While you are Downloading

While you are Downloading

Alien Nude LTD · March 2, 2018 · Indie, Arcade, Shoot 'Em Up, Casual, Action

Buy While you are Downloading from Steam at $0.99 — the cheapest of 1 store we compare.

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While you are Downloading price by region

While you are Downloading costs £0.79 in the United Kingdom, $0.90 in Georgia (USD), $0.99 in the United States, €0.99 in Europe (EUR), CA$1.19 in Canada, NZ$1.29 in New Zealand, R$2.29 in Brazil and zł3.59 in Poland right now.

Cheapest While you are Downloading offer in each region, in local currency
RegionBest priceOfficial storeKey shopStores
United Kingdom £0.79 £0.79 — 1
Georgia (USD) $0.90 $0.90 — 1
United Statesyour region $0.99 $0.99 — 1
Europe (EUR) €0.99 €0.99 — 1
Canada CA$1.19 CA$1.19 — 1
New Zealand NZ$1.29 NZ$1.29 — 1
Brazil R$2.29 R$2.29 — 1
Poland zł3.59 zł3.59 — 1

Each row is a real price from that region's own stores, not a currency conversion, so the figures are not directly comparable. Switch regions in the header to shop the one you buy in.

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About While you are Downloading

✦ AI summary

While you are Downloading is a fast-paced arcade shooter where you survive endless waves of enemies, automatically firing your ship while dodging attacks and collecting power-ups to unlock and upgrade increasingly powerful weapons. Designed as the perfect quick-play experience for those moments you're waiting around, it features intuitive left-right controls that make it easy to learn but challenging to master as difficulty scales with your growing skill.

A quick and action paced retro styled arcade shooter, or shoot 'em up (shmup) if you like. Perfect to play in short chunks, like when you are waiting for big games to download.

While you are Downloading — game info

Platforms
Windows
Player modes
Single-player
Controller
Full controller support
PC Game Pass
Not included

What Steam players say

Recent verbatim reviews from Steam — separate from playze.io community reviews below.

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Players appreciate this as a fun, classic arcade-style space shooter with charming retro aesthetics that's perfect for casual play during downtime, like while waiting or downloading other games. However, most note that the gameplay is extremely simple and repetitive, making it entertaining only for short bursts rather than extended play sessions, with some suggesting it would work better as a mobile game than a full PC release.

Recommended Feb 26, 2020
A basic and fun space shooter, you control a spaceship and shoot enemy spaceships, you also collect power-ups to shoot more stuff! Play while you are downloading something else for maximum effect :) https://youtu.be/iFVb0pQ82HM
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Recommended Mar 18, 2022
TL:DR This is a great super simple classic arcade style game, But it gets old pretty fast. This game has a great visual style and really captures the feel of old school arcade games. And that's both it's best and worst feature. Because were talking Missile Commander, Lunar Lander, Space Invaders levels of retro simplicity. You turn a ship left or right as it moves and fires at preset intervals at alien ships to get a high score. Thais it. That all that this is. But that's not bad. I spent more then my share of quarters at my local pizza place on games like this and they are a fun way to kill some time. But killing a few minutes at a time is all this game is really good for. I think it would have fair better as a phone game then a PC release. Its almost to casual to take the time and start up. Unless you are, like it title suggests playing while waiting for a download to finish. All in all its only a $1.00 and definitely worth playing while waiting for that next big patch to your favorite game to download.
Recommended Sep 27, 2020
Perfect for getting through those waiting time!
Recommended Jun 8, 2018
I've only played around 10 minutes so far, but i'm liking where this game is going! I'm looking forward to future updates and I will update this review along with the game.
Recommended Apr 5, 2018
It's a fun little game, the dev is really honest with his work. If you've got a buck lying around in your steam account from trading cards it's a fun game to play. I hope the dev works more, but it's nice in it's current state. Still worth a buy, it's only the price of some candy at a store's checkout anyways. :)
Recommended Apr 5, 2018
This game pretty much serves it's purpose, I was installing Winning Putt while playing this, best game while downloading a bigger game ever!!!

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