Zuma Deluxe
BANGER · Shooter · 2006
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
BUY IT.
A BANGER at $4.99.
- Length
- 5.3h
- Value
- $0.94/hr
- Reviews
- 96% positive
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Runs on Windows, macOS.
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.
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
March 2024 is where it bottomed out, at $0.99. It has been discounted 17 times in the 3 years tracked here, typically at 80 percent off, with about 7 weeks between sales. Today it is at full price. The last sale was about 14 weeks ago, and on this game's rhythm the next one tends to arrive within 7 weeks.
Value puts it in the top 2 percent of the games it competes with. It is cheaper than 73 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 96 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Peggle Deluxe ($0.99, scores 97) beats it on value, while it beats I, Zombie ($1.99, scores 66).
$7.64 is where it would stop being a BANGER. Today it is $4.99.
Of the 538 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 2 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written March 2020 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 96 percent of the 2,100 reviews written there were positive, against 96 percent overall, and those are 33 percent of everything written about it.
5.3 hours to finish it, 13 to exhaust it. The completionist tail is 2.4 times the campaign.
Still 658 concurrent players, 20 years in.
Players
658 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
my mom used to play this game when i was a child and now its in my clutches. i cant stop.
Pros: + easy to learn a bit hard to master + great music + will run on a calculator + perfect length for such a game + satisfaction Cons: - sometimes you just can't win - frustration
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), achievement curve (Steam global achievements).
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Zuma Deluxe scores 93/100 on the BANG Score (a BANGER). The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/3330/zuma-deluxeThe 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 Aug 1, price as of Sep 24.
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