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It Comes In Waves

Antonio Freyre · Merlino Games · 2023-04-05

Steam

ActionAdventure

Modes: Single player

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.

0
playing now
93%
positive of 389 reviews
Very Positive
steam rating
50,000–100,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
platinum
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
$2.99
steam price (US)

0 players in-game as of 2026-08-30 08:00 UTC (census sample)

Health check

Insufficient data
  • · Not enough review history collected yet to judge health.
  • · Top 49% of 10,970 Action games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 7.8k–18k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 389 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 9 of 19 observed days (census price snapshots)

Players online

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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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