WAVECADE

Fantastic game. The visuals, the gameplay, the overall 80's arcade sci-fi synthwave aesthetic! Will recommend anyone to play Wavecade. Can't wait to see more updates in the coming weeks. Follow the Discord and Twitter too.

I love this game! It's fun and exciting.. and yes! I like the SFX. Highly recommended!

AWESOME game! The audio and visual effects are CRAZY. There's a pumping synthwave soundtrack that slows down and speeds up like analog tape, matching the speed of the action. Power-Ups galore! Neon squares and digital snowflakes everywhere. Trippy!!! Get. This. Game.

As someone who has only a couple of hours in regarding overall play time, I gotta say - It's absolutely great for a quick couple of bashes on a nightly basis. The simplicity of the game and its whole premise sort of tricks you into thinking that the game will be easy. Easy to grasp perhaps, but there is a subtle learning curve to its system. The dance between slowing the oncoming blocks to a crawl to lay out a minefield of slomo lasers and rushing to the front to gain more points is a constant battle of risk and reward. When this pans out the way you like, it feels extremely satisfying, watching a thousand lasers rip up the screen at mach-1. When it doesn't well, next time just chill out on the accelerator. It's a good back and forth and the truly sweaty gamers will have a blast trying to nail that sweet spot. For both the casuals and the hardcore, the power-up system really gives you a sense of overwhelming firepower, these constantly stack on top of another until the inevitable timer runs out, but when you manage to amass a multitude of laser modifiers, you'll feel unbeatable, until one of the cheeky blocks actually decide to slightly dodge out of the way and smashes into you. Another boon to the game's design is that the blocks aren't truly static, they do shift to the side from your oncoming fire and it'll usually be enough for you to miss your well placed shot. Frustrating sure, but it keeps the game more dynamic overall. The soundtrack is quite fantastic too, no qualms there. Especially when you get a fresh track start on a wave start, it's a strange rousing buzz that makes me correct my posture and pay attention. For all its good qualities, I do have only a couple of small nitpicks about the game. A slight personal negative is that I find the lasers shot my ship within close proximity to an oncoming block to be a little deceitful, when I'm sure the laser would hit, its own hitbox is just too small to touch it and instead I end up getting clipped in the process. This in turn from the slight distance away from the very bottom of the screen does get a grumble out of me every now and again. It's minor but it is there. Another issue is the 'fetching news' option on the main menu, I clicked it just for the hell of it and it ended up softlocking the game. The dev has made it clear what the cause is but it doesn't detract from the game still crashing. It should be addressed or removed. Any news regarding the game should be dealt on the steam page, I don't want to read in the game, I want to shoot lasers at the floating blue bald-headed polygon faced man that laughs at me at the start of every run. As a sort of midway positive/negative, there's a very simple customization system for your ship which is a nice addon, but I feel like there's a weird double-edged sword built in where I think the different ship designs cause lasers to hit me easier than others. It's more than likely a strange case of convenient coincidence for me being garbage, but it feels like a element on play that I can't shake. With all that being said however, Wavecade's a great game just to whack on and kill 30 minutes in before calling it quits for the night and having a go the next day. It's own game play loop is still very enjoyable so I'd recommend giving it a go.

please fix the matchmaking and servers :/ awesome game doe

Very fun, easy to play - had to get used to it, but can see myself wanting to playing more.