The Waiting Room: An Existential Simulation

The Waiting Room: An Existential Simulation places you in a waiting room framed as a metaphor for life. You enter from a mysterious black into a white space and take a destiny that seems chosen for you, though its source remains unseen. You can follow the room’s unwritten rules: take a ticket, find a seat and wait, noticing the little things along the way. Or, as the game puts it, it may simply be a silly game about nothing.

Life in the waiting room

While you wait, you can watch television shows and observe other people waiting with you, including humans and non-humans. You can also throw objects around using the game’s physics, trash the room and annoy your fellow waiters.

Waiting and restarting

Waiting is the central activity. If you leave the controls untouched for two minutes, the game restarts.