Waveform
Fair · Strategy · 2012
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
NO RUSH.
Fair at $1.99. Buy it if you want it.
- Cost per hourS
- $0.32/hr
- Reviews▼
- 82% of 2,142
- Critics
- 81 players 1 higher
- Genre rank
- Top 6% Strategy
Holding it back: Reviews
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Time and effort
- Main story
- 6.3h
- To 100%
- 55.3h 8.8x the story
- Finish
- 33% reach the ending
- Achievements
- 65
Price and sales
- Sales
- 37 on record
- Typical cut
- 75% off
- Steam low
- $0.19 June 2015
- Sale every
- 27d last June 2018
Players and genre
- Online
- 0 now
- Cheaper than
- 85% of its genre
- Better reviewed
- 84% of its genre
Price and player charts
The drop-off
33% start to 33% 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
The value story
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. The median cut across all of them is 75 percent, about 4 weeks apart.
Its score sits in the top 6 percent of its genre. It is cheaper than 85 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 84 percent. Among the games that feel like it, The Basement Collection ($3.99, scores 75) beats it on value, while it beats gravilon ($2.99, scores 5).
More about Waveform
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 18. Inside the two-hour refund window, 81 percent of the 1,045 reviews written there were positive, against 82 percent overall, and those are 56 percent of everything written about it.
The main story runs 6.3 hours. Doing everything runs 55, 8.8 times as long.
Buy now or wait
Buy now or wait
Not discounted in any of its last 8 seasonal sales.
- Next sale
- Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
What drives the score
Grades: S best, D weakest
S is the best grade and D the weakest, judged as a buyer. ▲ raises the score, ▼ lowers it, ? is an input we do not have, • is a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work
What players say
The game might have been decent on tablets or other touchscreen devices, but on PC definitely not.
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
I just didn't enjoy it, but according to the reviews, I'm in the minority I guess. I ended up removing it from my account even.
Waveform, developed and published by Eden Industries, is a distinctive action-puzzle title that builds its entire experience around a single, unconventional idea and then explores it with surprising depth. Set against a stylized journey through space, the game replaces traditional character control with something far more abstract: players guide a beam of light that moves in a continuous wave, shaping its motion by...
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About the game
Navigate the beauty and hazards of the solar system while riding a wave of light through 100+ levels in this innovative action-puzzle game!
Minimum specs
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.
Cite this score
Waveform scores 65/100 on the BANG Score (fair value) as of Nov 8, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/204180/waveformReviews 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 Nov 1, price as of Nov 7. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.