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About This Game

Velistra is a small Balkan country whose regime has just fallen. You run a repair shop in the capital, and people bring you anything that still has some life in it: radios, tape recorders, telephones, and later VCRs, portable players and the first mobile phones.

Take it apart, screw by screw

Undo the screws, lift off the cover and take the boards out one by one. Brush off decades of dust, wipe the contacts with alcohol, resolder a loose wire, replace a swollen capacitor. Put it all back together and switch it on — will it work?

No spare parts. Make do.

New parts can't be found anywhere in the country. A drive belt is cut from a bicycle inner tube, a fuse gets wrapped in foil, a spring is bent from a paper clip. Makeshift parts work, and each has a mind of its own.

Things that don't belong inside

Some devices come in stolen. Others hide a seal, someone's stash, or a bug planted back under the old regime. Pull it out, desolder it, and while you're at it, unlock what the device was never allowed to do — like a radio that picks up stations that used to be banned.

The country outside the window

You never leave the shop — the country comes to your counter. From the collapse of the Eastern Bloc to the early 2000s, the street outside changes, and so do the orders: new devices, new faults, new tools.