A cozy first-person sorting sim set in a 1989 video rental store. All 3,360 VHS tapes have spilled across the floor — pick them up, read the covers, and shelve them by genre. No timers, no pressure: just the quiet satisfaction of putting every last cassette back in its place.
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Welcome to VHS World — the best little video rental store in town. Or it will be, once you can see the floor again.
It's 1989. You've got the keys to a video store, a wall of empty shelves, and all 3,360 tapes stacked in one enormous heap in the middle of the room. There's only one way to open for business: pick them up, one by one, and put every last cassette where it belongs.
VHS World '89 is a calm, first-person organizing simulator. Grab a tape, look at its cover art and title, work out its genre, and slot it onto the right shelf.
Sort by genre across 14 departments — Action, Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi, Drama, Kids, Romance, Thriller, Western, Fantasy, Adventure, Sports, Crime and Anime
Read the covers. Every tape is a hand-made parody of a movie you almost recognize
Watch the mess disappear. The floor empties, the shelves fill, and a chaotic pile slowly becomes a store you're proud of
Every tape you shelve correctly earns points. Spend them on upgrades and become the fastest clerk in town.
There's no clock, no score to beat, no game over. Sort for five minutes or five hours, at your own pace, to the soft hum of a video store after dark. Put on some music and rewind to a simpler time.
3,360 individually placed VHS tapes
14 genre departments and hundreds of unique parody covers to discover
Cozy, self-paced play with no fail state
A satisfying points-and-skills upgrade loop
Nostalgic late-'80s video-store atmosphere in a warm, low-poly art style
VHS World '89 costs $4.49 right now.
Based on Wish9's price records and IsThereAnyDeal history, the lowest price is $3.59.
The lowest recorded price is $3.59. It's 25% higher right now. It has gone on sale 1 time in the past year. The next big Steam sale, the Steam Winter Sale, starts in 34 days. This is for reference, based on past price records, and doesn't guarantee future prices.
Recommended: Graphics card NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 / AMD Radeon RX 5700 XT, Processor Intel Core i7-8700 / AMD Ryzen 5 3600, Memory 16 GB RAM. Minimum: Graphics card NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Ti 6GB / AMD Radeon RX 6500XT, Processor Intel Core i7-4790k / AMD Ryzen 5 1500X, Memory 8 GB RAM. Save your PC specs on Wish9 to compare them with this game instantly.
