Waiting for the Loop

Short visual novel which asks the player for choices about half a dozen times. Based on the choices you get different endings. One loop takes about 10-15 minutes. The game has complete voiceover dialogue. There's no saving feature, so you have to take it in one go. One novel feature is that before starting a new game the program asks if you want "auto play" or "click play" experience. The difference is that click play requires you to press a key or mouse button to move forward the dialogue, while auto play makes no pauses during the dialogues. The developer argues that "auto play" is more immersive. I myself disagree, but it depends on the individual I guess. All in all, cool little branching story, although I think the character art and animations is quite horrible.

A tale of AI. Story: Waiting for the Loop follows on IAC, an AI system. As the game game begins two men in black enter the room and it's clear IAC is corrupted and as they keep asking it questions, it goes through it's humble beginnings and where we are now. I'll keep this section brief as it's an insanely short game. The story of Waiting for the Loop is pretty decent, although I can't say I truly loved it. I like overall story and there's definitely some interesting things the game tries to cover, but overall I felt like it winds up being incredibly lackluster in certain areas. It more feels like a test game instead of a fully fleshed out one. Graphics: I have a massive soft spot for games that go for this art style, just in general I absolutely adore the adventure game engine. Something about it's pixel art style is just unmatched. I will say however that the game does feel a lot more barren considering it's not really a point and click adventure. The two men in black characters barely have any differences between their models and the others aren't that great either. Character models are just incredibly generic and although there isn't any reason to make them look inter…

Waiting for the Loop is a short interactive sci-fi novel ripping off the visual style of Scumm(tm) system games like Monkey Island, but featuring really badly hand drawn art. There's something important that needs to be said when reviewing interactive novels. When someone is a talented writer, they will write a novel and it will be published and make a lot of money. When someone is a talented game developer, they will write a video game and it will be published and make a lot of money. Interactive novels never make as much money as real video games, and they never make as much money as published novels. From this, you can kind of infer from the very existence of any interactive novel that you're dealing with a product made by someone not capable of writing an acceptable novel or an acceptable video game. Waiting for the Loop is a perfect example of this. Bad story, terrible retro pixel art... the highest point of acclaim is that they ripped off Scumm(tm) video games a little bit, but not well. Despite releasing their "game" in 2018, they couldn't even work out how to make 16:9 resolution work. How could anyone recommend this non-game to a PC gamer?

This is a short story with little gameplay, just a few conversation choices. The story is a bit unrealistic but also timely.

Very short. How you interact with the AI will determine how your story ends.

I only went one loop with this game but now want to know the different endings. The game is a reflexion on IA and life, in a old-school point and click game. The game has good voice acting and story telling. The game has a great OST. A good sense of drama is emanating from this game, it was a unique experience playing it, thus I recommend it.