Be Kind Rewind

Run the counter of a 90s video shop on its busiest nights.

A rush-hour game behind the counter of a 90s video shop. Rewind the returns, rent out what people ask for, buy in new stock, and keep the queue from walking out the door.

The game

Behind the counter

Customers bring their tapes back, and each one goes into the Rewind-O-Matic 3000 until it is back at the start. Hand a renter a tape that hasn't been rewound, or the wrong film, and they pay less.

Meanwhile the queue grows, the clock runs down and the shelf needs stock. Every shift ends with your takings and a rating, from Needs Work all the way up to Legendary.

Rewind

The Rewind-O-Matic 3000

Hold to rewind, watch the reel spin, eject, and get the next one in. The machine takes one tape at a time, so on a busy night the returns pile up fast.

Serve

Everyone wants something

Some customers are returning a tape and some are after a particular film. Find what they want and send them home happy before their patience runs out.

Restock

Run the shop

Spend your takings on new titles from the catalogue. When a genre is hot, its rentals pay extra, so the right purchase at the right moment pays for itself.

Browse

A shelf of box art

Every film on the shelf has a cover of its own to flip through, from Radical Rex to Ghost Cop.

Survive

Shifts that get busier

A quiet morning with a few regulars, then the evening rush, then the graveyard shift, with the most stock and the most customers of all.

Features

  • Day, evening and graveyard shifts
  • Customers who return, rent and run out of patience
  • A catalogue of films to stock your shelves
  • Hot genres that pay extra
  • A rating and your takings at the end of every shift
  • A late-night video shop drawn in pixel art

Play Be Kind Rewind today

Available now on Nintendo Switch.