Open now · By request
Video Paradise playtest
by Wunky
Run a 1988 video rental store one tape at a time. Order stock by fax, set your prices, rewind, repair and recommend. Every regular remembers how you treat them, and somewhere in your returns box are fragments of a film no one knew existed.
It's free to ask. The developer chooses who gets in.
- Access
- By request
- On playtest since
- Oct 6, 2026
- Planned release
- Q2 2027
- Developer
- Wunky
- Platforms
- Windows
- Players
- Single-player
- Languages
- English, French
How to join the Video Paradise playtest
- Open the game's Steam page with the Request access button. Sign in to Steam if it asks.
- Request access to the Video Paradise playtest there. It's free and doesn't commit you to anything.
- The developer lets players in, often in batches, so it can take a while. Steam emails you when you're in, and the playtest appears in your library.
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About Video Paradise
Run your own video rental store: stock the shelves, serve your regulars, and grow your business one rental at a time, all while piecing together fragments of a mysterious film hidden on certain tapes.
Shape the store your way. Specialize as a rare film collector, a movie reseller, or a profit-driven manager, and watch your shop transform as each path changes its look, draws different customers, and unlocks exclusive minigames. No two stores are alike, and neither are the secrets waiting in Paradise.
The daily ritual. Unlock the door, empty the return box, rewind what came back unrewound, patch up damaged tapes, and restock before the first customers walk in.
Run it your way. Order new releases and back-catalogue titles from the weekly catalogue, set rental and late-fee prices on the DOS terminal, arrange shelves, and clear old stock through the discount bin. Price too high and people will put the tape back.
A town that remembers. Dozens of regulars have their own tastes, moods and memories. Waive a late fee, recommend the right film, or hand someone a chewed-up tape, and they won't forget it.
A mysterious lost film. Rare fragments of unfamiliar footage turn up in rewinds and returns. Collect them, pin them up, and try to figure out what happened on the set of this movie that never seemed to have existed.
After closing time. Watch movies to increase your expertise, take late-night calls from a shady dealer and meet him at his caravan, bid on mystery lots by fax, dig through storage units, and haggle with collectors hunting for their grail tapes.
Merchant or cinephile. Grow into a drive-thru operation with hired help, or become the town's keeper of rare films. Each path opens its own opportunities.
More than movies. Add console game rentals and arcade cabinets as the store grows, and get ready for seasonal events like Halloween, the busiest week of the year.
From the game's Steam page.
