Maze Mice
Fair · Roguelike · 2025
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
NO RUSH.
Fair at $4.99. Buy it if you want it.
- Length
- 5.7h 46.2h to 100%
- Value
- $0.88/hr
- Reviews
- 88% of 337 positive
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Buy now or wait
It is 50% off today.
Discounted in each of its last 5 seasonal sales.
- 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
About the game
Maze Mice is a bullet heaven roguelite where time only moves when you move. Collect dots, level up, choose upgrades, and avoid cats. All at your own pace.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, 113 MB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
The value story
14 discounts in the 18 months on record, a median of 50 percent off across all of them, roughly 6 weeks apart. Today's $4.99 at 50 percent off still sits 47 percent above the floor, so a deeper cut exists in its history.
Against its own genre it lands in the top 36 percent on value. It is cheaper than 66 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 68 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Glyphica: Typing Survival ($6.99, scores 69) beats it on value, while it beats Slime 3K: Rise Against Despot ($4.99, scores 49).
More about Maze Mice
This site sampled 313 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 1 was written by a buyer who refunded it, sampled from reviews written May 2025 to July 2026.
HowLongToBeat players log 5.7 hours as a typical playtime, and completionists log 46, 8.1 times as much.
It carries Valve's Deck Verified rating and runs 5.7 hours, about as long as a handheld game wants to be.
The drop-off
86% start to 22% finishA game like this has no single ending, so its score does not use the finish rate. The curve shows where players stop. Steam global achievements
Players
- Players online
- 3 when we last checked, on Oct 18, 02:51 UTC
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
I love this as a base to a game. It's very satisfying with it's gameplay loops, and a PERFECT way to get a quick steamdeck sess in before before bed. However I'm going to hit dislike becuase the devs clearly did not know what they had here and in my opinion left the game unfinished despite being decently polished. I'll upvote if ANY new content comes up ever. I would pay twice the cost of the base game for DLC if it...
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
As close to an unfinished game as it gets without being actually unfinished. 4 levels, 2 enemy types, 1 boss that is just a larger one of the enemy types. That's it. A bunch of unlockable items, many of which aren't especially useful. Unlockable characters that only differ by starting item, so they are all interchangeable. In their 1.0 release notes the developer notes that the game didn't sell well, which more or...
its all fun and games until da ghost pulls up from the dev behind the luck of the landlord, a very cool rogueLITE akin to VS in a pacman grid its nice
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Maze Mice scores 59/100 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/3385370/maze-miceReviews set the ceiling, and the size of the player base moves the BANG Score inside it. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 29, price as of Oct 19. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.