It Comes In Waves artwork$2.9993%Very Positive

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.

Screenshots

From the Steam store

It all started when you left… In "It Comes In Waves", you'll play as a lone outcast on a dangerous desert planet, trying to grow a specimen to bring to The Sanctuary. How can you grow anything in a world this barren?

It is a very personal, experimental and minimalist game.

The World Eremar Prime is a harsh and unforgiving place. You'll need to scavenge for resources, fight off raiders and make tough choices to survive. You can also visit the local town (but don't expect a welcoming crowd).

Gameplay "It Comes In Waves" is a minimalist game that combines exploration, combat, and resource management in a unique way. Water is the main resource. It constantly evaporates if you are out in the desert, so you will need to collect more or improve your equipment’s efficiency. Otherwise, you WILL die.

If you die, there is no reloading. You have to start fresh.

Games like It Comes In Waves

See all
Arid

Arid

Crash-landed in the 1930s Atacama desert, you manage sun, thirst and hunger while uncovering the secrets of its abandoned mines.

86% of 1,966 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 3Free
NEO Scavenger

NEO Scavenger

Wake up naked in a cryo facility with no memory, in a ruined Michigan where everything is out to kill you.

89% of 4,456 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 19$14.99
Starsand

Starsand

Starsand is a mystic survival game set among the dunes of an arcane desert.

69% of 817 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 7$19.99
Lost Scavenger

Lost Scavenger

How long could you survive in a parallel universe where the Mist dictates its rules?

51% of 220 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 1$14.99
Peregrino

Peregrino

Peregrino is a dark isometric survival adventure where you explore a cursed forest by day and manage your caravan by night.

65% of 175 Steam reviews are positive$16.99
Wrongworld

Wrongworld

Crash-landed on a surreal, low-poly world filled with freakish inhabitants, choose between permadeath and non-permadeath modes and embark on an epic…

94% of 488 Steam reviews are positive$6.99
Scavenger SV-4

Scavenger SV-4

Scavenger SV-4 is a highly replayable atmospheric first-person science fiction game.

91% of 659 Steam reviews are positive$14.99
Don't Starve

Don't Starve

Don't Starve drops gentleman scientist Wilson into a strange wilderness run by a demon, where you gather, craft, farm, hunt and fight to stay alive.

96% of 97,338 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 1,030$9.99
The Last Caretaker

The Last Caretaker

Salvage, build and sail a flooded Earth while raising the last of humankind in your machine-run complex.

86% of 14,154 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 2,169$34.99
Sands

Sands

"The sands have no pity." The inhabitants of Zetta-115 often say that. The same they instill in their children from an early age.

52% of 325 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 1Free
Casualties: Unknown

Casualties: Unknown

Descend an alien planet's caves as an expendable test subject, patching wounds and crafting tools to survive each layer.

97% of 2,409 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 6,079$19.54
The Chameleon

The Chameleon

A tense stealth game with super-powers, set in the 70s, filled with glorious fat pixels.

90% of 166 Steam reviews are positive$3.99
Luckily, My Arm Is A Shotgun

Luckily, My Arm Is A Shotgun

You are lost on a cursed island full of monsters... Luckily, your arm is a shotgun!

93% of 55 Steam reviews are positive$1.99
No Sun To Worship

No Sun To Worship

A short, minimalist stealth-action game about the importance of art. We painted the sky ashen gray. Burned the heavens to starve each other.

79% of 326 Steam reviews are positive$7.99
Under A Star Long Cold

Under A Star Long Cold

You have 30 minutes to loot this place and pay your debts before the planet is destroyed. Intense stealth-action with permadeath.

79% of 105 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 1$2.99
UNDETECTED

UNDETECTED

Stealth your way through the shadows and uncover a corporate conspiracy.

71% of 63 Steam reviews are positive$14.99