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Waves

Release:
Nov 16, 2011
Price:
Free

About the game

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!

Platforms:
Windows
Languages:
English
Metacritic:
82
AppID:
107600

Game metrics

Players (CCU)0−17 (-100%) since tracking began
Daily peak from Jul 1, 2012 to Nov 6, 2026: lowest 0, highest 292, latest 0.
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Events

Online before Nov 3, 2026: peaks by SteamCharts

Reviews

New reviews per period, all languages

—981 reviews
Positive
+919
Negative
−69
Score for the period
93%
919 positive and 69 negative reviews in the period.
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Dec 201180
Jan 201230
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Events

Release, patches, sales and announcements from Steam

Stats

Sales and revenue are GameLens estimates

Copies sold
29.4K (19.7K – 39.1K)
Gross revenue (base game)
$0
Reviews
981
Review score
—
Followers
2.7K
Average daily concurrent players (30 days)
3.3
Peak concurrent players
5
Copies sold in the last 7 days
0
Estimate the developer’s net revenue →

Achievements

54 on Steam, rarest first

Difficulty of getting all achievementsVery hard

At most 2.2% of players have every achievement · median 8.1% · 21 rare (under 5%)

Free game: many owners barely played, so the shares read low.

  • Marathon2.2%

    Survive for 25 minutes in Rush

  • Galaxy2.2%

    5-Star every Challenge in a single game.

  • Rising Star2.2%

    Get at least 4 stars across all levels in Challenge mode in a single game.

  • Stars In My Eyes2.2%

    Get 5 stars for all 20 levels in Challenge mode (across any number of games)

  • Constellation2.3%

    5-Star 10 Challenges in one game.

  • Why are you doing this?2.3%

    Survive for 15 mins in Rush.

  • Star-ting out2.4%

    Get at least 3 stars across all levels in Challenge mode in a single game.

  • I Am FPDrummond2.5%

    Counter Stop the Game in any mode.

  • Balls of Steel2.5%

    Survive for 10 minutes on a single life in any game mode.

  • Juggler2.7%

    Have 6 lives at once.

Builds and manifests

Build 1183110 · updated Jun 16, 11:43 AM UTC · Install size: 131 MB · Steam PICS data

Branches

BranchBuild IDUpdatedDescription
public1183110Jun 16, 11:43 AM UTC
local176562Jan 28, 02:36 PM UTCLocal Content Server

Depots and manifests (public)

DepotNameOSLanguageManifestSize
1076012757468391200530141131 MB
232990DLC 232990305903343859761290862 MB

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