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Games like Wax Heads
Patattie Games · 2026 · Windows, Linux
Steam: 96 % positive of 628 reviews, as of Oct 18
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!
24 games that play like Wax Heads and 24 that look like it. Closest by gameplay: Tiny Bookshop, Mixtape and Chill with You : Lo-Fi Story.
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Plays and looks like Wax Heads
Close to it by gameplay and by look, so it appears in both lists below.
By gameplay
Plays like Wax Heads
Matched from Steam descriptions and player tags. The tags under each game are the ones both games share.
Tiny Bookshop
96 % positive of 7,940
Mixtape
87 % positive of 8,747
Chill with You : Lo-Fi Story
98 % positive of 13,005
Tavern Keeper 🍻
94 % positive of 4,822
inKONBINI: One Store. Many Stories
86 % positive of 1,147
Retro Rewind - Video Store Simulator
95 % positive of 10,843
Thrifty Business
97 % positive of 1,432
Spirit City: Lofi Sessions
97 % positive of 12,083
OFFBEAT
97 % positive of 562
Sticky Business
94 % positive of 6,171
Unpacking
93 % positive of 35,301
Coffee Talk
94 % positive of 11,267
More matches
- Whisper of the House96 % positive of 5,884
- Strange Antiquities95 % positive of 3,623
- Unheard - Voices of Crime96 % positive of 31,309
- Assemble with Care90 % positive of 8,690
- Piece by Piece89 % positive of 196
- Game Dev Tycoon95 % positive of 35,783
- Pixel Cafe93 % positive of 517
- Hozy80 % positive of 5,142
- Coffee Talk Episode 2: Hibiscus & Butterfly97 % positive of 2,312
- Bookshop Simulator93 % positive of 1,686
- Librarian: Tidy Up the Arcane Library!94 % positive of 27,061
- Tailside: Cozy Cafe Sim96 % positive of 289
By look
Looks like Wax Heads
Matched from screenshots. Each card shows the screenshot closest to the look of this game.
OFFBEAT
97 % positive of 562
The Big Con
93 % positive of 895
Is This Seat Taken?
97 % positive of 9,814
Do Not Feed the Monkeys
93 % positive of 11,026
There Is No Game: Wrong Dimension
97 % positive of 23,430
Walk of Life
94 % positive of 1,018
SLUDGE LIFE
91 % positive of 4,943
Teenage Blob
96 % positive of 162
Deathbulge: Battle of the Bands
99 % positive of 503
Thank Goodness You're Here!
96 % positive of 6,196
Card City Nights
88 % positive of 991
Welcome to Elk
96 % positive of 271
More matches
- Meteorfall: Krumit's Tale90 % positive of 843
- Good Pizza, Great Pizza - Cooking Simulator Game88 % positive of 5,719
- Talk to Strangers93 % positive of 391
- Signs of the Sojourner86 % positive of 225
- Mindcop95 % positive of 308
- Tangle Tower95 % positive of 5,243
- Uncle Chop's Rocket Shop86 % positive of 869
- Fort Meow94 % positive of 272
- The Mermaid Mask99 % positive of 3,099
- Repair this!89 % positive of 654
- MechaNika90 % positive of 877
- Not Tonight83 % positive of 2,493
At a glance
What games like Wax Heads have in common
- They came out between 2013 and 2026, none of them after Wax Heads (2026).
- Best rated by Steam players: Chill with You : Lo-Fi Story (98 % positive of 13,005).
How these matches work
Matches come from embeddings of Steam descriptions, player tags and screenshots, computed offline. “Plays like” compares what the games are about and how players tag them; “Looks like” compares their screenshots. The share of positive reviews is based on Steam user reviews.