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ARCADE GAME SERIES: PAC-MAN cover art

ARCADE GAME SERIES: PAC-MAN

BANDAI NAMCO Studios Inc. · BANDAI NAMCO Entertainment · 2016-04-19

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Action

Franchise: Pac-Man · Modes: Single player

Releases: Apr 19, 2016 (PC (Microsoft Windows)), Apr 20, 2016 (Xbox One), Apr 20, 2016 (PlayStation 4)

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!

12
playing now
90%
positive of 1.1k reviews
Very Positive
steam rating
100,000–200,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
89/100
IGDB user rating (7 ratings)
platinum
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
$3.99
steam price (US)

12 players in-game as of 2026-08-30 07:00 UTC (census sample)

Health check

Insufficient data
  • · Not enough review history collected yet to judge health.
  • · Top 33% of 10,936 Action games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 29k–69k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 1,149 total reviews — how this is computed.

Current store prices

Microsoft Store$3.99

Deal snapshots via CheapShark, refreshed daily.

All-time low: $0.99 at Steam (2016-12-22)via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $3.99 · on sale 7 of 15 observed days · $3.00 above the all-time low (census price snapshots)

Players online

1562026-08-11 18:00 — 11 players2026-08-12 09:00 — 8 players2026-08-13 01:00 — 8 players2026-08-13 17:00 — 11 players2026-08-14 09:00 — 10 players2026-08-15 01:00 — 10 players2026-08-15 17:00 — 12 players2026-08-16 09:00 — 10 players2026-08-17 01:00 — 10 players2026-08-17 16:00 — 9 players2026-08-18 08:00 — 7 players2026-08-19 00:00 — 6 players2026-08-19 16:00 — 11 players2026-08-20 07:00 — 6 players2026-08-20 23:00 — 6 players2026-08-21 15:00 — 10 players2026-08-22 07:00 — 6 players2026-08-22 22:00 — 12 players2026-08-23 14:00 — 10 players2026-08-24 06:00 — 7 players2026-08-24 22:00 — 9 players2026-08-25 14:00 — 10 players2026-08-26 06:00 — 9 players2026-08-26 22:00 — 12 players2026-08-27 14:00 — 15 players2026-08-28 06:00 — 13 players2026-08-28 22:00 — 12 players2026-08-29 14:00 — 11 players2026-08-30 07:00 — 12 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).

Price history

$3.99$0.992016-04-202026-08-302016-04-20 — best price $3.992017-01-30 — best price $3.992017-09-14 — best price $0.992017-11-22 — best price $1.992018-07-05 — best price $3.992018-11-21 — best price $1.992019-01-28 — best price $3.992019-04-29 — best price $1.992019-06-17 — best price $3.992019-09-09 — best price $3.992019-11-25 — best price $1.992020-01-02 — best price $3.992020-01-25 — best price $1.992020-05-06 — best price $3.992020-06-20 — best price $1.992020-11-25 — best price $1.992021-02-15 — best price $3.992021-09-29 — best price $1.992022-01-05 — best price $3.992022-05-19 — best price $0.992022-08-08 — best price $3.992022-11-23 — best price $0.992023-01-05 — best price $3.992023-03-27 — best price $0.992023-07-13 — best price $3.992023-11-21 — best price $3.192024-03-21 — best price $3.992024-08-05 — best price $1.992024-11-04 — best price $3.992025-01-27 — best price $1.992025-05-07 — best price $3.992025-09-29 — best price $1.992026-01-05 — best price $3.992026-05-20 — best price $1.992026-08-30 — best price $3.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Completion

20
achievements tracked
58.3%
earned "Cherry"
4%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsSingle-playerSteam AchievementsSteam LeaderboardsFamily Sharing

6 supported languages: English, French, Italian, German, Spanish - Spain, Japanese

Console footprint

PlatformPlayers trackedCompletionTrophies/achievements
PS4 (PlayStation)20,92130%21
Xbox One (Xbox)10,74710%20
Steam (Steam)4,3217%20

Players tracked by Exophase (achievement/trophy trackers) — a sample of the player base, not total sales.

Player tags

2D1980sRetroActionArcadeClassicSingleplayerPixel Graphics

Census log

Computed from census-recorded observations only — dates are observation dates.

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Similarity via IGDB.

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