If you were working a retail job at a movie rental store in the early ’90s, there’s a decent chance you couldn’t wait to clock out for the day and escape from the daily grind with a mindless video game. Here in the 2020s, on the other hand, at least one mindless video game is striving to re-create the daily grind of working at a video rental store.
Retro Rewind: Video Store Simulator is the latest in a burgeoning field of “work simulators” that has found indie success on Steam. And while the depth of the game’s overall retail simulation is pretty shallow, there is a sort of soothing,
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