Max Manos
Worth it · Shooter · 2025
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
BUY IT.
Worth it at $5.99.
- Length
- 7h 7.8h to 100%
- Value
- $0.86/hr
- Reviews
- 92% of 514 positive
Watch this gameOne alert at a price you pick.
Buy now or wait
Discounted in each of its last 6 seasonal sales. Last cut ended 9 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
About the game
Max Manos is an incremental destruction game where you play as a powerful hand, known as Max Manos, eliminating shapes. Chain explosive reactions, collect shards, and upgrade your abilities to destroy shapes even faster.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, Integrated Graphics (with DirectX 11 compatibility), 297 MB of storage. Windows only.
The value story
13 discounts in the 2 years on record, a median of 30 percent off across all of them, roughly 6 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 9 days ago.
On value it sits in the top 7 percent of its genre. It is cheaper than 73 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 84 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Nodebuster ($2.99, scores 97) beats it on value, while it beats Lyca ($2.49, scores 62).
More about Max Manos
1 of the 339 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here comes from a buyer who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written March 2025 to August 2026.
The drop-off
95% start to 60% rarestNo achievement in this game marks the ending, so there is no finish rate. The curve runs from the most-unlocked achievement to the rarest, and its shape is where players stop. Steam global achievements
Players
- Players online
- 2 when we last checked, on Oct 17, 06:56 UTC
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
The concept of having changing game mechanics each prestige is unique. However the changes serve to take more time from you and not give unique game play mechanics. 1st run is standard your cursor attacks over time 2nd run makes your cursor shoot projectiles with a clear build path and decent mechanics 3rd run is just the first one but worse. This is where I stopped as it became boring, repetitive and slow. The big...
1 more review, not recommended
I have never played an incremental game that adds game modifiers after each prestige. I was like "wow this is actually really cool" Until I realized the modifiers are not fun. They just make the game slower and less fun. That's not how incrementals work.
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Max Manos scores 80/100 on the BANG Score (worth it) as of Oct 19, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/3428620/max-manosReviews 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 19. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.