TV Archive: Tidy Up Together, developed by Games Together and published by Gamersky Games, is now available on Steam.
Oh no! The VHS rental shop has had some sort of explosion, and all the tapes are everywhere! It’s now up to you to clean it all up and put everything back on the right shelf. Feeling lonely in the shop? Not to worry, you can bring a friend to help you in Coop or battle them to see who comes out on top.
Features:
- 👫Go it alone in solo or bring your friends.
- 💯Use collected skill points to earn different assists such as highlighting shelves, auto-collect and more.
- 🖱️Different modes, such as sandbox (everything is unlocked) or a no-skill mode to complete the ultimate challenge!
- 📼3180 different videotapes with a ton of different genres
TV Archive: Tidy Up Together is one of many organisational games that have hit the market recently, and it’s one I wanted to give a try. I wasn’t enjoying myself at first; it felt overwhelming. With over 3,000 tapes, I didn’t know where to put them or how to determine which tape went on which shelf. As time passed, I found myself enjoying it more. We soon found ourselves beating the game and unlocking the achievement “complete in under six hours”.
The game has skills to help you tidy up the store quicker and more efficiently. These range from auto-place and auto-collect features to highlighting shelves and tapes. I found myself relying on the skills when I was struggling to find a specific tape for a shelf or a shelf for a specific tape. To earn the skill points, you need to fill a section up; once filled, you can then spend those points. Each skill has a cooldown, but the quicker you place tapes, the faster it’s reusable.
Overall, I did enjoy TV Archive: Tidy Up Together; it’s a good time once you get over the initial overwhelmed feeling. It is relaxing, funny and even more enjoyable with a friend. Once fully gripped by the game, I found myself at peace; it provided a distraction that took me out of my head due to having to focus so hard on getting all the tapes out in the right place. However, some things let it down; it is very buggy at the moment. During my playthrough, if one of us used a skill while the other was using a skill, it would cancel it out. Trying to pass tapes to each other would sometimes cause the tape to disappear. However, patches are being released, quashing some launch bugs. I felt it was a bit of a mixed-bag experience, but in the end I did enjoy it.
