

Waves is a twin stick shooter that can be played by anyone, but with a high enough skill threshold to keep even the most hardened shooter fan entertained. Clear the arena of enemies while racking up a big fat Combo with swift kills and well timed Bombs. If it all gets a bit too much you can use your Time Buffer to slow down the action and turn defeat into victory. Players can compete across seven different game modes with online high-score tables and Achievements in their pursuit of twin-stick perfection. Set in a Neo-Cyberspace arena your system is being overrun by bugs, errors and viruses and the only solution is to kill every rogue process before it kills you.
ShooterIndieArcadeActionScience fictionComedysteamachievementstime limitabstracthigh scoreexplosionsteam achievementsdigital distributionxbox controller support for pcsingle-player onlysteam leaderboardsplatform exclusivePC (Microsoft Windows)
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Character
Plot-driven, relentless, intimate and unpretentious.
- character-ledplot-driven
- contemplativerelentless
- intimateepic
- unpretentiousprestige
- sparerichly built
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About the game
- Platforms
- PC (Microsoft Windows)
- Developer
- Squid In A Box
- Publisher
- Squid In A Box
- Released
- November 16, 2011
- Modes
- Single player
- Perspective
- Bird view / Isometric
IGDB rating 8.5/10 from 5 ratings.
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