PAC-MAN™ Championship Edition DX+
Worth it · Action · 2013
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
BUY IT.
Worth it at $9.99, a BANGER if it drops to $7.81.
- Length
- 3.4h
- Value
- $2.94/hr
- Reviews
- 96% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 1 GB of memory, DirectX 9 graphics device, 502 MB of storage. Windows only.
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What drives the score
How to read this
Every input gets a grade, S to D, read from the buyer's side. The score is multiplicative, so an input only counts as raising when it sits near the top of its own scale. Anything with real room left is holding the score back, because that room is the gap to 100. ▲ marks a lift, ▼ a drag or a dock, ? an input we do not have, • a fact this genre's score does not use. The exact weights stay secret.
The value story
June 2014 is where it bottomed out, at $2.49. It has been discounted 82 times in the 13 years tracked here, typically at 75 percent off, with about 7 weeks between sales. Today it is at full price. The last sale was about 3 weeks ago, and on this game's rhythm the next one tends to arrive within 7 weeks. It becomes a BANGER at $7.81, a level the record has reached 82 times.
Against its own genre it lands in the top 1 percent on value. It is pricier than 74 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 99 percent. The nearest things to it, Sonic Mania ($19.99, scores 65) and Sonic Origins ($29.99, scores 34), are both worse buys on this math.
Steam's global achievement data says about 8 percent of players ever finish it. On a 3.4-hour game, that is a lot of paid-for hours most people never see. Of the 370 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 3 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written May 2020 to September 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 94 percent of the 1,865 reviews written there were positive, against 96 percent overall, and those are 38 percent of everything written about it.
Valve rates it Steam Deck Verified, and at 3.4 hours it is short enough to finish on one.
The drop-off
79% start to 8% finishMost players never reach the end. On a 3.4-hour game, that's a lot you pay for and may never use. Steam global achievements
Players
15 players at peak in the last day.
The chart appears once this game has been counted more than once.Player counts via SteamSpy.
What players say
I like the twist this game takes on the original PAC-MAN formula. A setting to remap inputs would have been very appreciated though.
Player reviews from Steam: the most helpful all-time, plus the newest that clear the same quality bar, with the hours each player had put in when they wrote it. The mix of Recommended and Not recommended follows the game's Steam ratio. Rotates daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
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PAC-MAN™ Championship Edition DX+ scores 80/100 on the BANG Score (worth it). The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/236450/pac-man-championship-edition-dxThe BANG Score is one number for value, 0 to 100: price against how it reviews and how long it was built to be. It answers the money question and stops there; whether the game is for you is still your call.
Reviews set the ceiling and price moves you inside it, so a cheap game that reviews badly cannot climb. Ratings from few reviewers are shrunk toward the middle, so 100 percent from nine people does not outrank 96 percent from ninety thousand. Length comes from HowLongToBeat where it can be matched, measured against a per-genre floor so a five-hour narrative game is judged against other narrative games rather than against a sixty-hour RPG. Where no verified length exists the score says so and carries a dock, because the biggest input is then a guess. The full method, including where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 7, price as of Sep 24.
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