Neon Again: Sign Restoration

Neon Again is a neon sign restoration game built around a repair puzzle: inspect every tube, run tests to work out what is wrong, then fix it by hand in short touch mini-games.

Old signs. New life. The people of a small town bring you the dead signs that meant something to them: a roadside motel, a chrome diner, a bowling alley, a jazz club. Switch each sign on, find the fault and watch it glow over its street again.

HOW IT PLAYS
• Take a job from the board and read the owner's note: the budget, the due date and what they hope for.
• Inspect every tube. Is the glow dim, slow, dark at the ends, the wrong colour or flickering?
• Run tests to narrow down the cause. The same symptom can come from low gas pressure, a worn electrode, a cracked tube, a leaking seal or a loose wire, and every test costs bench hours.
• Choose a treatment: reseal, reheat, replace a section or the whole tube, rewire the housing, rewind or replace the transformer. Each one trades cost, risk and how much of the original glass you keep.
• Do the work yourself in short touch mini-games: pump out the old gas, warm the glass with a torch, bend a new tube, wire a plug, wind a coil.
• Switch the sign on to deliver it, earn stars and coins, and hear its story.

A LIVING TOWN
• 20 story signs and their owners across five areas: Riverside, Old Town Shops, Harbour District, Festival Grounds and the Neon Museum. Each area opens as the town lights up.
• Quick walk-in jobs with random faults keep the bench busy between stories.
• Buy better tests, upgrade your pumping, reheat and bending stations, and expand the workshop.
• Collect keepsakes from your clients, recolour the "Make it Glow" sign on your wall and pet the workshop cat.
• Seasonal events with their own signs, and a Rare Sign Auction.

FREE WITH ADS; OPTIONAL PREMIUM REMOVES ADS
• The whole town is free: all twenty story signs, every area and event, the Rare Sign Auction and endless walk-in jobs. Areas and events open as you restore signs.
• Sometimes an ad appears when you leave a restored sign's result card, never in your first 10 minutes of play and at most one every 4 minutes. There are no banners. You can also choose to watch a short video ad for one hour of Double pay.
• Premium is one optional purchase through Google Play (A$3.99; Google Play shows your local price): it removes the ads for good and makes Double pay permanent. It is paid once, with no subscription, and your progress is kept whether or not you buy it. If you bought the game's one-time purchase before it became free, you already have Premium.

NO ACCOUNT, NO FUSS
• No sign-in. Your progress is saved on your device. Ads and purchases need a connection.
• Plays in landscape. The text follows your phone's font size.
• Made for players aged 13 and over. On first launch the game asks for your year of birth; the answer stays on your device, and you can skip it. Players under 13, and anyone who skips the question, are never shown ads. Ads come from Google AdMob; see the privacy policy for the data they use.

Some things are worth fixing.