Waves 2: Notorious is an arcade twin-stick shooter set in Cyberspace. Build Combos, earn Adrenaline and unleash powerful Burst attacks as you Dive into the Net and do battle against an AI that adapts to your weaknesses!
| App ID | 217120 |
|---|---|
| App type | Game |
| Developer | Squid In A Box Ltd |
| Publisher | Squid In A Box Ltd |
| Homepage | http://www.wavesthegame.com |
| Release date | 2015-12-16 20:49 UTC · Early Access |
| Original release | 2015-12-16 08:00 UTC |
| Release state | released |
| Controller support | full |
| Free app | Yes |
| Store page | store.steampowered.com/app/217120 |
| Last store refresh | 1 hour ago |
| # | Executable | Arguments | OS | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 0 | Waves.exe | windows | Launch | |
| 1 | Waves.exe | -opengl | windows | Waves² (OpenGL For AMD Cards) |
| 2 | Waves.exe | -FeatureLevelES31 | windows | Waves² (Compatibility Mode For Low End PC's) |
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| Date | Price | Regular | Discount |
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| 2026-09-11 21:23 UTC | Free | Free |
| DLC | AppID | Release | Price |
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| Branch | Build ID | Description | Updated | Password |
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| public | 6788920 | 2021-06-01 15:11 UTC | ||
| alpha7 | 4072744 | 2019-08-15 17:22 UTC | ||
| local | 950912 | Local Content Server | ||
| preview | 5357819 | 2020-07-31 19:11 UTC |
| Depot | Name | OS | Size | Download | Public manifest | Notes |
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| 217121 | windows | 439.35 MB | 274.14 MB | 5369516543322501846 | branches: alpha7, local, preview | |
| 217122 | linux | 517.21 MB | 261.88 MB | 3642224462417286389 | branches: alpha7, preview | |
| 228986 | windows | from app 228980 · shared install | ||||
| 228990 | windows | from app 228980 · shared install |
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| 950912 | local | 2026-09-11 21:23 UTC | 1 hour ago |
| 6788920 | public | 2021-06-01 15:11 UTC | 1 hour ago |
| 5357819 | preview | 2020-07-31 19:11 UTC | 1 hour ago |
| 4072744 | alpha7 | 2019-08-15 17:22 UTC | 1 hour ago |
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Waves and Waves 2: Notorious are two rather good twin-stick shooters and sadly, the developer died after a battle with Cancer and so now both games are free to keep for everyone. Read the full article here: https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2022/08/waves-and-waves-2-notorious-are-now-free-after-developer-passed-away
Welcome to the Uranium Season Update! It's a big Update so that means a new Season, new Leaderboards and new toys! First I would like to say a big Thank You to Cntrpl and Pilzkopf from Discord who did excellent work testing this update before it went live! If you want to help or just chat then the Discord is the best place to join in! As with every Season Update the Leaderboards for the previous Season are archived and will no longer accept new scores. So without further ado... ACHIEVEMENTS There are now 36 Steam Achievements in the game; one for each program. I've tried to make sure the achie
Vote for Waves! Today is a day of excellent news! Waves 2: Notorious has made it to the Quarter Finals of the WN Unreal Dev Contest! The top prizes for this contest include Publishing Deals and Development funding that would help support the rest of the game's development. Head over to the games page and give it your vote! The Achievements Update The next update nears closer. I have consistently overestimated how much work I can get done while being part-time on the game but the end is now in sight. During today's live stream I managed to get the number of broken or untested achievements down
I am streaming some Live Dev of Waves 2: Notorious over on Twitch today from 3 PM GMT. These streams tend to run for 3-4 hours so feel free to pop in and say hi! This week I am working on some of the unfinished achievements in the game trying to push for the next update. Fairly dry stuff so I could use some company! You can join the Discord or follow me on Twitter for notifications on when I go live as well as just hanging out with other fans of the Waves games! {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/3088583/879f498d85ffcc18a68a41cd8b6eb7a4249e8a30.png
I am streaming some Live Dev of Waves 2: Notorious over on Twitch today from 3 PM GMT. These streams tend to run for 3-4 hours so feel free to pop in and say hi! This week's project is a new UI flow, testing some achievements and maybe getting in some new Structures into the game if we have time. You can join the Discord or follow me on Twitter for notifications on when I go live as well as just hanging out with other fans of the Waves games! {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/3088583/879f498d85ffcc18a68a41cd8b6eb7a4249e8a30.png
I will be streaming some Live Dev of Waves 2: Notorious over on Twitch today from 3 PM GMT. These streams tend to run for 3-4 hours so feel free to pop in and say hi! This week's project is making some changes to Buffer and Cache Programs to reward you with Stacks of certain Buffs when you use your Utility or Burst Programs. You can join the Discord or follow me on Twitter for notifications on when I go live as well as just hanging out with other fans of the Waves games! {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/3088583/879f498d85ffcc18a68a41cd8b6eb7a4249e8a30.png
Over the last few Dev Streams, I have been working away on the new Attract Utility Program. Like the previously announced revamp of Glitch it uses the same slot as Slowmo but has significantly different functionality. https://media.giphy.com/media/BeKHABoKdbdoGFuz3v/giphy.gif Attract gets dropped in the direction you are aiming and any enemies that come into contact with it will be sucked towards its core rendering them temporarily helpless. Multiple Attract Programs can be active at once letting you herd enemies or cluster them together for a powerful Burst (Quake is a good fit here). Attract
I will be streaming some Live Dev of Waves 2: Notorious over on Twitch today from 3 PM GMT. These streams tend to run for 3-4 hours so feel free to pop in and say hi! This is starting to become a regular thing! 4 in a row that I've Live Streamed some game dev and I don't intend to stop! Thanks to everybody who joins me it's great to have some company! This week I will be working on Particle Effects for the Attract and Glitch Abilities as well as general polish on both of them. I will also be testing (and probably fixing) their related achievements. You can join the Discord or follow me on Twit
Thank you to everybody who is helping localize the game over on localizor! Since we started I've added Spanish and Slovak by request and translations are underway for both of them already. I also spent a few days going over the text strings in the game and pruning all the ones that either aren't used or won't be used as well as combining most of the duplicates together into string tables. This means the word count has now dropped by two-thirds and the number of keys to translate has gone down by over 400! I've also been responding to requests for contexts and providing screenshots where needed
I will be streaming some Live Dev of Waves 2: Notorious over on Twitch today from 3 PM GMT. These streams tend to run for 3-4 hours so feel free to pop in and say hi! The stream will mostly be focused on turning the "Attract" prototype I built last week into a working Item and I will also be fixing some bugs, and tracking down some localization issues. You can join the Discord or follow me on Twitter for notifications on when I go live as well as just hanging out with other fans of the Waves games! {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/3088583/879f498d85ffcc18a68a41cd8b6eb7a4249e8a30.png
Join the few, the proud, the multilingual! If you speak any languages in addition to English then perhaps you can help translate the text in the game so that others might enjoy it as much as you do! I'm using a site called localizor to manage the community translation of the game and so far Polish is winning by about 30%. Joining is free for translators and you can suggest translations and vote on them, the top voted translations go into the game. https://www.localizor.com/waves-2-notorious If a language is missing from the list then just leave a comment or DM me either on Twitter or Discord.
For the next few hours, I will be live over on Twitch creating the new "Attract" Utility item (aka a black hole). {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/4471369/168b40be1111d82138fc1f2ad809f00f6b61009f.png
Part of the next update will be a re-vamp of all the Utility Items in the game. Utility Items are (as their name implies) not about killing things but being generally useful. They use Energy instead of Adrenaline and the most popular Item to date has been the default "Stop" (aka slow-mo). It's important that every item in the game have a use but so far Stun, Repel, Rage, Barrier, and Glitch have not lived up to their potential always being out-done by Stop. I intend to change this. Today as part of a Live Stream I converted the old Glitch (previously called Emergency Teleport) into a brand spa
If you've just joined the Waves community recently or you've been around since the start you can find other fans on the Squid In A Box Discord Server! By joining the Squid In A Box Discord Server you can: Ask the Devs direct questions and get a direct answer. Promote your stream of Waves! Chat with the Devs and other fans about almost anything. Share pictures of your pets! Organise multiplayer games. Use Waves themed Emotes (clearly the best bit). Submit Bug Reports (It is still early access after all). Join us over in the Squid In A Box Discord! {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/4471369/00ae9f132dc32553dcd3
2020 just sucked, didn't it? Good riddance I say. It's no secret that Squid In A Box Ltd is in fact just one person. It isn't a studio with a half dozen full-time employees it's just Li'l ol' me trying to get as much done as I can. 2020 was just awful for that. Between starting a new job so we could pay the bills, moving cities, and everything else it left me going from working full-time on Waves 2 to working at weekends. I've been averaging maybe 6-8 hours a week this year where before I would be working 40-50. The Winter 2020 season in-game has lasted all year rather than the 3 months a seas
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