Games like Wave Mechanics
If Wave Mechanics is your kind of game, the closest matches are Unium, Strata and RUSH — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its procedural generation ensures replayability, challenging and contemplative. 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 Wave Mechanics: The goal of Wave Mechanics is to match the color of each element to the colors of corresponding parts of the frame. Each puzzle includes a set of active elements that can by used in order to change the colors of all elements within range in chosen direction.
Players who liked Wave Mechanics also play
Steam players who put hours into Wave Mechanics also tend to own these titles — a signal called collaborative filtering. imho.run cross-references millions of library ownership patterns to surface games whose real audiences overlap, regardless of whether their genre tags match.
Strata
WHY THIS
Shares undo system and a contemplative mood with Wave Mechanics.
Second-strongest match for Wave Mechanics fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Wave Mechanics.
Simple. Elegant. Challenging.
RUSH
WHY THIS
Shares a contemplative mood with Wave Mechanics.
Third-strongest match for Wave Mechanics fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Wave Mechanics.
From the twisted puzzle minds behind the award winning Toki Tori comes a new game, simply called RUSH. Fortunately for fans of high quality puzzle games, RUSH is anything but simple. In the game's fully three dimensional levels, players need to guide cubes to color coded exit points using Conveyor belts, Warps, Stops Signs, Splits and...
CrossCells
WHY THIS
Shares a contemplative mood with Wave Mechanics.
Ranked #4 for Wave Mechanics fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Wave Mechanics.
CrossCells is an ambient logic puzzle game.
You Must Build A Boat
WHY THIS
Shares a contemplative mood with Wave Mechanics.
Ranked #5 for Wave Mechanics fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Wave Mechanics.
You Must Build A Boat is the sequel to the award winning "10000000". Travel the world, run procedurally generated dungeons finding artifacts, capturing monsters and recruiting crew for your boat
Hexa Turn
WHY THIS
Shares a contemplative mood with Wave Mechanics.
Ranked #6 for Wave Mechanics fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Wave Mechanics.
Hexa Turn is a turn-based puzzle game with minimalist design. The logic is simple: block the triange. So, think outside of the box and try not to find a solution. Try to break the solution!
Isotiles - Isometric Puzzle Game
WHY THIS
Shares a contemplative mood with Wave Mechanics.
Ranked #7 for Wave Mechanics fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Wave Mechanics.
Isotiles is an isometric puzzle game played on a grid. The goal of the game is to turn all of the blue tiles red and then reach the exit tile. There are 50 levels to play through with increasing difficulty and added obstacles.
Think To Die
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for Wave Mechanics fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Wave Mechanics.
A different and creative casual puzzle game where you have to find a way to die to pass the level. To do so, you have to master different situations, combine objects, and time your actions.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Wave Mechanics at current Steam store prices.
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~80% under Wave Mechanics on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Wave Mechanics.
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?
The Test
WHY THIS
Priced ~60% under Wave Mechanics on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Wave Mechanics.
You will answer a series of questions that will reveal truths from deep within. These questions may make you uncomfortable, but with great knowledge comes great sacrifice. Can you make it all the way through The Test, and if you do, are you sure you want the answers you seek?
Milk inside a bag of milk inside a bag of milk
WHY THIS
Priced ~70% under Wave Mechanics on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Wave Mechanics.
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
WHY THIS
Priced ~80% under Wave Mechanics on Steam right now. Shares Casual with Wave Mechanics.
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.
Placid Plastic Duck Simulator
WHY THIS
Priced ~60% under Wave Mechanics on Steam right now. Shares Casual with Wave Mechanics.
The ultimate high-tech rubber duck simulation, Placid Plastic Duck brings you dangerous levels of relaxation. With chill music, dreamy 3D graphics, and many different happy ducks, your only priority is to float around. Zero Ducks given.
Peggle Deluxe
WHY THIS
Priced ~80% under Wave Mechanics on Steam right now. Shares Casual with Wave Mechanics.
Take your best shot with energizing arcade fun! Aim, shoot, clear the orange pegs, then sit back and cheer as 10 whimsical teachers guide you to Peggle greatness.
shapez
WHY THIS
Priced ~80% under Wave Mechanics on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with Wave Mechanics.
shapez is an easy-going, minimalistic factory building game about the automation of shapes through extraction and satisfying production lines. Adapt to increasingly complex shapes and grow your factory across an infinitely expanding map. Your only limitation is your creativity!
The Test: Hypothesis Rising
WHY THIS
Priced ~60% under Wave Mechanics on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Wave Mechanics.
The second chapter in The Test trilogy. Answer a series of in-depth questions to reveal hidden truths about yourself and unlock secrets to discover how your life can change drastically with just a few, slight modifications. ...But are you sure you want the answers you seek?
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Sprout
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy and Indie with Wave Mechanics.
Embark on a casual, botanical-puzzle-adventure. Make friends, learn new skills, solve puzzles, and become the mighty oak that you were always meant to be.
Learn to Fly 3
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy and Indie with Wave Mechanics.
Build your spaceship from scratch, earn funds and invest them into building a bigger, better spaceship as you try and fly your way up to space!
Transformice
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Wave Mechanics.
Transformice is an MMO platformer about dozens of mice running to bring back the cheese! Will the almighty Shaman help you or just ruin everything? Millions of levels, hectic physics, skill trees, and more importantly... hats!
BEEP
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Wave Mechanics.
A combination of platforming with a gravity gun, BEEP is an amazing physics-platformer. Despite its friendly art style, this is a hardcore platformer in the truest sense.
In Sink: A Co-Op Escape Prologue
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with Wave Mechanics.
Play an early version of the first level for free! Work together to solve the puzzles and escape a desert island in this multiplayer co-op adventure. Success requires more than just you and your partner thinking alike - you'll have to communicate and stay In Sink to overcome the challenges ahead.
Picross Touch
WHY THIS
Shares a contemplative mood with Wave Mechanics.
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy and Indie with Wave Mechanics.
Find the hidden image in this fun and addictive logic puzzle game. All puzzles have unique solutions, ensuring 100% logically solvable puzzle grids.
Lines X Free
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy and Indie with Wave Mechanics.
Beautiful & relaxing Numberlink puzzles.
Sigils of Elohim
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy and Indie with Wave Mechanics.
Sigils of Elohim is a free mini-game prelude to Croteam’s upcoming first-person puzzler The Talos Principle that challenges players to solve dozens of challenging sigil puzzles under the watchful eye of Elohim.
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Frequently asked about Wave Mechanics
- How much does Wave Mechanics cost?
- Wave Mechanics is listed on Steam at 4.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Wave Mechanics?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Wave Mechanics are Unium, Strata, RUSH.
- Who developed Wave Mechanics?
- Wave Mechanics was developed by Adam Tarnowski.
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