RetroMaze

RetroMaze

Worth it · Short indie · 2018

The verdict

BUY IT.

Worth it at $0.99.

Length
0.4h
Value
$2.47/hr
Reviews
96% positive
No price makes it a BANGER.
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Length
0.4h
main story (HowLongToBeat)
Completionist
0.5h
100% (HowLongToBeat)
$/hr
$2.47
price ÷ main-story length
Price
$0.99
as of Oct 1
Reviews
96%
1,606 reviews, as of Sep 26
Players
350K
owners, SteamSpy estimate
Released
2018

Minimum on the Steam store: 1 GB of memory, Integrated graphics. Windows only.

A relaxing Retrowave stylized maze game that increases the difficulty as you progress through the levels. RetroMaze has 30 levels and a beautiful visual concept, as well as an exciting soundtrack.
Description from the Steam store page.

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

Raising the score
Reviews96% positive
Gates the score. Weak reviews cap it, and nothing reaches BANGER without strong ones Scored as 95% after the small-sample adjustment
Holding it back
Value$2.48/hr
Price per hour of game. It moves the score inside the ceiling reviews set
AI contentDisclosed
The developer disclosed AI-generated content on Steam, so the score takes a heavy dock
For context
Length0.4 hours
How much game you get. Hours feed the value per dollar
Reach350K+ owners
How many own it, by SteamSpy's estimate (an old snapshot). Context here: this game's score does not use it
MonetizationNot known
No monetization record for this game, so nothing is assumed either way
Refunds3 of 345 reviews
Steam-purchase reviews sampled whose writer refunded the game. Nothing is docked

The value story

The lowest price on record is $0.28, set in October 2022. 64 discounts in the 8 years on record. They run about 47 percent off, roughly 6 weeks apart.

Against its own genre it lands in the top 2 percent on value. It is cheaper than 85 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 99 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Orbt XL ($0.99, scores 95) beats it on value, while it beats hexceed (free, scores 72).

Of the 345 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 3 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written April 2020 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 96 percent of the 1,382 reviews written there were positive, against 96 percent overall, and those are 93 percent of everything written about it.

The drop-off

91% start to 76% rarest
050100rarestfirst achievement

No 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

1 players online when we last checked, on Sep 26, 07:51 UTC.

Player counts from the Steam Web API.

What players say

I wanted the black and pink letters, Ghostface and lips kiss achievement icons and was surprised there were so many horror icons and even a Star Wars one. A few minutes into this I assumed I was going to have to complete a maze for every achievement and that is not the case thankfully. It took me about 35 minutes to get 100% competition, keep in mind I switch to my laptop on the couch since I thought this was going...
♡ Ada Amidala ♡Recommendedafter 2.3hJul 2026Read on Steam
This is a spoiler-free review table. If you find this helpful please consider marking it as such or leaving an award. Thank you. CATEGORY: EXPECTATION: SCORING: EXAMPLE: Shows what a category(read from left to right) looks like on this table. That you are able to read this table after reading this example category. I give 0, 1, or 2 points for failing, meeting or exceeding my expectations per category and note why...
P1vsGAMESRecommendedafter 2.2hJun 2026Read on Steam

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

No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).

Cite this score

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RetroMaze scores 75/100 on the BANG Score (worth it) as of Oct 2, 2026. The developer disclosed AI-generated content on Steam, so the score is docked. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/852110/retromaze
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Reviews 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 26, price as of Oct 1.

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Tags

Steam user tags as SteamSpy recorded them

Details

DeveloperDurven Studios
PublisherDurven Studios
GenreShort indie
Released2018
Achievements232