WAVESHAPER
Fair · Action · 2017
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
NO RUSH.
Fair at $1.51. Buy it if you want it.
- Reviews▼
- 88% of 2,406
- Genre rank
- Top 5% Action
Holding it back: Length unknown, Reviews
Watch this gameOne alert when a sale makes it a BANGER.
Time and effort
- To 100%
- 3.1h
- Achievements
- 124
Price and sales
- Sales
- 74 on record
- Typical cut
- 50% off
- Steam low
- $0.49 June 2017
- Sale every
- 42d last October 2026
Players and genre
- Online
- 16 now
- Cheaper than
- 90% of its genre
- Better reviewed
- 94% of its genre
Price and player charts
The drop-off
69% start to 12% rarestThis site could not identify an ending achievement for this game, so there is no finish rate. Steam global achievements
The value story
The value story
June 2017 is where it bottomed out, at $0.49. Across all 74 discounts in the 10 years tracked, the median cut is 50 percent, about 6 weeks apart.
Its score sits in the top 5 percent of its genre. It is cheaper than 90 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 94 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Orbt XL ($1.99, scores 92) beats it on value, while it beats Polygoneer ($0.49, scores 56).
More about WAVESHAPER
This site sampled 558 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 11 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written January 2021 to October 2026. That is more refunded reviewers than 8 in 10 paid games this site has sampled to the same depth, and among the 2,368 games in its genre sampled this deeply, 431 have a larger share. Inside the two-hour refund window, 87 percent of the 683 reviews written there were positive, against 88 percent overall, and those are 30 percent of everything written about it.
It carries Valve's Deck Verified rating, which is the one that means it just works.
Buy now or wait
Buy now or wait
Discounted in each 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
- How long it takes to beat isn't in our data. We scored it as a typical Action game (about 6 hours) and docked the score for the missing length.
About the game
WAVESHAPER is a minimalist score attack game in which you attempt to stop the 2D vector menace, one obstacle at a time.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 512 MB of memory, DirectX 9 -compatible graphics card with 32MB of video memory, 154 MB of storage. Runs on Windows, Linux.
No data upstream: length (HowLongToBeat), critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
WAVESHAPER scores 65/100 on the BANG Score (fair value) as of Nov 8, 2026. Length is estimated at 6 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/562260/waveshaperReviews set the ceiling, and price against its genre's typical length moves the BANG Score inside it, docked until a real length is known. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Oct 31, price as of Nov 7. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.