Wax Heads review – record selling indie game

Wax Heads – well, it’s not for the money (Curve Digital)

After Mixtape, a second indie title arrives to celebrate the joys of physical music media, in this charming cosy game set in the UK.

Given its digital nature, a video game might seem like an unlikely repository for general ruminations on the superiority of physical, analogue vinyl records over the ephemeral, bland and increasingly AI infested nature of music downloads. But that’s one of the things that Wax Heads provides, albeit in a gentle, unpolemical manner. In fact, thanks to Mixtape, it’s not even the only indie game to raise ...