Games like While We Wait Here
If While We Wait Here is your kind of game, the closest matches are Scarlet Hollow, Project Looking Glass and Robot Anomaly — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its atmospheric, contemplative and eerie. Each pick is ranked by what players of this game also play, shared genres and tags, and review-mined similarity — not a generic popularity list.
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Players who liked While We Wait Here also play
Steam players who put hours into While We Wait Here also tend to own these titles — a signal called collaborative filtering. imho.run cross-references millions of library ownership patterns to surface games whose real audiences overlap, regardless of whether their genre tags match.
Scarlet Hollow
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with While We Wait Here.
Top pick for While We Wait Here fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure and Casual with While We Wait Here.
Your aunt’s dead, your cousin hates you, and you’re stuck in the dead-end town of Scarlet Hollow. Choose your path through a branching narrative so dense that you'll see less than 1/5 of the game on a single playthrough. You won't be able to save everyone. Good luck, and welcome home.
Project Looking Glass
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for While We Wait Here fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries.
1963. A classified experiment. A grieving mother. A signal that won't stop transmitting. Step through the Looking Glass — a first-person psychological horror told through the static of a Cold War-era apparatus that peers into places mankind was never meant to reach.
Robot Anomaly
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for While We Wait Here fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure and Simulation with While We Wait Here.
Your job is to inspect all produced robots. Investigate unauthorized hardware modifications and rogue behavior. And escape the building! You are the only human there, but you are not alone.
Slay the Princess — The Pristine Cut
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with While We Wait Here.
Ranked #4 for While We Wait Here fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure and Simulation with While We Wait Here.
You're here to slay the princess. Don't believe her lies.
The Test: Secrets of the Soul
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for While We Wait Here fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure and Simulation with While We Wait Here.
You will answer a series of questions that will reveal things from deep within. Some will be uncomfortable, but with great knowledge comes great sacrifice. Can you make it all the way through The Test, and are you SURE you want the answers you seek? For it is time to unlock "Secrets of the Soul..."
The Wreck
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with While We Wait Here.
Ranked #6 for While We Wait Here fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure and Casual with While We Wait Here.
In this 3D visual novel, follow failed screenwriter Junon as she attempts to make it through the most pivotal day in her life. Relive the past, alter the present, and embrace the future, or without your help, Junon’s story might end in a wreck.
The Test
WHY THIS
Shares a contemplative mood with While We Wait Here.
Ranked #7 for While We Wait Here fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure and Simulation with While We Wait Here.
You will answer a series of questions that will reveal truths from deep within. These questions may make you uncomfortable, but with great knowledge comes great sacrifice. Can you make it all the way through The Test, and if you do, are you sure you want the answers you seek?
Tides of Tomorrow 🌊
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with While We Wait Here.
Ranked #8 for While We Wait Here fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with While We Wait Here.
From the makers of Road 96 comes a groundbreaking narrative adventure. Your choices shape the story for other players! Follow in your friends’ footsteps, face the consequences of their actions and choose the fate of this plasticpunk world.
Reviewers mention these as similar to While We Wait Here
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What Remains of Edith Finch
WHY THIS
Shares environmental storytelling and an atmospheric mood with While We Wait Here.
Reviewers of While We Wait Here cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Adventure with While We Wait Here.
What Remains of Edith Finch is a collection of strange tales about a family in Washington state. As Edith, you’ll explore the colossal Finch house, searching for stories as she explores her family history and tries to figure out why she's the last one in her family left alive.
Max Payne
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with While We Wait Here.
Reviewers of While We Wait Here cross-mention this title as a similar play.
Max Payne is a man with nothing to lose in the violent, cold urban night. A fugitive undercover cop framed for murder, hunted by cops and the mob, Max is a man with his back against the wall, fighting a battle he cannot hope to win. Prepare for pain…
Heavy Rain
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with While We Wait Here.
Reviewers of While We Wait Here cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Adventure with While We Wait Here.
Experience a gripping psychological thriller filled with innumerable twists and turns. The hunt is on for a murderer known only as the Origami Killer. Four characters, each following their own leads, must take part in a desperate attempt to prevent the killer from claiming a new victim.
Beyond: Two Souls
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with While We Wait Here.
Reviewers of While We Wait Here cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Adventure with While We Wait Here.
A unique psychological action thriller delivered by A-list Hollywood performances by Elliot Page and Willem Dafoe, Beyond: Two Souls takes you on a thrilling journey across the globe as you play out the remarkable life of Jodie Holmes.
Detroit: Become Human
WHY THIS
Shares a contemplative mood with While We Wait Here.
Reviewers of While We Wait Here cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Adventure with While We Wait Here.
Detroit: Become Human puts the destiny of both mankind and androids in your hands, taking you to a near future where machines have become more intelligent than humans. Every choice you make affects the outcome of the game, with one of the most intricately branching narratives ever created.
Mouthwashing
WHY THIS
Shares environmental storytelling and an atmospheric mood with While We Wait Here.
Reviewers of While We Wait Here cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Adventure with While We Wait Here.
The five crew members of the Tulpar are stranded in the empty reaches of space, shrouded in perpetual sunset. God is not watching.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below While We Wait Here at current Steam store prices.
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~80% under While We Wait Here on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with While We Wait Here.
Live a week in the life of "The POSTAL Dude"; a hapless everyman just trying to check off some chores. Buying milk, returning an overdue library book, getting Gary Coleman's autograph, what could possibly go wrong?
The Test
WHY THIS
Shares a contemplative mood with While We Wait Here.
Priced ~60% under While We Wait Here on Steam right now. Shares Adventure and Simulation with While We Wait Here.
You will answer a series of questions that will reveal truths from deep within. These questions may make you uncomfortable, but with great knowledge comes great sacrifice. Can you make it all the way through The Test, and if you do, are you sure you want the answers you seek?
Milk inside a bag of milk inside a bag of milk
WHY THIS
Priced ~70% under While We Wait Here on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with While We Wait Here.
A short story about what sort of challenges everyday little things can be. Help the girl buy milk, be the first not to disappoint her.
Blood and Bacon
WHY THIS
Priced ~80% under While We Wait Here on Steam right now. Shares Adventure and Casual with While We Wait Here.
This Co-op Shooter , has Day and Night levels, multiple maps, players will take on 25 enemy types and numerous bosses, like Gargantuan Monsters and Minibosses every 10 days as you explore, shoot and run for your life against the onslaught of porcine monstrosities.
Placid Plastic Duck Simulator
WHY THIS
Priced ~60% under While We Wait Here on Steam right now. Shares Simulation and Casual with While We Wait Here.
The ultimate high-tech rubber duck simulation, Placid Plastic Duck brings you dangerous levels of relaxation. With chill music, dreamy 3D graphics, and many different happy ducks, your only priority is to float around. Zero Ducks given.
Peggle Deluxe
WHY THIS
Priced ~80% under While We Wait Here on Steam right now. Shares Casual with While We Wait Here.
Take your best shot with energizing arcade fun! Aim, shoot, clear the orange pegs, then sit back and cheer as 10 whimsical teachers guide you to Peggle greatness.
shapez
WHY THIS
Priced ~80% under While We Wait Here on Steam right now. Shares Simulation and Casual with While We Wait Here.
shapez is an easy-going, minimalistic factory building game about the automation of shapes through extraction and satisfying production lines. Adapt to increasingly complex shapes and grow your factory across an infinitely expanding map. Your only limitation is your creativity!
The Test: Hypothesis Rising
WHY THIS
Priced ~60% under While We Wait Here on Steam right now. Shares Adventure and Simulation with While We Wait Here.
The second chapter in The Test trilogy. Answer a series of in-depth questions to reveal hidden truths about yourself and unlock secrets to discover how your life can change drastically with just a few, slight modifications. ...But are you sure you want the answers you seek?
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Doki Doki Literature Club!
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Casual with While We Wait Here.
The Literature Club is full of cute girls! Will you write the way into their heart? This game is not suitable for children or those who are easily disturbed.
Life is Strange - Episode 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with While We Wait Here.
Episode 1 now FREE! Life is Strange is an award-winning and critically acclaimed episodic adventure game that allows the player to rewind time and affect the past, present and future.
Ultimate Custom Night
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
Bongo Cat
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Simulation with While We Wait Here.
Bongo cat needs your help. Bongo cat needz more hatz!!! Every time you press a key, Bongo cat will punch your taskbar. Type, click, play, work to collect more points. Which hats will you find?
ENA: Dream BBQ
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with While We Wait Here.
Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.
The Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Simulation and Casual with While We Wait Here.
Sonic the Hedgehog...was murdered!? Get to the bottom of the mystery in this brand-new adventure!
Indigo Park: Chapter 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with While We Wait Here.
Explore the abandoned childhood wonder of Indigo Park! Guided by Rambley the Raccoon, help restore power to the destroyed amusement park while you run from the reason it shut down.
The Looker
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
Narrow it down
Head-to-head comparisons
More from Bad Vices Games
Other recommendable Steam games by Bad Vices Games, ranked by review count so the studio's hits land first.
Ravenous Devils
WHY THIS
Another title from Bad Vices Games, the studio behind While We Wait Here. Shares Simulation and Casual with While We Wait Here.
A horror cooking simulator where the secret ingredient is crime. Improve your shops, buy new tools, expand your menu, and above all, make your customers happy.
Sexual Void
WHY THIS
Another title from Bad Vices Games, the studio behind While We Wait Here. Shares Simulation and Casual with While We Wait Here.
Nothing in here, except Vicky, sexy outfits and a JOI game
Hippocampus
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with While We Wait Here.
Another title from Bad Vices Games, the studio behind While We Wait Here. Shares Adventure with While We Wait Here.
Challenging gothic Hack & Slash with gore action and platform phases.
Plays great on Steam Deck
Valve-Verified or Playable picks from the similar pool — ready to go on Deck out of the box.
Scarlet Hollow
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with While We Wait Here.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Adventure and Casual with While We Wait Here.
Your aunt’s dead, your cousin hates you, and you’re stuck in the dead-end town of Scarlet Hollow. Choose your path through a branching narrative so dense that you'll see less than 1/5 of the game on a single playthrough. You won't be able to save everyone. Good luck, and welcome home.
Slay the Princess — The Pristine Cut
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with While We Wait Here.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Adventure and Simulation with While We Wait Here.
You're here to slay the princess. Don't believe her lies.
The Test: Secrets of the Soul
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Adventure and Simulation with While We Wait Here.
You will answer a series of questions that will reveal things from deep within. Some will be uncomfortable, but with great knowledge comes great sacrifice. Can you make it all the way through The Test, and are you SURE you want the answers you seek? For it is time to unlock "Secrets of the Soul..."
The Test
WHY THIS
Shares a contemplative mood with While We Wait Here.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Adventure and Simulation with While We Wait Here.
You will answer a series of questions that will reveal truths from deep within. These questions may make you uncomfortable, but with great knowledge comes great sacrifice. Can you make it all the way through The Test, and if you do, are you sure you want the answers you seek?
Tides of Tomorrow 🌊
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with While We Wait Here.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Adventure with While We Wait Here.
From the makers of Road 96 comes a groundbreaking narrative adventure. Your choices shape the story for other players! Follow in your friends’ footsteps, face the consequences of their actions and choose the fate of this plasticpunk world.
Frequently asked about While We Wait Here
- Is While We Wait Here verified for Steam Deck?
- Yes — While We Wait Here is Steam Deck Verified, meaning Valve has confirmed it runs well on the Deck with full controller, text legibility, and default configuration support.
- How much does While We Wait Here cost?
- While We Wait Here is listed on Steam at 4.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to While We Wait Here?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside While We Wait Here are Scarlet Hollow, Project Looking Glass, Robot Anomaly.
- Who developed While We Wait Here?
- While We Wait Here was developed by Bad Vices Games.
imho.run ranks Steam game alternatives using a mix of collaborative filtering (ALS / iALS / EASE / LightGCN), content scoring over genres, categories, Steam tags, developers, and publishers, plus AI-extracted vibes mined from review text. The page above is generated in seed mode anchored on While We Wait Here.
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