While We Wait Here
Worth it · Strategy · 2024
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
BUY IT.
Worth it at $4.99.
- Length
- 2.1h
- Value
- $2.38/hr
- Reviews
- 89% positive
Buy now or wait
The Autumn Sale is on until Oct 8. It is at full price today.
Discounted in 3 of its last 8 seasonal sales on record.
- Autumn Sale cooldown
- None on record
- Typical seasonal cut
- 30% ($3.49)
- Deepest seasonal cut
- 35% ($3.24)
- Last discount ended
- 31 days ago
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Minimum on the Steam store: 8 GB of memory, Nvidia GeForce 750, 3 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS.
Share thoughts and hot food with your last ever clients, as you wait for the world to end.
What drives the score
How to read this
Grades run S to D, read from the buyer's side. ▲ marks a lift, ▼ a drag or a dock, ? an input we do not have, • a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work
The value story
It has never been cheaper than $2.74. That was November 2025. 13 discounts in the 2 years on record. They run about 30 percent off, roughly 8 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended about 4 weeks ago.
Against its own genre it lands in the top 2 percent on value. It is cheaper than 66 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 94 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Grunn ($9.74, scores 86) beats it on value, while it beats The Stanley Parable: Ultra Deluxe ($24.99, scores 60).
11 of the 546 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written October 2024 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 76 percent of the 395 reviews written there were positive, against 89 percent overall, and those are 17 percent of everything written about it.
Valve rates it Steam Deck Verified, and at 2.1 hours it is short enough to finish on one.
The drop-off
76% start to 12% rarestNo achievement in this game marks the ending, so there is no finish rate. The curve runs from the most-unlocked achievement to the rarest, and its shape is where players stop. Steam global achievements
Players
1 players online when we last checked, on Oct 1, 13:48 UTC.
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
This game is extraordinary in all its aspects-including cooking, shooting, survival horror, painting, and romance.
Fun little game. Straight forward. Would be fun if there was more of the restaurant management but an enjoyable, narrative, experience for the price.
Steam reviews, mixed to match its Steam ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
While We Wait Here scores 75/100 on the BANG Score (worth it) as of Oct 2, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/2213120/while-we-wait-hereReviews set the ceiling, and price against real length moves the BANG Score inside it. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 26, price as of Oct 1.
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