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Waveform cover art

Waveform

Eden Industries · 2012-03-20

Steam

AdventureIndieStrategy

Modes: Single player

Releases: Mar 20, 2012 (PC (Microsoft Windows)), Mar 20, 2012 (Mac), Mar 20, 2012 (Linux)

Navigate the beauty and hazards of the solar system while riding a wave of light through 100+ levels in this innovative action-puzzle game!

1
playing now
83%
positive of 2.1k reviews
Very Positive
steam rating
200,000–500,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
62/100
IGDB user rating (8 ratings)
platinum
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
$1.99
steam price (US)

1 players in-game as of 2026-08-30 04:00 UTC (census sample)

Waveform is an action game created by Canadian independent developer Eden Industries. The player controls a wave of light as it transmits through space and is able to modify the wave's amplitude and wavelength to line it up with objectives, avoid obstacles, and interact with objects that affect the path of the wave, and the world around it, in various ways.

Health check

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  • · Top 21% of 11,431 Adventure games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 86k–171k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 2,138 total reviews — how this is computed.

All-time low: $0.19 at Steam (2015-06-11) · bundled 4×via IsThereAnyDeal

Players online

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Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).

Price history

$7.99$0.192015-01-012020-07-162015-01-01 — best price $6.992015-04-06 — best price $0.242015-06-29 — best price $4.992015-09-07 — best price $7.992015-11-09 — best price $0.792015-11-25 — best price $0.492016-01-04 — best price $1.992016-01-25 — best price $7.992016-02-12 — best price $1.992016-04-11 — best price $0.792016-05-02 — best price $1.992016-06-13 — best price $0.492016-07-04 — best price $1.992016-08-15 — best price $0.492016-09-05 — best price $1.992016-11-14 — best price $0.492016-11-29 — best price $1.992016-12-22 — best price $0.492017-02-20 — best price $1.992017-03-30 — best price $0.492017-04-10 — best price $1.992017-06-22 — best price $0.492017-08-29 — best price $1.992017-11-22 — best price $0.492018-01-04 — best price $1.992018-02-15 — best price $0.492018-04-04 — best price $1.992018-07-19 — best price $1.992019-03-09 — best price $1.992020-07-16 — best price $1.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Completion

60+
achievements tracked
33.3%
earned "Top of the flagpole"
5.5%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsmacOSLinuxSingle-playerSteam AchievementsSteam Trading CardsSteam CloudStatsSteam LeaderboardsFamily Sharing2 DLC

1 supported languages: English

Console footprint

PlatformPlayers trackedCompletionTrophies/achievements
Steam (Steam)8,9314%65

Players tracked by Exophase (achievement/trophy trackers) — a sample of the player base, not total sales.

Player tags

2DIndieSpaceActionArcadeCasualPuzzleSci-fiStrategyAdventure

Census log

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

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Similarity via IGDB.

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