Simulator games like VHS World '89

Want something that feels relaxing and funny the way VHS World '89 does? Give these simulator games a try when the craving hits.

VHS Nights: The Tidy Up Shift
It’s 1992 and the VHS store is counting on you! Sort 1,120 unique movies by genre and year with no title repeated twice. A true sorting game for movie lovers! Discover hilarious parody titles and blurbs, unlock abilities, and enjoy optional tape rewinding.
Also in Cozy · Relaxing, Retro
65% of 20 Steam reviews are positive$5.99
Retro Rewind - Video Store Simulator
Run your own early-90s video store, from stocking shelves with hand-drawn VHS tapes to rewinding returns and charging late fees. A warm, hands-on sim for sim fans who like tidy shelves, busy Friday nights and small shops that slowly grow.
Relaxing, Retro
95% of 10,993 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 1,339$19.90
Abandoned Gameshop
Sort thousands of physical game cases scattered across the carpeted floors by Platform (Nindo 10, XCube, FunStation, PC) and Genre. Bring retro gaming nostalgia back to life!
Also in Cozy and Co-op · Relaxing
66% of 64 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 2$4.99
Put Back Stuff
Put Back Stuff is a cozy first-person organisation simulator about restoring a trashed Australian supermarket, with more than 5,000 items across 300 shelves. Pick things up, sort them into departments, and watch empty shelves fill. Slow, repetitive and satisfying, made for sim fans who like tidying at their own pace.
Also in Cozy · Relaxing
96% of 118 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 15$5.99
Rental Store Simulator
Run a store in the nostalgic world of video rentals. Manage inventory, serve customers, and customize your store to create the ultimate rental store experience. Purchase a range of movies and consoles. Hire and train employees. Upgrade and design your store.
Relaxing, Retro
71% of 21 Steam reviews are positive$7.99
Videoclub Simulator
Manage your own video store in this management simulation. Sell and rent movies, organize shelves, and attract customers in a nostalgic experience inspired by classic video stores.
Relaxing, Retro
80% of 10 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 1$9.99
Game Shop Panic
No magic, no skills, no cooldowns. The only things that can clean up this messy store are your own two hands. Pick up retro game cartridges spanning three generations—8-bit, 16-bit, and 32-bit—stacked high on the floor, one by one, and place them manually onto the shelves of the correct genre.
Relaxing, Retro
52% of 25 Steam reviews are positive$5.99
Tiny Tape Store
A cozy, nostalgia-fueled idle game that lives in the corner of your screen. Reminisce the good old days and run your own little VHS store while using your PC for work, games or whatever. Play minigames or let your store run by itself, decorate it as you see fit!
Also in Cozy · Relaxing, Retro
100% of 13 Steam reviews are positive$3.99
Shelf-Employed
Restore order to a chaotic magical warehouse in this cozy first-person organizing simulator. Sort 4800+ packages into their proper places, unlock useful spells, and speed up your sorting. Turn towering piles of boxes into neatly filled shelves, one satisfying row at a time.
Also in Cozy · Relaxing
89% of 28 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 1$5.99
Konbini Cleanup
Konbini Cleanup hands you a messy Japanese convenience store and one simple job: pick up all 2,928 products and put them back where they belong. Drinks, noodles, candy, chips and more across 15+ sections, with no timers and no game over. It is slow, tidy work that turns chaos into neat rows, ideal for simulator games fans who like to switch off and sort.
Also in Cozy · Relaxing
92% of 273 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 77$5.99
The Sorting Bureau
A cozy sorting job in a quiet Tokyo workshop, where clients hand you boxes of buttons, coins, gears and stamps. You pick up each item, group it and snap it into place to a soft click. No timers, no penalties, just tidy desks and small stories told through objects.
Also in Cozy · Relaxing
75% of 364 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 14$9.99
Too Many Toys!
Too Many Toys gives sim fans a whole toy shop to tidy, with 5,517 plushies, toy cars, board games, books and blocks scattered everywhere. You pick them up by the armful, learn each section, and shelve everything where it belongs, with no customers and no clock, just rows clicking complete and chaos turning tidy.
Also in Cozy · Relaxing
95% of 460 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 40$5.99

Cheaper than VHS World '89

Tiny Tape Store

A cozy, nostalgia-fueled idle game that lives in the corner of your screen.

$3.99

Vinyl Freak: Unsorted

Relax and tidy up 2,880 handcrafted vinyl records. Unpack the warehouse, clean up, and rearrange shelves & decor as you bring new life to a one of a…

$3.59

Sorting Inc

A casual and relaxing game about sorting various items. Join Sorting Inc and climb up through the departments to become the absolute expert in the…

$3.99

Bunker Tidy Up

A whole bunker needs sorting, all 17,437 cans, boxes, and batteries of it.

$3.74

Shelf Happens

You (alone or with friends) need to place scattered vinyl records on the right genre crates in a retro record store.

$3.99

Groovekeeper: Sort the Record Shop

A first-person record-sorting game: no customers, no economy, no time pressure.

$2.99

Sort The Toys

Sort The Toys is a relaxing organizing simulator where you place over 3,400 toys onto their designated shelves.

$3.74

Tidying Simulator

Find scattered objects and return them to their proper places in this first-person tidying simulator.

$2.99

Shelfbound

A storm has torn through, sending shelves and their contents flying across the room.

$2.99

Gun Shop: Tidy Up

Gun Shop: Tidy Up — a tidy-up simulator where you need to put more than 2,700 items back in their places.

$2.99

Sort Them Socks

Sort Them Socks is a cozy organizing simulator where you sort over 3,000 unique socks onto the correct shelves.

$3.99

Clean It Up!

Manage your cleaning store where you clean and polish every last smudge of dirt. Use the profits to upgrade your supplies and keep everything clean.

$3.99

Hidden gems like VHS World '89

Black Friday Janitor: Clean the Whole Mall

Black Friday is over and the mall is wrecked, so you grab the mop.

$5.99

Thrifty Business

Run a 90s-inspired thrift shop where sorting boxes of pre-loved clothes, toys, and antiques is the whole pleasure.

$12.99

Too Many Toys!

Too Many Toys gives sim fans a whole toy shop to tidy, with 5,517 plushies, toy cars, board games, books and blocks scattered everywhere.

$5.99

Put Back Stuff

Put Back Stuff is a cozy first-person organisation simulator about restoring a trashed Australian supermarket, with more than 5,000 items across 300…

$5.99

Konbini Cleanup

Konbini Cleanup hands you a messy Japanese convenience store and one simple job: pick up all 2,928 products and put them back where they belong.

$5.99

Bunker Tidy Up

A whole bunker needs sorting, all 17,437 cans, boxes, and batteries of it.

$3.74

Tidy Up the Halloween Shop

A cozy Halloween shop has been turned upside down, and you get to put it right.

$5.99

Supermarket Chaos

Supermarket Chaos is a cozy organizing simulator about putting a very messy supermarket back in order. Slow, tidy, and oddly satisfying.

$4.99

Console Shop Simulator

From trade-in haggles to streaming your shop life, run the little console shop the way you want it.

$15.99

Post Office: Tidy Up!

An earthquake has dumped 3,360 parcels on the floor of a postal depot, and every one has a printed address.

$4.99

Ultimate Theater Simulator

Run your own cinema from the lobby floor: pick films, thread the projectors, pop popcorn and pour drinks, then hire cashiers and janitors and grow a…

$12.99

Sorting Inc

A casual and relaxing game about sorting various items. Join Sorting Inc and climb up through the departments to become the absolute expert in the…

$3.99

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