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It Comes In Waves

Antonio Freyre · Merlino Games · 2023-04-05

Steam

ActionAdventure

Modes: Single player · Perspectives: Third person

Releases: Apr 05, 2023 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

A short, minimalist, experimental open-world adventure about guilt and grief. Explore, shoot, scavenge and bring a specimen to The Sanctuary. Beware PERMADEATH.

It Comes In Waves is an Action and Adventure game released in 2023, priced at $2.99, with an estimated 50,000 to 100,000 owners and a Very Positive review sentiment (93% of 390 reviews).

0
playing now
93%
positive of 390 reviews
Very Positive
steam's rating (official)
50,000–100,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
platinum
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Playable
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: Playable
$2.99
steam price (US)

0 players in-game as of 2026-10-14 18:00 UTC (census sample)

Health check

Quietly active
  • · 0 players in-game at the last census sample.
  • · 70 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~9/week).
  • · Review velocity up 89% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 23% of 27,667 Action games in the census by review count.

Health tier since 2026-09-01

Estimated sales: 7.8k–18k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 390 total reviews — how this is computed.

All-time low: $0.92 at Steam (2025-09-29)via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $2.99 · on sale 8 of 16 observed days (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
11611620232026Week of 2023-04-01: 116 positiveWeek of 2023-04-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2023-05-01: 28 positiveWeek of 2023-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-06-01: 12 positiveWeek of 2023-07-01: 19 positiveWeek of 2023-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-08-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2023-09-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2023-09-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2023-10-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2023-11-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2023-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-12-01: 11 positiveWeek of 2023-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-01-01: 10 positiveWeek of 2024-01-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2024-02-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2024-03-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2024-04-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2024-05-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-06-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2024-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-10-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2025-02-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-03-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2025-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-05-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2025-08-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2025-08-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-09-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2025-10-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2025-10-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2025-11-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 17 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-01-01: 18 positiveWeek of 2026-02-01: 11 positiveWeek of 2026-02-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2026-03-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2026-03-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2026-04-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2026-04-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2026-05-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-07-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-08-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2026-08-01: 1 negative
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

102026-09-15 03:00 — 0 players2026-09-16 12:00 — 0 players2026-09-17 19:00 — 0 players2026-09-19 03:00 — 0 players2026-09-20 10:00 — 0 players2026-09-21 18:00 — 0 players2026-09-23 01:00 — 0 players2026-09-24 09:00 — 0 players2026-09-25 16:00 — 0 players2026-09-27 00:00 — 0 players2026-09-28 07:00 — 0 players2026-09-29 15:00 — 0 players2026-09-30 22:00 — 0 players2026-10-02 06:00 — 0 players2026-10-03 13:00 — 0 players2026-10-04 22:00 — 0 players2026-10-06 05:00 — 0 players2026-10-07 13:00 — 0 players2026-10-08 20:00 — 0 players2026-10-10 04:00 — 0 players2026-10-11 11:00 — 0 players2026-10-12 19:00 — 0 players2026-10-14 02:00 — 0 players2026-10-14 18:00 — 0 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).

Price history

$2.99$0.922023-04-052026-08-032023-04-05 — best price $2.542023-05-15 — best price $2.542023-06-30 — best price $2.092023-07-17 — best price $2.542023-09-11 — best price $2.092023-10-23 — best price $2.092023-11-21 — best price $2.092023-12-11 — best price $2.092023-12-22 — best price $2.092024-01-22 — best price $2.092024-03-04 — best price $2.092024-03-14 — best price $2.092024-04-15 — best price $2.092024-05-27 — best price $2.092024-06-27 — best price $2.092024-07-15 — best price $2.092024-09-16 — best price $2.092024-11-27 — best price $1.492024-12-20 — best price $1.492025-01-06 — best price $1.492025-02-17 — best price $1.492025-03-13 — best price $1.492025-05-05 — best price $1.492025-06-16 — best price $1.492025-06-27 — best price $1.492025-08-25 — best price $1.492025-09-29 — best price $0.922025-11-24 — best price $0.922025-12-18 — best price $0.922026-02-16 — best price $0.922026-03-19 — best price $0.922026-04-13 — best price $0.922026-05-25 — best price $0.922026-06-25 — best price $0.922026-07-27 — best price $0.922026-08-03 — best price $2.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Details

WindowsSingle-playerFamily Sharing

Player tags

3DActionSci-fiAdventureCinematicCyberpunkDystopian FuturisticExplorationDark Fantasy

Census log

Computed from census-recorded observations only — dates are observation dates.

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