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Wave Mechanics

Adam Tarnowski · 2015-08-03

Steam

CasualIndieStrategy

Modes: Single player

Releases: Apr 23, 2015 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

The goal of Wave Mechanics is to match the color of each element to the colors of corresponding parts of the frame. Each puzzle includes a set of active elements that can by used in order to change the colors of all elements within range in chosen direction.

86%
positive of 50 reviews
Very Positive
steam's rating (official)
0–20,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
70/100
IGDB user rating (0 ratings)
pending
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
$4.99
steam price (US)

Health check

Quiet
  • · 5 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~1/week).
  • · Review velocity down 29% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 63% of 13,174 Casual games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 1.3k–3.0k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 50 total reviews — how this is computed.

All-time low: $0.49 at Steam (2016-11-23) · bundled 2×via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $4.99 · on sale 12 of 24 observed days (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
5520152026Week of 2015-08-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2015-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2015-12-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2016-01-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2016-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2016-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2016-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2016-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2016-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2016-11-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2017-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-10-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2018-05-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2018-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-05-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2020-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 1 negative
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Price history

$4.99$0.492015-03-122026-08-172015-03-12 — best price $1.992015-10-05 — best price $1.332015-12-22 — best price $0.992016-04-25 — best price $0.992016-09-19 — best price $0.592016-12-22 — best price $0.492017-06-12 — best price $0.662017-08-28 — best price $0.492017-11-22 — best price $0.492018-02-15 — best price $0.492018-06-22 — best price $0.492018-10-30 — best price $0.492018-12-10 — best price $0.492019-02-18 — best price $0.492019-08-05 — best price $0.842019-11-18 — best price $0.842020-01-06 — best price $0.842020-05-04 — best price $0.892020-08-31 — best price $0.842020-11-25 — best price $0.822021-02-11 — best price $0.842021-05-17 — best price $0.492021-07-19 — best price $0.492021-11-15 — best price $3.992022-04-04 — best price $3.992022-10-28 — best price $3.992023-02-13 — best price $3.992023-05-29 — best price $3.992024-02-12 — best price $0.992024-09-02 — best price $0.992024-12-09 — best price $0.992025-03-13 — best price $0.992025-06-26 — best price $0.992025-09-29 — best price $0.992025-12-18 — best price $0.992026-03-19 — best price $0.992026-06-25 — best price $0.992026-08-17 — best price $4.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Details

WindowsSingle-playerSteam AchievementsFamily Sharing

1 supported languages: English

Player tags

IndieCasualPuzzleStrategy

Census log

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

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