Retro Rewind - Video Store Simulator
by Blood Pact Studios · 17 Mar, 2026
990 downloads
About the Game
Relive the golden ages of video rentals by opening your very own video store. Rent, sell, organize and build your business from the ground up. Hire staff, manage your team and become the best rental destination in town!
From taking reservations and charging late fees to recommending movies and preparing delicious snacks, there’s never a dull moment when running your store!
Customize your walls and floors, decorate with posters and memorabilia and expand your layout to build the video store of your dreams.
Fill your shelves with thousands of unique VHS tapes, each with their own title, genre and hand-drawn cover art! Order movies on your old PC or buy exclusive bootleg films from the shady Tape Dealer. Each week will have new releases inspired by real iconic movies of the 80s and early 90s.
Additional Game Features:
Build Your Dream Team: Hire staff to give you a hand on daily tasks to run your store.
Manage Your Returns: Add returned movies in the system, rewind tapes and set aside reserved movies for your customers.
Charge Late & Broken Fees: Track late and damaged returns and deal with different customer reactions and complaints.
Evolving Customer Interactions: Seasons, weather and holidays affect gameplay and what your customers rent! Be ready, rainy Friday nights are crazy busy in the store!
Seasons & Festivals: Play through all four seasons as the environment transforms around you. Each season features special holidays and festivals, all brought to life with unique artwork!
Share Movies With Your Friends: Every movie can be ordered on your PC with a unique code that you can share with your friends!
Screenshots
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Version Information
Steam Patch Notes
Official update history
- Adjusted the buzzing noise's pitch and sound radius.
- Greatly reduced the chances of customers wandering into the backstore, storage, or outside.
- Improved the placement of moving boxes on the highest rows of large storage shelves.
Bug Fixes
- Fixed players could place shelves inside the Tech Shed.
- Fixed the computer data section for video games.
- Fixed an issue in the Repair Console quest that allowed players to skip a step, potentially making the quest impossible to complete.
- Fixed an issue where selling a video game would not correctly update the "Copies Owned" statistic.
We are currently investigating reports of performance drops following the Video Games update. If you're experiencing crashes, please keep in mind that mods are one of the most common causes of crashes following a game update. We recommend disabling your mods and verifying the integrity of your game files through Steam. Thank you for playing Retro Rewind!
- Added ID 2 pictures to the cardboard moving box (each sides)
- Optimized GPU particle systems to significantly reduce memory usage.
- Reduced unnecessary calls when relocating baskets held by distant clients.
- Reduced the performance status display update rate from 30 FPS to 22 FPS.
- Updated English, German, and Russian localization.
- Reduced the chance of customers returning a broken VHS player by approximately 30%.
- Updated localization textures.
- Improved the random movie selection shown in the main menu. Movies are now generated from a wider variety of genres instead of favoring Horror and Drama.
- Fixed a potential crash that could occur from the main menu.
- Fixed an issue where the Sidewalk upgrade could fail to unlock correctly.
- Fixed the Repair Station unlocking at the wrong level.
- Fixed collision issues on the Toy Shelf.
- Fixed incorrect UI context mapping text for Toys and Concessions.
- Fix: Clients getting stuck on the sidewalk sign.
- Fix: Snacks and movies could become invisible in the basket or when dropped at the checkout if the player moved the shelf while a client was picking up an item from it.
- Fix: If teleporting the player to the starting zone fails, force a higher teleport position.
- Fix: Clients and staff getting stuck on the ceiling sign.
- Hide beta text
- Fixed an issue with the store name when reloading your save file
This update mainly adds more languages and storage.
Add content
- Storage for box
- Storage for movies
Balancing
- Reduced candy dispenser price ($300 → $250)
- Increased candy price revenue ($0.50 → $1.00)
Translation
- Fix fonts for Spanish
- Fix missing textures in Spanish
Adding languages
- Italian
- Brazilian Portuguese
- Russian
- Traditional Chinese (Work in progress)
When will additional content be added to the game?
We are targeting the end of April for the first update. It will include the Tape Repair Station and more. We are actively following your feedback across Steam, Discord, and Reddit, and we know you want much more for Retro Rewind. More features are already in development.. we are just not ready to reveal them yet. :)
- Added a timer to the avoidance system so characters can briefly clip through others if stuck
- Fixed clients ignoring the clearance bin
- Improved client pathing when returning movies to the dropbox and exiting the store
- Balance the maximum number of clients in store (30 → 25)
- Fixed an issue where shelves remained occupied after clients were done using them, preventing others from accessing them
- Made adult movies cover darker
Add content
Added a “Teleport Stuck Movies” button next to storage drop box.
Balancing
Increased the likelihood of customers picking movies from their favorite genre or new releases
Increased the likelihood of customers picking movies in small and medium-sized stores.
Increased the likelihood of customers picking their favorite movie
Increased number of clients in mid and large store sizes.
Clients now prioritize unreserved shelves to avoid queues and have a higher chance of picking up movies immediately.
Clients now stop grabbing snacks, candy, and playing arcade games at store closing time for faster closing
Reduced the default chance of new staff requesting a raise
Improvement
Improved stairs collisions
Adjusted controller dead zone for improved responsiveness
Improved save game stability
Save slots now include up to 4 backup files in your save folder
Add a interface when the game is saving
Added net worth display on the computer desktop
Added a notification indicator (!) on the phone when it rings
Save files now include up to 4 backups (backup, backup1, backup2, backup3)
Optimized popcorn machine effects
Reduced text sign light intensity.
Set ceiling decorations to cast only self shadows, because Ovni's shadow on the ground was too big.
Adjusted RVO avoidance size and weight to feel faster while allowing clients to pass through crowded areas.
Translation
Add (BETA) Chinese (中文) and (BETA) Portuguese Brazilian
Fixed the French computer market header image
Improved English text grammar
Fix issues
Fixed Discord link
Fixed adult movie posters (image) not being censored when reserved requested by clients
Fixed collision issues outside playable areas
Fixed invisible collision for shelves near the checkout
Fixed a rare issue where customers could pick movies directly from display shelves
Fixed an issue where FOV settings could be overridden by certain stations (e.g., popcorn machine, return desk)
Fixed an issue where cartridges held by customers would drop to the ground after loading a save: On load, “in-hand” movies are transferred to the rental system to prevent them from falling to the ground
Fixed on loading, flag rent movies will not be place on shelves and be invisible
Removed navigation mesh impact from wall-mounted decorations
Fixed issue where players could pick up movies in Move and Design mode, breaking shelf connections and interactivity.
Minor Patch CL 1974 & 1994
Balancing
Balance sick and raise to increase each day instead of having a flat % chance
Increased maximum CV generated per day from 3 to 4
Improvement
Add more strings states to the catalog repair counter text (Repair it, Completed)
Add color and icon in the ESC menu to prevent accidental clicks.
Move several louds sounds into Phonophobia sound class (plane, helicopter, emergency siren)
Improve stability of AI task
Added a preview in the menu context showing the resell value of objects (e.g., Movie Shelf, Sell Product ($35))
Translation
Fix calendar textures in Spanish (ES).
Loc: Fix broken string in the catalogue.
Add more localization on Italian (74% done)
Fix issues
Fixed AI stopping working when they wanted to take a pause, but had both no-bathroom and no-sleep skills
Fixed New release T_bkg_Com_01 texture hand orientation
Fixed slush machine - The paper cup do not move anymore to flavor pumps while been dragging down, but not totally in the hand of the player
Fixed you cannot prevent anymore the trigger to spawn correctly on quest Go to black market if the player close the back door to fast
Fixed UI icons on new day where always tint orange
Remove the invisible extra Winter 24th Holiday event
Fixed Player cannot teleport anymore the staff at the checkout when they were not using it
Fixed collision size of the display mesh
Temporarily disabled Convolution bloom causing bad performance on ultra wide monitor
Fixed selling price still visible when the clearance bin was moved
Fixed a late fee request string that was wrongly typed
Fix back alley issue where movies was getting stuck and cannot be pickup.
Add a system to check if staff spawns are corrupt, deleting them if necessary.
Make shelves more robust in code when moved to avoid floating movies.
Hide unused progression bar on Task list.
Retro Rewind Demo - Patch 1501
- Fixed missing glass on Tape Dealer.
- Fixed an issue where the player could get softlocked when talking to an NPC while sitting at the checkout.
- Fixed movie duplication issue at the Return Station.
- Disabled ESC button event in the main menu options to avoid an softlock.
- Balance XP needs between levels and machine prices.
- Increased the chance of a client receiving their reserved movie.
Current Release
Build 23896268
Uploaded Jun 26, 2026
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How to Install
RetroRewind.exe to play
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