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Wax Heads is a cozy-punk narrative sim about working in a struggling record store. Chat to quirky customers with unique tastes, explore a handcrafted record collection, fall in love with bands (and their drama!), or just slack off with your colleagues - whatever gets everyone’s groove back!

Wax Heads is a dialogue heavy, stylized and exploration game developed by Patattie Games and published by Curve Games.
Released on May 05th 2026 is available on Windows and Linux in 5 languages: English, Spanish - Spain, French, German and Portuguese - Brazil.

It has received 306 reviews of which 299 were positive and 7 were negative resulting in a rating of 8.9 out of 10. 😎

The game is currently priced at 14.99€ on Steam.

The Steam community has classified Wax Heads into these genres:

Dialogue Heavy Stylized Exploration Adventure Indie Singleplayer Point & Click Puzzle Story Rich Colorful 2D Interactive Fiction Visual Novel Text-Based Detective Comic Book Funny Narrative Management Relaxing

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System requirements

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Windows
  • 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
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Linux
  • OS: Ubuntu LTS
  • Processor: 2.4 GHz
  • Memory: 1 GB RAM
  • Graphics: 512 MB display memory (Vulkan 1.0 compatible)
  • Storage: 1 GB available space
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May 2026
Extremely cozy and charming game. You can really feel the love and passion these devs have for record stores and the music scene. Cannot recommend enough. I love that they actually recorded songs for many of the records featured in the game, so you get to experience the records you recommend to customers. Also much respect for the left-leaning anti-corporate message of the game and the inclusion of the Trans flag and Palestine flag.
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May 2026
Look, lets get it out of the way: Your enjoyment of this game is going to depend entirely on your ability to deal with extremely (i hate to use this term but) tumblr-core social justice brained writing. If one of your co-workers going "Socialism slaaaaay" or on a rant about gentrification makes you want to explode, you will not be able to play this game. ...Which would be a shame, because I find it quite charming. The game is so chocked full of art and ideas and gags that even though some annoyed me it was never more then a few seconds before i found another one I giggled at. For every bit of character art I disliked, there were 5 funny album arts that I was talking with my partner about and trying to review. For every song I thought was kind of generic, they had... well they had the ♥♥♥♥♥♥ post void theme on the juke box so ♥♥♥♥ yes. I guess the point is that a lot of the times that sort of social justice focused writing fails for me is because it can feel forced, like they're trying to get you to like them because they're doing what's Right and Correct, that it can lack or get in the way of an amount of sincere love. But if there's one thing i believe about this game, it's that they sincerely love music, that they're exactly as obsessed with it as the characters of the game are and I am specifically. And that'll keep me coming back. Well, that and a genuinely fun puzzle gameplay loop that also lets me look at a customer and go "so both you and the game are trying to get me to give you a child-friendly chill album but i AM going to give you that punk record you SHOULD become a ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ punk weirdo about it", which is the dream. If that appeals to you, if you like music and record collecting, and if you can stand writing that i find a biiiit too handholdy and social justice 101-y, then you'll have a great time with this one.
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May 2026
The music alone is such a great reason to pick up this game. Honestly, indie games like these really keep the world turning. The obvious attention to detail and care put into it was fantastic. I wish I could play this again for the first time
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May 2026
I think I've been waiting for a game like this for a long time without knowing it. I'm 4 hours in and I don't want it to end. It's such a love letter to music lovers, musicians, artists, and community builders, AND takes care of that nagging fantasy I've had of wanting to work in a record store since the movie Empire Records came out. The animation style is charming and fun; I'm really happy to see a game that has a more unique art style (reminds me of Scott Pilgrim) and not the same high-res bubble characters I've been seeing in indie games lately that lack personality and make my poor little PC run like trash. The puzzles vary in difficulty level (some truly stumped me, but you can proceed regardless), and the ways you can interact with the many variations of music (which seems like a lot of work was put into creating) adds a huge layer of immersion. The daily activity of recommending records for the NPCs has the perfect blend of cozy and effort/tasks. I don't know how or when it ends, but when it does, I hope there could be a possibility of DLC for the future. Thanks to the creators. Y'all made a little gem.
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May 2026
as someone who loves collecting vinyl records irl, this game is perfect for me! it’s super cozy and immersive, and gameplay-wise it’s kinda like strange antiquities / horticulture / tiny bookshop but for records. i love the amount of detail in this game, like every album has its own unique description and pressing, there are backstories for the artists / bands, and the characters have lots of personality too! it also runs really well on the steam deck and the buttons are mapped very intuitively
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Wax Heads is currently priced at 14.99€ on Steam.

Wax Heads is currently not on sale. You can purchase it for 14.99€ on Steam.

Wax Heads received 299 positive votes out of a total of 306 achieving a rating of 8.92.
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Wax Heads was developed by Patattie Games and published by Curve Games.

Wax Heads is playable and fully supported on Windows.

Wax Heads is not playable on MacOS.

Wax Heads is playable and fully supported on Linux.

Wax Heads is a single-player game.

There are 2 DLCs available for Wax Heads. Explore additional content available for Wax Heads on Steam.

Wax Heads does not support mods via Steam Workshop.

Wax Heads does not support Steam Remote Play.

Wax Heads is enabled for Steam Family Sharing. This means you can share the game with authorized users from your Steam Library, allowing them to play it on their own accounts. For more details on how the feature works, you can read the original Steam Family Sharing announcement or visit the Steam Family Sharing user guide and FAQ page.

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