3400) / AMD FX-8350 (4 * 4000)
Memory:
8 MB RAM
Graphics:
GeForce GT 1030 (2048 MB) / Radeon RX 550 (4096 MB)
DirectX:
Version 12
Storage:
2 MB available space

User reviews

Frostnatt
Recommended | 07 Jul 2026
10.2h played

Wax Heads is a wonderfull and extremely queer game about a struggling indie record store, run by a disillusioned aging 80:s pop-rock star whose band broke up due to drama. It's a visual novel with some puzzles about

Helpful: 9
Glosoli
Recommended | 30 Jun 2026
10.3h played

I adored Wax Heads. As a big music fan (and enjoyer of independent music, shoutout to my local radio station KEXP), this is the sort of game that felt catered to me...and it didn't disappoint. The core gameplay loop of

Helpful: 4
S for short
Recommended | 29 Jun 2026
15.5h played

Very charming little comfort game. The story line is not ground breaking, but the characters in it feel authentic and very relatable - they really grew on me as the game progressed. Great character + visual + audio

Helpful: 0
Necrobunnie
Recommended | 07 Jul 2026
13.7h played

As someone who used to work at HMV, my favourite part of the job was finding things for people based on obscure, half-remembered details they gave me. I was over the moon when I found out they made that experience into

Helpful: 2
inouetaiji
Not recommended | 06 Jul 2026
9.1h played

Really cool art and designs. Good writing that provides a grounded indie music scene tale and a vibrant cast of characters. Unfortunately not fun as game. It is not enough that it has great parts when the gameplay is

Helpful: 4
vitorsoarest
Recommended | 03 Jul 2026
5.4h played

I played the demo on Steam Next Fest, and it had me wishing to play even more, and I'm glad I got it right after! One of my favorite games of the year, so well thought and fun to play! I recommend it to everyone! I

Helpful: 4