ReStory: Chill Electronics Repairs

A typical day starts with greeting whoever walks in, hearing what is wrong with their device and agreeing to take the job. Then it goes onto the workbench. Repairs are hands-on and granular: you unscrew casings, take the gadget apart, clean out the grime, swap the faulty components, then reassemble everything with your toolkit. Different devices need different tools, and the satisfaction is in watching a filthy, dead console power up looking almost new.

Parts do not appear by magic. You hunt for spares on an in-game web browser styled after the Y2K internet, balancing price against what the shop can afford, and manage your finances so the business keeps growing. Alongside walk-in customers you fulfil online orders, which keeps the bench busy between story beats.

The pace is deliberately unhurried, and there is no reflex test here. Progression comes from expanding what you can fix and earning enough to grow the shop, while the customer conversations push the narrative forward. With branching choices and multiple endings, a second playthrough plays out differently. DualShock and DualSense pads have partial support, and 50 achievements plus Steam Trading Cards give completionists something to chase.

Tokyo in the mid-2000s was a city of flip phones, portable music players and handheld consoles, and your little repair shop sits right in the middle of it. Everyone who comes through the door brings a device and, sooner or later, a piece of their life.

Those stories are where ReStory turns from a tinkering sim into something more. A former gangster's phone might hold something disturbing, and you decide whether to report it. A lovestruck student might need help working up the courage to confess to his crush. How you treat each customer, and what you choose to do with what you learn, can change the course of their lives and the fate of your shop. Choices ripple through a branching storyline that leads to multiple endings, wrapped in an affectionate recreation of Japanese urban life at the turn of the millennium.

ReStory is out now on Steam for Windows and macOS. The list price is US$19.99; in Southeast Asia it lists at RM27.49 in Malaysia, S$15.99 in Singapore, ₱399.99 in the Philippines, ฿249.99 in Thailand, Rp 96,999 in Indonesia and 200.000₫ in Vietnam, and it was 20% off as of November 1, 2026. It supports nine languages, including English, Japanese, Korean and Simplified Chinese, but no Southeast Asian language. It runs on very old hardware: a 2-core, 4-thread CPU, 4 GB of RAM, a GTX 750 Ti and 1 GB of storage. It is single-player only, with partial PlayStation pad support.