Hello friends. This is a Let’s Play video of “ReStory: Chill Electronics Repairs” demo version. Run a quaint electronics repair shop in mid-2000s Tokyo. Grow your business by carefully restoring iconic video game consoles, cell phones, music players, and other nostalgic devices. Talk to customers, hear their stories, and see how your decisions impact both their lives and your shop.
Once in a while a Steam page arrives so surgically aimed at the sweet spot between cosy shop sim, Japanese urban nostalgia, and satisfying tactile repair mechanics that you can practically hear the wishlisting begin, and Mandragora’s ReStory: Chill Electronics Repairs is one of those. Coming in 2026 under the tinyBuild banner from the same studio behind I Am Future, it drops you behind the counter of a small electronics repair shop in mid-2000s Tokyo, where you take apart, clean, and restore lovingly-modelled Y2K-era gadgets, iconic handhelds, cell phones, music players, cameras, and even officially licensed Atari consoles, while a rotating cast of customers walks in and quietly rewrites the story with whatever they have brought you. The repair loop is Powerwash Simulator methodical (disassemble, replace, reassemble, hit save), the customer stories are Coffee Talk warm-with-a-catch (report the disturbing find on the former gangster’s phone, or help the lovestruck student confess), and every choice branches toward one of several endings that will make you want to run the shop a second time. A period-accurate Y2K web browser handles your spare-parts orders, the atmosphere leans hard into mid-2000s Shibuya sunlight, and a playtest signup is already live for anyone wanting to get their hands on the soldering iron early. This is the cosy shop sim you didn’t know you needed, and it might just be tinyBuild’s next quiet crossover hit.
Developer: Mandragora Publisher: tinyBuild Genre: Job Simulator, Management, Cozy, Crafting ,Relaxing, Indie Release Date: 2026 Reviewed on: PC/Windows Available on: PC/Windows Link: Steam Review copy was demo.
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