PAC-MAN™ Championship Edition DX+
Worth it · Action · 2013
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
WAIT.
Worth it today. The Winter Sale opens Dec 17, and it was discounted in 8 of its last 8 seasonal sales; 75% in the Winter Sale 2025.
Today
$9.99Worth it
Typical seasonal cut
$2.4975% offBANGER
- Cost per hour▼
- $3.03/hr
- ReviewsS
- 96% of 8,267
- Genre rank
- Top 1% Action
Holding it back: Cost per hour
Why
Watch this gameOne alert at $2.49 or less.
Time and effort
- Main story
- 3.3h
- To 100%
- 4.6h 1.4x the story
- Finish
- 8% reach the ending
- Achievements
- 12
Price and sales
- Sales
- 84 on record
- Typical cut
- 75% off
- Steam low
- $2.49 June 2014
- Sale every
- 45d last October 2026
Players and genre
- Online
- 16 now
- Cheaper than
- 24% of its genre
- Better reviewed
- 99% of its genre
Price and player charts
The drop-off
79% start to 8% finishSteam counts fewer than one in ten of its players at the ending achievement. Steam global achievements
The value story
The value story
It has been discounted 84 times in the 13 years tracked here. The median cut across all of them is 75 percent, about 6 weeks apart. It becomes a BANGER at $7.81, a level the record has reached 84 times.
Against its own genre its score lands in the top 1 percent. It is pricier than 76 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 99 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Geometry Wars: Retro Evolved ($3.99, scores 82) beats it on value, while it beats Sonic Mania ($19.99, scores 65).
More about PAC-MAN™ Championship Edition DX+
Steam's global achievement data puts about 8 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. On a 3.3-hour game, the hours short of it still count in its price per hour. Of the 371 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 3 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written May 2020 to October 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 94 percent of the 1,879 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 3.3 hours it is short enough to finish on one.
Buy now or wait
Buy now or wait
Last discount ended 2 days ago.
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
What drives the score
Grades: S best, D weakest
S is the best grade and D the weakest, judged as a buyer. ▲ raises the score, ▼ lowers it, ? is an input we do not have, • is a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work
What players say
Base Game Course: Spiral, Manhattan, Dungeon, Championship 1, Championship 2, Half, Darkness, Highway, Junction (a total of 9 courses) Paid DLCs: Championship III, Highway II, Mountain, Big Eater (adds 4 courses) Base Game Characters: 6 designs (not much difference, all Pac-Man) Paid DLCs: adds 3 designs Dig Dug, Rally-X, Pack is Back (looks totally different) Base Game BGM: 5 Pac-Man songs, Dig Renaissance, Rally X...
1 more review
Really good and WAY better than CE2, being great for people with no patience like me that think that the classic title is too slow
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
About the game
It's time to gear up!Get ready for more ghost chain gobbling and frantic action in PAC-MAN® CE-DX+! The award-winning chomping game makes a shattering debut on Steam with even more content and a refined user-interface to compare high scores with your friends!
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 1 GB of memory, DirectX 9 graphics device, 502 MB of storage. Windows only.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
PAC-MAN™ Championship Edition DX+ scores 80/100 on the BANG Score (worth it) as of Nov 8, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/236450/pac-man-championship-edition-dxReviews set the ceiling, and price against real length moves the BANG Score inside it. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Nov 1, price as of Nov 7. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.