{"id":11936,"date":"2025-12-10T04:42:58","date_gmt":"2025-12-10T04:42:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/repair-iconic-2000s-era-gadgets-in-upcoming-indie-game-restory\/"},"modified":"2025-12-10T04:42:58","modified_gmt":"2025-12-10T04:42:58","slug":"repair-iconic-2000s-era-gadgets-in-upcoming-indie-game-restory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/repair-iconic-2000s-era-gadgets-in-upcoming-indie-game-restory\/","title":{"rendered":"Repair iconic 2000s-era gadgets in upcoming indie game ReStory"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div><\/div>\n<p class=\"col-body mb-4 leading-7 text-[18px] md:leading-8 break-words min-w-0 charcoal-color\">We love a little nostalgia mixed in with our cozy gaming, and <em>ReStory<\/em> looks like a perfect blend of those two. In this upcoming indie game, you play the owner of a Tokyo electronics repair shop in the mid 2000s. The trailer that dropped today shows you tinkering with some very familiar gadgets from the era, such as renamed riffs on a Tamagotchi, a Nokia brick phone, a PSP and a Walkman. You clean and repair these devices for customers, and it looks like your conversations with them might have as much impact on their lives as your official work does.<\/p>\n<p class=\"col-body mb-4 leading-7 text-[18px] md:leading-8 break-words min-w-0 charcoal-color\">The whole thing looks exceedingly charming and chill. It&rsquo;s nice to see a game like <em>ReStory<\/em> as a counterpart to something with a similar premise but wildly different tone like <em>Kaizen<\/em>, which was a highlight during the Steam Automation Fest over the summer. <em>ReStory<\/em> is being developed by Mandragora, and it is currently playtesting ahead of a planned 2026 release.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><sub>Repair iconic 2000s-era gadgets in upcoming indie game ReStory<\/sub><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We love a little nostalgia mixed in with our cozy gaming, and ReStory looks like a perfect blend of those two. In this upcoming indie game, you play the owner of a Tokyo electronics repair shop in the mid 2000s. The trailer that dropped today shows you tinkering with some very familiar gadgets from the&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-wrap\"><a href=\"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/repair-iconic-2000s-era-gadgets-in-upcoming-indie-game-restory\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &ldquo;Repair iconic 2000s-era gadgets in upcoming indie game ReStory&rdquo;<\/span> &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11937,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11936","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11936","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11936"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11936\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11937"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11936"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11936"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11936"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}