Games like The Waiting Game
If The Waiting Game is your kind of game, the closest matches are Razor Trail Survivors, Dominus Automa and Upgradia — picked from the ranked list below. 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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Steam players who put hours into The Waiting Game 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.
Razor Trail Survivors
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Top pick for The Waiting Game fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and RPG with The Waiting Game.
A semi-idle survival strategy set in a persistent post-apocalyptic wasteland. Recruit survivors, gather resources and craft equipment, seize territory and build your base — and fight other players if you choose. One account across desktop, web, and mobile.
Dominus Automa
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for The Waiting Game fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with The Waiting Game.
Dominus Automa is an automated MMORPG game created for players who love depth but no longer have time for traditional grinding. Your character lives on the server around the clock, acting according to strategy and priorities. You can talk to them and guide them from your phone, wherever you are.
Upgradia
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for The Waiting Game fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure and Massively Multiplayer with The Waiting Game.
A cozy Semi-Idle MMORPG where every parsnip, sword, spell, fish, and enemy is part of your rise to legend. Farm, forage, fish, mine, cook, craft, smith & more! Trade with players, join a guild, explore dangerous regions, and build your character from humble village life into a legendary adventurer.
Backrooms: Multiverse
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Ranked #4 for The Waiting Game fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with The Waiting Game.
Backrooms Multiverse is a cooperative survival horror exploration game where you play as a team of researchers venturing deep into the endless Backrooms multiverse. Explore rare and mysterious environments, and encounter unique entities that few explorers have ever lived to see.
Galactic Prospectors
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Ranked #5 for The Waiting Game fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with The Waiting Game.
A 2D space survival sandbox set 200 years after a rogue AI shattered the solar system. Play as an astronaut or the rogue AI itself, fight AIs, humans, and alien life, and survive the void: mine resources, build factories, and keep your ships and stations, and crew alive.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
ENA: Dream BBQ
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Waiting Game.
Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.
The Looker
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with The Waiting Game.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
Travellin Cats in Paris
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with The Waiting Game.
Find 100 cats hidden in Paris, France in this cute hand-drawn hidden object game by Travellin Cats - the original viral hidden cat game creator!
UNBEATABLE [white label]
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with The Waiting Game.
A young girl learns a song. An exclusive side-story set in the world of D-CELL GAMES' upcoming rhythm-adventure.
Dagon: by H. P. Lovecraft
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Waiting Game.
Face unspeakable horrors. Succumb to madness. Welcome to a free daemonic narrative experience inspired by H. P. Lovecraft.
Paper Lily - Chapter 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Waiting Game.
Paper Lily is an RPG horror game in which you can solve puzzles in different ways. Explore a hidden world, meet strange characters, and guide Lacie as she attempts to find answers about her unusual condition.
An Arcade Full of Cats
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with The Waiting Game.
Journey through gaming history's time and space, while searching for adorable feline companions in 'An Arcade Full of Cats,' the ultimate pet'em up hidden object game.
Control, I'm Not Coming Back
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Waiting Game.
Control, I'm Not Coming Back is a short and emotional narrative game about a lost astronaut searching for a reason to keep going forward while facing the emptiness of space. Inspired by the Hopecore aesthetic, it’s a story about positivism, friendship and our human connection with Voyager 1.
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Frequently asked about The Waiting Game
- Does The Waiting Game have multiplayer or co-op?
- Yes — The Waiting Game supports multi-player play according to its Steam store listing (Multi-player, Online PvP, Online Co-op).
- What games are most similar to The Waiting Game?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside The Waiting Game are Razor Trail Survivors, Dominus Automa, Upgradia.
- Who developed The Waiting Game?
- The Waiting Game was developed by Jan Cheese.
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 The Waiting Game.
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