While Waiting is now available for PC and Switch, and you can find the
Windows and macOS edition
on Steam
with a 10% launch discount. This is described as an "informative adventure." It
may be that this is the alternative genre to action/adventure, as this is called
"a transformative adventure exploring the art of waiting" where you "clear the
game by doing nothing." The
Launch Trailer
highlights how this opens the game to a new audience of houseplants, housecats,
and their ilk, while showing off a bit of what I guess we're still calling
gameplay. If you're determined to make sense of this, here's more:
Optillusion
Games, the developers of the critically acclaimed puzzle game Moncage, today
announced that their game While Waiting is now available for PC and Nintendo
Switch, inviting players to wait through and explore some of the most important
moments in the life of Adam. His life is full of unique situations, some
important and some mundane, all of which help teach him the virtues of patience
and acceptance when it comes to life’s most profound moment and the universal
fact that his moments are really our moments, too.
Told via a unique comic-book style art presentation that brings every special
moment to hilarious life, While Waiting is all about…waiting - waiting to be
born, waiting for your suitcase at the airport, waiting for that bathroom stall
during a gastrointestinal emergency, and even waiting in traffic. Wait while
life’s moments pass you by and beat the game or take control of your destiny and
explore the game’s 100 different scenarios and discover hilarious, touching, and
downright bizarre ways to turn the waiting game into so much
more.