It Comes In Waves
Worth it · Shooter · 2023
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
BUY IT.
Worth it at $2.99.
- Length
- 0.7h 1.4h to 100%
- Value
- $4.27/hr
- Reviews
- 93% of 393 positive
Watch this gameOne alert at a price you pick.
Buy now or wait
Discounted in each of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last cut ended 10 days ago.
- Next sale
- Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
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
About the game
A short, minimalist, experimental open-world adventure about guilt and grief. Explore, shoot, scavenge and bring a specimen to The Sanctuary. Beware PERMADEATH.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, NVidia GTX 580 or AMD HD 7870. Windows only.
The value story
36 discounts in the 4 years on record, a median of 50 percent off across all of them, roughly 5 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 10 days ago.
Value puts it in the top 17 percent of the games it competes with. It is cheaper than 90 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 84 percent. Among the games that feel like it, DEATH STRANDING DIRECTOR'S CUT ($39.99, scores 82) beats it on value, while it beats Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine 2 ($14.99, scores 65).
More about It Comes In Waves
None of the 326 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written April 2023 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 93 percent of the 361 reviews written there were positive, against 93 percent overall, and those are 95 percent of everything written about it.
0.7 hours to finish it, 1 to exhaust it. The completionist tail is 2.0 times the campaign.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic), achievement curve (Steam global achievements).
Cite this score
It Comes In Waves scores 68/100 on the BANG Score (worth it) as of Oct 19, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/2342980/it-comes-in-wavesReviews 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 29, price as of Oct 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.