

While Waiting
Optillusion · 2025 · Adventure, Comedy, Puzzle, Cute, Wholesome
PC
Mostly Positive76% · 233 📈 Making a comeback 88%
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About While Waiting
Welcome to While Waiting. This innovative title invites players into a transformative journey through the art of patience, blending humor with profound life insights. Numerous Life Situations: Encounter a diverse range of waiting scenarios, spanning from birth to death, providing a comprehensive exploration of life's waiting moments.
Doing Nothing is the Ultimate Strategy: Embrace the essence of the game by understanding that waiting is the key to clearing each situation. No shortcuts or actions can expedite the waiting time.
Comedic Appearance with Serious Core: Experience a unique blend of comedy reactions and a thought-provoking narrative that delves deep into the profound aspects of life.
Easter Eggs Hidden in Boringness: Uncover a multitude of hidden elements and surprises within the game's seemingly mundane waiting periods, transforming moments of boredom into engaging explorations.
Be Patient and Embrace Everyday Life: Learn the art of patience as you navigate the game, gaining valuable insights on embracing and accepting the journey of life itself.
Doing Nothing is the Ultimate Strategy: Embrace the essence of the game by understanding that waiting is the key to clearing each situation. No shortcuts or actions can expedite the waiting time.
Comedic Appearance with Serious Core: Experience a unique blend of comedy reactions and a thought-provoking narrative that delves deep into the profound aspects of life.
Easter Eggs Hidden in Boringness: Uncover a multitude of hidden elements and surprises within the game's seemingly mundane waiting periods, transforming moments of boredom into engaging explorations.
Be Patient and Embrace Everyday Life: Learn the art of patience as you navigate the game, gaining valuable insights on embracing and accepting the journey of life itself.
What Steam players say
Recent verbatim reviews from Steam — separate from playze.io community reviews below.
The embodiement of that "what if I suddently did this" question in our head. Simply an amazing experience, I felt genuine sadness seeing myself reach the end of this game but it is polished from start to finish with a charming story and a lot of humour; the art style is very unique and I love it.1 found this helpful
To set your expectations, this is not your typical game - it's more of a concept exploration filled with nice art and fun Wario-Ware-like mini games. While most games re-use mechanics to get value, I really respect the developers for keeping me on my toes by making no-two-interactions the same. I went into each level not knowing what to expect or how to play it, and honestly I felt like I had my value about 30% into the game, so I was surprised to see another 70 levels waiting for me. The amount of unique minigames they stuffed in here is actual insanity. I also really liked the narrative arc that happens throughout. I felt the experience and journey they set out for me, and was feeling a bit emotional at the very end of it. If you're looking for something unique, novel, and relaxing, this is a great pick-up.
Probably best to not try and 100% this because the controls for the gamey parts are kind of janky and there are some tight time limits but definitely worth a play if you want a chill series of puzzles that you can choose to engage with or ignore. I got emotional during the back third.
I really liked the game, but there are some things that annoyed me so so much. Pros: The story is very nice, and the levels really are a connected story all together. The art is really good, and there are a lot of easter eggs and funny things. Cons: Usually, in a level based game like this, I tend to 100% the game or at lease do most of the stuff (80%~90%). But in this game? There are so so so many almost impossible things, that in order to complete them you need to be pixel perfect and be on the right millisecond. In the menu, there are 2 main buttons: "start" and "levels". When you first open the game, you press the start button and it gives you a non-skippable tutorial, which that is fine. If you press levels, you can scroll through the levels menu. But if you press start even on the 1000th time you open the game, the non skippable intro is still non skippable which is very annoying, considering that I have to sit through an intro that I saw a million times. Overall, I do recommend the game because I enjoyed it a lot, but if you want a game to 100%? DO NOT try this one. I really do like the idea of the game, but there are some things that are really, really, really pissing …
Loved it the art is super cute https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IpFHvRlKiAU&list=PLHO_p3rWIB6fsThocll8xlk_TJ1_1t1Wo&index=61
frustrating and uninteresting
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