Waveform

Waveform

released on Mar 20, 2012

Waveform

released on Mar 20, 2012

Navigate the beauty and hazards of the solar system while riding on a wave of light in this innovative action-puzzle game. On your journey to restore light to a dying galaxy being consumed by a Singularity, you'll travel from Pluto to the Sun and interact with a wide variety of strange objects, and mind-bending situations that will affect the path of your wave, and the world around you, in interesting ways. Simple to play but difficult to master, Waveform combines the pure fun of retro arcade titles with all the modern bells and whistles of modern gaming. Colorful graphics and a retro soundtrack accompany 100 levels of increasingly fascinating and wondrous challenges featuring mysterious and fun objects like Wormholes, Particle Accelerators, and the enigmatic Space Squids of Venus.


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Now this is a game you can feel good having in your Steam catalog. Chill af music. This is kind of like Horizontal Audiosurf, except you don't get to choose your own music and it's more like an oscillation simulator.

You oscillate a little sphere up and down, collecting other spheres and objects along the way. You avoid "dark matter", marked on your path. It'll shink you and slow your speeds if you run into it. Too much dark matter will end your run.

And just when I thought this was a game free of danger, the final mission in Pluto proved me wrong. You end up being chased by some malevolent force while still doing the level the same way the past four missions. At least the pressure isn't cooked up too high. I'm sure that changes on future planets.

The way resolution was implemented is not exactly lining up with my computer, with virtual resolutions not supported correctly, but that's OK. Playing on 1080p was a breeze and no real slowdowns.