The Game Census
Waves cover art

Waves

Squid In A Box Ltd · 2011-11-16

Steam

ActionIndie

Modes: Single player

Releases: Nov 16, 2011 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

Waves is an Arcade Twin-Stick Shooter that's all about High Scores. Build your combo and drop bombs in pursuit of Leaderboard dominance over seven game-modes!

0
playing now
95%
positive of 1.6k reviews
Overwhelmingly Positive
steam rating
50,000–100,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
80/100
critic score (1 outlets, IGDB)
90/100
IGDB user rating (4 ratings)
gold
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Free
steam price (US)

0 players in-game as of 2026-08-30 07:00 UTC (census sample)

Set in a Neo-Cyberspace arena your system is being overrun by bugs, errors and viruses and the only solution is to kill every rogue process before it kills you.(Storyline via IGDB)

Health check

Insufficient data
  • · Not enough review history collected yet to judge health.
  • · Top 29% of 10,903 Action games in the census by review count.

All-time low: $0.49 at Steam (2021-03-08) · bundled 3×via IsThereAnyDeal

Players online

202026-08-11 20:00 — 1 players2026-08-12 12:00 — 1 players2026-08-13 03:00 — 1 players2026-08-13 19:00 — 1 players2026-08-14 11:00 — 0 players2026-08-15 03:00 — 0 players2026-08-15 19:00 — 0 players2026-08-16 11:00 — 0 players2026-08-17 03:00 — 0 players2026-08-17 18:00 — 0 players2026-08-18 10:00 — 0 players2026-08-19 02:00 — 0 players2026-08-19 18:00 — 1 players2026-08-20 09:00 — 0 players2026-08-21 01:00 — 2 players2026-08-21 17:00 — 0 players2026-08-22 09:00 — 1 players2026-08-23 00:00 — 0 players2026-08-23 16:00 — 1 players2026-08-24 08:00 — 1 players2026-08-25 00:00 — 0 players2026-08-25 16:00 — 0 players2026-08-26 08:00 — 1 players2026-08-27 00:00 — 1 players2026-08-27 17:00 — 0 players2026-08-28 09:00 — 0 players2026-08-29 01:00 — 1 players2026-08-29 15:00 — 2 players2026-08-30 07:00 — 0 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).

Price history

$4.99$0.002015-01-012022-08-062015-01-01 — best price $1.992015-04-02 — best price $4.992015-06-11 — best price $2.012015-10-19 — best price $0.992015-11-25 — best price $0.992016-01-18 — best price $0.992016-03-21 — best price $0.992016-06-23 — best price $0.992016-08-18 — best price $0.992016-09-19 — best price $0.992016-12-22 — best price $0.992017-06-22 — best price $0.992017-09-25 — best price $0.992017-11-22 — best price $0.992018-02-19 — best price $0.992018-06-21 — best price $0.992018-10-08 — best price $0.992018-12-20 — best price $0.992019-04-01 — best price $0.992019-07-29 — best price $2.492019-10-28 — best price $2.492019-12-09 — best price $2.492020-01-23 — best price $2.492020-03-30 — best price $2.492020-05-12 — best price $4.492020-05-25 — best price $4.992020-08-17 — best price $4.992020-11-23 — best price $4.992021-01-05 — best price $4.992021-07-08 — best price $4.992021-11-01 — best price $4.992022-01-05 — best price $4.992022-06-06 — best price $4.992022-08-06 — best price $0.00
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Completion

54
achievements tracked
51.9%
earned "Kill them all!"
7.5%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsFull controller supportSingle-playerSteam AchievementsFull controller supportSteam Trading CardsSteam CloudStatsSteam LeaderboardsFamily Sharing1 DLC

Console footprint

PlatformPlayers trackedCompletionTrophies/achievements
Steam (Steam)5,7381%54

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

Player tags

RetroActionArcadeShooterAbstractColorfulTop-DownCyberpunkBullet HellBullet Time

Census log

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

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Similarity via IGDB.

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