Zuma Deluxe

Zuma Deluxe

BANGER · Shooter · 2006

Steam Deck Playable

The verdict

BUY IT.

Winter Sale 2026 Dec 17
cut in 8 of 8 sales

A BANGER at $4.99. Typically $0.99 in seasonal sales. The Winter Sale opens Dec 17.

Cost per hourS
$0.96/hr
ReviewsS
96% of 6,937
Genre rank
Top 1% Shooter
Watch this gameOne alert when it goes on sale.

Time and effort

Main story
5.2h
To 100%
12.7h 2.4x the story

Price and sales

Sales
18 on record
Typical cut
80% off
Steam low
$0.99 March 2024
Sale every
46d last October 2026
Lowest now on Steamall-time low $0.99 on IsThereAnyDeal

Players and genre

Online
753 now
Recent reviews
92% 30 days
Cheaper than
72% of its genre
Better reviewed
97% of its genre
Price and player charts
The value story

The value story

It has been discounted 18 times in the 3 years tracked here. The median cut across all of them is 80 percent, about 7 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended about 4 weeks ago.

Its score puts it in the top 1 percent of the games it competes with. It is cheaper than 72 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 97 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Plants vs. Zombies GOTY Edition ($4.99, scores 97) beats it on value, while it beats Peggle Deluxe ($4.99, scores 89).

$7.57 is where it would stop being a BANGER.

More about Zuma Deluxe

Of the 547 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 4 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written March 2020 to October 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 95 percent of the 2,125 reviews written there were positive, against 96 percent overall, and those are 32 percent of everything written about it.

5.2 hours to finish it, 13 to exhaust it. The completionist tail is 2.4 times the campaign.

Buy now or wait

Buy now or wait

Discounted in each of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last discount ended 31 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

Raising the score
Cost per hour$0.96/hr
Price per hour of game. It moves the score inside the ceiling reviews set
Reviews
Gates the score. Weak reviews cap it, and nothing reaches BANGER without strong ones. Scored as 95% after the small-sample adjustment
MonetizationNone
Checked: no in-game purchases or loot boxes. That earns a small credit unless Steam lists in-app purchases
For context
Refunds4 of 547 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

What players say

This game aged very well! In my opinion, it is still very fun to play even now. It's a simple game: you shoot coloured balls and have to do it quickly so you don't get eaten. Despite being so old, it has a lot of levels and features. At some point, the levels could get repetitive if you're someone who gets bored easily, though. I have very fond memories of this game. I remember I used to play it with my mom. We...
ScarletRecommendedafter 1.8hOct 2026Read on Steam
2 more reviews
هذي اللعبة جدًا قريبة لقلبي، لأن لها جزء مو بسيط بحياتي وذكرياتي.. لما أشوف اسم زوما، أتذكر نفسي وأنا جالسة جنب أبوي على الأرض وصوت الفاكس شغال على يساري، ريحة المكان الطيبة والإضاءة الدافية، حفظت لي لحظة كاملة من طفولتي وهي من أعز الذكريات على قلبي. كنت اتفرج على أبوي بالساعات، كان يحب التحدي وصبور جدًا، واللي يضحك كان محترف فيها بماوس صغير جدًا جدًا ويده كبييرة ما أفهم كيف كان متحمل، والأصعب بعدها احترفها على تاتش...
SweetRecommendedafter 137h10 found this helpfulRead on Steam
A game not only relaxing , but classical . Someone think it's outdated , but Classics are classics.
YuK1Recommendedafter 24hOct 2026Read on Steam

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

About the game

Deep in the jungle lie hidden temples bursting with traps and trickery, and it's up to you to uncover their treasures. Fire magical balls from your stone frog idol to make matches of three or more and clear the deadly chain before it reaches the golden skull.
Description from the Steam store page.
Minimum specs

Runs on Windows, macOS.

No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic), achievement curve (Steam global achievements).

Cite this score

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Zuma Deluxe scores 93/100 on the BANG Score (a BANGER) as of Nov 8, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/3330/zuma-deluxe
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Details

DeveloperPopCap Games, Inc.
PublisherPopCap Games, Inc.
GenreShooter
Released2006
Players750Kowners, SteamSpy estimate