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2024 PCPlayStationXboxNintendo Switch 4.99 € 👍 90 % Very positive, 1,600 reviews on Steam

You run a diner serving the last customers while the world ends outside. Between flipping burgers and talking with guests, a quiet, reflective story about time and human psychology unfolds.

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  • Strong, story-driven narrative
  • Dark, serious atmosphere
  • Distinctive, stylised art style
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The closest matches for While We Wait Here are Life is Strange: Double Exposure, Life is Strange: Reunion and Emily is Away. Each of these 10 games shares something of what makes While We Wait Here special – the reasons are listed right on each game.

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Life is Strange: Double Exposure

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2024 PCPlayStationXboxNintendo Switch 49.99 € 👍 69 % Mixed, 7,607 reviews on Steam

  • Strong, story-driven narrative
  • Accessible and relaxed
  • Dark, serious atmosphere

Max Caulfield returns, shifting between two parallel timelines at a university to unravel her friend Safi's murder. A dialogue-driven narrative adventure built on choices, mystery and emotional relationships.

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Life is Strange: Reunion

Strong, story-driven narrative

The finale of the Max and Chloe saga is a narrative-driven adventure set at Caledon University, centered on choices and emotional moments. It closes the story of the two characters with a long-awaited reunion.

Emily is Away

Linear, curated structure

A nostalgic interactive story told entirely through an early-2000s instant messenger, where your chat replies over several years shape a bittersweet relationship with Emily.

Everlasting Summer

Focus on a single character

A Russian visual novel in which a young man wakes up in a Soviet pioneer camp and, through his choices, finds romance, mystery and time-loop weirdness across many routes and endings. Its nostalgic summer atmosphere and branching paths make it stand out.

The Lion's Song

Strong, story-driven narrative

Four interlinked point-and-click episodes set in early 20th-century Austria, each following a creative mind wrestling with inspiration, self-doubt and human relationships. Your choices shape how the story unfolds.

Collar x Malice

Strong, story-driven narrative

An otome visual novel thriller set in Shinjuku: with a poison collar around your neck, you investigate the X-Day incident alongside former police officers while romance and conspiracy unfold.

Until Then

Distinctive, stylised art style

A narrative adventure about a Filipino high schooler's everyday life in Manila, with smartphone chats, friendships and romance that grows into an emotional mystery. Moody 2D/3D visuals and a strong soundtrack carry the story.

Scarlet Hollow

Strong, story-driven narrative

A story-driven horror visual novel set in a North Carolina mining town, where your choices and relationships with the locals decide who survives. Folk-horror dread, a creeping mystery and a hand-drawn look define the experience.

Buddy Simulator 1984

Strong, story-driven narrative

A retro 1980s-style computer game pastiche in which a seemingly friendly AI buddy leads you through mini-games while an unsettling secret gradually unfolds. A short, surprising experience that plays with your expectations.

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