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Subscribe to our newsletter In March 2025, two-person Canadian developer Blood Pact Studios released Bonesaw, a turn-based strategy game about beating the devil at gambling by cutting off all of his fingers.

This strategy has always worked for me in poker as well; the other players never see it coming and struggle to play afterward.

Bonesaw reviewed well on Steam but didn't exactly explode.

For its next game, Blood Pact dipped into the shopkeeper sim space that has very much exploded on Steam in the past few years, and now it's got a solid-gold hit on its hands: Retro Rewind - footage Store Simulator.The aptly named nostalgia trip sends you back to the '90s to run a Blockbuster-esque footage store in "the golden ages of footage rentals," as Blood Pact puts it ## Editor's Note This announcement has sparked considerable discussion among gamers. Source: [GamesRadar+](https://www.gamesradar.com/games/simulation/the-hottest-new-sim-on-steam-is-a-love-letter-to-blockbuster-stores-and-everyone-who-remembers-winding-a-vhs-tape-made-by-2-people-who-sold-100-000-copies-in-5-days/)