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Games like While Waiting
Optillusion · 2025 · 83 % positive of 250
24 games that play like While Waiting and 24 that look like it. Closest by gameplay: No Time To Live, Wait! Life is beautiful! and The Journey - Episode 1: Whatever This Is.
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At a glance
What games like While Waiting have in common
- The tags they share most often with While Waiting: Puzzle (13 of 24), Adventure (12) and Visual Novel (7).
- They came out between 2009 and 2025, none of them after While Waiting (2025).
- Best rated by Steam players: Until Then (97 % positive of 9,868).
By gameplay
Plays like While Waiting
Matched from Steam descriptions and player tags. The tags under each game are the ones both games share.
No Time To Live
71 % positive of 166
Shared: Comedy · Adventure · Singleplayer
Wait! Life is beautiful!
74 % positive of 245
Shared: Puzzle · Strategy · Adventure
The Journey - Episode 1: Whatever This Is
97 % positive of 292
Shared: Visual Novel · Choices Matter · Adventure
A Game About
89 % positive of 866
Shared: Singleplayer · Indie · Casual
Wait! Life is Beautiful! Prologue
87 % positive of 445
Shared: Puzzle · Strategy · Choices Matter
Fate of Kai
92 % positive of 217
Shared: Puzzle · Visual Novel · Adventure
Old Man's Journey
86 % positive of 3,970
Shared: Puzzle · Cartoon · Drama
Thought Experiment Simulator
83 % positive of 583
Shared: Comedy · Singleplayer · Indie
Choo-Choose
83 % positive of 287
Shared: Comedy · Puzzle · Wholesome
What Comes After
90 % positive of 956
Shared: Adventure · Singleplayer · Indie
Leila
90 % positive of 286
Shared: Puzzle · Narrative · Drama
Continue?9876543210
56 % positive of 171
Shared: Adventure · Indie
More matches
- TOMORROW DON'T COME - Puzzling Depression81 % positive of 194Shared: Visual Novel · Choices Matter · Adventure
- Until Then97 % positive of 9,868Shared: Linear · Drama · Visual Novel
- Retention34 % positive of 691Shared: Puzzle · Drama · Visual Novel
- Essays on Empathy79 % positive of 182Shared: Comedy · Puzzle · Drama
- Mitoza96 % positive of 3,423Shared: Comedy · Choices Matter · Adventure
- STAY69 % positive of 536Shared: Puzzle · Visual Novel · Choices Matter
- Love Puzzle47 % positive of 321Shared: Puzzle · Linear · Strategy
- THE LONGING92 % positive of 6,788Shared: Puzzle · Choices Matter · Adventure
- Arise: A Simple Story91 % positive of 2,468Shared: Drama · Adventure · Cute
- Disillusion ST96 % positive of 254Shared: Collectathon · Visual Novel · Adventure
- Windosill91 % positive of 1,120Shared: Puzzle · Adventure · Cute
- Pilgrims96 % positive of 5,110Shared: Comedy · Puzzle · Cartoon
By look
Looks like While Waiting
Matched from screenshots. Each card shows the screenshot closest to the look of this game.
A YEAR OF SPRINGS
98 % positive of 781
Chicken Hill
99 % positive of 363
LoveChoice
92 % positive of 33,890
one night, hot springs
95 % positive of 2,904
MechaNika
90 % positive of 877
Talk to Strangers
93 % positive of 391
Is This Seat Taken?
97 % positive of 9,814
When The Past Was Around
95 % positive of 4,049
Otaku's Adventure
94 % positive of 8,421
Hermit and Pig
98 % positive of 193
When The Past Was Around - Prologue
94 % positive of 678
My Child Lebensborn (Original)
94 % positive of 1,430
More matches
- One Night Stand89 % positive of 732
- Yet Another Research Dog85 % positive of 350
- My Child Lebensborn Remastered96 % positive of 948
- A Gay's Life93 % positive of 389
- QT95 % positive of 246
- The Big Con93 % positive of 895
- Firework97 % positive of 41,558
- Birth96 % positive of 3,152
- Welcome to Elk96 % positive of 271
- My Holiday96 % positive of 188
- Endless Monday: Dreams and Deadlines98 % positive of 1,510
- Cats Everywhere98 % positive of 165
How these matches work
Matches come from embeddings of Steam descriptions, player tags and screenshots, computed offline. “Plays like” compares what the games are about and how players tag them; “Looks like” compares their screenshots. The share of positive reviews is based on Steam user reviews.