Waveform
Fair · Strategy · 2012
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
NO RUSH.
Fair at $1.99. Buy it if you want it.
- Reviews
- 83% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 512 MB of memory, OpenGL compatible graphics card with 128 MB of memory, 655 MB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, 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!
What drives the score
How to read this
Every input gets a grade, S to D, read from the buyer's side. The score is multiplicative, so an input only counts as raising when it sits near the top of its own scale. Anything with real room left is holding the score back, because that room is the gap to 100. ▲ marks a lift, ▼ a drag or a dock, ? an input we do not have, • a fact this genre's score does not use. The exact weights stay secret.
- How long it takes to beat isn't in our data. We scored it as a typical Strategy game (about 8 hours) and docked the score for the missing length.
The value story
It has never been cheaper than $0.19. That was June 2015. It has been discounted 37 times in the 14 years tracked here, typically at 75 percent off, with about 4 weeks between sales.
On value it sits in the top 11 percent of its genre. It is cheaper than 85 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 83 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Osmos ($9.99, scores 59) beats it on value, while it beats gravilon ($2.99, scores 5).
Steam's global achievement data puts 33 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. The median game this site can measure sits at 8. Inside the two-hour refund window, 81 percent of the 1,044 reviews written there were positive, against 83 percent overall, and those are 56 percent of everything written about it.
The drop-off
33% start to 33% finishPeople genuinely stick with this one. Steam global achievements
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Waveform scores 56/100 on the BANG Score (fair value). Length is estimated at 8 hours, not measured, so the score is docked. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/204180/waveformThe BANG Score is one number for value, 0 to 100: price against how it reviews and how long it was built to be. It answers the money question and stops there; whether the game is for you is still your call.
Reviews set the ceiling and price moves you inside it, so a cheap game that reviews badly cannot climb. Ratings from few reviewers are shrunk toward the middle, so 100 percent from nine people does not outrank 96 percent from ninety thousand. Length comes from HowLongToBeat where it can be matched, measured against a per-genre floor so a five-hour narrative game is judged against other narrative games rather than against a sixty-hour RPG. Where no verified length exists the score says so and carries a dock, because the biggest input is then a guess. The full method, including where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 6, price as of Sep 24.
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