Shelf Happens

The shelves are a disaster, the records are everywhere, and the store opens soon. As the new clerk of a retro record store, your job is simple to say and hard to master: pick up every scattered vinyl, read its title, figure out its genre, and slot it into the right crate. No stickers, no hints — just your ear for music. Your survival behind the counter depends not on speed alone, but on how well you read every sleeve that lands in your hands.

From Blood Cabin to Quantum Drift, hundreds of original albums — and their follow-ups — are waiting to be filed. Rock, Jazz, Punk, Pop, Soul, Metal, Funk and many more genres each have their own dedicated crates. Guess right and the shelf glows green. Guess wrong and it flashes red, and the mess wins another round. Some sleeves are obvious, some will make you stop and think, and a few will fool you completely.

Efficiency is everything. Plan your route through the aisles, decide which records to grab first, and keep a band’s discography together — Vol. 1, 2 and 3 of a series are scattered all over the store, waiting to be reunited in the same crate. Fill a whole crate to lock in your progress and push the store one step closer to perfect order. Hasty guesses waste time; smart crate-digging wins the day.

Enjoy the calm, cozy satisfaction of sorting alone, or invite your friends into 2–4 player co-op and turn tidying into beautiful chaos. Split the aisles, call out genres, pass records down the line — teamwork gets the store spotless faster… in theory.

Filing crates and earning XP unlocks abilities that make you a sharper, faster clerk. Carry more records at once, spot genres quicker, move faster between aisles, and build your own strategy for turning a mountain of vinyl into perfect order.