ARCADE GAME SERIES: PAC-MAN
Fair · Action · 2016
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
NO RUSH.
Fair at $3.99. Buy it if you want it.
- Length
- 1h
- Value
- $3.99/hr
- Reviews
- 90% positive
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, Intel HD Graphics 3000, 1.5 GB of storage. Windows only.
First released in arcades in 1980, the masterpiece PAC-MAN comes to Steam! Move PAC-MAN up, down, left, and right to avoid the ghosts and gobble up all the Pac-Dots!
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
The value story
The lowest price on record is $0.99, set in December 2016. 69 discounts in the 10 years on record. They run about 50 percent off, roughly 6 weeks apart.
On value it sits in the top 3 percent of its genre. It is cheaper than 69 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 95 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Tcheco in the Castle of Lucio ($0.99, scores 79) beats it on value, while it beats Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Cowabunga Collection ($39.99, scores 49).
This site sampled 363 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 2 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written May 2020 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 88 percent of the 622 reviews written there were positive, against 90 percent overall, and those are 63 percent of everything written about it.
Finishing takes 1 hours; clearing it takes 2, which is 2.4 times the campaign.
The drop-off
58% start to 3% 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
8 players online when we last checked, on Sep 28, 17:49 UTC.
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
The king of the arcade! The OG is the best version. 10/10, no notes. Personally not my absolute favorite arcade game of all time, but definitely a classic and I still enjoy the sense of nostalgia from playing from time to time.
Every run encourages you to beat your previous score, making it incredibly addictive
Steam reviews, mixed to match its Steam ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
ARCADE GAME SERIES: PAC-MAN scores 66/100 on the BANG Score (fair value) as of Oct 2, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/394160/arcade-game-series-pac-manReviews 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 27, price as of Oct 1.
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