Games like It Comes In Waves
If It Comes In Waves is your kind of game, the closest matches are Outflow, Everfall 1999 and No Sun To Worship — picked from the ranked list below. Each pick is ranked by what players of this game also play, shared genres and tags, and review-mined similarity — not a generic popularity list.
Get personalized picks →About It Comes In Waves: A short, minimalist, experimental open-world adventure about guilt and grief. Explore, shoot, scavenge and bring a specimen to The Sanctuary. Beware PERMADEATH.
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Outflow
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Top pick for It Comes In Waves fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with It Comes In Waves.
Experience Atlas’s journey in the future world to save his planet. Beat the enemies with unique mechanics and explore a huge open world in this action RPG.
Everfall 1999
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Second-strongest match for It Comes In Waves fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with It Comes In Waves.
A very basic cyberpunk action game.
No Sun To Worship
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Third-strongest match for It Comes In Waves fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with It Comes In Waves.
A short, minimalist stealth-action game about the importance of art. We painted the sky ashen gray. Burned the heavens to starve each other. Now we walk an endless cemetery of regret.
The Eternal Castle [REMASTERED]
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Ranked #4 for It Comes In Waves fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with It Comes In Waves.
The Eternal Castle [REMASTERED] is a remake of the original "ETERNAL CASTLE" from 1987, with additional game mechanics, sophisticated sound design, polished 2-bit CGA animated graphics, and modernized game design.
Binary Domain
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Ranked #5 for It Comes In Waves fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with It Comes In Waves.
Set in futuristic Tokyo, take control of the robotic community before they control everything!
Tell Some Story: Foz
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Ranked #6 for It Comes In Waves fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with It Comes In Waves.
Action-adventure + Third person shooter. The year is 2042, the near future, the gloomy world of cyberpunk will offer you the role of detective Foz. Random circumstances drag the hero into a showdown between gangs and corporations, where he has to make a choice on whose side he is.
DEATH STRANDING DIRECTOR'S CUT
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Ranked #7 for It Comes In Waves fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with It Comes In Waves.
From legendary game creator Hideo Kojima comes a genre-defying experience, now expanded in this definitive DIRECTOR’S CUT. As Sam Bridges, your mission is to deliver hope to humanity by connecting the last survivors of a decimated America. Can you reunite the shattered world, one step at a time?
Miasma Chronicles
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Ranked #8 for It Comes In Waves fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with It Comes In Waves.
From the creators of Mutant Year Zero: Road to Eden comes a beautifully crafted tactical adventure you won’t forget. Embark on a quest across a post-apocalyptic wasteland torn apart by a savage force known only as the ‘Miasma’.
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The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind® Game of the Year Edition
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Reviewers of It Comes In Waves cross-mention this title as a similar play.
The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind® Game of the Year Edition includes Morrowind plus all of the content from the Bloodmoon and Tribunal expansions. The original Mod Construction Set is not included in this package. An epic, open-ended single-player RPG, Morrowind allows you to create and play any kind of character imaginable.
STAR WARS™ Knights of the Old Republic™ II - The Sith Lords™
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Reviewers of It Comes In Waves cross-mention this title as a similar play.
5 years after the events of the award winning original, the Sith are on the verge of crushing the Old Republic. As a lone Jedi, will you follow the light side or succumb to the dark?
Mad Max
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Reviewers of It Comes In Waves cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Adventure with It Comes In Waves.
Play as Mad Max, a reluctant hero and survivor who wants nothing more than to leave the madness behind and find solace.
STAR WARS™ SHADOWS OF THE EMPIRE™
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Reviewers of It Comes In Waves cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Adventure with It Comes In Waves.
As Luke Skywalker and the Rebel Alliance struggle to defeat Darth Vader and the Empire, a new threat arises. Dark Prince Xizor aspires to take Darth Vader's place at the Emperor's side. As Dash Rendar, it's up to you to protect Luke and help the Alliance. May the Force be with you!
Stalker
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Reviewers of It Comes In Waves cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Adventure with It Comes In Waves.
The background story of "Stalker" is that a teenager encounters various events on the road following a young girl. The teenager(player) can selectively interact and give repairs / help due to these events. How you will lead to different ending. The game was developed during the Global Game Jam 2020.
Pathologic 3
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Reviewers of It Comes In Waves cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Adventure with It Comes In Waves.
In this psychological horror game, you are a doctor with only 12 days to save a town from a mysterious plague. Make ruthless decisions and diagnose with precision. Shape the town's future and rewrite the past. Hold yourself together while it all falls apart.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below It Comes In Waves at current Steam store prices.
POSTAL 2
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Priced ~67% under It Comes In Waves on Steam right now. Shares Action and Adventure with It Comes In Waves.
Live a week in the life of "The POSTAL Dude"; a hapless everyman just trying to check off some chores. Buying milk, returning an overdue library book, getting Gary Coleman's autograph, what could possibly go wrong?
Milk inside a bag of milk inside a bag of milk
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Priced ~50% under It Comes In Waves on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with It Comes In Waves.
A short story about what sort of challenges everyday little things can be. Help the girl buy milk, be the first not to disappoint her.
Blood and Bacon
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Priced ~67% under It Comes In Waves on Steam right now. Shares Action and Adventure with It Comes In Waves.
This Co-op Shooter , has Day and Night levels, multiple maps, players will take on 25 enemy types and numerous bosses, like Gargantuan Monsters and Minibosses every 10 days as you explore, shoot and run for your life against the onslaught of porcine monstrosities.
Shower With Your Dad Simulator 2015: Do You Still Shower With Your Dad
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Priced ~67% under It Comes In Waves on Steam right now. Shares Action with It Comes In Waves.
"Shower With Your Dad Simulator 2015: Do You Still Shower With Your Dad?" is a fast paced shower-simulation where you shower with your 8-bit dad.It's good, clean fun!
Bit Blaster XL
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Priced ~67% under It Comes In Waves on Steam right now. Shares Action with It Comes In Waves.
Bit Blaster XL is a fast-paced, retro arcade shoot 'em up (shmup) inspired by the classic quarter-munchers of the ‘80s. Easy to pick up, hard to put down, boost, dodge, shoot, and chase high scores in this addictive, old-school action game!
TYRONE vs COPS
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Priced ~67% under It Comes In Waves on Steam right now. Shares Action with It Comes In Waves.
Awaken the latent power of your melanin and kill cops in this thought-provoking game on police brutality in America.
Orbt XL
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Priced ~67% under It Comes In Waves on Steam right now. Shares Action with It Comes In Waves.
Defy gravity in Orbt XL! A fast-paced, addictive, 'just-one-more-round' arcade score chaser. Stay in orbit, dodge obstacles, and rack up points, the closer you are to the black hole, the higher your score! Easy to learn, tough to master, and perfect for quick play sessions while waiting in queue.
Landlord of the Woods
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Priced ~67% under It Comes In Waves on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with It Comes In Waves.
You're 25, you feel like all of your peers are ahead of you in life so you apply for a new job to try to find some sort of meaning. Your new career is filled with physics-based puzzles, hand drawn art & a cute little story.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Life is Strange - Episode 1
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Adventure with It Comes In Waves.
Episode 1 now FREE! Life is Strange is an award-winning and critically acclaimed episodic adventure game that allows the player to rewind time and affect the past, present and future.
ENA: Dream BBQ
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with It Comes In Waves.
Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.
Indigo Park: Chapter 1
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Adventure with It Comes In Waves.
Explore the abandoned childhood wonder of Indigo Park! Guided by Rambley the Raccoon, help restore power to the destroyed amusement park while you run from the reason it shut down.
The Looker
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
The Expendabros
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Adventure with It Comes In Waves.
The Expendabros have assembled and set their sights on the forces of ruthless arms dealer Conrad Stonebanks in the forests of Eastern Europe.
UNBEATABLE [white label]
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Adventure with It Comes In Waves.
A young girl learns a song. An exclusive side-story set in the world of D-CELL GAMES' upcoming rhythm-adventure.
Star Fetchers
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Adventure with It Comes In Waves.
The introduction to a wild ride with gangsters and deep state conspiracy theories
The Lab
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
Welcome to The Lab, a compilation of Valve’s room-scale VR experiments set in a pocket universe within Aperture Science. Fix a robot, defend a castle, adopt a mechanical dog, and more. Still not sold? It’s free!
![UNBEATABLE [white label] — Steam game cover](https://shared.akamai.steamstatic.com/store_item_assets/steam/apps/1290490/header.jpg?t=1736770503)
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More from Antonio Freyre
Other recommendable Steam games by Antonio Freyre, ranked by review count so the studio's hits land first.
No Sun To Worship
WHY THIS
Another title from Antonio Freyre, the studio behind It Comes In Waves. Shares Action with It Comes In Waves.
A short, minimalist stealth-action game about the importance of art. We painted the sky ashen gray. Burned the heavens to starve each other. Now we walk an endless cemetery of regret.
The Chameleon
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Another title from Antonio Freyre, the studio behind It Comes In Waves.
A tense stealth game with super-powers, set in the 70s, filled with glorious fat pixels. Transform into enemies, dash, teleport, slow time and super-punch your way through this moody retro stealth game.
UNDETECTED
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Another title from Antonio Freyre, the studio behind It Comes In Waves. Shares Action with It Comes In Waves.
Stealth your way through the shadows and uncover a corporate conspiracy. Become a cyber-augmented agent in this gameplay-focused stealth game that brings classic sneaking to the modern era.
Luckily, My Arm Is A Shotgun
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Another title from Antonio Freyre, the studio behind It Comes In Waves. Shares Action and Adventure with It Comes In Waves.
You are lost on a cursed island full of monsters... Luckily, your arm is a shotgun! Explore a mini open world and blast your way through waves of demons in this short adventure.
Under A Star Long Cold
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Another title from Antonio Freyre, the studio behind It Comes In Waves. Shares Action with It Comes In Waves.
You have 30 minutes to loot this place and pay your debts before the planet is destroyed. Intense stealth-action with permadeath. An exploration of agency and hope.
Plays great on Steam Deck
Valve-Verified or Playable picks from the similar pool — ready to go on Deck out of the box.
No Sun To Worship
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Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action with It Comes In Waves.
A short, minimalist stealth-action game about the importance of art. We painted the sky ashen gray. Burned the heavens to starve each other. Now we walk an endless cemetery of regret.
The Eternal Castle [REMASTERED]
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Adventure with It Comes In Waves.
The Eternal Castle [REMASTERED] is a remake of the original "ETERNAL CASTLE" from 1987, with additional game mechanics, sophisticated sound design, polished 2-bit CGA animated graphics, and modernized game design.
DEATH STRANDING DIRECTOR'S CUT
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Adventure with It Comes In Waves.
From legendary game creator Hideo Kojima comes a genre-defying experience, now expanded in this definitive DIRECTOR’S CUT. As Sam Bridges, your mission is to deliver hope to humanity by connecting the last survivors of a decimated America. Can you reunite the shattered world, one step at a time?
Frequently asked about It Comes In Waves
- Does It Comes In Waves run on Steam Deck?
- It Comes In Waves is rated Playable on Steam Deck — it runs, but expect some manual adjustments (control remapping, text size, or graphics settings) for the best experience.
- How much does It Comes In Waves cost?
- It Comes In Waves is listed on Steam at 2.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to It Comes In Waves?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside It Comes In Waves are Outflow, Everfall 1999, No Sun To Worship.
- Who developed It Comes In Waves?
- It Comes In Waves was developed by Antonio Freyre and published by Merlino Games.
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