Wavetale
Skip · Narrative · 2022
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
WAIT.
It has sold at a worth-it price before.
Today
$29.99Skip
On its price record
$7.57Worth it
- Length
- 4.1h
- Value
- $7.31/hr
- Reviews
- 89% positive
Buy now or wait
Next discount: likely between Oct 13 and Oct 26, at about $4.49 (85% off). Calls like this were right 78% of the time in a backtest over 70 weeks. Its own discounts have started about 45 days apart.
The Autumn Sale is on until Oct 8. It is at full price today.
Discounted in each of its last 8 seasonal sales on record.
- Autumn Sale cooldown
- None on record
- Typical seasonal cut
- 90% ($2.99)
- Deepest seasonal cut
- 95% ($1.49)
- Last discount ended
- 6 days ago
Watch it for a saleSources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Minimum on the Steam store: 8 GB of memory, Nvidia GTX 660 2GB / AMD RX 560, 5 GB of storage. Windows only.
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What drives the score
How to read this
Grades run S to D, read from the buyer's side. ▲ marks a lift, ▼ a drag or a dock, ? an input we do not have, • a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work
The value story
It has never been cheaper than $1.49. That was July 2025. 40 discounts in the 4 years on record. They run about 80 percent off, roughly 5 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 6 days ago.
On value it sits in the top 24 percent of its genre. It is pricier than 97 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 88 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Jusant ($24.99, scores 59) beats it on value, while it beats Asterix & Obelix XXL: Romastered ($19.99, scores 28).
Steam's global achievement data puts 27 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. The median game this site can measure sits at 15. 6 of the 595 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written December 2022 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 65 percent of the 238 reviews written there were positive, against 89 percent overall, and those are 9 percent of everything written about it.
The drop-off
67% start to 27% finishSteam counts a larger share of its players at the ending achievement than it does for most games this site can measure. Steam global achievements
Players
4 players online when we last checked, on Sep 27, 10:47 UTC.
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
Deep breaths, my darling~ 🌊🌊🌊 For an indie game, this was such a fun and enjoyable platformer! The music was really cool, and I loved all the dad jokes and goofy humor throughout the game. It's a short game, but I really enjoyed just roaming around and exploring. Sometimes, that's all you need. 5/5 stars would recommend!
This game has a very clear vision for what it wants to do and fully accomplishes it. The game not only houses a very somber yet hopeful message to fight for the betterment of the natural world, but also integrates well thought out and interesting worldbuilding into its narrative core. I appreciated the risks that the game took in its tone, and thought that they grounded the story in a meaningful way. In a similar...
Can someone tell me why this game doesn't have overwhelmingly positive reviews!? Honestly, this game is a masterpiece: with unique enemy variants, a smooth combat system, the NPCs, the visuals being so smooth, the environment being decently diverse, the plot twists and a wonderfully crafted story with a heartwarming ending to boot.
Steam reviews, mixed to match its Steam ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Wavetale scores 47/100 on the BANG Score (a skip) as of Oct 2, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1823930/wavetaleReviews set the ceiling, and price against real length moves the BANG Score inside it. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 26, price as of Oct 1.
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