Waves
Short description
Waves is an Arcade Twin-Stick Shooter that's all about High Scores. Build your combo and drop bombs in pursuit of Leaderboard dominance over seven game-modes!
- Developer
- Squid In A Box Ltd
- Publisher
- Squid In A Box Ltd
- Release
- Wed, Nov 16, 2011
- Price
- Free
- Reviews
- 981
- Positive
- 95%
- Followers
- n/a
- Owners (estimated)
- 50K – 100K
- Concurrent players
- n/a
- Genres
- Action, Indie
- Features
- Full controller support, Steam Trading Cards, Stats, Steam Leaderboards
- Tags
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History
2 data points since Aug 1, 2026. Gaps mean nothing changed — the value carries forward.
The blurred area is the rest of the history. 306 further data points reach back to Nov 1, 2011 — your plan shows the last 90 days of it. How far each series in particular reaches is written on its own chart; not every one of them goes back that far. The shape in the blurred area is decoration, not data: the figures are not in this page at all. Plus unlocks the complete series.
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| Image | Name | Studio | Shared | Tag difference | Price | Reviews | Positive | Released | Revenue (estimated) |
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Yars: Recharged | SneakyBox 18 titles +1 | 5 | − Top-Down + Top-Down Shooter | $9.99 | 95 | 88% | Tue, Aug 23, 2022 | $39k $17k – $903k |
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Akka Arrh | Llamasoft Ltd. 6 titles | 5 | − Twin Stick Shooter + Top-Down Shooter | $19.99 | 51 | 96% | Tue, Feb 21, 2023 | $46k $20k – $82k |
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Vectorium | IndigoBlue Game Studio 3 titles | 5 | − Top-Down + Rhythm | $4.99 | 50 | 74% | Wed, May 02, 2018 | $11k $5k – $19k |
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Bit Blaster XL | Adamvision Studios 15 titles | 4 | − Twin Stick Shooter − Top-Down + Difficult + 2D | $0.99 | 5,494 | 97% | Fri, Jan 22, 2016 | $245k $109k – $990k |
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Sky Force Reloaded | Infinite Dreams 5 titles | 4 | − Twin Stick Shooter − Shooter + Local Co-Op + Top-Down Shooter | $9.99 | 2,667 | 93% | Wed, Nov 29, 2017 | $1.9m $1.9m – $2m |
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