Visual novels like While Waiting

If While Waiting left you wanting something hand-drawn and colorful, you have options. You might settle into these visual novels easily.

Another Adventure
Four short stories about ordinary dreamers: a student who sleeps through his 6 a.m. alarm, a programmer who wants to change the world, a quitter headed for Tibet, and a game developer who insists he is an artist. Read it in about an hour, and you may recognize yourself.
Hand-drawn, Emotional, Funny
91% of 4,139 Steam reviews are positive$1.99
Until Then
A slow, tender visual novel that turns strange: you follow Mark, a Filipino high-schooler, through school days, chats with friends, and small routines, until people vanish and memories stop adding up. Read on, keep going past the first ending, and piece together what is really happening.
Colorful, Emotional, Story-driven
96% of 16,275 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 149$19.99
Purrgatory
You wake up in Purrgatory with no memory and a cat for company. To pass eternity you wander a hand-drawn afterlife, talk through big feelings with seven downtrodden souls, run small errands, and trade an endless stream of cat puns on the way to multiple endings.
Hand-drawn, Colorful, Emotional
98% of 5,071 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 3Free
a pet shop after dark
PETSITTER WANTED. A horror point-and-click adventure game. Water the plants, feed the pets, and DON'T turn off the lights.
Hand-drawn, Story-driven, Cute
89% of 368 Steam reviews are positive$9.99
Retention
This game is about a person who kept running through his life, never looking back at the past. Once during a trip, he gets into trouble. Now he's lying on the cold ground, buried beneath his bicycle. Slides of various moments fly through his head.
Emotional, Story-driven
49% of 215 Steam reviews are positive$0.99
Looking Up I See Only A Ceiling
A short psychological story about a stressed student buried in books and study, who becomes fixed on exploring her ceiling. You click through hand-drawn rooms, read her thoughts, and steer toward one of 3 endings, plus an unlockable mode that fills in the lore. Worth playing for its tender, uneasy take on burnout.
Hand-drawn, Emotional, Story-driven
87% of 3,444 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 1$1.99
WYRMHALL: Brush and Banter
Meet quirky characters and clean strange artifacts in this short cozy comedy game. From an enchanted teacup to a cursed skull with a chip on its shoulder, each item and client brings new twists and surprises.
Hand-drawn, Colorful, Funny
98% of 187 Steam reviews are positive$5.99
Matsuro Palette
Survive seven days with a cursed painting. Rely on notes from past victims and manage to successfully paint her portrait. But be careful not to upset her, or you'll quickly find yourself dead! An assortment of terminal tableaus awaits you. Will you be the one to finally finish her?
Hand-drawn, Emotional, Story-driven
98% of 530 Steam reviews are positive$9.99
Everything Ends In 0
The world ends in 1 hour. It can't be saved. Wanna chat?
Hand-drawn, Emotional, Story-driven
92% of 168 Steam reviews are positiveFree
STAY
Award-winning, innovative puzzle-adventure. By communicating through your PC, you must help a kidnapped man escape captivity - in real-time. While you sleep, he is alone. When you return to your PC he has hope. Your encouragement and advice will be the difference between his salvation or despair.
Emotional, Story-driven
67% of 471 Steam reviews are positive$11.99
Hindsight
What if the physical objects of everyday life, the possessions we hold close, were actual windows to the past? Peer into distant memories and unseen futures in Hindsight.
Hand-drawn, Emotional, Story-driven
80% of 152 Steam reviews are positive$14.99
Night in the Woods
College dropout Mae Borowski returns to crumbling Possum Springs, where old friends have grown up and something stirs in the woods. You wander, talk, and choose who to spend time with in a hand-drawn town full of sharp, funny dialogue and a slow-building mystery worth reading to the end.
Hand-drawn, Emotional, Funny
94% of 18,197 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 162$19.99

Cheaper than While Waiting

Another Adventure

Four short stories about ordinary dreamers: a student who sleeps through his 6 a.m. alarm, a programmer who wants to change the world, a quitter…

$1.99

a pet shop after dark

PETSITTER WANTED. A horror point-and-click adventure game. Water the plants, feed the pets, and DON'T turn off the lights.

$9.99

Retention

This game is about a person who kept running through his life, never looking back at the past. Once during a trip, he gets into trouble.

$0.99

Looking Up I See Only A Ceiling

A short psychological story about a stressed student buried in books and study, who becomes fixed on exploring her ceiling.

$1.99

WYRMHALL: Brush and Banter

Meet quirky characters and clean strange artifacts in this short cozy comedy game.

$5.99

Matsuro Palette

Survive seven days with a cursed painting. Rely on notes from past victims and manage to successfully paint her portrait.

$9.99

STAY

Award-winning, innovative puzzle-adventure. By communicating through your PC, you must help a kidnapped man escape captivity - in real-time.

$11.99

Hindsight

What if the physical objects of everyday life, the possessions we hold close, were actual windows to the past?

$14.99

Demetrios - The BIG Cynical Adventure

A comedic point-and-click adventure where a hungover antique dealer must solve his own robbery in Paris, dragging himself and his friends into a…

$0.99

Once Again

Make up for lost time with Once Again, If you could travel through time, who’s the first person you’d meet?

$1.27

随风而逝 Story About Times

Time is the only thing we can't resist. Some people and things will never be found once they are lost. In the dark, a man was walking alone.

$3.99

The end is nahual: If I may say so

It's sometimes a visual novel and point-and-click adventure about nothing, it's sometimes chaos, someone said that the ending was like jazz... if…

$2.49

Hidden gems like While Waiting

Kemono Teatime

Run a small cafe for 21 days in Melodius, where everyone has animal ears.

$12.99

Playing House

One holiday, the father Haruma came to the park with his daughter Naori. But in that park, strange things began to happen—.

$6.99

WYRMHALL: Brush and Banter

Meet quirky characters and clean strange artifacts in this short cozy comedy game.

$5.99

Disillusion ST

A strange journey throughout an elaborate labyrinth awaits, featuring hundreds of characters and happenings as you try to gather items that once…

$10.99

My Sweet! Housemate

Faced with the cruel and harsh reality of homelessness, you seek out affordable housing in your area.

$4.99

Everything Ends In 0

The world ends in 1 hour. It can't be saved. Wanna chat?

Free

Reviver

A narrative puzzle game with themes of love, fate and time. Follow the life stories of the two main characters and influence their destinies through…

$8.99

Endless Monday: Dreams and Deadlines

Penny blew off her project to doodle comics and play phone games, and now she has one weekend in the office to finish before Monday.

$9.99

Pixel Cafe

Pixel Cafe mixes fast arcade time management with a visual novel about Pixel, a small-town cook finding her way in the big city of Karstok.

$12.99

Manny's

A starving castaway on a deserted island discovers that a fast food restaurant appears once the sun goes down.

$7.99

SEASON: A letter to the future

Leave home on a bicycle to record a world before a cataclysm ends the season.

$24.99

Mr. Rainer's Solve-It Service

When the last thread becomes entangled, their song will be heard.

$5.99

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