
PAC-MAN™ Championship Edition DX+
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01About PAC-MAN™ Championship Edition DX+
Speed through neon-like mazes, wake ghosts, and draw them into a long train before gobbling them up for points. Bombs can force an escape route when you are trapped. Steam player reviews: 96% positive from 5,006 reviews. The Steam PC version was released on September 24, 2013. Supported interface languages: English, French, Italian, German, and Spanish.
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$2.262026-04-10 · GamesPlanet USBase game · same records as the chart above; USD history, not a regional Steam low.Language support
| Language | Interface | Subtitles | Audio |
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| English | Yes | — | — |
| French | Yes | — | — |
| Italian | Yes | — | — |
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| Language | Interface | Subtitles | Audio |
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| German | Yes | — | — |
| Spanish | Yes | — | — |
Steam PC edition data · 2026-10-29
02Before you buy
Modes and customization
The Steam PC version has seven mazes and five game modes. Difficulty, music, characters, and maze visuals can be customized.
How it plays
Steam PC supports full controller input and single-player. Chaining ghosts, using bombs, and racing through mazes drive the score-chasing gameplay.
03Frequently asked questions
What do you do in the game?
Wake ghosts, gather them into a long line of pursuers, then gobble them quickly to chase a high score.
How many mazes are there?
Yes. The Steam PC version features seven mazes with distinct layouts and challenges.
What do the modes offer?
Each maze has five modes with different challenges.
Popular Steam reviews
Native-language selection · 10 reviewsSelected helpful reviews in this language show both recommendations and criticisms. This selection does not represent the overall positive rating; opinions reflect the version reviewed.
Overall, a fairly fun game to play that I would otherwise recommend. Unfortunately, there were two things that soured the experience for me. The first was the fact that to use the classic Pac-Man skin you need to obtain all of the the achievements, as well as all the medals, which appear to be more or less a second set of achievements not tracked by Steam. The second is that to achieve all of those medals, one has to have or sign up for a facebook account and then spam your facebook followers with what amounts to advertisements for the game. While, separately, each of these issues alone wouldn't have been enough to sour me on this game enough to post a bad review, together they're irritating enough to make me regret purchasing it in the first place, even if it was on sale.Show moreShow less
83 / 100 This is the best PAC-MAN version I have played since the original, although it has a bit of a twist. All the game modes are time based so you could have a 5 or 10min run at a score, or have a specific challenge like how many ghosts you can eat in one go or how quickly you can collect a certain number of fruits. There is a ton of maps and PAC-MAN themes you can unlock too, although I wish the classic theme was unlocked by default. It feels like an authentic PAC-MAN game; it has all the sound effects you would expect, good soundtrack and responsive controls. You need those responsive controls as it gets really fast when you survive longer! To make it more forgiving, you do have bombs and a slow motion "bullet time" effect giving you an extra split-second to make the right move. Even with these tools at your disposal there still an excellent challenge for your reflexes; Online leaderboards as well to challenge your friends :) One thing that could definitely have been left out is the Facebook medals to earn in-game; this should not be part of the games' achievements! At most it should be an option for those who want to use FB, not required to get all the in-game achievements nor plaster the icons with a 'Share' tag till you do share it! Facebook farce aside, the game itself is a great trip down memory lane introducing a modern twist to the PAC-MAN legacy. If you enjoyed reading this review, please follow True Blue Reviews for more recommendations!Show moreShow less
WARNING! FUN BUT VERY DIFFERENT GAMEPLAY THAN THE GOOD OLD PAC-MAN The game is rather fun and there is a good incentive to replay for high-scores especially if some of your friends have it too as the leaderboards are well done. On sale it's a decent offer. However overall I find the gameplay much more bland than the good old vintage Mrs PacMan. PacMan set an early milestone in computer AI, with very simple rules, and small variations for each ghost gave them each a distinct personality. It required patience and skills to regroup the 4 ghosts before eating the energy pills and ate the 4 ghosts for max score. Moreover the levels design required some thought and planning to finish them without being killed. In contrast in this Championship DX+ edition, all ghosts have the same algorithmn, moreover they are quite dumb and don't actually chase you, they merely follow you mindlessly, in effectyour goal is too move close to sleeping ghosts, and they will automatically add them to the ghost train that follow you. Until you get a energy pill for mass slaughter combos. Early on this is rather fun, but in the end it is rather repetitive, it relies heavily on memorizing patterns, and executing them quicker as the game speed increase, and it definitely lack the strategic elements of Mrs Pac-Man. Finally the game have a "bullet time" kind of slow-down when ghosts come close to you and you also have bombs to send back all ghosts at once to the prison, which make the game very easy, and you actually don't get kill very often The game speed varies from 1 to 50, however when above 40, I had some issue with my controller, as Pac-Man move too fast to allow you to execute complex sequences of turns, resulting in many wrong turns. Some achievements require a Facebook account, this really s**ks. With all the extra bells and whistles in this edition, Its a shame that they didn't include the original simple gameplay, as it wouldn't have required a lot of additional programming. In the end I disagree that this is the "best" Pac-Man edition, it feels too much a different game.Show moreShow less
Did you know that the original name for Pac-Man was Puck-Man? You'd think it was because he looks like a hockey puck but it actually comes from the Japanese phrase 'Paku-Paku,' which means to flap one's mouth open and closed. They changed it because they thought Puck-Man would be too easy to vandalize, you know, like people could just scratch off the P and turn it into an F or whatever.Show moreShow less
It's quite strange to me that this game has so many positive reviews and yet only a few negative ones. Personally I find this game to be repetitive and very boring. It's not even particularly like the original Pacman either. The ghosts no longer have any AI and will just mindlessly follow you, again and again. The only gameplay element seems to consist of time trials and little else. It may sound a bit silly, but what about some sort of campaign starting with just you and 1 ghost in a tiny maze and then. before long, a large maze and eight ghosts (or whatever). I admit that I bought this for nostalgic reasons and that if you have not done so then you may not feel disapointed. Having said that I still stick to my claims that it is boring and even pointless as well as being very easy indeed. In fact it's quite hard to even die in this game!Show moreShow less
I imagine this is what LSD is like.Show moreShow less
It's Pacman with good graphics/effects, techno music and the classy gameplay (with some twists and WITHOUT the old AI... which is bad). Solid fun. Recommendable in a bundle (I got it through humble bundle) or during a 80% sale or something... if you want something short for in-between, get it and have your fun with it. Just don't expect to keep playing it for a long time, b/c... ...game is way too short (100% achievement in like 1 or 2 hrs. rest ist pretty uninteresting, but after a few hours, you literally saw EVERYTHING) ...game is all about highscores, BUT leaderboards are hacked. You can even watch the replays of number one players and see their cheating ;)... for a game, that has almost no content and depends highly on the player's will to improve his personal highscores, this is unforgivable. ...and I forgot to mention... the AI is very different from the original... in fact, more boring. Therefore, not recommended, even if it's fun to play and the base game is okay.Show moreShow less
Awshit, here comes Pac-Man.Show moreShow less
This game stutters no matter what res I run it at. And Namco doesn't even acknowledge the issue. They say it's our rigs, but I would think if that were the case, then dropping it down to 640x480 resolution should have removed the stutter, but nope...and if it really was my rig, that means the recommended specs would have to be higher than Skyrim, Far Cry 3, and other games, since those games run just fine at a resolution of 1600x900 on this 3 year old rig. Considering it took pretty much everyone complaining to Namco just to even get them to fix the facebook integration (this in spite of the fact you could just fire up the game yourself and see there was an issue), I don't think they have any plans to fix the stutter. Shame too, as Ms. Pac Man was my first video game I ever played, always been a fan of the Pac Man games. But I don't recommend this on the basis that the devs are clearly not wanting to put effort into this release. Lazy port.Show moreShow less
Source: original Steam user reviews. Helpful votes are an archived snapshot, not live data. Last collected: 08/15/2026.
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