The Treasures of Montezuma 4

The Treasures of Montezuma 4

Fair · Narrative · 2014

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The verdict

NO RUSH.

Fair at $6.99. Buy it if you want it.

Length
5.5h 42.7h to 100%
Value
$1.27/hr
Reviews
80% of 712 positive
Reviews or length hold it below the tiers even at a deep discount.
Watch this gameOne alert at a price you pick.

Buy now or wait

Discounted in each of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last cut ended 11 days ago.

Next sale
Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4

Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.

What drives the score

How to read this

Grades run S to D, read from the buyer's side. ▲ marks a lift, ▼ a drag or a dock, ? an input we do not have, • a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work

Raising the score
Engagement25% finish
How far players actually get (achievements), a top-end bonus
Holding it back
Value$1.27/hr
Price per hour of game. It moves the score inside the ceiling reviews set
Reviews80% positive
Gates the score. Weak reviews cap it, and nothing reaches BANGER without strong ones
For context
MonetizationNot known
No monetization record for this game, so nothing is assumed either way
Refunds1 of 285 reviews
Steam-purchase reviews sampled whose writer refunded the game. Nothing is docked
AI contentNone disclosed
From the developer's own Steam disclosure. No disclosure is not proof of none, so it does not move the score

About the game

Free the gods’ powers and fulfill your destiny in the Treasures of Montezuma 4! This new match-three game is overflowing with mystery and excitement!
Description from the Steam store page.
Minimum specs

Minimum on the Steam store: 256 MB of memory, DirectX compatible 128 MB, 2 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS.

The value story

It has been discounted 102 times in the 12 years tracked here. The median cut across all of them is 85 percent, about 6 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 11 days ago.

On value it sits in the top 18 percent of its genre. It is better reviewed than 69 percent of its genre. Among the games that feel like it, Little Misfortune ($19.99, scores 59) beats it on value, while it beats LEGO® Builder's Journey ($19.99, scores 44).

More about The Treasures of Montezuma 4

Steam's global achievement data puts 25 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. The median game this site can measure sits at 15. This site sampled 285 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 1 was written by a buyer who refunded it, sampled from reviews written March 2020 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 69 percent of the 107 reviews written there were positive, against 80 percent overall, and those are 16 percent of everything written about it.

Finishing takes 5.5 hours; clearing it takes 43, which is 7.8 times the campaign.

The drop-off

70% start to 25% finish
050100rarestfirst achievement

Steam counts a larger share of its players at the ending achievement than it does for most games this site can measure. Steam global achievements

Players

Players online
5 when we last checked, on Sep 26, 04:54 UTC

Player counts from the Steam Web API.

What players say

i was plazing the treasures of montezuma 1 when i was little... ITS OVERWHELMING, DONT RECOMMENDS PLAYING FOR 2HOUR STRAIGHT, its good game and nostalgia tho, just 30minutes of playing per day is enough. DONT GRIND THE GAME, most of the aspects are randomized (I hate how get score 150k within minute is almost impossible), but I would still recommend the lesser number. when youre playing it with sound effects, its...
lunaaryxRecommendedafter 1.8hFeb 2026Read on Steam
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
The Treasures of Montezuma 4, developed by Alawar Entertainment and published by ESDigital Games, is a polished and content-rich entry in the long-running match-3 puzzle series. It takes the familiar tile-swapping formula and builds an impressive amount of structure, progression, and variety around it, transforming what could have been a simple puzzle loop into a lengthy, goal-driven experience. You follow the light...
xxadonisxxRecommendedafter 12hNov 2025Read on Steam
Yeah the game is fun but the fact that you can`t turn off suggested moves is a deal breaker for me. I`m not a fuqking kid.
goddystyleNot recommendedafter 1.6hNov 2025Read on Steam

Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.

No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).

Cite this score

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The Treasures of Montezuma 4 scores 53/100 on the BANG Score (fair value) as of Oct 19, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/301150/the-treasures-of-montezuma-4
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Reviews 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 Sep 28, price as of Oct 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.

Tags

Steam user tags as SteamSpy recorded them

Details

DeveloperAlawar Entertainment
PublisherESDigital Games
GenreNarrative
Released2014
Players35Kowners, SteamSpy estimate
Achievements32